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AI Toolkit LAVIS, K8s Databases, AWS App Runner, WebAssembly Cloud, GitHub Copilot Lawsuit, Serverless Releases, Spring Modulith, .NET 7 Generic Parsing, Android Modularization, Hybrid Working, DevOps Product Mindset

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Great Management is a Skillset with Huge Impact on Team and Organisation Performance

Shane Hastie spoke to Stefanie Tignor, lead data scientist at Humu about what it take to be a great manager, and the powerful difference managers make in the organisation. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Salesforce Open-Sources Language-Vision AI Toolkit LAVIS

Create Your Distributed Database on Kubernetes with Existing Monolithic Databases

The next challenge for databases is to run them on Kubernetes to become cloud neutral. However, they are more difficult to manage than the application layer, since Kubernetes is designed for stateless applications. Apache ShardingSphere is the ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system and enhance it with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features, and more. (Article)

How to Operationalize Transformer Models on the Edge

Cassie Breviu discusses different model deployment architectures, how to deploy with edge devices and inference in different programming languages. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS App Runner Adds Support for Private Services

  2. HashiCorp's Boundary Now Generally Available on HCP

  3. New Metrics Capabilities for OpenTelemetry on Azure Monitor

CloudFormation or Terraform: Which Iac Platform is the Best Fit for You?

CloudFormation and Terraform are two of the most popular IaC frameworks available. In this article learn which framework will work best for your use cases. (Article)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers

  2. Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing

  3. AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland

  4. .NET 7 for Azure Functions Isolated Worker Process Now Generally Available

AWS Introduces Resource Explorer to Simplify Search and Discovery of Resources

AWS recently announced the general availability of Resource Explorer, a managed capability to search and discover resources inside an AWS account. The new option is available at no additional charge and can query multiple regions but not multiple accounts. (News)

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First Open Source Copyright Lawsuit Chal­lenges GitHub Copi­lot

A class-action law­suit has been filed in a US fed­eral court chal­leng­ing the legal­ity of GitHub Copi­lot and the related OpenAI Codex. The suit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims violation of open-source licenses and could have a wide impact in the world of artificial intelligence. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Omni Faces 4.0 Changes Minimal Dependency to Java 11, While Removing Deprecated Classes

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Spring Modulith Structures Spring Boot 3 Applications with Modules and Events

VMware shipped the experimental Spring Modulith project to better structure Spring Boot 3 applications with modules and events. The project introduces new classes and annotations but doesn't generate code. Modules map to Java packages and are encouraged to use Spring events which can be automatically stored in an event log. Spring Modulith also eases the testing of modules and events. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. .NET 7 Adds Generic Math

  2. .NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF

C# 11 and .NET 7 Bring Generic Parsing

Using the new Static Abstract Methods feature, .NET 7 eliminates the need to use reflection when parsing strings into generic objects. (News)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Launches Relay to Transform and Accelerate Android UI Creation

Google Releases a Guide to Android App Modularization

Google has recently released a guide to Android app modularization. This guide is designed to bring best practices and recommended patterns for developers to build multi-module Android apps, focusing on mitigating problems that arise when the codebase grows, such as scalability, readability, stability and testability. (News)

Deterministic, Reproducible, Unsurprising Releases in the Serverless Era

Ix-chel Ruiz explores good practices, tips and lessons learned to make a release to production without surprises. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Applying Machine Learning for Business Outcomes at Travelopia

  2. Hybrid Working Matters to All Generations

When, Why and How Facilitation Skills Help Scrum Teams

Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another. This article talks about how facilitation can make or break team interactions, the amount of facilitation needed in certain scenarios, how to drive decisions with facilitation, and more. (Article)

Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable, and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset". (Article)

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