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| Shopify engineering shared its experience in the company's blog post on how to scale and optimize Apache Airflow for running ML and data workflows. They shared practical solutions for the challenges they faced like slow file access, insufficient control over DAG, irregular level of traffic, resource contention among workloads, and more. (News) |
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 OpenEBS provides storage for stateful applications running on Kubernetes, including dynamic local persistent volumes or replicated volumes using various "data engines". OpenEBS can address a wide range of applications, from casual testing and experimentation to high-performance production workloads (Article) |
 The panelists discuss production readiness, the “practice” of SRE, how data comes to production readiness, and strategies for resiliency. (Presentation with transcript included)
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| Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics. (News) |
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 The growing importance of the Web3 ecosystem based on blockchains shows how important community test programs are. Some within the testing community see this trend as a threat. However, it is actually an opportunity. Bug bounties and open-source test contributions are a great tool for test teams, and there is every reason for testers to embrace this new trend rather than to fear it. (Article) |
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 A performance tool with a graphical interface will probably be easier to use at the beginning, but the idea of a performance test as code is the future. Tests are readable and much easier to maintain. Many people are skeptical about Gatling because it requires learning a new programming language - Scala. However, Java is supported with the release of Gatling 3.7. (Article) |
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| At Alexa Live 2022, Amazon announced new APIs and SDKs for Alexa skill developers, including the Alexa Ambient Home Dev Kit, the Alexa Connect Kit SDK for Matter, Universal Device Commands, and more. (News) |
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 Software frameworks greatly amplify a team’s productivity, but also make implicit decisions. The benefits and limitations must be understood because of the impact on the resulting system architecture. (Article) |
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 An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary. I talk through some of the experiences myself and peers have had at Netflix, identifying some key learnings and examples we have gained over the years. (Article) |
 Nora Jones discusses the context around PRRs and provides takeaways on how one can improve production reliability. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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