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AI Vision, BBC Data Platform, Terraform 1.0, Danske Bank DevSecOps, Scala 3, Microservicilites, Uno Platform 3.8, Xcode 13, Engineering Your Org, Program to Process

InfoQ Live July 20th Session Spotlight - Software Supply Chains for DevOps

In the world of microservices and cloud computing, trust in your company’s supply chain is critical. Discover what information needs to be collected to allow DevOps to verify the integrity of the supply chain, the challenges of having the right level of detail to reduce mean-time-to-detection and mean-time-to-understanding. Attend this InfoQ Live session on July 20th.
 

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Chris Richardson on Design-Time Coupling in Microservices

In this episode of the InfoQ Podcast, Thomas Betts speaks with Chris Richardson about minimizing design-time coupling in a microservice architecture. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. InterCon 2021 Keynote: AI Applications in Business

  2. Google Trains Two Billion Parameter AI Vision Model

  3. Google Introduces New Cloud TPU VMs for Artificial Intelligence Workloads

Designing IoT Data Pipelines for Deep Observability

Shrijeet Paliwal discusses how Tesla deals with large data ingestion and processing, the challenges with IoT data collecting and processing, and how to deal with them. (Presentation with transcript included)

Evolving Analytics in the Data Platform

Blanca Garcia-Gil discusses the BBC’s analytics platform architecture, the failure modes they designed for, and the investigation of the new unknowns and how they automated them away. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions

  2. Istio 1.10: Q&A with Release Manager Sam Naser

  3. Terraform 1.0 Release Adds Stability Guarantees and an Improved Upgrade Experience

  4. Sonatype Lift Integrates Facebook Infer, Google ErrorProne, and Other Code Analyzers

  5. AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys

Danske Bank’s 360° DevSecOps Evolution at a Glance

This article provides an overview of the ongoing DevSecOps evolution at Danske Bank, positioned within the broader transformation that the firm is performing. The main enablers and motivating factors of the evolution are outlined, with challenges discovered. The high level overview of the DevSecOps operating model, together with anti-patterns discovered and main lessons learned concludes it. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Scala 3 Overhauls Language for Better Developer Experience

  2. Jakarta EE 9.1 and the Road to Jakarta EE 10

  3. Internal JDK Elements Strongly Encapsulated in JDK 17

  4. Java News Roundup - Week of June 14th, 2021

Implementing Microservicilites with Istio

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns. (Article)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Uno Platform 3.8 Is Here

.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022

It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks (including MAUI), along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, new Azure SDK libraries, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 14th, 2021. (News)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Xcode 13 Extends Team Collaboration and Source Editing Features

Google's UI Toolkit Flutter 2.2 Claims Cross-Platform Crown

At the recent Google I/O conference, Google announced version 2.2 of its cross-platform UI toolkit, Flutter. According to a study, it is now the most popular cross-platform option. Google concentrated on fixing issues, optimizing performance, and refining existing features in this release. Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe, Sony, and Ubuntu Linux all increased their Flutter support. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Engineering Your Organization through Services, Platforms, and Communities

Building Your Own Agile Team Maturity Assessment

An agile maturity assessment can help teams come to a common understanding of what agile maturity looks like and what steps they can take to get there. In this article, we are going to dive into the value of assessing things, with concrete examples you can use, and will help you learn how to build an assessment for your teams and/or organization that is fit-for-purpose. (Article)

Validation of Autonomous Systems

This article introduces validation and certification as well as the general approval of autonomous systems and their components, such as those used in automation technology and robotics. It gives an overview of methods for verification and validation of autonomous systems, sketches current tools and shows the evolution towards AI-based techniques for influence analysis of continuous changes. (Article)

Leveraging Small Teams to Scale Agility - a Red Hat Case Study

This article gives you a sneak peek into the adoption of Agile methodology at Red Hat. It shows how they have split the existing large subsystem team into smaller durable Scrum teams. Small teams scale well. They can more easily clarify dependencies and increase focus, leading to an increase in the ability to complete work, can mature faster, and can learn from a “fail fast” mentality more easily. (Article)

From Program to Process, Designing for Equity in the Workplace

Aubrey Blanche discusses how to evolve a program to create fair experiences for every employee and build better, safer products. (Presentation with transcript included)

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