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InfoQ Trends Reports 2022, NVIDIA Temporal GPU Concurrency, AWS Open-Source Container Management, AlloyDB, PHP 8 Functions and Methods, Spring Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0, API Quality and Security, Application Resiliency, 2022 Year in Review

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The InfoQ eMag - The InfoQ Trends Reports 2022

The InfoQ trends reports provide a snapshot of emerging software technology and ideas. We create the reports and accompanying graphs to aid software engineers and architects in evaluating what trends may help them design and build better software. Our editorial teams also use them to help focus our content on innovator and early adopter trends. (eMag)

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2022 Year in Review: ADRs, Staff Plus, Platforms, Sustainability, and Culture Design

In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2022 and muse on what they hope to see in 2023. Topics explored included: the benefits of architecture decision records (ADRs), the role of Staff Plus engineers, treating platforms as a product, the importance of sustainability and green IT, and more. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Twitter Automated Data Quality Check Process

  2. Meta's CICERO AI Wins Online Diplomacy Tournament

  3. AWS Makes it Simpler to Share ML Models and Notebooks with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plug-in Brings Temporal GPU Concurrency

Starting from the v12 release, the Nvidia GPU device plug-in framework started supporting time-sliced sharing between CUDA workloads on Kubernetes. This feature aims to prevent under-utilization of GPU units and make it easier to scale applications by leveraging concurrently-executing CUDA contexts. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for Command-Line Container Management

  2. Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database

  3. Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management

An Ode to Unit Tests: in Defense of the Testing Pyramid

The switch to the testing diamond approach has not effectively addressed issues caused by the testing pyramid. Instead, the focus should be on using unit tests correctly within a testable architecture. (Article)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Introduces Autoclass for Cloud Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs

  2. Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover

  3. Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge

  4. AWS Key Management Service Now Supports External Key Stores

PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB Now Generally Available on Google Cloud

Recently Google announced the general availability (GA) of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service providing scale-out compute and storage, integrated analytics, and AI/ML-powered management. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Linux 6.1 Officially Adds Support for Rust in the Kernel

PHP 8 – Functions and Methods

PHP 8.0 adds support for several functions- and methods-related features, including enhanced callable syntax, named function arguments, and Fibers, which are interruptible functions that add support for multitasking. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Provides Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 Implementations

  2. Java News Roundup: GlassFish 7.0, Payara Platform, Apache NetBeans 16

  3. OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation

  4. Spring Batch 5.0 Delivers JDK 17 Baseline and Support for Native Java

GraalVM Java Compilers Join OpenJDK in 2023, Align with OpenJDK Releases and Processes

The Community Editions of the GraalVM JIT and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilers will move to OpenJDK in 2023. They will align with OpenJDK releases and processes. Existing releases, GraalVM Enterprise Edition, and other GraalVM projects will not. GraalVM 22.3 provides experimental support for JDK 19 and improves observability. Project Leyden will standardize Java AOT compilation. (Article)

Best Practices for API Quality and Security

The panelists discuss how to improve quality and security in API design and management, what the biggest challenges are and how to address them. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety across Teams

How Behaviour-Driven Development Helps Those with Sleep Disorders Contribute Effectively

Invisible illnesses, including sleep disorders, are prevalent in the workplace. Teams that are open and accepting of those with sleep disorders benefit in their planning accuracy and quality practice from diverse viewpoints. An open and welcoming team culture plays a large part in helping team members overcome challenges. (Article)

How We Improved Application's Resiliency by Uncovering Our Hidden Issues Using Chaos Testing

This article lists the chaos testing principles which are outlined by Netflix. The readers should be able to understand the advantages and disadvantages that chaos testing offers. This will help them to decide whether they want to perform it or not. The article also explains why we should convince the management to perform chaos tests, considering all benefits over the risks. (Article)

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