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Generally AI: Time to Travel

In this special episode, Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford meet at QCon San Francisco to discuss Time and Travel. Meertens presents three case studies where temporal misunderstandings in data science led to poor predictive performance. Alford tells the story of how the first Transcontinental Railroad shortened travel times between the East and West Coasts of the United States. (Podcast)

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Leveraging AI Platforms to Improve Developer Experience – From Personal Hackathon to AI at Scale

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Olalekan Elesin about how generative AI tools can elevate developer experience by enabling engineers to be more creative and productive. He stresses the need to manage expectations, develop prompt engineering skills, and maintain a focus on security and customer privacy when leveraging these tools in an enterprise setting. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. EuroLLM-9B Aims to Improve State of the Art LLM Support for European Languages

  2. Anthropic Publishes Model Context Protocol Specification for LLM App Integration

OpenAI Announces ‘o3’ Reasoning Model

OpenAI has launched the O3 and O3 Mini models, setting a new standard in AI with enhanced reasoning capabilities. Notable achievements include 71.7% accuracy on SWE-Bench and 96.7% on the AIME benchmark. While these models excel in coding and mathematics, challenges remain. O3 Mini offers scalable options for developers, prioritizing safety and adaptability. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Kubernetes 1.32 Released with Dynamic Resource Allocation and Graceful Shutdown of Windows Nodes

  2. Dive Deep into Merge Requests with GitLab Duo Chat

Gitpod Flex, Cloud Development after Kubernetes

Gitpod, a cloud development environment platform, recently decided to move away from Kubernetes after six years of use and experimentation. This decision emerged from their experience of managing development environments for 1.5 million users, while handling numerous environments daily. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Launches Sixth Generation Trillium TPUs: More Performance, Scalability and Efficiency

  2. AWS Outlines Its Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Plan

Azure Boost DPU: Microsoft's New Silicon Solution for Enhanced Cloud Performance

At Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled the Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house solution for low-power, data-centric workloads. This innovative chip optimizes cloud performance and security, offering triple the efficiency of CPUs. With a robust hardware-software design, Microsoft’s advancements position it to redefine AI and cloud infrastructure. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: TomEE 10, Struts 7, Payara Platform, GlassFish, Commonhaus Foundation, Gradle

Spring News Roundup: Delivering Point Releases of Boot, Security, Authorization Server, Session

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of December 16th, 2024, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring for Apache Pulsar and Spring Shell. (News)

.NET Community Toolkit 8.4: New MVVM Features, Enhanced Analyzers and Bug Fixes

The .NET Community Toolkit has officially released version 8.4, introducing significant updates and improvements. The latest release includes support for partial properties in the MVVM Toolkit generators, new diagnostic analyzers, bug fixes, and other enhancements to facilitate development workflows. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. After Rome Failure, VoidZero is the Newest Attempt to Create Unified JavaScript Toolchain

  2. JetBrains' Webstorm IDE for JavaScript Development Now Free for Non-Commercial Purposes

Remixing the CarGurus Front-End Experience

Alex Shopov discusses how CarGurus decided which framework would best support the needs of their front-end development teams and evolving application ecosystem. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Meta Ported Million Lines of Android Code from Java to Kotlin

  2. Google Launches Android XR, Its New AI-Powered Extended Reality Platform

Server-Driven UI for Mobile and beyond

Christopher Luu discusses what problems they were trying to solve with Server-Driven UI, how they extended their solution beyond mobile, what kinds of issues still persist, and their future outlook. (Presentation with transcript included)

How to Architect Software for a Greener Future

Sara Bergman discusses how to architect green software, including the difference between carbon aware and carbon efficiency. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Exploring Factors that Drive Software Engineering Productivity

How to Do National Language Adaptation in C++

As customers take on a more active role in national language adaptation, the process should be simple, using tools they are familiar with, Daniela Engert stated in her talk at NDC TechTown. They decided to use GetText in C++ where they provide tools and procedures for their customers to provide translations. (News)

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