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OpenAI GPT-3, OPA Graduates, Cloud Trust Paradox, JCenter and Bintray to Shut Down, MicroProfile, Npm 7, Sandboxing iMessage, Community Developers, Ethical Conduct, Inclusion

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Service Meshes and Linkerd with William Morgan

Today on the podcast, we talk about Linkerd and the larger Service Mesh space with William Morgan (CEO of Buoyant). (Podcast)

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Alex Sloley the Value of Coaching, Mob Programming in Action, and Leadership for New Ways of Working

In this podcast recorded at the Agile on the Beach (New Zealand) conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Sloley about the value of a coach, mobbing as a way to solve tough problems and the importance of leadership in adopting new ways of working. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Kaggle Publishes 2020 State of Machine Learning and Data Science Report

  2. OpenAI Announces GPT-3 Model for Image Generation

  3. AWS Announces Enhanced Console Experience and New v2 APIs for Amazon Lex

Performance Tuning Techniques of Hive Big Data Table

In this article, author Sudhish Koloth discusses how to tackle performance problems when using Hive Big Data tables. (Article)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12

  2. Google Announces VM Manager, a Suite of Infrastructure Management Tools

  3. Open Policy Agent Graduates at CNCF

  4. The Cloud Trust Paradox According to Google Cloud

  5. Newest TeamTNT IRC Bot Steals AWS and Docker Credentials

AI No Silver Bullet for Cloud Security, But Here’s How It Can Help

In this article, the author looks at the real role of artificial intelligence in cloud security – the hype, the reality, and how we can resolve the gap between them. He encourages the reader to focus on making cloud security platforms that allow humans to provide truly intelligent threat responses, rather than relying on the machines to do it for us. (Article)

Cloud Native Is about Culture, Not Containers

Holly Cummins shares stories of customers struggling to get cloud native and all the ways things can go wrong. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Thrift for Haskell Aims to Eliminate Bugs from RPC Code

  2. The Attacker Defender Divide

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 20 for Iot Devices and Embedded Systems

Canonical released a minimal containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS specifically for IoT devices and embedded systems. Ubuntu Core is an operating system for industry and consumer devices. It is available for both x86 and ARM computers. Additional features compared to previous Core operating systems are secure boot, full drive encryption, and secure device recovery. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JFrog to Shut down JCenter and Bintray

  2. IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 Supports Java 16

Virtual Panel: the MicroProfile Influence on Microservices Frameworks

In mid-2016, the MicroProfile initiative was created as a collaboration of vendors to deliver microservices for enterprise Java. InfoQ recently asked the opinion of expert practitioners on how MicroProfile has influenced how developers today are building microservices-based applications, the emergence of new microservices frameworks and reverting back to monolith-based applications development. (Article)

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TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. The Preact Team Releases WMR to Simplify Modern Web App Development

  2. Npm 7 Now Generally Available, Supports Workspaces and Deterministic Builds

Deno Now Compiles to Self-Contained, Standalone Binaries

Deno 1.6 introduced the compilation of Deno projects into standalone executables, whose size Deno 1.7 further reduced (up to 60%). Deno now has a dedicated language server that seeks to improve the experience of Deno developers in code editors. Deno also added support for data URLs, enabling the execution of computer-generated code. (News)

Sandboxing and Other Measures to Harden iMessage on iOS and macOS

After being hit by a 0-click exploit in iMessage last year, Apple has been hard at work to improve the security of its platform. One of the major changes in iOS 14 is BlastDoor, a tightly sandboxed service responsible for parsing all untrusted messages, along with randomization of the shared cache region containing system libraries, and exponential throttling to counter brute-force attacks. (News)

Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer: Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems?

Low-code platforms are the hottest enterprise software category right now. With the current level of investment, it is hard to imagine a future that doesn’t feature lots of bespoke business apps being built by non-IT staff for use by their teams. Visibility of low code solutions is the key to managing risk. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Draft Published of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching

Adaptive Frontline Incident Response: Human-Centered Incident Management

The third article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience zeros in on the sources that comprise most of your company’s adaptive resources: your frontline responders. In this article, we draw on our experiences as incident commanders with Twilio to share our reflections on what it means to cultivate resilient people. (Article)

Cynefin Applied: Adapting to Changing Contexts

The book Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of our World by Dave Snowden describes the Cynefin framework and explores how it has developed over the years. It also provides stories where people who have applied Cynefin share their experiences. (Article)

Navigating the New Remote Normal

Lisette Sutherland discusses how to navigate the new world of working as a hybrid team, sharing ideas for what it means to be “present” at work and how to create that sense of team even when you're virtual. (Presentation with transcript included)

Finding the “I” within Inclusion

Wade Davis and Karen Casella explore some of the history of I&D, its historical relationship with both over and underrepresented groups, and how to find yourself within I&D. (Presentation with transcript included)

How to Scale Product Company and Keep the Startup Attitude

Kadri Pirn describes a method to keep a startup-like attitude in a bigger development team without adding extra layers of management. (Presentation)

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