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Meta AI Releases Llama 4: Early Impressions and Community Feedback
Meta has officially released the first models in its new Llama 4 family—Scout and Maverick—marking a step forward in its open-weight large language model ecosystem. Designed with a native multimodal architecture and a mixture-of-experts (MoE) framework, these models aim to support a broader range of applications, from image understanding to long-context reasoning.
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JavaOne 2025 Day 3: the Future of Java is You
JavaOne 2025, celebrating the 30th birthday of the Java programming language, was held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisted of 80 sessions and hand-on labs, and two keynotes. Day Three, scheduled on March 20th, 2025, included the Java community keynote and presentations from various conference tracks.
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Enabling Developer Productivity: Intentional Evolution of the Platform at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston
At the InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Jennifer Davis, an engineering manager at Google and author of "Effective DevOps" and "Modern System Administration," discussed strategies for enhancing developer productivity through intentional evolution of platforms. She emphasized the importance of effective documentation and code samples in fostering a thriving developer community.
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Fostering Healthy Tech Teams in a DevOps World
Building healthy DevOps tech teams that are responsible for a broad area can be challenging. To measure the success of your team, several frameworks provide metrics indicating team health. Psychological safety matters for healthy teams to ensure each software engineer brings their own lived experiences to build better products and that they feel safe to do so.
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Being an Agent of Change for Others and Yourself
Everyone can be an agent of change, even with small contributions. You can also be an agent of change for yourself by focusing on what you can control. Knowing why to change matters, and exploring it you may find out that it’s not the time yet to make a change.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.2: MVVM Toolkit Attributes, Performance Enhancements, and More
Microsoft has released the latest version of its .NET Community Toolkit, version 8.2, and it comes with several new enhancements and features. According to the release, this new version brings performance enhancements both at runtime and in the MVVM Toolkit source generators, new code fixers aimed at boosting productivity, and a number of user-requested features.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.1 Released
Recently Microsoft released .NET Community Toolkit 8.1. This new release contains performance improvements to the MVVW Toolkit source generators. There are also new features such as custom attributes for ObservableProperty, MVVM Toolkit analyzers, IObservable<T> messenger extensions and support for .NET 7 and C# 11.
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What's New in .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1
Microsoft’s .NET Community Toolkit’s latest version, v.8.1.0, recently reached its first preview release. The release brings several new features and improvements to the toolkit: improvements to the MVVM source generator performance and the addition of custom attributes support for the ObservableProperty attribute. It also brings additional IMessenger extensions and .NET 7 and C# 11 support.
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.NET MAUI Community Kit 1.3 Released
On October 4th 2022, Microsoft released version 1.3 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, a library of valuable additions to the official MAUI application framework. This release includes bug fixes and several enhancements such as gravatar support, a coloured status bar, and fade animation for controls.
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JReleaser 1.0: Talking to the Early Adopters of the Release Automation Tool
JReleaser was powering its releases, to make sure it understood the consumer experience first hand. In the meantime, other projects decided to use it as well. InfoQ talked to the developers behind them to understand their experience and how stable JReleaser really is.
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Amazon Introduces re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS
At re:Invent Amazon announced re:Post, a Q&A service that replaced the AWS Forums and is designed to offer crowd-sourced and expert-reviewed answers to technical questions about AWS.
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Moving from Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome toward Seeing the Benefits of Diversity in Technology
As someone with a non technical background, Charu Bansal, has navigated the imposter syndrome in her career, often wondering what value she could bring to security. In her talk at The Diana Initiative 2021, she showed how having a diverse perspective helped her to solve challenging security problems as she pivoted from a non-technical career into information security.
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Developing Testing Skills outside of Working Hours
Gamifying your way of testing, joining online testing communities of practice, and virtual traveling; these are examples of activities you can do outside of working hours that can make you a better tester. You can practice continuous learning with other testers in the world, and then implement things you learned at your workplace and share them with your team to improve ways of testing.
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2021 State of Testing Survey: Call for Participation
The 2021 State of Testing survey aims to provide insights into how the testing profession develops and to recognize the adoption of testing practices and testing trends. The survey is open through December.
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Docker Q&A on the New Compose Specification Community
Docker released a community for developing the Compose specification to help developers build cloud-native applications using compose. There've been different implementations of Docker compose to make it work in platforms like Kubernetes or AWS ECS. But Docker wants to work with the community to provide better support and define the future of Compose.