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Valkey 8.0, LLM Panel, System Initiative, K8s Resilience, AWS Sunsets Services, Unified Memory Models, Functional Web Apps, OpenAI .NET, Android Optimization, Psychology of Decisions

QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-22, 2024): Keynote sessions announced.

Join us at QCon San Francisco to explore practical insights from four keynotes focused on driving innovation in engineering. From NASA's calculated risks to fostering trust in teams, discover strategies that elevate your work and adapt to AI's impact on the future. Explore the keynotes.

 

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Transforming internal tools with AI can significantly improve productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and provide data-driven insights for better decision-making. Moderated by InfoQ's Srini Penchikala, this webinar will guide you through selecting the right AI models and tools and provide hands-on strategies for building and deploying intelligent features like natural language processing, predictive analytics, and more. Live Webinar, October 22nd, 2024 - Save your Seat!

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Improving Developer Experience with Platform Engineering

Platform engineering has become a hot topic over the last several years. The need to deliver software with speed, safety, and efficiency has driven the rise of platforms designed "as a product" with the internal customer, the developer. In this InfoQ emag, we bring together insights from platform builders, practitioners, and developer experience leaders at the forefront of these topics. (eMag)

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Generally AI - Season 2 - Episode 1: Generative AI and Creativity

Hosts Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford discuss how AI is being used to make creativity more accessible. While some Generative AI content lacks variety and artistic depth, there is potential for AI to assist human creators rather than replace them. They also explore the challenge of evaluating generative AI models. (Podcast)

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Great Products Need Closer Collaboration Between Product, Engineering and Design

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Maria Fernandez Guajardo about how product management has evolved, with the need for closer collaboration between product, engineering, and design, especially in the age of AI. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Valkey 8.0 Now GA with Improved Memory Efficiency

  2. Google Develops Voice Transfer AI for Restoring Voices

Virtual Panel: What to Consider When Adopting Large Language Models

Four experts discuss some issues people should think about when adopting LLMs and how they can make the best choice for their specific use case. Topics include how to choose between an API-based vs. self-hosted LLM, when to fine-tune an LLM, how to mitigate LLM risks, and what non-technical changes organizations need to make when adopting LLMs. (Article)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. System Initiative Launches DevOps Platform to Address Cloud Stack Drift

Resilience and Chaos Engineering in a Kubernetes World

The panelists discuss the tools, knowledge, and resources that can help achieve faster incident response and recovery times. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Launches Public Preview of Azure FXv2-Series VMs for High-Performance Workloads

  2. Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift

AWS Sunsets More Services, Including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway

In a series of blog posts, AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer. This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the cloud provider’s long-standing commitment to existing services. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements

Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs

Joe Rowell explores the use of unified memory on modern GPU, the low-level details of how unified memory is realized on an x86-64 system, and some of the tools to understand what's happening on a GPU. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Proposed Schedule for JDK 24, SecurityManager Disabled, Commonhaus Foundation

How Functional Programming Can Help You Write Efficient, Elegant Web Applications

Many things can make software more challenging to understand and, consequently, to maintain. One of the most complex and problematic causes is managing internal mutable states. When the internal state is poorly managed, the software behaves unexpectedly, leading to bugs and fixing, which introduces unnecessary complexity. FP solves this problem by providing immutability mechanisms and more. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. OpenAI Releases Stable Version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support and API Enhancements

Microsoft Releases Dev Proxy v0.21: New Features Enhance API Testing and Development Efficiency

Microsoft has announced the release of Dev Proxy v0.21, introducing several notable features. Among the key additions are the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2, the capability to quickly generate JWT tokens for testing, a new version of the toolkit, and other improvements. (News)

Compiler Explorer Provides Insights into Low-Level Android App Optimization

Android engineers at Google added support for the Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer, an open source tool aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time. Using Compiler Explorer, Android engineers can optimize the performance of their apps by observing how the compiler works under the hood instead of using a set of pre-defined best practices. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How to Improve Software Team Performance with Experimentation

The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making

Hannes Ricklefs makes an exploration into the science behind decision-making, with tips and tricks to improve the ability to make sound personal and professional choices. (Presentation with transcript included)

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