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The Challenges of Building Cyber-Physical Systems
There are several challenges in building hardware-reliant cyber-physical systems, such as hardware lead times, organisational structure, common language, system decomposition, cross-team communication, alignment, and culture. A solution to such challenges is to apply agile at the systems level, and to architect both hardware and software into modular components.
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AWS Adds Automated Detection of Unused IAM Roles, Users, and Permissions
AWS recently added support for detecting unused access granted to IAM roles and users within their AWS IAM Access Analyzer tool. The new analyzer can identify unused roles, unused IAM user access keys and passwords, and unused permissions within a defined usage window. This analysis can be done across accounts within the organization and be controlled from a delegated administrator account.
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Sentry Introduces Non-Open-Source Functional Source License
Sentry has recently announced the creation and adoption of the Functional Source License (FSL), a non-compete license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years. Similar to the Business Source License (BSL) but with a shorter non-compete period and less variability, the new license received mixed feelings from the community.
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Microsoft Brings AI to Logic Apps (Standard) with Workflow Assistant in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced a workflow assistant for Logic Apps (standard), the company’s integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering in public preview. With the assistant, developers have a chat interface that provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring them to navigate documentation or search online forums.
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.NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) is Generally Available
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard), which allows developers to extend their low-code solutions with custom code.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Integration Environments and Business Process Tracking in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Integration Environments in public preview, a new capability that allows organizations to assemble their resources into logical groupings to manage and monitor their integration resources more effectively.
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OpenAI Launches GPTs to Enable Creating No-Code, Custom Versions of ChatGPT
At the recent OpenAI developer conference, OpenAI announced it is rolling out GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT created for specific tasks. Developers will also be able to share their GPTs on the forthcoming ChatGPT Store and monetize them, the company says.
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Ethical Machine Learning with Explainable AI and Impact Analysis
As more decisions are made or influenced by machines, there’s a growing need for a code of ethics for artificial intelligence. The main question is, “I can build it, but should I?” Explainable AI can provide checks and balances for fairness and explainability, and engineers can analyze the systems' impact on people's lives and mental health.
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How Amazon Prime Video Delivers 99.999% Availability While Reducing Costs
Amazon Prime Video created a highly available live video streaming architecture by combining redundant components to achieve the five-nines of availability that they require for their platform. The company optimized the deployment topology and video encoding to reduce costs while ensuring optimal video quality for users.
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Enhanced Error Handling for Step Functions Provides Developers with Fine-Grained Control over Retry
AWS recently announced the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in AWS Step Functions workflows allowing developers to identify errors more clearly and provide them with fine-grained control over their retry strategies.
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How Big Tech Lost its Way - Accountability and Leadership
Accountability in big tech companies seems to be lacking; it’s rare for people in senior positions to be held accountable. Engineers should be conscious of the culture they want to work in and watch out for their well-being, whereas companies should invest in their leaders to support people’s best work. Andy Walker gave a talk about how big tech lost its way at QCon London 2023.
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A Ruthless Approach for Better Security by Identifying Key Risks and Ignoring Others
Risk management techniques can be used to decide which security and privacy aspects are important. You can simplify the risk impact calculations by identifying low, medium and high and critical losses, and by taking likelihoods from the industry to do likelihood calculations. This helps you to identify a few key risks, and ruthlessly ignore the rest.
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Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform
Uber released a major version of its workflow orchestration platform named Cadence after six years in development. Uber and other companies use Cadence to build stateful services at scale using native programming languages.
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Why Your Workloads Do Not Run on Renewable Energy (Yet) and What to Do about it
Renewable energy is an important step on the way to fight climate change. The energy produced by burning fossil resources is one of the main drivers of carbon emissions. But running a datacenter on renewable energy all the time is difficult. Usually - with only a few exceptions - your workloads do not run on renewable energy.
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.