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Data Streams, eBay Dependencies, Lambda Function URLs, Rust 1.60, NetBeans 13, GraalVM Native Image, Kotlin 1.6.20, Architecture Trends, Staff Plus Engineers, FT.com Eng Productivity

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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2022, with a focus on what architects are designing for today. (Trends Report)

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InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends 2022

Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. EleutherAI Open-Sources 20 Billion Parameter AI Language Model GPT-NeoX-20B

Building & Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams

Sid Anand discusses building high-fidelity nearline data streams as a service within a lean team. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Managing Complex Dependencies with Distributed Architecture at eBay

The eBay engineering team recently outlined how they came up with a scalable release system. The release solution leverages distributed architecture to release more than 3,000 dependent libraries in about two hours. The team is using Jenkins to perform the release in combination with Groovy scripts. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments

One Ring -3 to Secure Them All: Computing with Hardware Enclaves

Aaron Bedra explores the most widely available options and their usage in IoT and cloud, discussing design trade-offs, security, and performance. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Rust 1.60 Released with LLVM-Native Code Coverage Along with Rust 2024 Roadmap

  2. SwiftLint Now Supports Swift 5.6

Reversible Debugging with RR

Felix Klock discusses RR, a native code debugger, its features, design, and deploying targets, debugging a Rust program running on AWS. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, JHipster 7.8.0, Spring CVEs, JReleaser 1.0-RC2

  2. Apache NetBeans 13 Delivers Improved Developer Experience

Revolutionizing Java with GraalVM Native Image

GraalVM Native Image is an ahead-of-time compiler that generates native Java executables. These executables start very fast and use less CPU and memory. This makes Java in the cloud cheaper. GraalVM can even achieve peak throughput on par with the JVM. Many Java frameworks already support GraalVM, such as Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus, Gluon, etc. (Article)

Kotlin 1.6.20 Brings Definitely Non-Nullable Types, Standalone Android Executables, and More

Kotlin 1.6.20 brings many new features, including standalone Android executables, extended context receivers, native parallel compilation, definitely non-nullable types, and much more. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Improving Software Quality with Gamification

  2. Five Behaviours of Successful Staff Plus Engineers

  3. Infinite Representations: an Impossible Thing for Developers

On a Quest to Sustainable Happy Profit: How to Create a Sustainability Framework That Works for You

Being sustainable is not just about the product itself, which is built to endure over time. It’s also about the people, time and energy involved in the process, and the consumption that its existence requires. If any single part of the process cannot be maintained over time, it’s unsustainable. Green Recovery can act as an enabler, and when we focus on what matters we can make a dent. (Article)

Using Patterns to Drive a Transformation towards Agility - Practical Insights from Large Companies

In the DACH region, a community of transformation leaders from about 30 companies started “DACH30” sessions where they share experiences and insights from their efforts to help their companies become more agile. This article highlights successful patterns to foster change, how to apply flow-oriented design to optimise your delivery capabilities, and the danger of the illusion of control. (Article)

Enabling Engineering Productivity at the Financial Times

Sarah Wells discusses how they ended up moving fast with over 30,000 releases in a year from a development team of around 250. (Presentation with transcript included)

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