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CNCF DevSecOps Radar, Code Walkthroughs, GraalVM 21.3, C# Sealed Methods, Kotlin Compiler K2, EDA at Uber, Resources & Transactions, ML & Security, Upgrading Legacy Solutions

QCon London 2022: Learn how to solve complex software engineering and leadership challenges

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5 Technical Lessons Learned from Outages at AWS, Google and Microsoft

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Making Hybrid Working Work

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Nick Iovacchini of Kettle about making hybrid working work in the post-pandemic world and the ability to put people space and time together in ways that create successful experiences for employees and organisations. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Document Translation Now Generally Available

BigScience Research Workshop Releases AI Language Model T0

BigScience Research Workshop released T0, a series of natural language processing (NLP) AI models specifically trained for researching zero-shot multitask learning. T0 can often outperform models 6x larger on the BIG-bench benchmark, and can outperform the 16x larger GPT-3 on several other NLP benchmarks. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on DevSecOps

  2. HashiCorp Vault 1.8 Adds Diagnose Command, Key Management Secrets Engine, and Expiration Manager

  3. HashiCorp Launches Public Beta of HCP Packer

  4. Microsoft Introduces a New Cloud-Native Offering with Azure Container Apps Service

  5. PlanetScale Introduces Managed Cloud to Scale MySQL Databases

Failing Fast: The Impact of Bias When Speeding Up Application Security

This article deals with three biases people can have with establishing application security while trying to move fast in building them, attitude which can cost the organization later, showing how to spot the biases, and providing advice on what to do about them. (Article)

DevSecOps and Application Security

Rajiv Kapoor, Clint Gibler, André Tehrani, Anastasiia Voitova and Erik Costlow discuss how to integrate security into DevOps, where their concerns are and how each is addressed. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Static Analyzer Rudra Found over 200 Memory Safety Issues in Rust Crates

The Renaissance of Code Documentation: Introducing Code Walkthrough

The Continuous Documentation methodology is a useful paradigm that helps ensure that high-quality documentation is created, maintained, and readily available. Code Walkthroughs take the reader on a “walk” — visiting at least two stations in the code — describe flows and interactions, and often incorporate code snippets. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Hibernate Releases Version 1.0 of Reactive API

  2. Red Hat Releases Language Support for Java Plugin 1.0 for VSCode

  3. GraalVM 21.3 Supports Java 17

Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins JCP, Helidon 2.4.0, OpenJDK and JDK 18 Updates

This week's Java roundup for November 1st, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Helidon 2.4.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12-beta, point releases for Spring Cloud and its related subprojects, Quarkus 2.4.1.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.1, WildFly 25.0.1 and JReleaser 0.8.0. (News)

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2021 Kubernetes Adoption Trends Report

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Overriding Sealed Methods in C#

In this article, the author demonstrates how we can change the behavior of sealed methods in C#. This can be done by understanding Operating System mechanisms and how the .NET platform generates and compiles code. The author illustrates these techniques using real-world scenarios, including the modification of the WinPAI wrapper. (Article)

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Why tracing might replace (almost) all logging

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A Lightweight, Safe, Portable, and High-Performance Runtime for Dapr

Dapr has quickly become a very popular open-source framework for building microservices. It provides building blocks and pre-packaged services that are commonly used in distributed applications. (Article)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Embraces Large-Screen Android Devices at DevSummit 21

JetBrains Debuts New Kotlin Compiler K2, Kotlin for WebAssembly, and More

At its recent Kotlin 2021 Premier event, JetBrains made a number of major announcements, including K2, the new, faster Kotlin compiler, support for WebAssembly, the Kotlin Symbol Processor, a new code coverage plugin, and improved static analysis. (News)

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TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Real-Time Exactly-Once Event Processing at Uber with Apache Flink, Kafka, and Pinot

  2. Microsoft Announces Azure Chaos Studio in Public Preview

Architecting Software for Leverage

Lucas Cavalcanti explains the architecture decisions taken throughout the lifecycle of Nubank, from the very beginning until the current days. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Resources & Transactions: A Fundamental Duality in Observability

Ben Sigelman explores resources and transactions, both theoretically and through some real-world examples, to develop an intuition for how to understand a system more completely. (Presentation with transcript included)

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SSH Tunneling Explained

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. What Machine Learning Can Do for Security

Thriving in the Complexity of Software Development Using Open Sociotechnical Systems Design

The amazing progress made in technology has led to blindly following the technical imperative at the cost of the social and human dimension. Social sciences can help us create a work environment where people feel more at home and proud of what they produce. An organisation designed using open sociotechnical systems theory will be a more humane one where people are more engaged. (Article)

5 Things To Remember When Upgrading Your Legacy Solution

Legacy software is still employed, even though it frequently fails to meet critical demands and core business operations. By choosing the right modernization strategy and software development teams, you can easily cut down on high legacy software maintenance costs and increase productivity. (Article)

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