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ANS for Agents, Strands Agents SDK, Flux 2.6 GA, Aurora DSQL, Sovereign Cloud, OpenAI’s Codex, Goodbye CVE?, Java Agent Development, .NET Aspire 9.3, Web UI, Gemini Nano, The MVP Dilemma, Developer Joy

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Designing for Knowledge Flow with Diana Montalion

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Diana Montalion about how architecture is designing for knowledge flow. The conversation covers the differences between knowledge stock and knowledge flow and the importance of a growth mindset. If you’re trying to find new ways to solve problems, you have to start by thinking in new ways. (Podcast)

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Using AI Code Generation to Migrate 20000 Tests

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sergii Gorbachov, a staff engineer at Slack, about how they successfully used AI combined with traditional coding approaches to migrate 20,000 tests in 10 months, discovering that AI alone was insufficient and required human oversight and conventional tools to work effectively. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Anthropic Open-sources Tool to Trace the "Thoughts" of Large Language Models

  2. Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents

  3. Perplexity Introduces Labs for Project-Based AI Workflows

  4. Anthropic Introduces Claude 4 Family and Claude Code

Amazon Open Sources Strands Agents SDK for Building AI Agents

Amazon has released Strands Agents, an open source SDK that simplifies AI agent development through a model-driven approach. The framework enables developers to build agents by defining prompts and tool lists with minimal code. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. GitLab Adds AI Code Assistance with Self-Hosted GitLab 18 Release

  2. Pinterest Tackles AWS EC2 Network Throttling to Enhance Service Reliability

Flux 2.6 GA Release and Security Advancements

The Flux project announced the availability of Flux v2.6.0. This version marks the General Availability (GA) of the Flux Open Container Initiative (OCI) Artifacts features, representing a fundamental shift in how organizations approach GitOps. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Introduces Open Source Model Context Protocol Servers for ECS, EKS, and Serverless

  2. Virt8ra Sovereign Cloud Expands with Six New European Providers

Amazon Aurora DSQL Goes GA: Distributed, PostgreSQL-Compatible Serverless Database

Amazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, serverless, and distributed database. The new managed service is designed to support active-active high availability and multi-region strong consistency. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Another Rust Rewrite: OpenAI’s Codex CLI Goes Native, Drops Node and TypeScript for Rust

Goodbye CVE? European Vulnerability Database EUVD Now Live

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently launched the beta of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD), a new public platform operating alongside, but independently from, the widely used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system. The new platform aims to improve coordination and transparency in vulnerability handling within the EU. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Introducing Embabel: Advanced AI Agent Development for Java Applications

  2. Java News Roundup: GlassFish, JEPs Targeted for JDK 25, TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Spring Cloud

  3. Java 25 Introduces Stable Values API for Deferred Immutability and Improved Application Startup

Bringing GPU-Level Performance to Enterprise Java: A Practical Guide to CUDA Integration

Java developers are no longer limited by CPU cores. This guide explores how to bring GPU-level acceleration to enterprise Java using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), with a practical Java Native Interface (JNI)-based integration pattern, real-world use case, and performance benchmarks. If you're solving high-throughput challenges, this article shows how to make Java truly parallel. (Article)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. .NET Aspire 9.3 Brings GitHub Copilot Integration and Expanded Azure Support

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Introduces Agent Mode and Advanced Copilot Assistance

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14, introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot code assistant, among other enhancements. The agent mode enables Copilot to perform complex, multi-step tasks when editing code. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Vitest Introduces Browser Mode as Alternative to JSDOM

Google’s "What’s New in Web UI" Talk: Less Custom Component JavaScript, More Web Standards

Una Kravets recently presented in a talk recent developments in Web UI supported by the Chrome team. Some common UI patterns that currently require a significant amount of JavaScript may soon be implemented in a declarative manner with new features of HTML and CSS, with less custom JavaScript, and with built-in accessibility. (News)

Google Brings Gemini Nano to ML Kit with New On-Device GenAI APIs

The new GenAI APIs recently added to ML Kit enable developers to use Gemini Nano for on-device inference in Android apps, supporting features like summarization, proofreading, rewriting, and image description. (News)

The MVP Dilemma: Scale Now or Scale Later?

Scaling a system is a hard problem to solve. Underinvesting in scalability leads to a shortened lifespan for the system, but overinvesting can kill the MVP business case because of cost. (Article)

Legacy Modernization: Architecting Realtime Systems Around a Mainframe

Jason Roberts and Sonia Mathew discuss architecting resilient real-time systems interacting with mainframes. They explain how Change Data Capture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, and Team Topologies were crucial for technical, organizational, and semantic decoupling. Learn their strategies for overcoming challenges with legacy systems and building a unified, scalable platform. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer

Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity

In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break. (Article)

What to Pack for Your GenAI Adventure

Soledad Alborno discusses essential skills and new tools for building successful GenAI products. She explains how traditional product management principles remain crucial while highlighting the nuances of working with LLMs. Learn about prompt engineering, data-driven development lifecycles, model selection criteria, and critical risk assessment for trust, safety, legal, and privacy in GenAI. (Presentation with transcript included)

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