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PyTorch on SageMaker, Go 1.21, Understanding Incidents, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, RustRover IDE, JCP EC Event, Java CVEs, .NET MAUI, Micro Frontends, Domain-Driven Cloud, Staff+ & OSS

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Designing Data Intensive Applications (By O'Reilly)

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Getting to Know Dapr with Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider

In the latest InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends Report, Dapr is part of the early adopter ideas of design for portability and cloud-bound applications. Dapr provides APIs that abstract away the infrastructure details for modern applications, providing secure, best practice implementations that work across any cloud, framework, and language. (Podcast)

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Addressing Gender Imbalance in Software Engineering Through Community and Mentoring

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Nir Orman and Einav Carmon from Wix about addressing the gender imbalance in software engineering through community and mentoring. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Unveils Multi-Model Endpoints for PyTorch on SageMaker

  2. AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Stable Chat, Vertex AI, ChatGPT and Code Llama

  3. Weekly Update on Large Language Models: PointLLM, WALL-E, AskIt, and Jais

Abu Dhabi Releases Largest Openly-Available Language Model Falcon 180B

The Abu Dhabi government's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) released Falcon 180B, currently the largest openly-available large language model (LLM). Falcon 180B contains 180 billion parameters and outperforms GPT-3.5 on the MMLU benchmark. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Go 1.21 Toolchain is Now Reproducible to Help Safeguard from Supply-Chain Attacks

  2. Grafana Beyla Provides Auto-Instrumented Observability through eBPF

How Did It Make Sense at the Time? Understanding Incidents as They Occurred, Not as They are Remembered

Jacob Scott explores the basics of failure in complex systems, the theory and practice of how it made sense at the time, and actions to take. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Introduces Dedicated Local Zones for Sovereignty Requirements

  2. Enhanced Error Handling for Step Functions Provides Developers with Fine-Grained Control over Retry

  3. Azure Container Apps Workload Profiles, Dedicated Plans, More Networking Features, and Jobs GA

AWS Launches AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory

AWS recently launched the AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) Connector for Active Directory (AD). It is a new feature that allows enterprises to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. RustRover is a New Standalone IDE for Rust from JetBrains

A Big Dashboard of Problems: Creating Preventative Security Strategies

Travis McPeak explores the forefront of simple and effective preventative security strategies. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JCP EC Industry Experts Reveal Their Favorite JDK 21 Feature at Special Oracle Event in NYC

  2. Java News Roundup: JDK 22 Release Schedule, Project Babylon, Helidon 4.0-RC2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1

Dealing with Java CVEs: Discovery, Detection, Analysis, and Resolution

This article delves into the importance of integrating Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in CI/CD pipelines for security. It highlights the need for human oversight to accurately assess vulnerability impact and cautions against "alert fatigue." The article also recommends specialized tools for effective vulnerability management. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Windows Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Simplifies Code Portability on Windows Platform

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC 1: Quality Improvements and Xcode 15 Beta Support

Microsoft has recently released the first Release Candidate version of the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) framework in the .NET 8 roadmap. As reported, this release candidate version is focused on code quality, various UI improvements, and performance optimizations and it comes with Xcode 15 beta support for Apple SDKs. (News)

Micro Frontends: the Evolution of Frontend Architecture

Ruben Casas discusses the evolution of frontend applications at scale, starting from monoliths, evolving to modular monoliths, integrated applications, monorepos and arriving at micro frontends. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. LinkedIn's Open-Source "iris-message-processor" Achieves 86.6x Faster Escalation Management Speeds

Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model

Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Handling Conflicts by Dealing with Emotions

Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development

Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works. (Article)

How Big Tech Lost Its Way

Andy Walker discusses his experiences of seeing things change from the inside, how big tech makes decisions and what can be learned from how we got here. (Presentation with transcript included)

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