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Robot Training, Real-Time ML, Zero Trust K8s, Microsoft Dev Box, Serverless Snippets, Kotlin Dataframe, Java Collections, CameraX 1.2, Slack CI/CD, Systems Integration, SRE Coaching, DevEx

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Friction in Data Analytics Workflows Causing Stress and Burnout

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Matthew Scullion about the state of the data analytics workforce, friction in data analytics value streams and the resultant high rates of stress and burnout. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Published Results on How ML-Enhanced Code Compilation Could Improve Developers’ Productivity

  2. Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines

  3. Berkeley Researchers Announce Robot Training Algorithm DayDreamer

Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time Machine Learning

This article covers the benefits of streaming-first infrastructure for two scenarios of real-time ML: online prediction, where a model can receive a request and make predictions as soon as the request arrives, and continual learning, when machine learning models are capable of continually adapting to change in data distributions in production. (Article)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Cloud Security Posture Management Now Available in Vulnerability Scanner Trivy

What Does Zero Trust Mean for Kubernetes?

Zero trust is a powerful security model that’s at the forefront of modern security practices. It’s also a term that is prone to buzz and hype, making it hard to cut through the noise. So what is zero trust, exactly, and for Kubernetes, what does it mean in concrete terms? In this article, we’ll explore what zero trust is from an engineering perspective. (Article)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Trusted Advisor Priority Capability Now Available for Enterprise Support Customers

  2. AWSGoat Open-Source Project for Pen Testing AWS Cloud Solutions

  3. Google Cloud Blocks Largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack

  4. Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection

Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview

Azure recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation in the cloud targeted to developers. Integrated with Windows 365, the new service supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows and simplifies onboarding of new developers. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Processing Data with Kotlin Dataframe Preview

  2. Java News Roundup: JDK 19-RC1, Multiple Spring Updates, Micronaut, Helidon, Payara

  3. Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Planned for November 2022

How to Speed up Large Collections Processing in Java

A review on Java performance for many objects using Java Collections or alternative collections, with the impact of serial vs. parallel streams. For some streaming data sets, parallel processing can be slower than the default. (Article)

Level up Your Java Performance with TornadoVM

Juan Fumero overviews the TornadoVM project, a parallel programming framework, and a Virtual Machine for transparently offloading Java programs onto GPUs and FPGAs. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Google Releases CameraX 1.2 Beta with MLKit Integration

Now available in beta, CameraX 1.2 brings out-of-the-box integration with some of MLKit vision APIs and a new feature aimed to reduce shutter button lag when taking pictures. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Slack Implements Circuit Breakers to Improve CI/CD Pipeline Availability

Business Systems Integration is about to Get a Whole Lot Easier

A new breed of integration software is arising that syncs business data into a simplified data hub and then syncs that data to the destination system.  The benefit of this integration pattern is that it reduces the number of manual transformations required (often to zero) and makes it easier to write manual transformations when you have to. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Programming Observability: Measuring the Maturity of Observability as Code

POCs, Scrum, and the Poor Quality of Software Solutions

POCs and Scrum can play a critical role in implementing Quality software solutions. Poor quality often starts with a POC that was prematurely turned into the development pipeline. Scrum short sprints often create an environment most conductive to working reactively to constantly-changing requirements making it hard for developers to prioritize and achieve Quality over the course of the project. (Article)

Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. (Article)

Scaling the North Star of Developer Experience

Phillipa Avery discusses learnings from the back-end and product engineering perspective, gained while Netflix has grown from hundreds to thousands of engineers. (Presentation with transcript included)

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