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PyTorch 1.12, OpenAI, OpenSSL Vulnerability, AWS Workflow Collections, API Security, TensorFlow.NET, Cloud Efficiency, Android 13, Scaling Engineering, Staff+ Engineer Role

QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28): What would happen if you needed to change at scale tomorrow…could you do it?

In the ‘Architecting for Change at Scale’ track at QCon San Francisco, learn patterns and practices to help you architect systems and tooling with agility top of mind – enabling technology to keep up with the needs of your business while minimizing risk and technical debt. Find our more. Register before July 25th & save $450 off the full-price ticket!
 

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Susanne Kaiser on DDD, Wardley Mapping, & Team Topologies

Susanne Kaiser is a software consultant working with teams on microservice adoption. Recently, she’s brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Kaiser about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary. (Podcast)

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Engineering with Empathy

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Kelsey Hightower, a principal engineer with Google Cloud, about engineering with empathy, rethinking the hiring process and making others better. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. PyTorch 1.12 Release Includes Accelerated Training on Macs and New Library TorchArrow

  2. MLGO Framework Brings Machine Learning in Compiler Optimizations

  3. OpenAI Releases Minecraft-Playing AI VPT

Google AI Developed a Language Model to Solve Quantitative Reasoning Problems

Google AI developed a deep learning language model called Minerva which could solve mathematical quantitative problems. Google AI researchers achieved a state-of-the-art deep learning model by training on a large dataset that contains quantitative reasoning with symbolic expressions. The final model, Minerva, could solve quantitative mathematical problems on STEM reasoning tasks. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. OpenSSL Releases Fix for High-Severity Vulnerability

Using DevOps Automation to Combat DevOps Workforce Shortages

A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA testing, and continuous integration. (Article)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Azure Static Web Apps Introduces API Backend Options

  2. AWS Enhances its Step Functions Experience with Workflow Collections

  3. Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee

Optimizing Efficiency & Capacity Management at Web Scale on the Cloud

Molly Junck shares insight on how Pinterest optimizes their use of the cloud, concurrently maintaining demands for security, availability, rate of innovation, and infrastructure efficiency. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London & Plus 2022

The 2022 QCon London and QCon Plus tracks featured in-depth technical talks from senior software practitioners covering developer enablement, resilient architectures, modern Java, Machine Learning, WebAssembley, modern data pipelines, the emerging Staff-Plus engineer path, and more. (Article)

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3 Solutions for Securing Complex API Ecosystems


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Java News Roundup: Eclipse Soteria 3.0, Log4j, Hibernate ORM, IntelliJ IDEA

This week's Java roundup for July 4th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring projects updates, Open Liberty 22.0.0.7 and 22.0.0.8-beta, Quarkus 2.10.2, Hibernate ORM 5.6.10, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.7, Eclipse Foundation projects updates, Apache Software Foundation projects updates, JDKMon 17.0.31 and 17.0.29 and JetBrains product updates. (News)

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Building Neural Networks with TensorFlow.NET

TensorFlow is an open-source framework developed by Google scientists and engineers for numerical computing. TensorFlow.NET is a library that provides a .NET Standard binding for TensorFlow. In this article, the author explains how to use Tensorflow.NET to build a neural network. (Article)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Node-RED 3 Improves Its Node Editor, Runtime Features, and Debugging

Android 13 Final Beta Improves Security and Privacy, and More

The latest beta of Android 13 is a final update that allows developers to make sure their apps are ready for the new Android release when it becomes available in a few weeks, says Google. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. The Journey of Going Back to Testing after Being a Testing Manager

The Four P's of Pragmatically Scaling Your Engineering Organization

Scaling your organization during a period of hyper-growth is a challenge every founder wants to face. For engineering leaders, the concept of "scale" can quickly spiral out of control. There are four key areas of focus when pragmatically scaling an organization through hyper-growth: people, process, product, and platform. (Article)

Transitioning into the Staff+ Engineer Role - from Player to Coach

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits organisations get by having leadership roles that are focused on technical enablement and support. (Article)

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