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Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: Insider Perspectives from a Former FBI Agent

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Former FBI Operative Eric O’Neill about the growing threat of cyberattacks, cyber espionage and cybercrime, and how organizations and individuals can "think like a spy hunter" to better protect themselves. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. QCon SF 2024 - Ten Reasons Your Multi-Agent Workflows Fail

  2. Epoch AI Unveils FrontierMath: A New Frontier in Testing AI's Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities

  3. Mistral AI Releases Two Small Language Model Les Ministraux

  4. QCon SF 2024 - Scaling Large Language Model Serving Infrastructure at Meta

  5. QCon SF 2024 - Incremental Data Processing at Netflix

Navigating Responsible AI in the FinTech Landscape

Explore the dynamic intersection of responsible AI, regulation, and ethics in the FinTech sector. This article highlights key challenges and innovative practices as organizations navigate compliance with evolving guidelines like the EU AI Act. Discover how to balance transparency, efficiency, and risk management for sustainable AI growth in your business. (Article)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. HashiCorp Terraform 1.10 adds Ephemeral Values to Improve Secret Management

  2. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey On-Prem to Multi-Cloud

  3. 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps Report Shows Pros and Cons of AI

Distributed Tracing Tool Jaeger Releases Version 2 with OpenTelemetry at the Core

Version 2 of the Jaeger project, a leading open-source distributed tracing platform, has been released. This release contains a significant architectural transformation, as it brings Jaeger and its components into the OpenTelemetry framework. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Aurora Serverless v2 Adds Zero-Capacity Scaling for True Serverless

  2. Amazon Marks 10 Years of AWS Lambda by Releasing Initial Internal Document

  3. Anna Berenberg Talks at QCon San Francisco on Google's One Network

Designing Cloud Applications for Elasticity and Resilience

The panelists explore elasticity and resilience, discussing how architects can design systems that withstand workload variations, user traffic fluctuations, and infrastructure failures. (Presentation with transcript included)

Efficient Serverless Development: Latest Patterns and Practices on AWS

Yan Cui discusses what serverless really means and why it's a game-changer for developers, walking through a day in the life of a serverless developer. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 3: Arch Evolution, Next Gen UIs, Staff+ and Hardware Architectures

Microsoft Introduces Magentic-One, a Generalist Multi-Agent System

Microsoft has announced the release of Magentic-One, a new generalist multi-agent system designed to handle open-ended tasks involving web and file-based environments. This system aims to assist with complex, multi-step tasks across various domains, improving efficiency in activities such as software development, data analysis, and web navigation. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: OpenJDK and Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Payara Platform, Vert.x, Log4j, JobRunr

  2. Spring News Roundup: Delivering GA Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith

Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes: Beyond the Basics

Bruno Borges discusses the strategies for enhancing Java application performance on Kubernetes, focusing on leveraging JVM ergonomics, and managing garbage collection processes. (Presentation with transcript included)

Uno Platform Launches Hot Design, a Cross-Platform Visual Designer for .NET Apps

Uno platform has unveiled Hot Design, a visual designer for .NET applications, as part of a suite named Uno Platform Studio. It allows developers and designers to design the app interface at runtime instead of design and development time. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Stream All the Things: Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing Explored by Adi Polak at QCon SF

  2. Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS

  3. Agoda’s Unconventional Client-First Transition from a GraphQL Monolith to Microservices

  4. Scaling OpenSearch Clusters for Cost Efficiency Talk by Amitai Stern at QCon San Francisco

Architectural Intelligence – The Next AI

Architectural Intelligence is the ability to look beyond AI hype and identify real AI components. Determining how, where, and when to use AI elements comes down to traditional trade-off analysis. Like any technology, AI can be used creatively, but inappropriately. Identify if AI makes sense for your use case, then work to use it effectively to meet your needs. (Article)

Think, Architect, and Sustain Your Serverless Applications As [Set] Pieces!

Sheen Brisals discusses how the characteristics of serverless influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces (Presentation with transcript included)

How to Use Programming Rules and Guidelines

According to Arne Mertz, using programming rules and guidelines helps developers work together, as they result in more consistent and better code. However, using them the wrong way can have the opposite result - code that is cumbersome to read or solves problems in suboptimal or even wrong ways. (News)

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