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Grab's Data Platform, Real-Time ML, eBPF & Service Mesh, K8s Control Planes, PostgreSQL Cosmos DB, Fighting Cyberattacks, Error Prone Java, Project Loom, Node.js Monorepo, Kotlin Mobile, Netflix Queue, Performance Testing

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Matt Butcher on Web Assembly as the Next Wave of Cloud Computing

Wes Reisz speaks with long-time open-source contributor and startup founder Matt Butcher who is the CEO of Fermyon Technologies and is at the forefront of the Web Assembly (Wasm) work being done in the cloud. The two discuss Butcher’s belief we’re at the start of a 3rd wave of cloud computing, the state of the Wasm ecosystem, and what Fermyon’s doing in the space. (Podcast)

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The Collaborative Culture and Developer Experience in the Redis Open Source Community

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Yiftach Shoolman of Redis about the Redis community culture, nurturing a large open source community and enabling great developer experiences. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available

  2. Amazon SageMaker Clarify Now Supports Online Explainability for ML Predictions

  3. University Researchers Publish Results of NLP Community Metasurvey

  4. Grab Shared Its Experience in Designing Distributed Data Platform

  5. Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service

Apache DolphinScheduler in MLOps: Create Machine Learning Workflows Quickly

In this article, the author discusses data pipeline and workflow scheduler Apache DolphinScheduler and how ML tasks are performed by Apache DolphinScheduler using Jupyter and MLflow components. (Article)

Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time ML

Chip Huyen discusses the state of continual learning for ML, its motivations, challenges, and possible solutions. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run

  2. NCC Group Dissect Aims to Scale Incident Response to Thousands of Systems

  3. New Grafana Releases Tighten Integration between Metrics and Tracing

  4. HashiCorp Enhances Terraform Drift Detection with Continuous Validation

  5. GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration

eBPF and the Service Mesh

While eBPF looks promising to improve service mesh sidecar proxy performance, there are other, simplier ways to improve performance. The layer 7 processing needed for service meshes is unlikely to be feasible in eBPF for the foreseeable future, which means that meshes will still need proxies. (Article)

Kubernetes as a Foundation for Infrastructure Control Planes

Daniel Mangum explores how bringing applications and infrastructure to a single control plane allows for building robust platforms that can accommodate heterogenous organizational structures. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

  2. Open Source Skyplane Targets Faster and Cheaper Data Transfers between Clouds

  3. Threat Operations and Research Team Cloudforce One Generally Available

  4. Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses

Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments

During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx

Virtual Panel: the New US-EU Data Privacy Framework

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE

  2. Apache InLong: Integration Framework for Massive Data

  3. Java News Roundup: Introducing OmniFish, Oracle Joins Micronaut Foundation, OpenJDK Updates

  4. Error Prone Improves Java Code by Detecting Common Mistakes

Project Loom: Revolution in Java Concurrency or Obscure Implementation Detail?

Tomasz Nurkiewicz explores what Loom is, how it's implemented, what problems it solves, its shortcomings, and will it make reactive programming obsolete? (Presentation with transcript included)

JIT vs. AOT: How to Pick the Right Approach

The panelists discuss the trade-offs between the two approaches and cover scenarios where either approach is best. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Turning a Node.js Monolith into a Monorepo without Disrupting the Team

Splitting monoliths into services creates complexity in maintaining multiple repositories (one per service) with separate (yet interdependent) build processes and versioning history. Monorepos have become a popular solution to reduce that complexity. (Article)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Android Gradle Plugin 8.0 Improves Build Times, Requires Updating Third-Party Plugins and Libraries

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Enters Beta

Created by JetBrains to enable using Kotlin to build iOS and Android apps with native UI from a single codebase, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile has exited the experimental phase and is now available in beta. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Content Discovery at Scale with Hexagons and Elasticsearch at DoorDash

Netflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch

Netflix recently published how it built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. They built it using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch. Engineers state that they made Timestone since they could not find an off-the-shelf solution that met all of its requirements. (News)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Performance Testing Should Focus on Trends

Why is Everything So Slow? Measuring and Optimising How Engineering Teams Deliver

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