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Airbnb Chronon, Google Gemini 1.5, OpenTelemetry SDK, Building SaaS, Durable Execution, Fix Your SDLC, Java News, Swift Async, Android 15, Trainline Microservices, Protecting APIs, Sustainable Software

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Cassie Shum, VP of Field Engineering at Relational AI, about the importance of empathy in engineering culture and the key elements of building a strong team. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon

  2. Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions

  3. Thoughtworks’ VP of Data and AI Shares Insights for Building a Robust Data Product at QCon London

  4. Google Trains User Interface and Infographics Understanding AI Model ScreenAI

Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention

Neha Narkhede discusses a vision for fraud and risk management that leverages the advancements in generative AI. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Expedia Opensources its Container-Startup-Autoscaler (CSA) for Kubernetes Workloads

  2. KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s Migration from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies

Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET

Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default. The project is open-sourced. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Cloudflare R2 Storage Introduces Event Notifications and Infrequent Access Storage Tier

  2. New Cloud Governance Guidance in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

  3. Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: a Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup

  4. Stateful Cloud Services at Neon Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs: Q&A with John Spray

  5. Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview

Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal

Sergey Bykov discusses the concept of Durable Execution, with a real world example of how they used it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Fix Your SDLC before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London

Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites

Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track. (News)

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Java News Roundup: JobRunr 7.0, Introducing the Commonhaus Foundation, Payara Platform, Devnexus

This week's Java roundup for April 8th, 2024, features news highlighting: JobRunr 7.0; introducing the Commonhaus Foundation; the April 2024 edition of Payara Platform; JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview), and JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator), Proposed to Target for JDK 23; and Devnexus 2024. (News)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Swift Asynchronous Programming Recipes on GitHub

Android 15 Beta Brings Loudness Control, Improvements for Satellite Connectivity, and More

Google has released Android 15 Beta. This version brings loudness control, screen recording detection, edge-to-edge apps by default, improvements for satellite connectivity and OpenJDK core libraries, new SQLite Apis, and more. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline

  2. Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters

  3. QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform

Protecting APIs in Financial Services with Zero Trust Overlay Mesh Networks

Clint Dovholuk reviews the three components of OpenZiti's architecture: controller, edge routers, and SDKs, in addition to diving into the internal physical and logical architecture of OpenZiti. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How to Do Sustainable Software Development

  2. Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity

Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops

Fred Hebert discusses various small approaches and patterns that influence how teams deal with reliability, and highlights some of the key interactions and behaviors. (Presentation with transcript included)

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