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Navigating AI, Platform Engineering, and Staff-Plus: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston Preview

In this InfoQ podcast, host Daniel Bryant sat down with speakers from the InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) and discussed the critical challenges and decisions developers are currently facing. Topics covered include platform engineering, the evolution of senior software developer roles into Staff-Plus positions, AI's impact on the SDLC, and the importance of security. (Podcast)

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Courtney Nash Discusses Incident Management, Automation, and the VOID Report

In this episode, Courtney Nash, a researcher focused on system safety and failures in complex sociotechnical systems, discussed the latest edition of the VOID report. Topics covered included: incident management and the role of automation, working effectively within socio-technical systems, and the value of collecting and analyzing system metrics in the good times and the bad. (Podcast)

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Building the Muscles for Critical Thinking

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dannielle Pearson about the importance of critical thinking in technology. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches

  2. Mistral Large Foundation Model Now Available on Amazon Bedrock

Stability AI Releases 3D Model Generation AI Stable Video 3D

Stability AI recently released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), an AI model that can generate 3D mesh object models from a single 2D image. SV3D is based on the Stable Video Diffusion model and produces state-of-the-art results on 3D object generation benchmarks. (News)

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What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements

RedHat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that allows developers and DevOps to build, and deploy applications. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Axion Processor: Google Announces Its First Arm-Based CPU

  2. Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project

  3. Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview

  4. Gemini Code Assist to Create APIs, Integrations, and Automation Flows in Public Preview

Multi-Cloud Observability Using Fluent Bit

Explore the benefits and challenges of observability in multi-cloud deployments. See how Fluent Bit, a lightweight log collection and distribution tool, can enhance multi-cloud observability by improving cloud neutrality, cutting egress costs, and tackling compliance challenges. (Article)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools

  2. SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library

  3. For Practitioners, by Practitioners: Solve Your Software Challenges at InfoQ & QCon Software Events

Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

One important design principle in software development is DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. However, when DRY is applied to test code, it can cause the test suite to become brittle — difficult to understand, maintain, and change. In this article, I will present some indications that a test suite is brittle, guidelines to follow when reducing duplication in tests, and better ways to DRY up tests. (Article)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Devnexus 2024 Celebrates 20 Years of Java Developer Conferences

  2. Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M2, JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, Spring Boot, Hibernate, GlassFish

  3. JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Requires JDK 17

Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content

The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Reliable Web App Pattern: Now Optimizes Azure Migration with Enhanced Infrastructure and Security

.NET Aspire Preview 6: Enhanced Security and Testing, New Features, and More

This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions, like changes related to templates, components, dashboard, testing and more. (News)

Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. (Presentation with transcript included)

Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries

Kate Sills discusses JavaScript libraries to use for cryptographic hashes, digital signatures and timestamping, the traditional archival process, and how cryptographic hashes can prevent tampering. (Presentation with transcript included)

Meta Shares its Mixed-Reality Meta Horizon OS to Third Parties

Opening up the operating system that powers its Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, Meta aims to create a larger ecosystem and make it easier for developers to create apps for larger audiences. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% after Switching to XFS

  2. Yelp Overhauls Its Streaming Architecture with Apache Beam and Apache Flink

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla

Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Technology Can Drive Culture Change in Software Organisations

  2. How a Game of Patterns Can Help Software Organisations to Gain Insights and Improve

  3. QCon London: Spreading Ownership and Delivering Value at Spotify with Backstage Plugins

Success Patterns in for Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile

Robin Yeman demonstrates that there is a mission imperative to migrate from phase gate approach to Scaled Agile to increase safety for stakeholders. (Presentation with transcript included)

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