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Baidu's ERNIE 3.0, Linkerd & Rust, Quarkus 2.0, Excel Turing-Complete, Java 16, .NET RateLimiting, Server-Side WASM, Jetpack Compose, Microservices Inside-Out, Team Health, SRE apprentices

What are the most recent trends in the Cloud Computing and DevOps space?

If you are unsure what new trends to watch out for, we’ve recently published the DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report to help you. Discover the innovations and what will eventually "cross the chasm" and be adopted by a majority of companies.
 

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The InfoQ eMag: Building Microservices in Java

In this eMag, you’ll be introduced to some of the microservices frameworks, MicroProfile, a set of APIs that optimizes enterprise Java for a microservices architecture, and GraalVM. We’ve hand-picked three full-length articles and facilitated a virtual panel to explore these frameworks. (eMag)

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What Have We Learned over the Last Decade of Microservices?

This episode is a panel discussion from the microservices track QCon Plus, held in May 2021. Track host Nicki Watt asks "What have we learned over the last decade of microservices?" The panelists included Chris Richardson, James Lewis, and Katie Gamanji. (Podcast)

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Thoughtworks’ Tim Cochran on Developer Effectiveness

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Baidu's ERNIE 3.0 AI Model Exceeds Human Performance on Language Understanding Benchmark

Machine Learning Technologies at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

National Olympic teams are using machine learning to gain an edge in competition over their opponents at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. Machine learning technologies are being used at the international sports event from athlete data tracking, coaches’ real-time feedback that can tell athletes when to train and when to stop, to predicting sports injuries with algorithms. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Linkerd Showcases Rust in Cloud-Native Infrastructure

  2. Envoy Proxy is Generally Available on Windows

  3. ElasticSearch Fork OpenSearch is Generally Available

  4. After 15 Years AWS Retires EC2-Classic

Security and the Language of Intent

Tracy Holmes and Petros Kolyvas discuss why the language of security for infrastructure is often lost in translation and how policy as code can help. (Presentation with transcript included)
Find out what should be on your radar from world-class domain experts. Discover emerging software trends and innovations. Book your spot at QCon Plus November 2021.

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Quarkus 2.0 Delivers Continuous Testing, CLI and Supports Minimal JDK 11

The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete

The Excel team announced LAMBDA, a new feature that lets users define and name formula functions. LAMBDA functions admit parameters, can call other LAMBDA functions and recursively call themselves. With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete: user-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript). (Article)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: IntelliJ IDEA 21.2, Quarkus 2.1, Micronaut 3.0.0-M5, WildFly, Payara Platform

What's New in Java 16

Java 16 was released in March of 2021 as a GA build meant to be used in production. And Java 17, the next LTS build, is scheduled to be released this September. Java 17 will be packed with a lot of improvements and language enhancements, most of which are a culmination of all the new features and changes that have been delivered since Java 11. (Article)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Introducing System.Threading.RateLimiting for .NET

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 Focuses on Instant Feedback

Microsoft's second preview of Visual Studio 2022 provides a deeper look at the feature the company plans to provide in its latest IDE. As to be expected with software in development, there are also a few rough spots. (News)

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Server-Side WASM: Today and Tomorrow

Connor Hicks explores WASM today, and the capabilities that it will have tomorrow, using the Suborbital Development Platform to illustrate how WASM modules can be used to compose server APIs. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Jetpack Compose Goes 1.0, JetBrains Launches Compose Multiplatform Alpha

Node-RED 2.0 Improves Developer Experience with New Flow Debugger and Flow Linter

IoT-focused low-code programming tool Node-RED reaches version 2.0, bringing flow debugger and flow linter to help programmers find bugs in their flows. (News)

Turning Microservices Inside-Out

Turning microservices inside-out means moving past a single, request/response API to designing microservices with an inbound API for queries and commands, an outbound APIs to emit events, and a meta API to describe them both. A database can be supplemented with Apache Kafka via a connecting tissue such as Debezium. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Facilitating Team Health Assessments

How to Recognise and Reduce HumanDebt

We know TechDebt is bad; chances are HumanDebt is worse, and once you’ve seen it, you can’t “unsee” or ignore it. What is now needed is a focus on the humans who do the work. Psychological safety in teams is key. The “people work” -both at an individual, but especially at a team level- is the key to sustainability and growth of high-performing tech teams. (Article)

Thoughtfully Training SRE Apprentices: Establishing Padawan and Jedi matches

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization. It also shares feedback from the SRE Apprentices themselves. (Article)

A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management

This article shows how modifying Session-based Test Management to our context helped us gain more visibility into our testing. Having a structured yet flexible approach to test management allowed us to make better, more timely decisions about the testing, and gave us more opportunities to influence quality decisions earlier in the process. (Article)

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