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MLOps, Slack Load Testing, Secure Systems, MS Data Governance, GitHub Codespaces, Quarkus 2.8.0, Java Native Compilation, Apple Outdated Apps, SoundCloud API, Developer Enablement, Async Agile

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Article Series: Native Compilations Boosts Java

Java dominates enterprise applications. But in the cloud, Java is more expensive than some competitors. Native compilation makes Java in the cloud cheaper. It raises many questions for all Java users: How does native Java change development? When should we switch to native Java? When should we not? And what framework should we use for native Java? This series provides answers to these questions. (Article Series)

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15th State of Agile Report

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Derek Hold of Digital.ai about the 15th Annual State of Agile Report. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Serving Deep Networks in Production: Balancing Productivity vs Efficiency Tradeoff

  2. NVIDIA Announces Next Generation AI Hardware H100 GPU and Grace CPU Superchip

MLOps: the Most Important Piece in the Enterprise AI Puzzle

Francesca Lazzeri overviews the latest MLOps technologies and principles that data scientists and ML engineers can apply to their machine learning processes. (Presentation with transcript included)
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SQL vs NoSQL: Which works best for you?

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline

  2. How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments

Secure Systems and Software Supply Chains: QCon Plus Panel

The panelists discuss the security for the software supply chain and software security risk measurement. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Now Generally Available

  2. Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview

  3. AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability

Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available

AWS recently announced that Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available. The serverless option to manage an Apache Kafka cluster removes the need to monitor capacity and automatically balances partitions within a cluster. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. GitHub Codespaces Add Support for Microservices and Monorepo Projects

A Distributed Systems Approach to Decarbonizing the Grid

Astrid Atkinson walks through how technologies like real time monitoring, software load balancing and fleet orchestration can help address one of the greatest challenges of our lifetimes. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Quarkus 2.8.0 Introduces Fine-Grained Transaction API

  2. Static Java Current State: Compiled Native Executables for Startup Speed and Small Footprint

  3. JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 Introduces Dependency Analysis

  4. Kotlin Asynchronous Framework, Ktor 2.0, Released with New Plugins Feature

  5. Java News Roundup: JEP Updates for JDK 19, Project Loom, MicroStream 7.0, New Relic Java Survey

Cloud Native Java with the Micronaut Framework

The Micronaut framework provides a solid foundation for building Cloud Native Java microservices. It reduces the use of Java reflection, runtime proxy generation, and dynamic classloading. Tight integration with GraalVM Ahead-of-Time Compilation (AOT) has seen the usage of the Micronaut framework grow.  Active compilation-time checking increases type safety and improves developer productivity. (Article)

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Apple to Remove Outdated Apps from the App Store

After several iOS developers reported Apple warned them it would remove a number of their apps, Apple has confirmed and clarified its policy about removing outdated apps from the App Store. The policy has been enforced since 2016 and affects apps that have not been updated within the last three years. (News)

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TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. SoundCloud Chronicles the End of the Public API Strangler

GraphQL Syntax Used for a Novel Approach to Schema Validation and Code Generation

Nav Technologies has created an open-source schema definition and code generator that uses GraphQL syntax to define events and message formats. GraphQL was chosen for its expressiveness and familiarity among developers, but it is only used for its syntax; the Nav Schema Architecture (NSA) does not use the GraphQL runtime. (News)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Developer Enablement Brings Benefits to Software Organizations

Making Agile Work in Asynchronous and Hybrid Environments

Making Agile work in the age of hybrid and remote teams requires extra effort to stay aligned and collaborative. This article explores how development teams can stay agile, even when face-to-face collaboration isn’t an option, by using visual collaboration to build context and alignment, and adopting new practices for engaging meetings. (Article)

Chaos Engineering and Observability with Visual Metaphors

This article introduces a new actor for visualising chaos engineering and observability: metaphors. It provides the conceptual foundations of chaos engineering and observability, presents a state of art of visualisation techniques available in the market and shows how treemaps, gauge charts, geocentric and city metaphors can enrich the spectrum of the visual strategies to observe the chaos. (Article)

Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture

Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices. (Presentation with transcript included)

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