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Nvidia Nemotron, QuestDB, DX Core 4, AWS Data Transfer, Gemini Code Assist, Asset Library, Jakarta EE 11, Express 5.0, Agile Alliance, Tool Migrations, Being a Manager

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Designing Low-Latency Systems with Rust: An Architectural Deep Dive

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Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI

Live from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Susan Shu Chang, Principal Data Scientist at Elastic. Chang shares insights on bridging foundational machine learning with generative AI, emphasizing the importance of deploying ML models effectively, leveraging collaborative tools for prototyping, and aligning team roles with the ML life cycle to create scalable AI solutions. (Podcast)

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Intentional Culture and Continuous Compensation: An Interview with Austin Vance

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Austin Vance, about the importance of intentional onboarding and culture-building, as well as his company's unique approach to compensation and the role of managers in retaining top talent. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Nvidia Nemotron Models Aim to Accelerate AI Agent Development

  2. Meta Open-Sources Byte Latent Transformer LLM with Improved Scalability

High Performance Time - Series Database Design with QuestDB

Vlad Ilyushchenko discusses database design and focuses on geographical data distribution, simplifying data pipelines with HA writes, data visualization with SQL extensions, and providing data scientists with scalable data access. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Netflix Enhances Metaflow with New Configuration Capabilities

DX Unveils New Framework for Measuring Developer Productivity

Software development intelligence platform DX has introduced a new framework named DX Core 4, designed to help engineering leaders measure and improve developer productivity. The framework aims to simplify this task by building on older established frameworks like the DORA metrics and SPACE. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon Launches High Memory U7inh EC2 Instance for Enhanced SAP HANA Workloads

AWS Announces Physical Data Transfer Terminal for High-Speed Uploads

AWS has recently introduced AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a new option for high-speed data uploads. Currently available only in the US, Data Transfer Terminals provide a physical location where customers can bring their storage devices for fast data transfer to and from the AWS cloud. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Expands Gemini Code Assist with Support for Atlassian, GitHub, and GitLab

A Common Problem and an Ancient Idea: How We Built Our Asset Library

Wenshuo Liu discusses why they chose GCS for storage, the problems that came with this decision, and various types of cache, especially their write back cache backed by Cloud Spanner. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Reimagining the Concept of Responsive Apps

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. In this podcast, Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience. Learn how to transform cloud-native architectures so you can guarantee responsiveness for your distributed systems. Listen Now.

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Jakarta EE Working Group Delivers Core Profile for Jakarta EE 11

Java News Roundup: GlassFish, Spring AI MCP, Grails, Helidon, JReleaser, Resilience4j, Arquillian

This week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 30th, 2024 features news highlighting: GlassFish 7.0.21; Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 and 0.3.0; Grails 6.2.3; Helidon 4.1.6; JReleaser 1.16.0; Resilience4j 2.3.0; and Arquillian 1.9.2.Final. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. vlt Introduces New JavaScript Package Manager and Serverless Registry

Express 5.0 Released, Focuses on Stability and Security

The Express.js team has released version 5.0.0, 10 years after the first major version release in 2014. The release focuses on stability and security with a view to enabling developers to write more robust Node.js applications. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Agile Alliance Joins the Project Management Institute

  2. Learnings from Internal Tool Migrations to Support Software Engineering Efficiency

Help: I Didn’t Realize I Was a Manager Now!

Peter Gillard-Moss tries to help people understand how they can grow to become a great engineering manager. (Presentation with transcipt included)

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