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Gemini 2.5, LLM Deployment, K8s History Inspector, European Cloud, Rust on Azure, GitHub Secrets, JavaOne 2025, ASP.NET Core 10, Airbnb LLM Testing, TikTok Lynx, Resilient Microservices, Age-Friendly Workplaces

InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10): Real-world strategies for AI, DevEx & Cloud.

At InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9–10), senior practitioners from Netflix, Shopify, and The New York Times share hard-earned lessons on AI adoption, platform engineering, and developer experience. Learn how top teams are solving today’s toughest engineering challenges. Early bird ends April 15.

 

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Dive into our hands-on blog series and discover how AI and agents can transform app development. Learn to build a marketing app for "Best For You Organics" that crafts social posts, blogs, and emails effortlessly. Leverage GenAI to enhance productivity, enable scalability, and drive innovation with Azure’s advanced architecture. Learn More.

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Act One: From Chatbots to AI Agents

In the "Act One: From Chatbots to AI Agents" eMag we’ve curated a collection of articles that explore the exciting transition from the familiar realm of chatbots to the more dynamic and autonomous world of AI agents. The eMag offers both practical insights and forward-looking perspectives on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. (eMag)

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Simplify Your System By Challenging The Status-Quo And Learning From Other Ecosystems

In this podcast, Max Rydahl Andersen, distinguished engineer at RedHat and the creator of JBang discusses how continuously learning from other ecosystems and adopting new tools allows you to simplify your thinking and systems. This will increase the developer joy of the coders and further obtain safer and more robust systems. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google DeepMind Launches TxGemma: Advancing AI-Driven Drug Discovery and Development

  2. Google Introduces Gemini 2.5 Pro with Improved Reasoning and Coding Capabilities

  3. Nvidia Unveils AI, GPU, and Quantum Computing Innovations at GTC 2025

  4. Fauna Shutting Down: Is the Future Open Source?

Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Meryem Arik shares best practices for self-hosting LLMs in corporate environments, highlighting the importance of cost efficiency and performance optimization. She details quantized models, batching, and workload optimizations to improve LLM serving. Insights cover model selection and infrastructure consolidation, emphasizing the differences between enterprise and large-scale AI lab deployments. (Presentation with transcript included)

AI in the Age of Climate Change

Nischal HP discusses the critical role of data credibility in combating greenwashing and enabling effective climate action. He shares how technology can be used to create verifiable data on carbon sequestration, empowering farmers and corporations to participate in carbon markets. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Atlassian Announces Opsgenie Consolidation into JIRA Service Management

  2. Docker Desktop 4.39 Brings Docker Smart AI Agent, CLI in GA, and Enhanced Multi-Platform Support

  3. GitHub Copilot Can Now Run in Windows Terminal

  4. Atlassian Launches ARM Builds for Bitbucket Pipelines

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Google Cloud Announces Kubernetes History Inspector to Visualise Cluster Logs

Google Cloud has released a new open-source tool that visualises cluster logs chronologically to simplify troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes History Inspector (KHI) is intended to help administrators to debug problems inside Kubernetes clusters and identify root causes. (News)

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Scaling Engineering Excellence at ING: Insights from the CTO at QCon London 2025

How can engineering teams maintain autonomy while reducing complexity and improving productivity? Join ING's CTO, Daniele Tonella, at QCon London 2025 to discover how ING scales engineering by standardizing pipelines, enhancing security, and fostering innovation. Learn how autonomy, reduced complexity, and feedback controls create a reliable, productive engineering environment. Learn More.

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Enhances EC2 Capacity Reservation Management with Split, Move, and Modify Features

  2. European Cloud Providers: What Are the Options Today?

  3. Confluent Cloud Streamlines Real-Time AI with New Flink Capabilities

  4. Amazon GameLift Streams Launches for High-Fidelity, Browser-Based Game Streaming

  5. Microsoft Officially Supports Rust on Azure with First SDK Beta

DiRMA: Measuring How Your Organization Manages Chaos

Elevate your disaster recovery strategy with DiRMA—an innovative framework for assessing and enhancing Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) maturity across people, processes, and tools. As chaos engineering becomes essential for resilience, DiRMA guides organizations through structured improvement, addressing cultural hurdles and ensuring robust recovery readiness in the face of modern challenges. (Article)

GitHub Leverages AI for More Accurate Code Secret Scanning

GitHub has unveiled a groundbreaking AI-driven secret scanning feature within Copilot, enhancing password detection in code while significantly reducing false positives. By leveraging advanced context analysis and collaboration with Microsoft, GitHub ensures robust repository security. Experience a new era of code integrity with precision-driven technology now available for all users. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JavaOne 2025 Day 3: the Future of Java is You

  2. JavaOne 2025 Day 2: FFM API, Virtual Threads, Platform Engineering, Evolution of Jakarta EE

  3. Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Integration, AMQP

Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025

This week's Java roundup for March 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 24 and Apache Kafka 4.0; the March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; Spring Security CVEs; and JavaOne 2025. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. ASP.NET Core 10 Preview 2 Streamlines Blazor Navigation, Updates OpenAPI

  2. OpenSilver 3.2 Extends Silverlight and WPF to Mobile Devices

.NET 10 Preview 2: Enhanced Reconnection UI, Improved Blazor Features, and Updates across the Stack

Last week, the .NET Team announced the second preview release of .NET 10 introducing several enhancements across various components, including .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more. (News)

How Airbnb Used LLMs to Accelerate Test Migration

Thanks to the right mix of workflow automation and large language models, Airbnb significantly accelerated the process of updating their codebase to adopt React Testing Library (RTL) and converted nearly 3.5K React test files originally using Enzyme. (News)

TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source

TikTok maker ByteDance has open-sourced Lynx, a collection of frameworks and tools enabling the creation of native, cross-platform mobile apps using Web markup, CSS, and JavaScript. Lynx aims to deliver native performance thanks to its custom JavaScript engine and pixel-perfect UI rendering. (News)

​​Applying Flow Metrics to Design Resilient Microservices

Software design with resilience is an acknowledgement to the reality that everything fails. We put metrics in place to help us detect and resolve such problems and failures. Flow metrics, commonly used to measure how well teams deliver software, can be used to measure and improve system resilience. (Article)

How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day

David Cheney discusses the intricate architecture of GitHub Copilot's code completion service, explaining the challenges of achieving low-latency responses for millions of daily requests. He delves into HTTP/2 optimizations, global scaling strategies, and the critical role of their internal proxy. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Exploring Aging of Programmers: Fostering Inclusive and Age-Friendly Workplaces

Data, Drugs, and Disruption: Leading High-performance Company in Drug Development

Olga Kubassova shares her journey from mathematician to CEO, detailing how engineering skills translate into business leadership. She discusses building a company, emphasizing team dynamics, strategic growth, and overcoming challenges. Learn how to leverage your technical background for entrepreneurship and navigate business complexities. (Presentation with transcript included)

A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps

Jemma Hussein Allen explains practical approaches to CI/CD, GitOps, and team collaboration, aimed at enhancing the software development lifecycle. She highlights the benefits of automation, the importance of clear responsibilities, and the positive impact of psychological safety on team performance and project outcomes. (Presentation with transcript included)

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