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Hugging Face Launches SmolTools: Practical AI Apps Powered by SmolLM2 Model
Hugging Face has introduced SmolTools, a set of applications built on the recently launched SmolLM2 model, a compact 1.7-billion parameter language model. SmolTools includes specialized tools for summarization, rewriting, and task automation, bringing efficient AI functionality to a broader range of users.
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QCon London: Learnings from Automating Deployments
Copying and pasting code from one Windows folder to another as a deployment method can cause downtime. Jemma Hussein Allen presented how they automated their deployments and the benefits that they got from it at QCon London.
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Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS to Secure and Simplify Origin Server Connectivity
Cloudflare recently introduced new Automatic SSL/TLS settings to simplify the provider's encryption modes for communication with origin servers. This feature offers automatic configuration, ensuring security without risking site downtime.
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Improving Mobile Test Automation with Continuous Integration, Central Logging, and Metrics Analysis
Continuous integration can enhance automated mobile testing. Test data from multiple mobile devices running parallel tests can be consolidated to support monitoring. Jira tickets from manual testing can trigger the build process to ensure that testers will have the correct software version to do the manual testing.
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JetBrains Aqua IDE for Test Automation Now Generally Available
Aqua, the first IDE for test automation, is now generally available. The IDE supports multiple languages and major testing frameworks like Selenium and Cypress. JetBrains introduces a new licensing model with Free Individual Non-Commercial and Paid Commercial plans. Additionally, Aqua is included in the All Products Pack.
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WildFly 32 Delivers Preview of Jakarta EE 11 and Final Version of WildFly Glow
The WildFly team has released WildFly 32, featuring WildFly Glow tools. These tools analyze application artifacts to determine necessary dependencies and suggest packaging layers. WildFly 32 supports Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile, and JDK 11, 17, and 21. It also introduces a preview of Jakarta EE 11.
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The Impact of Testing in Software Teams
Communicating quality gaps, holding space for good testing, and writing automation are some of the ways that testers contribute to software teams. According to Maaret Pyhäjärvi, we need to think about testing, not testers. Collaboration and having conversations between team members can result in valuable impact that changes the product and the experiences of our users.
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Actionforge is a VS Code Extension to Build GitHub Workflows Visually
Actionforge provides a visual, node-based interface to create and maintain GitHub Action workflows masking their underlying YAML textual definition. Packaged as an extension for Visual Studio Code, the tool does not require any external services and is now available in beta.
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Making Software Development Boring to Deliver Business Value
Given there’s a limit to our cognitive abilities and our comprehension of complex systems, Corstian Boerman argues that software development should become boring. He suggests moving infrastructure out of the way so that it does not burden the day-to-day development process, and focusing on delivering business value in a predictable and repeatable way.
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Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
Recently, Apple open-sourced Pkl, pronounced "Pickle," a configuration-as-code language. Pkl has the the goal of streamlining configuration management, by serving as a command-line utility, software library, or build plugin.
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What Software Developers Can Do to Prevent Forgetting or Overlooking Things
According to Ilian Iliev, software developers tend to forget to do things they do not have to think about every day, which can cause delays or impact the functionality of the product during a software project. To prevent overlooking something, he suggested starting early with automating deployment, setting up error logging, and using lists and reminders of things that were forgotten previously.
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Booking.com Doubles Delivery Performance Using DORA Metrics and Micro Frontends
The team in Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics. Additionally, the Micro Frontends (MFE) pattern was used to break up the monolithic FE application into multiple decomposed apps that could be deployed separately.
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Netflix Announces SafeTest, Its Custom Approach to Front-End Testing
Moshe Kolodny recently introduced SafeTest, described as a novel approach to front-end web testing. SafeTest orchestrates a test runner, a browser automation library, a UI framework, and dependency injection capabilities to alleviate the pain points of traditional UI testing methods. SafeTest is currently used at Netflix.
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DoorDash Uses CockroachDB to Create Config Management Platform for Microservices
DoorDash created a configuration management platform to help its logistics team maintain the growing number of business preferences and configuration values. The company used CockroachDB for persistence and simplified the architecture compared with the previous solution. The new platform enables experimentation, improves configuration value lifecycle, and provides flexibility and extendibility.
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How Continuous Mobile Development Can Benefit from Test Automation
Test automation can support continuous mobile software development by reducing manual testing efforts, minimizing human errors, and accelerating the release cycle. Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing at QA Challenge Accepted 2023.