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 In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Emily Jaksch about the myths, misconceptions and realities of the millennial generation. (Podcast) |
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| As part of the recent macOS Big Sur release, Apple has included the ML Compute framework. ML Compute provides optimized mathematical libraries to improve training on CPU and GPU on both Intel and M1-based Macs, with up to a 7x improvement in training times using the TensorFlow deep-learning library. (News) |
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 While not suitable for everyone, cloud brokerages are useful for large enterprises that want to improve their cloud management and operations. The article looks at planning and delivering a brokerage. (Article) |
 AIOps platforms empower IT teams to quickly find the root issues that originate in the network and disrupt running applications. AI/ML algorithms need access to high quality network data to determine what went wrong and where. Network visibility starts from TAPs around network equipment, and teams can add application instrumentation and logs as data sources for complete insights. (Article) |
 The panelists explore how a sound observability strategy can help mitigate operational costs and avoid common pitfalls in monitoring distributed systems. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Daniel Albuquerque and Nikos Katirtzis show how to run attacks in both manual and automated ways. (Presentation) |
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 At QCon this year, Connor Hicks presented the opportunities linked to using Web Assembly outside of the browser. Hicks addressed current and future server-side use cases for WebAssembly. He explained how Wasm and its ecosystem allow developers to craft serverless applications by declaratively composing serverless functions written in different languages. (Article) |
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| Oracle recently released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. We take a look at what's known about the contents of the upcoming next releases, Java 16 and 17. (News) |
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| Last week at the .NET Conf 2020, Scott Hunter, Maddy Leger, and David Ortinau presented the latest Xamarin debugging improvements about Hot Reload and Hot Restart. Also, Xamarin.Forms 5.0, which is expected for the end of this year, will introduce new features and controls, such as brushes, shapes, drag-and-drop, control templates for any control, CarouselView, and SwipeView. (News) |
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| The team behind the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript recently released Deno 1.5. Deno 1.5 improved bundling time by using Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript compiler swc. Deno further reduces bundle size with tree-shaking and implements the alert, confirm, and prompt web platform APIs. The latter may allow developers to write simple interactive applications in the terminal. (News) |
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| Google has announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which provides the foundations for all Android-labelled OSes available in the market and more derivative OSes, will transition to use Bazel as its new build tool. (News) |
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 Kolton Andrus shares examples of what works, what doesn’t, and what the future holds in using Chaos Engineering to build reliability in a system. (Presentation) |
 Jennifer Shin and Stephen Spalding discuss Netflix’s API unification process using GraphQL Federation. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Large scale change initiatives have a worryingly high failure rate, the chief reason for which is that serious risks are not identified early. One way to create the safety needed for everyone to speak openly about the risks they see is by running a pre-mortem. In a pre-mortem, we assume that the transformation had already failed and walk backward from there to investigate what led to the failure. (Article) |
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 The book Reinventing the Organization provides a framework of principles of practices that can help companies to deliver greater value in fast-moving markets. The authors explored some of today’s nimblest and fastest-growing large companies, looking at what goes on inside these companies and what's outside: networks, partners, and the marketplace they want to dominate. (Article) |
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