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Roblox Cube 3D, AI Trends, CodeQL, Terraform Workspaces, NVIDIA Blackwell, Go's Profile-Guided Optimization, JavaOne 2025, Java 24, HybridCache, Htmx, Gemma 3 1B, Dapr Agents, Message Brokers, Platform Teams

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Building LinkedIn’s Resilient Data Storage: a Deep Dive into Derived Data Storage with Felix GV

In this podcast, Felix GV, Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, discusses how to create and operate planet-scale data storage solutions for derived data. When it’s time to build a new system, how do you decide on the pieces that must be fitted to ensure a resilient operating system? (Podcast)

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Claire Vo on Building High-Performing, Customer-Centric Teams in the Age of AI

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, about building high-performing, customer-centric teams, fostering a culture of experimentation, and preparing for the future of AI-driven software development. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Roblox Releases Cube 3D, an AI Open-Source Model for 3D Model Generation

  2. Gemini Code Assist Now Grants Generous Free-Usage Limits to Everyone

  3. Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics

AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams

In this article, author Bilgin Ibryam discusses various AI trends disrupting the overall software development process and tools, and how these trends are influencing different IT teams like developers, operations, technical writers, and SaaS service providers. (Article)

Recommender and Search Ranking Systems in Large Scale Real World Applications

Moumita Bhattacharya overviews the industry search and recommendations systems, goes into modeling choices, data requirements and infrastructural requirements, while highlighting challenges. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Automating HCP Terraform Workspaces: a New Approach to Team Onboarding

How GitHub Leverages CodeQL for Security

GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team secures the code behind GitHub by developing tools like CodeQL to detect and fix vulnerabilities at scale. They’ve shared insights into their approach so other organizations can learn how to use CodeQL to better protect their own codebases. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Launches A4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI Workloads

  2. AWS AppSync Events Adds Direct WebSocket Message Publishing

  3. Cloudflare Launches Media Transformations: Optimizing Short-Form Video

  4. Azure Database for MySQL Trigger for Azure Functions in Public Preview

Google Cloud Introduces HDD Tier for Spanner Database, Cutting Cold Storage Costs by 80%

Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data while minimizing the overhead associated with traditional data migration. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. GPT-4o Code Completion Model Now Available in Public Preview for VS Code Copilot

  2. Uber Boosted Performance with Go's Profile-Guided Optimization

Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

Alexandru Ene features details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets living room devices. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JavaOne 2025 Day 1: Our World, Moved by Java

  2. Project Leyden Ships Third Option for Faster Application Start with JEP 483 in Java 24

  3. Java News Roundup: Jakarta NoSQL 1.0, Spring 7.0-M3, Maven 4.0-RC3, LangChain4j 1.0-beta2

Java 24 Delivers New Experimental and Many Final Features

Oracle has released version 24 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 24 JEPs. Two of these - Generational Shenandoah and Compact Object Headers - are new experimental features. Also, nearly half of these features are final, some of which have gone through the incubation and preview processes. (News)

.NET Team Announces Release of HybridCache Library for .NET 9

Last week, the .NET Team announced the release of HybridCache, a new .NET 9 library, now available through the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Hybrid package. According to the source, the library is designed to enhance data storage and retrieval performance by combining both in-memory and distributed caches, such as Redis. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. ESLint Now Officially Supports CSS, JSON, and Markdown

  2. Inertia 2.0 Released, Now Supports Asynchronous Requests

The Future of Htmx - Stability and Compatibility

The htmx team recently released an essay addressing the future of htmx. htmx wants to be a low-cost, high-value addition to the toolkits of web developers with a focus on stability and backward compatibility. Going forward, htmx will be developed with its existing users in mind. Websites built with htmx should be working for many years without changes. (News)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Launches Gemma 3 1B for Mobile and Web Apps

Building Efficient Mobile Streaming Apps

This article explores efficient preloading systems for mobile video streaming apps, balancing user experience with technical constraints. We will dive into practical implementation strategies that leverage network intelligence, buffer management techniques, AI-driven preloading, and real-world testing methodologies to enhance video delivery in mobile environments. (Article)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Dapr Agents: Scalable AI Workflows with LLMs, Kubernetes & Multi-Agent Coordination

  2. Meta Unifies Facebook’s Video Delivery System across Mobile and Web Apps

Beyond Trends: a Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Message Broker

Choosing the right message broker for your application requires matching the appropriate technology with the messaging patterns needed. Message brokers can be broadly categorized as either stream-based or queue-based, each offering unique strengths and trade-offs. (Article)

The Harsh Reality of Building a Real-Time ML Feature Platform

Ivan Burmistrov shares how ShareChat built their own Real-Time Feature Platform serving more than 1 billion features per second, and how they managed to make it cost efficient. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Applying DevOps Principles and Practices as a Quality Assurance Engineer

How to Ship Updates to 40+ Apps Every Week With Nx

Santosh Yadav discusses the world of Nx, maintaining a large Angular code base, CI/CD, release strategy, feature flags, introducing new tools to the codebase. (Presentation with ranscript included)

Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup

Jessica Andersson discusses Platform Engineering, how to start small, strategies and tradeoffs, gaining adoption from developers, and the future. (Presentation with transcript included)

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