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Building Your Personal Brand and Making an Impact: Insights from Principal Engineer Pablo Fredrikson

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Fredrikson, a principal engineer at Bitso, about the importance of building a personal brand, sharing knowledge, and helping others in the tech industry. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon Unveils Nova Act SDK and Expands Access to Advanced AI Models

  2. GitLab Introduces GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

  3. OpenAI Releases Improved Image Generation in GPT-4o

  4. OpenAI Introduces New Speech Models for Transcription and Voice Generation

  5. Mistral AI Launches API for LLM-Based OCR of Multimodal Documents

Beyond Chatbots: Architecting Domain-Specific Generative AI for Operational Decision-Making

This article explores the use of domain-specific Generative AI, models that understand operational constraints, real-world dynamics, and business rules to generate executable strategies, not just text descriptions. These models require significantly smaller datasets and fewer parameters, making them cost-effective while enabling AI-driven core business decision intelligence at scale. (Article)

Rockset - Building a Modern Analytics Database on Top of RocksDB

Igor Canadi discusses the architecture of their real-time search analytics SQL database built on RocksDB. He explains their cloud-native design, custom RocksDB replication, shared hot storage solution, and how they optimized RocksDB for efficient analytical queries. Learn about their approach to scalability, low latency, and high concurrency for application-focused databases. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How SREs and GenAI Work Together to Decrease eBay's Downtime: An Architect's Insights at KubeCon EU

  2. How Observability Can Improve the UX of LLM Based Systems: Insights of Honeycomb's CEO at KubeCon EU

  3. Secret Sprawl in Public Repos is Worse Than Ever, Finds New Report

CNCF Accepts Kubescape as an Incubating Project

The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) recently announced that it has accepted Kubescape as an incubating project. Kubescape offers security coverage for the Kubernetes environment from development to deployment. It is available as a CLI tool and a Kubernetes operator. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS CodeBuild Adds Parallel Test Execution for Faster CI

  2. Cloudflare Security Week 2025: From Quantum Cryptography to AI Labyrinth

  3. Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs Reach General Availability with NVIDIA NIM Support

  4. Azure AI Foundry Supports NVIDIA NIM and AgentIQ for AI Agents

Cloudflare Enables Remote Hosting for Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers

Cloudflare revolutionizes AI integration with the launch of remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enhancing accessibility for developers. This advancement allows seamless AI interactions with external services, offering simplified deployment, built-in OAuth for security, and expanded use cases. Embrace innovative workflows and empower your applications on a global scale. (News)

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How to Compute Without Looking: A Sneak Peek into Secure Multi-Party Computation

This article shows how you can compute a function across multiple parties that do not trust each other without forcing them to share their individual inputs. This technique can be used to split secrets among parties, perform logical operations, or count votes in a way that ensures data privacy is preserved. (Article)

Building Inclusive Mini Golf: A Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development

Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL

JavaOne 2025: Function and Memory Access in Pure Java

Per-Åke Minborg, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Java Core Libraries at Oracle, presented "Function and Memory Access in Pure Java" at JavaOne 2025. Minborg demonstrated how the Foreign Functions & Memory API can replace the Java Native Interface with a more direct, pure Java paradigm. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Interop 2025: Anchor Positioning, View Transitions, Storage Access Soon Stable across Browsers

Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client

The Bun team recently released Bun v1.2, with major progress regarding compatibility with Node.js, a key component of Bun’s value proposition. Bun 1.2 also now has a built-in S3 object storage API and a built-in Postgres client that comes in addition to the existing built-in SQLite client. (News)

Architectural Experimentation in Practice: Frequently Asked Questions

This third article in a series answers some frequently asked questions about architectural experiments. Architectural experiments test critical decisions to reduce risks and costs, using well-defined hypotheses and results for clarity. They are structured, not unfocused, exploratory learning. (Article)

OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost Saving Autoscaling

Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, using analogies to illustrate the complexities beyond simply adding nodes. He shares architectural patterns (burst indexes, burst clusters) to optimize resource utilization and handle fluctuating loads effectively. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Software Developers Can Build Their Personal Brand to Elevate Their Influence

Bringing a Product Mindset to an Infrastructure Platform Team

Stéphane Di Cesare discusses DKB's experience introducing a product mindset within their platform team, explaining their definition of a platform team, the rationale behind the shift, and their journey including challenges, goals, and key learnings around user value, platform definition, maturity models, and effective communication strategies for senior software developers and engineering leaders. (Presentation with transcript included)

Making Change Stick: Lessons Learned From Helping Teams Improve at the Co-Op

Neil Vass discusses Co-op's unique 180-year history and its impact on modern software development practices within the organization. He explains the evolution of Co-op Digital, from its early adoption of agile principles inspired by GDS to its current challenges in scaling and sustaining effective ways of working across diverse teams. (Presentation with transcript included)

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