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MSBuild 2024, OpenAI Fine-Tuning, Falco 0.38, Azure Event Hubs Emulator, JDK 23, Spring Boot, MSTest 3.4, Reactive JavaScript, GitHub iOS Testing, Architectural Trade-Offs, Engineering Productivity

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Edo Liberty on Vector Databases for Successful Adoption of Generative AI and LLM based Applications

In this podcast, Edo Liberty, founder and CEO at Pinecone, discusses the importance of vector databases in the successful adoption of Generative AI and LLM based applications and how vector databases are different from traditional data stores. (Podcast)

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The Evolution of Use Cases in Modern Software Engineering

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ivar Jacobson about the evolution of use cases in modern software engineering. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AI and Software Development: Preview of Sessions at InfoQ Events

  2. Recap of MSBuild 2024: Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, GPT-4o on Azure AI

  3. OpenAI Publishes GPT Model Specification for Fine-Tuning Behavior

LIquid: a Large-Scale Relational Graph Database

Scott Meyer discusses LIquid, the graph database built to host LinkedIn, serving a ~15Tb graph at ~2M QPS. (Presentation with transcript included)

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How Open-Source Beats Economies of Scale, Even for LLMs

Ines Montani discusses why the AI space won’t be monopolized, covering the open-source model, common misconceptions about use cases for LLMs in industry, and principles of software development. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Combatting Alert Fatigue at Cloudflare

  2. AWS Cloud Control Terraform Provider Enables Quicker Access to AWS Features

Falco 0.38.0 Released with Enhanced Driver Selection, Configurations and Real-Time Monitoring

The maintainers of Falco announced its latest version: 0.38.0. This is the first release since its graduation within CNCF. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available

  2. Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices

  3. Local Emulator for Azure Event Hubs in Preview: Offering Developers a Local Development Experience

Million Dollar Lines of Code - an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization

A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented an engineering perspective on cloud cost optimization at QCon San Francisco. (Article)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Oracle Linux's UEK-Next Enables Developers to Explore and Validate the Latest Linux Development

JetBrains IDE RustRover Officially Released with Free Non-Commercial License

Eight months after announcing its public preview, JetBrains has officially released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for Rust development. The new release brings many bug fixes and introduces a new licensing model that includes a free plan for non-commercial use. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Rampdown Phase One: What's to Expect in JDK 23

  2. Java News Roundup: JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, JHipster 8.5, Gradle 8.8, Spring AI 1.0-M1

Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts

Spring Boot stands out as a viable framework for its agility and streamlined workflow. Yet, effective configuration management remains a pivotal factor influencing deployment efficiency and ongoing maintenance. ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes, provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications. (Article)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Diagnostics Explorer, XAML Support and More

  2. MSTest 3.4 Release: Improved Analyzers, WinUI, Playwright and Aspire Support Added

  3. SharePoint Embedded Empowers ISVs to Integrate M365 Features in Apps

Microsoft Build 2024 Unveils .NET 9: Tensor, OpenAI Collaboration, and .NET Aspire

At Microsoft Build 2024, .NET 9 was unveiled, introducing features such as the Tensor type for deep learning and collaboration with OpenAI for GPT4o and Assistants v2. This release also brings .NET Aspire, streamlining cloud-native app development. Updates extend across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI, with C# 13 enhancing flexibility and performance. (News)

New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript

The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reactive programming patterns. It reflects input from authors/maintainers of Angular, Ember, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Svelte, Vue. (News)

How GitHub iOS Team Leveraged Apple-Silicon Actions Runners to Reduce Testing Time

The GitHub iOS team adopted Apple Silicon-powered macOS runners to reduce the time required to build and test their app using GitHub Actions. In the process, they also refactored the app to better leverage GitHub Actions parallelism. (News)

Architectural Trade-Offs: the Art of Minimizing Unhappiness

To architect is to be a frustrated perfectionist; a good architecture minimizes this unhappiness by making trade-offs that can be lived with. The main skill in architecting is making trade-offs. These trade-offs reflect the most important and difficult decisions a team will make about its architecture. (Article)

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Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change

Shweta Saraf discusses harnessing the collective intelligence of a team to not only multiply productivity, but also cultivate organizational resilience in the face of unceasing changes. (Presentation with transcript included)

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