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GCP BigQuery Data QnA, Dockerfile Linter, Prioritizing Security Risks, Fauna Events, Kestra, Jakarta EE, Minze, Reducing App Launch Time, Microservice Testing at Lyft, Culture & Methods Trends

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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2022

The culture and methods trends report for 2022 shows that organizations, teams, and individuals face challenges on multiple fronts. Tackling hybrid work, the impact of the great resignation, wellness, diversity, and inclusion are topics that leaders need to address head-on to build creative and collaborative cultures. (Trends Report)

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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2022

In this podcast, the InfoQ Culture & Methods editors, along with special guest Sandy Mamoli, discuss what they have seen over the last year and the trends they see going forward. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. From Natural Language Queries to Insights: GCP BigQuery Data QnA Usage in Twitter

  2. Meta Announces Conversational AI Model Project CAIRaoke

Meta AI Labs Introduces BuilderBot, a Voice Control Builder for Virtual Worlds

Meta’s latest AI research introduces BuilderBot, a new tool to fuel creativity in the metaverse capable of generating immersive objects through voice commands only. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Dockerfile Linter Hadolint Brings Fixes and Improvements, and Support for ARM64 Binaries

  2. Hardware Mitigation on Intel, Arm, and AMD CPUs Shown Ineffective against Spectre v2

Strategies for Assessing and Prioritizing Security Risks Such as Log4j

The evolving threat landscape requires a comprehensive approach to mitigation. An effective strategy is built on visibility, assessing vulnerabilities in context, effective use of filtering technologies, and monitoring for evidence of intrusion. (Article)

Beyond POSIX - Adventures in Alternative Networking APIs

Michael Barker surveys some of the alternative APIs available on various platforms, discussing some of the implementation pitfalls. He also looks at the impact of using these APIs. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Application-Layer Encryption Basics for Developers

Isaac Potoczny-Jones covers the basics of encryption, what are application-layer and infrastructure-layer encryption, when to use asymmetric and symmetric keys, and how to do key management. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Introduces NVads A10 V5 Azure VMs in Preview for Graphics-Heavy Workloads

  2. AWS Lambda Supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage for Data-Intensive Applications

  3. Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management

  4. AWS Releases Amazon GameSparks into Preview

  5. Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume

Fauna Transactional Database Introduces Event Streaming

Fauna, the company behind the Fauna transactional database, recently announced the general availability of event streaming, a push-based stream that sends changes at both the document and collection levels to subscribed clients. (News)

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Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs

This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, auth/z, OpenAPI tools, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform

  2. Java News Roundup: JDK 18 GA, JMC 8.2, Spring Updates, MicroStream 7.0-Beta1, WildFly 26.1-Beta1

Two Must-Have Tools for Jakarta EE Developers

The wildfly-jar-maven-plugin and the brand new wildfly-datasources-preview-galleon-pack from the WildFly project are worthy of your attention. These tools add on-the-fly generation of an Uber JAR including configuration for containerization and datasources, and make it a pleasure to write applications for Jakarta EE and WildFly. (Article)

Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components

Minze is a modern JavaScript library that abstracts many of the difficulties of writing Web Components with a minimal overhead (2kb minified and compressed) and good developer ergonomics. (News)

How Lyft Reduced its Android App Launch Time by 21% in One Month

Based on the insights provided by Google's Android App Vitals, Lyft Android team improved their Android app's startup time by 21% and increased driver sessions by 5%. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments

Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft

Lyft used cloud-based isolated environments for several purposes, including end-to-end testing. As the number of microservices increased, tests using these environments became harder to scale and lost value. Recent articles describe how Lyft shifted to testing using request isolation in a shared staging environment and used acceptance tests to gate production deployments. (News)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Using Team-Set Salaries for Company-Wide Compensation

The Spectrum of Synchronousness

James Stanier discusses shifting to asynchronous communication for remote working, going through a spectrum of options, plotting interactions on it, pre- and post- remote work. (Presentation with transcript included)

Lead with Speed

Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: Outcome based teams, Making all work visible, Limiting WIP, Understanding velocity and viscosity, Architecture Evolution. (Presentation with transcript included)

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