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| In this podcast Ted Young, director of developer education at Lightstep, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: observability (and the three pillars), the OpenTelemetry CNCF sandbox project and the 1.0 release, and how to build an effective telemetry collection platform. (Podcast) |
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| PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.8 which includes updated APIs, improvements for distributed training, and support for the ROCm platform for AMD's GPU accelerators. New versions of domain-specific libraries TorchVision, TorchAudio, and TorchText were also released. (News) |
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| At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be. (Article) |
| Nicki Watt shares how successful platform engineering initiatives start by adjusting their thinking to centre around people and communities, and their experience consuming the platform, with examples. (Article) |
| Graham Jenson shares his experience of creating "paved roads" and deploying pipelines at Coinbase for the past five years, and what the advantages of doing that are. (Presentation with transcript included)
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| GitHub spawned Project Cyclop several months ago to identify what caused occasional push failures and to find a fix. It turns out there was no single culprit, and a careful analysis led to identifying a number of changes that improved push traffic by at least an order of magnitude, according to GitHub. (News) |
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| Spring has released Spring Native Beta, a new tool to convert existing Spring Boot applications, written in Java or Kotlin, to GraalVM native images. The goal is to support Spring Boot applications on Spring Native. GraalVM native images are small, optimized and boot quickly. The tradeoffs, however, are longer build times and fewer runtime optimizations compared to the JVM. (News) |
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| This past week was marked by the online streaming of Cloud Builders Conf and the release of Unity 2020 LTS. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 22th, 2021. (News) |
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| Marko, eBay's performance-focused UI framework, features optimization strategies that are now becoming mainstream (e.g., server-side rendering, progressive and asynchronous rendering, partial hydration). InfoQ discussed with the Marko development team how those performance strategies may differentiate Marko from other frameworks and future performance-minded initiatives in their roadmap. (Article) |
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| Andy Walker discusses the principles of distributed computing used in medieval times, and the need to understand high latency, low reliability systems, bad actors, data migration, and abstraction. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| The book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti provides strategies that organizations can use to modernize, maintain, and future-proof their systems. She suggests choosing strategies based on the organizational context, and defining what value you’re hoping to see from modernization. (Article) |
| Agility stands for being aware of your environment. There is a specific set of values for a tester that you should stick to; they set limits to what you can deliver as a tester, and within those limits, you can keep your agility. But your values can cause a “collision” with agile people around you, because they don’t have to be perfectly in line with how people apply the agile principles. (Article) |
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