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Fix Your SDLC before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London
During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughout her presentation, she continuously stresses the importance of keeping humans in the loop and fixing your company’s SDLC before embracing AI.
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Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and analyze APIs.
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Java News Roundup: JobRunr 7.0, Introducing the Commonhaus Foundation, Payara Platform, Devnexus
This week's Java roundup for April 8th, 2024, features news highlighting: JobRunr 7.0; introducing the Commonhaus Foundation; the April 2024 edition of Payara Platform; JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview), and JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator), Proposed to Target for JDK 23; and Devnexus 2024.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters
Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms, services, and systems.
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QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.
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Optimizing Adidas' Container Platform Using GitOps
Adidas recently discussed how they evolved their platform configuration towards a GitOps-based setup. In a series of blog posts, Adidas elaborated on the utilization of GitOps in their container platform and how they plan to introduce improvements in the management of their platform.
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Building a Platform to Gain an Unexpected Competitive Advantage: Ranbir Chawla at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Ranbir Chawla presented the journey his team took from moving from an “architectural perfect storm” and a highly manual operational system to a product company with a modern event-based architecture that can be released in < 1 hour. The company now focuses on providing real business outcomes to its stakeholders, and ensuring developers find joy in their work.
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Borderless Cloud at QCon London: Q&A with Adora Nwodo
At QCon London, Adora Nkowno, senior software engineer at NexaScale, discussed the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into application architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines. Her session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ did an interview.
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Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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QCon London: Efficient Serverless Development
At QCon London, Yan Cui, a serverless advocate at Lumigo, shared patterns for effective local development with AWS serverless technologies. The focus areas were testing approaches, deployment practices, and application environments.
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Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI: Q&A with Michael Friedrich
At QCon London, Michael Friedrich, senior developer advocate at GitLab, discussed how AI can help in DevSecOps workflows. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference. InfoQ interviewed Friedrich after the session.
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Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks and Techniques by Meryem Arik at QCon London
At QCon London, Meryem Arik discussed deploying Large Language Models (LLMs). While initial proofs of concept benefit from hosted solutions, scaling demands self-hosting to cut costs, enhance performance with tailored models, and meet privacy and security requirements. She emphasized understanding deployment limits, quantization for efficiency, and optimizing inference to fully use GPU resources.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Project Bisbane, Ktor Plugin Repository, JDKUpdater
This week's Java roundup for April 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP Candidates: JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator); JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview); and JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, Project Bisbane, and introducing the Ktor Plugin Repository and JDKUpdater.
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AWS Deadline Cloud: Q&A on the Cloud-Based Render Farm with Antony Passemard
AWS has recently introduced Deadline Cloud, a new service designed to help creative teams manage rendering tasks more efficiently. The service is particularly useful for customers in the media & entertainment (M&E) and architecture, engineering, & construction (AEC) industries who need to generate final frames for film, TV, games, industrial design visualizations, and other digital media.