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AutoML, Spotify Paved Paths, Git Clone Vulnerability, Microsoft Mesh, Reactive Quarkus, Project Reunion, Pathpida, ML Kit, Dropbox Atlas, GraphQL, Team Topologies

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Wade Jackson on Great Culture and Unleashing Creativity through Collaborative Disruption

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Wade Jackson of Inspired Learning about playfulness, enabling great team and organisational culture, and unleashing creativity through collaborative disruption. (Podcast)

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  1. Amazon Lookout for Vision Now Generally Available

Google Open-Sources AutoML Algorithm Model Search

A team from Google Research has open-sourced Model Search, an automated machine learning (AutoML) platform for designing deep-learning models. Experimental results show that the system produces models that outperform the best human-designed models, with fewer training iterations and model parameters. (News)

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  1. Google Releases Memorystore for Memcached into General Availability

  2. How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity

  3. OpenTelemetry Announces Roadmap for Metrics Specification

  4. Vamp Announces Results of State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021

  5. Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain

The Perfect Pair: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance

Businesses are moving towards developing a predictive maintenance model using digital twins that mirror their real-life counterparts. In this article, the author looks at digital twins, and provides an example of how to build one. (Article)

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  1. Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh

Analyzing Git Clone Vulnerability

A new Git version, 2.30.2, fixes a security vulnerability in Git large file storage (LFS) and other clean/smudge filters affecting Git 2.15 and newer. An analysis. (News)

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Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Reactive Messaging, Kafka, and Testcontainers

Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that supports many coding styles, including reactive programming. Writing clean unit/component/integration tests for Quarkus applications when a reactive approach is used is vitally important. Here we demonstrate testing reactive code, reactive messaging, and full integration testing. (Article)

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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10. (News)

Pathpida Brings Types to Next.js and Nuxt.js Dynamic Routing with Zero Configuration

Pathpida is a library for TypeScript projects to collect dynamic routes in one place. It is a tedious task to do manually. This helps check the existence of routes in large web apps. Pathpida is optimized for Next.js (React) and Nuxt.js (Vue). Pathpida can be added to existing Next.js and Nuxt.js projects without configuration. (Article)

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ML Kit for iOS and Android Now Generally Available

After two years in beta, Google has announced the general availability of ML Kit for iOS and Android along with improvements to the Pose Detection API. Furthermore, Selfie Segmentation is now available in public beta. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform

GraphQL Reference Guide: Building Flexible and Understandable APIs

This online guide aims to answer pertinent questions for software architects and tech leaders, such as: Why would you use GraphQL? Why should you pay attention to GraphQL now? How can GraphQL help with data modelling in the Enterprise? (Article)

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  1. Sustainable Internet: Reducing the Environmental Impact

  2. Manuel Pais on Team Topologies during COVID-19

Becoming More Efficient and Productive in a Distracted World

This article highlights how increased distractions in agile teams can affect our mental health and cause burnout. It outlines how various productivity hacks can help to reduce this problem and make you highly efficient using real-life experiences. Finally, it discusses various steps the software industry can take to help preserve our mental health and reduce distractions. (Article)

Cut Your Design Sprints in Half with These Key Tips

Cut your next design sprint in half with these tips at your side. With this approach, you’ll be able to turn 2.5 days into ~4 hours and the whole sprint to 2.5 days. Make collaborative design thinking easier, more fun, and exciting. With up-front preparation, a clear challenge to tackle, and attention to the clock, you can get to the essentials and turn innovative ideas into testable prototypes. (Article)

Building Inclusive Software: Considerations and Constraints

Sitati Kituyi discusses implementation decisions that exclude millions of users, especially those in the developing world where many classic assumptions about internet users do not hold. (Presentation with transcript included)
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