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AI Benefits, AWS Bugbust, High-Cardinality Observability, .NET MAUI, Piral Microfrontends, SwiftUI 3, Apache Pinot, User Adaptive Security, Distributed DevOps, Preventing Burnout

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Pato Jutard of Mural on Maintaining a Collaborative Culture through Exponential Growth

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. InterCon 2021 Panel Discussion: Is AI Really Beneficial for End Users?

LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite

LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts. (News)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Fauna Database Introduces Fauna Labs

  2. AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs

  3. Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances

  4. Google Unveils New Firebase Features at Google/IO

Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

At QCon plus, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, Elizabeth Carretto discussed observability at Netflix and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play. (Article)

True Observability Needs High-Cardinality

Pierre Vincent discusses how high-cardinality observability helps the exploration and debugging power required to understand the reality of a production system. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption Transpiler

Google has open-sourced a general-purpose transpiler able to convert high-level code to be used with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). (News)

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Java News Roundup - Week of June 28th, 2021

This week’s Java roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, GraalVM Native Build Tools, TornadoVM 0.10, the release of Quarkus 2.0 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.0, Apache Camel 3.11, Apache Wicket, Helidon, Micronaut Foundation, JReleaser 0.5.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1.3, Gradle 7.1.1, Hibernate, Scala, ASM and the Spring Framework. (News)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Releases First Preview of Visual Studio 2022

.NET MAUI Preview 5: Animations, Ported UI Components and Single Project Templates Updates

One month after Microsoft Build and Preview 4, the .NET MAUI team continued the progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI and now Preview 5 is here . It brings animations and the view transformation support, a couple of ported UI Components from the renderer architecture of Xamarin.Forms, and Single Project Templates updates and improvements. (News)

Piral, a Modern React-Based Microfrontends Library

Piral is a JavaScript library for creating modular microfrontends application based on React. (News)

What's New in SwiftUI 3

Apple is continuing to work to bring SwiftUI, its declarative UI framework for Swift, on a par with UIKit and AppKit. At WWDC 2021, SwiftUI got a number of new features, including extended List views, support for pull to refresh, asynchronous images, and more. (News)

Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot

At QCon, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, Chinmay Soman talked about how you can use Apache Pinot as part of your data pipelines for building rich, external, or site-facing analytics. (Article)

User Adaptive Security

Christina Camilleri and Jesse Kriss discuss how Netflix has readjusted their investments around user-focused security tooling, and explore strategies towards a tiered access approach within endpoint security. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Distributed DevOps Teams: Supporting Digitally Connected Teams

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2021: an Industry Insight

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses think about outsourcing their processes. While security and sustainable outsourcing have become top priorities, cost reduction has become a driving factor in outsourcing decisions. The practice of nearshoring is gaining prominence, while other practices are becoming obsolete. This article explores how outsourcing practices are changing in 2021. (Article)

Building Stronger Human Teams by Managing the Inner Lizards

Each of us has an inner lizard that frets constantly about our safety. People come with brains that are pre-configured to scan everything you say for threats to their safety. Learning to recognize when you're operating under reptilian influence is a great start. This article introduces some techniques to help you manage the lizard within you along with those around you. (Article)

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Preventing Transformational Burnout through Collaboration, Transparency, Feedback, and Coaching

Burnout is not only an individual issue; it happens in teams and organizations. This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns, lack of motivation and confidence, along with types of burnout, and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout. (Article)

Intentional Distributed Teams

Maria Gutierrez and Glenn Vanderburg discuss how a company can stay productive, creative, and driven when employees are at a distance from each other. (Presentation with transcript included)

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