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GPT-3.5 Turbo, OpenTF, Rethinking Reliability, eBPF, GCP Storage, OpenSSF, Spring Modulith, Unnamed Patterns, .NET Upgrade, API Design, Accountability and Leadership

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Roi Ravhon on FinOps, Application Unit Economics, and Cloud Cost Optimization

In this episode, Roi Ravhon, co-founder and CEO of Finout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the emergence and industry adoption of FinOps. The talk covers topics such as the benefits of adopting FinOps, the typical journey of an organization interested in learning more about cloud costs, and a range of cultural and tooling required for a successful implementation. (Podcast)

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Leaders Need to Be Coaches to Enable Developer Effectiveness

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Phil Alves about how leaders can enable developer effectiveness. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Expands Vertex AI Search and Conversation Capabilities

  2. GPT-3.5 Turbo Can Now Be Fine-Tuned for Improved Quality and Performance

Stability AI Launches Open Source Chatbot Stable Chat

Stability AI, makers of the image generation AI Stable Diffusion, recently launched Stable Chat, a web-based chat interface for their open-access language model Stable Beluga. At the time of its release, Stable Beluga was the best-performing open large language model (LLM) on the HuggingFace leaderboard. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. OpenTF Foundation Released OpenTF Manifesto

Rethinking Reliability: What You Can (and Can't) Learn from Incidents

Courtney Nash discusses research collected from the VOID, challenging standard industry practices for incident response and analysis, like tracking MMTR and using RCA methodology. (Presentation with transcript included)

Sprinkling eBPF onto Your Observability

Frederic Branczyk discusses the eBPF's capabilities. Beyond that, Branczyk will demonstrate the real-world use of eBPF in next-generation Observability tooling. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Azure Announces Jumpstart Agora

  2. External REST Endpoint Invocation in SQL Azure Now Generally Available

  3. AWS Introduces M7a General Purpose AMD Genoa Instances

  4. Budget for Project Users in Google Cloud Lowers the Barrier to Create and Manage Budgets

Google Launches Three New Cloud Storage Options: Cloud Storage FUSE, Parallelstore, NetApp Volumes

Google recently launched three new cloud storage options: Cloud Storage FUSE for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications that require file system semantics, a parallel file system Parallelstore for demanding AI and HPC applications that use GPUs, and NetApp Volumes for enterprise applications running in the cloud. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. OpenSSF New Manifesto Urges the Software Industry to Take Responsibility for Open Source Security

How Spotify Improved its LLM Chatbot in Sidekick

While using a Large Language Model chatbot opens the door to innovative solutions, Spotify engineer Ates Goral argues that crafting the user experience so it is as natural as possible requires some specific efforts to order to reduce latency. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So Far

  2. MicroStream Debuts Eclipse Store Java Persistence Framework at Eclipse Foundation

  3. Spring AI Provides Integration with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI

  4. Spring Modulith 1.0 Gains Production-Readiness, IDE Support and Improved Testability

  5. Java News Roundup: Introducing Spring AI, Spring Modulith 1.0, Testcontainers Desktop

Streamlining Code with Unnamed Patterns/Variables: a Comparative Study of Java, Kotlin, and Scala

Explore the use of the Unnamed Patterns/Variables in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, and Scala. Enhancing code readability, allowing omission of unnecessary components, and simplifying code are key features. Expect further innovative uses as languages evolve. (Article)

.NET Upgrade Assistant: Project Features Upgrade and .NET MAUI Improvements

Microsoft has announced an updated version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant in Visual Studio. The new release brings on a series of enhancements designed to simplify the migration process for .NET MAUI. Notably, developers can now also upgrade project features without needing to change the existing .NET version. (News)

Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World

Ben Gamble explores API Design through the lens of a developer and a consumer of internal and external APIs. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Big Tech Lost its Way - Accountability and Leadership

Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems. (Article)

Five Principles for Enablement with (Almost) Nothing to Do with Building Tools

Steph Egan shares five principles used to build support, make a broad impact on teams, and inspire change at the BBC. (Presentation with transcript included)

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