Sponsored by Monte Carlo  Learn how to achieve reliable data at scale through data observability. This webinar covers tracking the five pillars of observability, implementing monitoring and detection, creating incident workflows, leveraging automation for data-driven insights, and more. Live Webinar, July 27th, 2023 - Save your Seat. |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie, spoke to Katherine Jarmul of Thoughtworks about the dangers of techno-solutionism, challenges in ethical application of technology and her book Practical Data Privacy. (Podcast) |
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 While using ChatGPT through a web interface is one thing, creating your own autonomous AI tool that interfaces with ChatGPT via its API is a different story altogether. As strong proponents of C++, in this article we are going to present a GPT tool written in C++ to ease the pain of dealing with the daunting task of editing endless editorial comments. (Article) |
Sponsored by Lightbend  Having a microservices strategy can be a resourceful investment in agility; however, it requires high skill, effort, and discipline when it comes to management and orchestration. As with any investment, it’s essential to understand the risks and merits concerning your business goals. This article will walk you through what microservices do well, their challenges, and whether they’re right for you. Learn more. |
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| Google announced the expansion of the offer for Google Cloud Firewall. Cloud Firewall is the GCP firewall service that is cloud native and distributed. The new features now in general availability are threat intelligence for Cloud Firewall, geo-location objects, address groups and local IP ranges. (News) |
Sponsored by AWS Marketplace  Learn how to architect cloud applications for resilience and implement testing and observability into your development process. Discover and understand the frameworks & tools that can help your system tolerate stress, mitigate risks, and provide a consistent user experience. (Live Webinar, July 20th) - Register Now. |
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| Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases. (News) |
Sponsored by Nagarro  Reliability incidents can cost thousands of dollars a minute! Manage them smartly by establishing resiliency testing as a quality gate. Join the webinar to learn from UKG, Nagarro & Gremlin experts. Register now. |
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| Spring Boot 3.1, the latest version of the popular Java-based framework for building stand-alone, production-grade applications, introduces enhanced support for development-time containers. This new feature was the focus of a recent livestream by Josh Long, a Spring developer advocate, on his YouTube channel "Coffee + Software with Josh Long." (News) |
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 The article discusses the challenges of writing unit tests and handling date and time in .NET. TimeProvider and ITimer are new universal time abstractions available in NET 8 Preview 4 for dependency injections and unit testing, offering extensive functionality for managing time-related operations. (Article) |
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| A recent report by former npm engineering manager Darcy Clarke found that the npm registry does not validate manifest information against the contents of its corresponding package tarball. This creates a double source of truth that attackers can exploit to hide scripts or dependencies, says Clarke. (News) |
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| At its recent WWDC 2023 developer conference, Apple presented a number of extensions and updates to its machine learning and vision ecosystem, including updates to its Core ML framework, new features for the Create ML modeling tool, and new vision APIs for image segmentation, animal body pose detection, and 3D human body pose. (News) |
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 Jessica Kerr reviews the benefits (user experience on demand!) and constraints (everything in AWS has a limit!) of serverless-as-accelerator, and gives practical advice. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them. They made Declercq’s life-manual, which enables him to be happy and productive as a software developer. (Article) |
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