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OpenAI Triton, Karmada 0.7, Google Enterprise API, GitHub CLI 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Auth0.js and Hasura, Slack's Email Engine, MLOps, Speed and Stability

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Alex Matyushentsev on Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes

In this podcast Alexander Matyushentsev, principal software engineer at Intuit and core engineer on the Argo CD and Argo Rollouts projects, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed the Argo projects, continuous delivery with Kubernetes, and how platform teams can help developers embrace modern release techniques and related technologies. (Podcast)

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Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Ignacio Inchausti and Ashay Saxena about the recently released Business Agility report: Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). (Podcast)

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The Human Work Machine and Likeonomics with David Mantica

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to David Mantica about the importance of understanding how the “human work machine” (our brain) functions, the impact of cognitive biases and the importance of likeonomics. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. OpenAI Releases Triton, Python-Based Programming Language for AI Workload Optimization

DeepMind Open Sources Data Agnostic Deep Learning Model Perceiver IO

DeepMind has open-sourced Perceiver IO, a general-purpose deep-learning model architecture that can handle many different types of inputs and outputs. Perceiver IO can serve as a "drop-in" replacement for Transformers that performs as well or better than baseline models, but without domain-specific assumptions. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Karmada 0.7: Next-Gen Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

  2. AWS Introduces Security Analytics Bootstrap to Perform Security Investigations

  3. Google Announces Enterprise API to Fix "Product-Killing" Reputation

  4. AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Building Reliability One Step at a Time

Ana Margarita Medina shares how she has been using Chaos Engineering and how it can be used to decouple our system’s weak points, learn from incidents and improve monitoring and observability. (Presentation with transcript included)
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GitHub CLI 2.0 Brings Support for Extensions

With its new major version, GitHub CLI enables extending its basic feature set by installing and running extensions. A GitHub CLI extension is just a repository prefixed with gh- and providing an executable file with the same name as the repository. (News)

Java News Roundup: Micronaut 3.0, Open Liberty Starter, Spring Boot, GraalVM, and JEP 400

This week's Java roundup for August 16th, 2021, features news from Micronaut 3.0, OpenJDK, JDK 18, updates to Spring Boot and Spring Tools, a new Open Liberty starter tool, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.3, Payara Platform updates, Quarkus 2.1.3, Eclipse OpenMQ 6.2 and the July update of Java in Visual Studio Code. (News)

Bootstrapping the Authentication Layer and Server with Auth0.js and Hasura

When you're trying to prototype an MVP for your app and want to start iterating quickly, the upfront cost of setting up authentication can be a massive roadblock. The authentication layer requires significant work, and you must always be on the lookout for security vulnerabilities. (Article)

Email Classification at Slack

Slack recently published the details of how it built an email address classification engine that can determine if an email address is internal or external. Slack engineers utilized an eventually consistent near real-time representation of the data in its system and implemented a drift detection mechanism to fix erroneous data, keeping the engine's operation in order. (News)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. MLOps: Continuous Delivery of Machine Learning Systems

Improving Speed and Stability of Software Delivery Simultaneously at Siemens Healthineers

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