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LLMs on Mobile, Log4Shell, Amazon OpenSearch, Cloud Run Jobs, .NET to the Cloud, Performance, Open Liberty 23, .NET Community Toolkit 8.2, MVI Architecture, Serverless to EC2, Toxic Behavior

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Leslie Miley on AI Bias and Sustainability

In this podcast, Leslie Miley shares his insights on AI bias, sustainability, and the potential impact of AI on society. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating the harm these technologies can cause, while also discussing the responsibilities of developers, tech companies, and individuals in ensuring a more responsible and ethical approach to AI development. (Podcast)

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Creating a Developer-Centric Culture and Building Platform as Runtime

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Aviran Mordo of Wix about creating a developer-centric culture, building a platform as runtime environment to speed up development and shifting left in design through developer and designer pairing. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops

  2. Efficiently Applying LLMs to Transform Semi-Structured Data

Stability AI Open-Sources 7B Parameter Language Model StableLM

Stability AI released two sets of pre-trained model weights for StableLM, a suite of large language models (LLM). The models are trained on 1.5 trillion text tokens and are licensed for commercial use under CC BY-SA-4.0. (News)

AIOps: Site Reliability Engineering at Scale

AIOps can simplify and streamline processes which can reduce the mental burden on employees while improving communication and collaboration between departments. (Article)

Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings from Them

Tapabrata Pal describes three broad categories of enterprises based on their responses to Log4Shell and identifies the key characteristics of each of these patterns. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Egde

  2. AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity

  3. AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion

  4. Google Cloud Announces GA of Cloud Run Jobs

On beyond Serverless: CALM Lessons and a New Stack for Programming the Cloud

Joe Hellerstein shares lessons from research on how we can deliver stateful, communicating, autoscaling cloud software, describing ongoing work in the Hydro Project at Berkeley on programmable cloud. (Presentation with transcript included)

Moving .NET Apps to the Cloud

The panelists discuss the benefits and challenges of moving .NET apps and the different options available, including managed Kubernetes services, serverless platforms, and HTTP-based hosting options. (Presentation with transcript included)

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From Extinct Computers to Statistical Nightmares: Adventures in Performance

Thomas Dullien, distinguished software engineer at Elastic, shared at QCon London some lessons learned from analyzing the performance of large-scale compute systems. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Open Liberty 23.0.0.3 Unveiled: Embracing Cloud-Native Java Microservices, Jakarta EE 10 and beyond

Java News Roundup: Quarkus 3.0, MicroStream 8.0, JEP 442, GraalVM, Infinispan

This week's Java roundup for April 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.4, GraalVM 22.3.2, Microsoft OpenJDK, Spring releases. Quarkus 3.0.0, MicroStream 8.0.0, Micronaut 3.9.1, Hibernate ORM 6.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01, Apache Camel 3.20.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13.3, JUnit 5.9.3, JReleaser 1.6.0, JobRunr 6.1.4, JDKMon 17.0.49 and Foojay.io. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. .NET Community Toolkit 8.2: MVVM Toolkit Attributes, Performance Enhancements, and More

ASP.NET SPA Templates Proxy Changes from .NET 5 to .NET 6, .NET 7, and on

From .NET 6 the communication between front-end Single Page Applications (SPA) in ASP.NET and back-end .NET API was changed, with the SPA templates using the front end’s proxy solutions. A proxy for the development servers enables readable and debuggable code for both the front and back end, with the new approach resulting in a more independent back end. (Article)

Yelp Adopted the MVI Architecture to Improve Performance and Testability of Their Android App

Four years into the adoption of the Model-View-Intent (MVI) architecture for their Android app, Yelp engineer Paul Martin says it allowed them to have performant screens and improve unit testing. (News)

Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs

Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs as a result. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Open-Source Maintainers Can Deal with Toxic Behavior

Making Time for Our Mental Health and Well-Being within the Hybrid / Remote Workplace

So often, well-intended hybrid/remote organisations and leaders will focus on surface level mental health/well-being support initiatives. This article will highlight the importance of addressing this important topic from a holistic perspective, addressing systemic processes and policies to ensure they have the “whole person” in mind. (Article)

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