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Meta SeamlessM4T, Kubernetes 1.28, Netflix Service Mesh, PyTorch, State of Serverless, Bun GA, Java 21, Visual Studio 2022, Reddit UI, Bridging Silos

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Tracy Miranda on Secure Supply Chains, SBOMs, and SLSA

In this episode, Tracy Miranda, a leader in the secure software supply chain domain, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the current state of the industry. Topics covered included the benefits of SBOMs and SLSA, getting started with generating SBOMs, and how developers should work with leadership when evaluating their organization’s security posture. (Podcast)

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Establishing an Open-Source Community Inside an Organisation

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Natnael (Nate) Belay about establishing an open source community inside an organisation. (Podcast)

Meta Open-Sources Multilingual Translation Foundation Model SeamlessM4T

Meta recently open-sourced Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation (SeamlessM4T), a multilingual translation AI that can translate both speech audio and text data across nearly 100 languages. SeamlessM4T is trained on 1 million hours of audio data and outperforms the current state-of-the-art speech-to-text translation model. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Kubernetes 1.28 Released with New Repositories and Fixes for Privilege Escalation in Windows

  2. Google Cloud Adds Service for Managing Terraform Deployments

  3. Implementation of Zero-Configuration Service Mesh at Netflix.

  4. AI a “Must-Have” in GitLab’s 2023 Global DevSecOps Report

  5. HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes Moves into General Availability

An Open Source Infrastructure for PyTorch

Mark Saroufim discusses tools and techniques to deploy PyTorch in production. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview

  2. Cloudflare One Data Protection Suite for Data Security across Web, Private, and SaaS Applications

  3. State of Serverless 2023 Report Suggests Increasing Serverless Adoption

  4. Azure Launches Free Playground for WordPress on App Service

From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native

Rosemary Wang discusses the patterns and practices that help one move from cloud-hosted to cloud-native architecture and maximize the benefit and use of the cloud. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Announces Copilot Copyright Commitment to Address IP Infringement Concerns

  2. Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed 38TB of Sensitive Data

  3. GitHub Dependabot Gets Customizable Auto-Triage Rules to Reduce False Positives

Node.js Alternative Bun Now Generally Available

The release 1.0 of the JavaScript toolkit Bun has been recently announced. Aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is garnering attention from the JavaScript and serverless communities for its speed and ease of use. (News)

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Discover the differences between Microservices and Serverless

As more and more businesses move away from monolithic architectures and towards cloud-based ones, a new approach to application deployment has emerged. Explore the benefits of microservices and serverless architectures, which allow for the fast and flexible development of software, giving companies an edge in a highly competitive market. Learn more.

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: JCP 25th Anniversary, Foreign Function & Memory API, Eclipse Epicyro

Java 21, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching

Oracle has released version 21 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first release offering long-term support since JDK 17 in 2021, the final feature set includes 15 JEPs. Three of these - Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching for switch - have completed their respective rounds of previews and are now finalized. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. SharePoint Framework 1.18 Refreshes Viva Connections Cards and Supports Node 18

Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements

Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version. (News)

Node.js 2023 Edition Available

The Node.js team has recently released version 20.6.0, which brings improvements in environment variable configuration, module resolution, module customization, and experimental support for C++ garbage collection. This update streamlines the management of environment variables. (News)

AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager

AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Reddit Adopts Server-Driven UI for Its New Feed Architecture across Mobile Apps

How Will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve?

Rebecca Parsons examines some possible futures for the principles and practices of Evolutionary Architecture. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How to Create a UI That's Both Robust and User Friendly

Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them. (Article)

The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role

Akhilesh Gupta discusses real-world examples to broaden scope and embrace the soft skills needed to tackle organizational issues at scale to land a staff-plus engineer role. (Presentation with transcript included)

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