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Will McGugan, the maker of Textual and Rich frameworks, speaks about the reasoning of developing the two two libraries and the lesson learned. Also, he shares light on Toad, his current project, which he envisions being a more visually appealing way of interacting with agentic LLMs through command line. (Podcast)
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TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES
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In this article, authors Srikanth Daggumalli and Arun Lakshmanan discuss next-generation context-aware conversational search using OpenSearch and AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). (Article)
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Clara Matos discusses the journey of shipping AI-powered healthcare products at Sword Health. She explains how to implement input/output guardrails for regulated industries and shares a framework for robust evaluations using human and LLM-based ratings. From prompt engineering to RAG and user feedback loops, she shares a data-driven roadmap for building reliable AI care agents at scale. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Francisco Javier Arceo explored Feast, the open-source feature store designed to address common data challenges in the AI/ML lifecycle, such as feature redundancy, and low-latency serving at scale. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES
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AWS recently announced the public preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a new "frontier agent" that aims to help organizations react more quickly to production incidents, identify root causes, and proactively strengthen system reliability. (News)
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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES
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Google Cloud's introduction of fully-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers revolutionizes its API infrastructure, streamlining access for developers. This enterprise-ready solution enhances AI integration across services such as Google Maps and BigQuery while promoting wide-scale adoption. New tools ensure governance and security, and are currently in public preview. (News)
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David Stein, principal AI engineer at ServiceTitan, presented "Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks instead of Years" at QCon AI New York 2025. Stein demonstrated how migrations don’t have to be synonymous to "moving mountains" and introduced the concepts of the Principle of Acceleration and the Assembly Line Pattern. (News)
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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES
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This week's Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Hibernate ORM and Spock Framework; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, Apache TomEE and Apache Tomcat. (News)
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Microsoft has officially launched Visual Studio 2026 (version 18), marking what they call the first ‘AI‑native’ release of its flagship integrated development environment. The general availability rollout follows extensive validation via the Insiders channel and reflects a blend of performance optimisations, deep GitHub Copilot integration, and tooling updates across core languages and workloads. (News)
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TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES
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Introducing oRPC 1.0, a cutting-edge TypeScript library for building typesafe APIs, offering a stable, production-ready solution with full OpenAPI integration. Key features include enterprise-grade type safety, complex type support, and seamless integration with popular frameworks. With superior performance and comprehensive migration guides, oRPC emerges as a choice for modern API development. (News)
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With the release of the Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3, Google has introduced two new libraries to help developers create AI Glasses experiences, Jetpack Projected and Jetpack Compose Glimmer. ARCore for Jetpack XR has also been expanded to work with AI Glasses, adding motion tracking and geospatial capabilities. (News)
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TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES
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As AI evolves from tool to collaborator, architects must shift from manual design to meta-design. This article introduces the "Three Loops" framework (In, On, Out) to help navigate this transition. It explores how to balance oversight with delegation, mitigate risks like skill atrophy, and design the governance structures that keep AI-augmented systems safe and aligned with human intent. (Article)
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While AI adoption is surging, most organizations fail to scale past pilots. The solution lies in organizational structure, not just technology. This article details how architects can enable "fast flow" by defining clear domains and guardrails. Learn how to shift from controlling outcomes to curating context, allowing AI to drive continuous, valuable business change. (Article)
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Autonomous AI agents amplify productivity but can cause severe damage without safeguards. Defend the ReAct loop—context, reasoning, and tools—through provenance gates, planner-critic separation, scoped credentials, sandboxed code, and STRIDE/MAESTRO threat modeling. With robust logging, bounded autonomy, and red-teaming, agents can deliver trustworthy productivity while minimizing risk. (Article)
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Durai Arasan explains the architectural strategies used to scale Chase.com to 67M+ active users. He discusses achieving high resilience through multi-region isolation, slashing latency by 71% via edge computing, and utilizing automated "infrastructure repaving" to eliminate security drift. He shares vital lessons on self-healing observability and building an engineering-first culture. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Liran Yushinsky shared how his team replaced brittle bash and kubectl tests with a unified Kotlin + Gauge framework. Using Fabric8, Terraform, and Ansible, they automated their test environments. Feedback loops dropped from hours to minutes, developers joined testing efforts, and shared ownership boosted quality and release speed. (News)
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