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Participatory Leadership and Developing a Culture of Psychological Safety

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Nick Takavadii about participatory leadership practices and how to cultivate a workplace environment with psychological safety. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. LLaVA-CoT Shows How to Achieve Structured, Autonomous Reasoning in Vision Language Models

  2. QCon SF 2024 - Scale out Batch GPU Inference with Ray

  3. Techniques and Trends in AI-Powered Search by Faye Zhang at QCon SF

  4. QCon SF: Using Metaflow to Support Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

  5. How Uber Sped up SQL-based Data Analytics with Presto and Express Queries

Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Meryem Arik discusses some of the best practices in model optimization, serving and monitoring - with practical tips and real case-studies. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Rise of Python, Generative AI, and Global Developer Communities: Insights from GitHub Octoverse 2024

  2. Timescale Bolsters AI-Ready PostgreSQL with pgai Vectorizer

  3. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Key Announcements and Projects Updates

  4. QCon SF 2024 - Why ML Projects Fail to Reach Production

  5. QCon SF: Large Scale Search and Ranking Systems at Netflix

From Local to Production: A Modern Developer’s Journey Towards Kubernetes

Urvashi Mohnani discusses the full developer experience of writing an application, containerizing it locally, deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster, and debugging Kubernetes applications locally. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Is Your Team Embracing the Trend of Multiple IDEs?

An increasing number of development teams are using more than one IDE. Is your team one of them? Read the blog for insight on how the Java IDE landscape is changing and why.

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. First Google Axion Processor Now Available: Claims Best Performance in Cloud Market

  2. Microsoft Introduces Long-Awaited Local Emulator for Azure Service Bus

  3. High-Performance Serverless with Rust: Insights from Benjamen Pyle’s Talk at QCon San Francisco

  4. How Recall.ai Saved $1M on AWS by Eliminating WebSockets

Aurora Limitless: AWS Introduces New PostgreSQL Database with Automated Horizontal Scaling

AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a relational database designed to provide automated horizontal scaling. This new option can handle millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data, all within a single database environment. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Introduces Gemini AI Features to Android Studio

  2. QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 1: Architectures, Rust, AI/ML for Engineers, Sociotech Resilience

  3. Microsoft Announces General Availability of Fabric API for GraphQL

  4. Vercel Expands AI Toolkit with AI SDK 4.0 Update

Carle Lerche Talking at QCon SF about Rust: a Productive Language for Writing Database Applications

Discover how Rust is evolving beyond its systems programming roots to become a viable option for high-level applications. Carl Lerche, AWS principal engineer, showcased its productivity and safety for database-backed systems. Embrace Rust’s potential with innovative tools like Toasty and join the movement to enhance its growing ecosystem for ambitious backend development. (News)

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Top 15 Tech Trends in 2024 (By McKinsey)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. WildFly 34 Adds Preview of Jakarta EE 11 and Support for Jakarta Data

  2. Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Boot 3.4 Improve Containers, Actuators ahead of New 2025 Generations

  3. Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.2, OpenJDK JEPs, Micronaut 4.7, Gradle 8.11

Reactive Real-Time Notifications with SSE, Spring Boot, and Redis Pub/Sub

Explore the power of reactive programming for building scalable real-time notification systems. Using Spring Boot Reactive and Spring WebFlux, leverage non-blocking operations to handle high-volume, asynchronous data flows efficiently. Discover how Redis Pub/Sub enables event-driven messaging and how the SSE protocol provides persistent connections for instant client updates without polling. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. DevProxy 0.22 Improves API Permission Checks

  2. .NET MAUI 9 Launched with Better Performance, New Controls

ASP.NET Core 9: Enhancements in Static Asset Handling, Blazor, SignalR, and OpenAPI Support

Microsoft has released .NET 9, which contains features regarding ASP.NET Core 9. This latest release focuses on optimizing static asset handling, refining Blazor's component interaction, enhancing SignalR's observability and performance, and streamlining API documentation through built-in OpenAPI support. (News)

Adaptable Innovation: How Microsoft Leverages React Native for Strategic Advantage

Lorenzo Sciandra unveils the use of React Native across Microsoft's diverse ecosystem, emphasizing the strategic and technological reasons for its continued selection. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Netflix Rolls Out Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding to Improve Resiliency

Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: A Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. QCon SF: Mandy Gu on Using Generative AI for Productivity at Wealthsimple

How to Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms and Practices

By focusing on the users, platform development teams can ensure that they build a platform that tackles the true needs of developers, Ana Petkovska said at QCon London. In her talk, Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices, she shared what their Developer Experience (DevEx) group looks like and what products and services they provide. (News)

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