In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jeremiah Stone, CTO of SnapLogic about creating great teams, AI as a development partner and ethical challenges facing the technology industry. (Podcast) |
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A team from the University of Washington and Google Research recently open-sourced Distilling Step-by-Step, a technique for fine-tuning smaller language models. Distilling Step-by-Step requires less training data than standard fine-tuning and results in smaller models that can outperform few-shot prompted large language models (LLMs) that have 700x the parameters. (News) |
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NGINX announced the availability of ngx-rust project which allows developers to write NGINX modules in Rust. The Rust programming language has emerged as a powerful and popular choice due to its stability, security features a rich ecosystem, and strong community support. (News) |
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Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach. (News) |
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With WriterSide, JetBrains aims to allow developers and writers to create technical documentation using a write, test, build workflow. The new tool is based on IntelliJ-platform IDEs and has been used to create most of JetBrains products' documentation for the last few years. (News) |
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This week's Java roundup for October 16th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, BellSoft, Oracle VS Code extension, WildFly 30, Payara Platform, MicroProfile 6.1, EclipseCon and releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Micronaut, Quarkus, Open Liberty, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, JHipster and JHipster Lite. (News) |
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The latest release of .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 brings a lot of additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. This release is planned to be the last one before the final version of .NET 8 is released. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Identity, API Authoring, SignalR, and new SPA templates for CLI. (News) |
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Élie Michel discusses how to benefit from the common effort carried out by browser developers to do native graphics programming with a single API, and how WebGPU brings much more power than WebGL. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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To help developers gauge delivery of notifications in production, the Push Notification Console now includes metrics to get insights into the behavior of an app and its integration with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). (News) |
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Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are important vehicles for communicating the architectural decisions a development team makes about a system. Lacking a clear definition of what is architectural, and also lacking anywhere else to record important decisions, they can start to drift from their original purpose and lose focus and effectiveness. (Article) |
Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Deepa Goyal discusses structured user research that feeds into an API producer lifecycle, mapping API producer and API consumer lifecycle, releasing iteratively, analyzing customer feedback. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Carl Sverre explores how popular apps like WhatsApp, Figma, and Linear elevate their user experience and facilitate seamless collaboration by harnessing the power of offline-first techniques. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users. (Article) |
Erica Farmer reviews what’s being done well in remote and hybrid environments, and takes away what could be even better in the new world. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo overviews NASA's plans to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon, and describes the complexity planned with each mission and how that complexity is being managed. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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