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Google AutoML, Docker+Wasm, K8s Pod Sandboxing, Cloud Spanner, Refactoring to Rust, Java 20, ASP.NET Minimal APIs, TypeScript 5, Architectural Decisions, Developer Experience

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TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS and NVIDIA to Collaborate on Next-Gen EC2 P5 Instances for Accelerating Generative AI

  2. Google Uses AutoML to Discover More Efficient AI Training Algorithm

Orchestrating Hybrid Workflows with Apache Airflow

Ricardo Sueiras discusses how to leverage Apache Airflow to orchestrate a workflow using data sources inside and outside the cloud. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Docker+Wasm Reaches Technical Preview 2, Includes Three New Runtime Engines

  2. Survey on Supply Chain Practices Finds Perceived Usefulness of Practice Correlates with Adoption

  3. AWS Announces Kubernetes 1.25 Support for EKS

  4. HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool

  5. Microsoft Adds Support for Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service

Improving CI/CD Pipelines Through Observability

CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data. (Article)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Spanner Introduces Configurable Read-Only Replicas and Zero-Downtime Move Service

  2. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted Is Now Generally Available

  3. AWS Releases New Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3

During the latest Pi Day, AWS announced Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open-source file client to deliver high throughput access on Amazon S3. Currently in alpha, the local mount point provides high single-instance transfer rates and is primarily intended for data lake applications. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Stack Overflow Sentiment Survey Aims to Identify Experimental and Proven Technologies

Blazing Fast, Minimal Change - Speed Up Your Code by Refactoring to Rust

Lily Mara takes an existing codebase and rewrites part of it in Rust, focusing on writing a Rust reimplementation, cross-language regression testing, performance benchmarking of the new code. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama

  2. Java News Roundup: New JEPs, GraalVM 23 Early-Access, Infinispan, Mojarra, Micrometer Metrics

Billions of Messages Per Minute Over TCP/IP

Chronicle Wire offers an alternative way of transferring data between systems, delivering more messages, faster, than common JSON/XML approaches. This approach to data serialization improves both latency and throughput. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework

  2. The Sentence Similarity Scenario in ML.NET Model Builder

Using ASP.NET Core 7 Minimal APIs: Request Filters, Parameter Mapping, and More

Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose. (Article)

TypeScript 5 GA Extends Decorators, Stabilizes New Module Resolution Option, and More

After announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta three months ago, TypeScript 5 has finally reached general availability. Among the most relevant changes are extended support for decorators to enable their placement before or after export and export defaults, the new bundler module resolution option, and more. (News)

A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

This article describes a framework for making architectural decisions using three building blocks: The company's own Technology Radar; Technology Standards; and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). The framework clarifies decision-making, team involvement, and information on already made decisions and aligns with the company's needs and culture. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?

  2. Improving Developer Experience in Non-Technical Organisations with BMK

How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself, your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work. (Article)

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