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| In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Rashmi Venugopal about two topics. The first is how the middle-tier creates the application from the raw materials in the back-end, and how the front-end uses the middle-tier to present a meaningful workflow to the user. The second is how to manage the usually inevitable software migration that results from a successful software product. (Podcast) |
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| AI-powered search tools often hallucinate and make up facts, misquote sources, and recycle outdated information. The real cause of this is tied to the architecture of most AI models: Transformer. In this article, author Albert Lie explains why transformers struggle with hallucinations, how State Space Models (SSMs) offer a solution, and what this shift could mean for the future of AI search. (Article) |
| Prudhviraj Karumanchi, and Vidhya Arvind explain Netflix's journey to enhanced data durability and reliability through their WAL system. They discuss how WAL addresses critical challenges like data loss, corruption, multi-partition mutations, and replication, showcasing its architecture and the strategic trade-offs considered for a resilient data infrastructure at Netflix's immense scale. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| On April 23, 2025, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of in‑toto, a framework designed to enforce supply chain integrity by ensuring that every step in the software development lifecycle, such as building, signing, and deployment, is properly authorized and verifiable. (News) |
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| Discover how Cloud-Prem solutions combine cloud efficiency with on-premise control, meeting data sovereignty and compliance demands while optimizing operational costs and enhancing customer security. (Article) |
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| The next major release of C++ reached an important milestone earlier this month, when the ISO C++ committee froze the feature set that will go into C++26. Notable additions include compile-time reflection, contracts, asynchronous execution, and many others. (News) |
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| The University of Manchester's Beehive Lab has released GPULlama3.java, marking the first Java-native implementation of Llama3 with automatic GPU acceleration. This project leverages TornadoVM to enable GPU-accelerated large language model inference without requiring developers to write CUDA or native code, potentially transforming how Java developers approach AI apps in enterprise environments. (News) |
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| Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 Preview 5, delivering updates across multiple components, including ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Entity Framework Core, and more. As reported, this preview introduces new features and improvements to enhance developer productivity, application observability, and customization. (News) |
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| Thomas Steiner, developer relations engineer at Google, recently published a blog post announcing that JSON module scripts were now available in all modern browsers. Developers using the latest version of modern browsers can now directly import JSON modules into their JavaScript code. The feature builds on the Import Attributes proposal. Native CSS modules import may soon follow. (News) |
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| At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its declarative UI framework, SwiftUI, featuring two major additions: a new SwiftUI-native WebView type and support for rich-text editing within TextView controls. The update also brings a plethora of additional improvements and new performance tools. (News) |
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| LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard. (News) |
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| To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you. (Article) |
| Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast unravel the powerful synergy between pair programming and continuous delivery. They explain how this shift allowed their team to abandon traditional hurdles like excessive WIP, lengthy pull requests, and multiple test environments, leading to ultra-fast deployments, superior code quality, and a highly cohesive, efficient engineering team. (Presentation with transcript included) |
| Ying Dai shares insights from nearly four years at Roblox, detailing two pivotal migrations that transformed the company's engineering landscape. He explains how prioritizing reliability and developer productivity led to a 100% available telemetry system and a fully automated canary analysis deployment pipeline, significantly reducing incidents and enhancing the engineer experience. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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