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Building a Reliable Kafka Data Processing Pipeline with Lily Mara

In this episode Thomas Betts talks to Lily Mara, engineering manager at OneSignal in San Mateo, California. She manages the infrastructure services team, which is responsible for in-house services used by other OneSignal engineering teams. They will discuss how to build a reliable Kafka data processing pipeline. (Podcast)

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The Journey to Staff-Plus Engineer

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Akhilesh Gupta, a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn about the journey to a staff-plus role. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Ai4 2023: Generative AI Testing Lessons from Hussein Mehanna of Cruise

  2. Jupyter AI Brings Generative AI to Notebooks

  3. AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Jupyter AI, AudioCraft, OverflowAI, StableCode and Tabnine

Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with Tiered Storage

Neha Pawar discusses how to query data on the cloud directly with sub-seconds latencies, diving into data fetch and optimization strategies, challenges faced and learnings. (Presentation with transcript included)

Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges

Chip Huyen discusses the value of fresh data as well as different types of architecture and challenges of online prediction. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo

  2. HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License for All Products

Programming Your Policies: Exploring Open Policy Agent and More

Justin Cormack discusses how to deal with policies, what the business drivers are, how it affects developers, compliance and security departments, and the cultural and communication changes there. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations

  2. New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview

  3. Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System

During the latest AWS Storage Day event, Amazon announced the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The new open-source file client provides through a file interface the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3, supporting data transfer at up to 100 Gb/second between each EC2 instance and the object storage. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. New Downfall Attack Could Lead to Sensitive Data Leakage on Intel Processors

Keeping Go "Boring" in Go 1.21: How Google Grants Backward Compatibility

In a recent article, Google engineer Russ Cox detailed what Google does to make sure each new Go release honors Go's backward-compatibility guarantee. This includes generalizing GODEBUG in Go 1.21 to cover even subtle incompatibility cases. (News)

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Java News Roundup: Payara Cloud, MicroProfile Telemetry, Foojay.io Calendar, JVM Language Summit

This week's Java roundup for August 7th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.24, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M1, Spring Modulith 1.0-RC1, Payara Cloud, Quarkus 3.2.4, MicroProfile Telemetry 1.1, OpenXava 7.1.4, Foojay.io calendar and JVM Language Summit 2023. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Visual Studio 2022 17.7 with .NET and C++ Development Features, Performance Improvements, and More

  2. Oracle Data Provider for .Net: Asynchronous Programming, OpenTelemetry, and More

ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 7: Blazor, Native AOT, Antiforgery and More

The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 7 brings significant additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Native AOT, Identity, new SPA Visual Studio templates, Antiforgery middleware additions and many more. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture

Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix

This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. A Ruthless Approach for Better Security by Identifying Key Risks and Ignoring Others

Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries

Do you know that feeling, when you are brave enough to say ‘NO’ and then you don’t feel comfortable about it? This article provides a proper understanding of what an assertiveness skill is. You will learn how to identify the communication skills we need to work on to become more assertive, and get information about the characteristics and skills of assertive people. (Article)

Remote Working: the Day 8,000 People Suddenly Worked from Home through the Present

Rebecca Parsons describes the transition that Thoughtworks made to remote working initially, and how they look today at the value of remote, hybrid, and in-office work. (Presentation with transcript included)

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