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IBM AI, Google Cloud Skills, eBPF, GitHub Universe, Oracle's JDK 17, F# 6, CSS-in-JS Libraries, JetBrains Compose, Microservices, Psychological Safety, Developer Productivity

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Microsoft's Asim Hussain on Designing Software for Sustainability and the Green Software Foundation

Charles Humble explores the topic of designing software for sustainability with Microsoft's Asim Hussain, chair of the Green Software Foundation. They discuss techniques such as demand shifting, as well as the current challenges that the Green Software Foundation is aiming to address. (Podcast)

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Career and Leadership Advice for Engineers and Technical Professionals

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Jeff Perry about the important leadership and people skills that technologists are often not trained in, why career coaching can be valuable, being deliberate about career choices, and advice for technical leaders. (Podcast)

IBM Develops Hardware-Based Vector-Symbolic AI Architecture

IBM Research recently announced a memory-augmented neural network (MANN) AI system consisting of a neural network controller and phase-change memory (PCM) hardware. By performing analog in-memory computation on high-dimensional (HD) binary vectors, the system learns few-shot classification tasks on the Omniglot benchmark with only 2.7% accuracy drop compared to 32-bit software implementations. (News)

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  1. Google Is Aiming to Train 40 Million People with Google Cloud Skills Boost

  2. Amazon Introduces RDS Custom for Legacy and Custom Oracle Databases

  3. Analyze Video Feeds at the Edge with AWS Panorama Appliance

  4. AWS Announces the Public Preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift

  5. Google Cloud Spanner Adds PostgreSQL Interface: Is PostgreSQL Now Standard for Cloud Databases?

eBPF - Superpowers for Cloud Native Operations

Liz Rice discusses how eBPF enables high-performance tools that will help connect, manage and secure applications in the cloud. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. GitHub Introduces Projects, Updates Codespaces, Copilot, Code Scanning, and More

Forensic Monitoring of Blockchains is Key for Broader Industry Adoption

This article presents a new blockchain consensus mechanism, XinFin Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol 2.0, that provides a higher level of trust by creating an efficient judiciary system. It has been designed to keep all verifying nodes accountable and allow for bad actors to be identified and effectively neutralized. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Updates on OpenJDK, Spring, Quarkus, Payara, Hibernate, Quarkus and JakartaOne

Oracle's JDK 17 - Free Again for Commercial Use

The Oracle JDK is available free of charge for production use again - under the new "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) license. This move reverses a 2018 decision to charge for Oracle JDK production use and does not affect Oracle's OpenJDK distribution. The NFTC applies to the recently released version 17 of Oracle JDK and future versions. (News)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. F# 6 Introduces Resumable Code, Improvements to Pattern Matching and Tooling, and More

Records in C# 9

In this article, Tugce Özdeger talks about Records, a new reference type introduced in C# 9 that provides built-in functionality for encapsulating data. The article shows the potential benefits and advantages of using records and how developers can use them in their applications, with code examples and comparisons with classes and structs. (Article)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Comparative Study of 11 CSS-in-JS libraries - Andrei Pfeiffer at React Finland 2021

Grails 5.0 Updates Underlying Frameworks and Consolidates Features

Grails 5.0 has been released, featuring deprecation of the "dot"-Based Navigation to configuration, default autowire by type in Data Services, the decoupling of Grails Gradle Plugin from the grails-core and the Grails Gradle Publish plugin was removed from the Grails plugin applications. Also, this release includes Apache Groovy 3, Micronaut 3, Gradle 7, Spring Boot 2.5, Spring 5.3, and Spock 2.0. (News)

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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform Reaches Beta

A few months after its announcement as an alpha version, JetBrains Compose Multiplatform has reached beta, which includes many improvements and stabilizes its APIs as a step towards the 1.0 release. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Pinterest Scaled up Its Ad-Serving Architecture

Panel: What Have We Learned over the Last Decade of Microservices?

Chris Richardson, James Lewis and Katie Gamanji discuss what the industry has learned over the last decade building and delivering Microservices architectures. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Learn how to design an effective and explicit microservices system end-to-end, how to slice a big application into a collection of microservices, how to build a simple yet powerful CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure changes, and more. Download now.

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Organisational Culture and Psychological Safety Fosters Our Creativity

Techstinction - How Technology Use is Having a Severe Impact on our Climate and What We Can Do

Most people don’t realise how their use of technology, both socially and in the workplace, is responsible for an increasingly significant volume of the world's Co2 emissions. In this article, you will learn how our use of technology is having a severe impact on our climate and what we can do about it. (Article)

Maximize Developer Productivity and Engagement with the Developer Experience Engineer

With developers becoming more important than ever, it’s critical to understand how to maximize their productivity and engagement, so in turn, businesses can create better value. The Developer Experience Engineer (DXE) clears the path to developer success by implementing a common set of principles, maintaining the right tools, and creating cohesive standards. (Article)

People, Not Screens: Why Soul-Based Leadership Will Change the Nature of Remote and Hybrid Work

Virtual, remote, or hybrid work is the main leadership challenge of our time. Leaders should focus on bringing out humaneness and people's desire to be seen and heard in respectful and appreciative ways. Soul-based leadership is built on neuroscience and other ways of knowing inspired by eastern philosophies in which aliveness is at the heart of awareness, stillness, and calm. (Article)

Hybrid-Remote Done Right: Evaluate the Remote Employee Experience

Kaleem Clarkson discusses what to consider before making a decision on the workplace flexibility policy, and how to assess the remote employee experience to help guide decisions. (Presentation with transcript included)

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