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Learning from Big Tech’s Engineering Productivity Metrics
Gergely Orosz and Abi Noda published a Pragmatic Engineer article titled Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples. InfoQ reports on insights from Noda’s survey of engineering metrics used across 17 well-known tech giants. Noda found that rather than wholesale adoption of frameworks like DORA, leading teams use a mix of org-specific qualitative and quantitative metrics.
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Async Ops and Scalable Keyspaces Make Threads Go Viral
Meta's Engineering team has published a post explaining how they built the infrastructure for Threads, their new online social media and networking service. The decision to launch was abrupt, with the infrastructure teams having just two days' notice. However, the teams were confident in Meta's infrastructure's maturity and past performance to effectively support the app's rapid growth.
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GitHub Copilot Chat Now Generally Available
GitHub Copilot Chat, a natural language-powered coding tool, is now generally available, according to a recent announcement by GitHub. The tool, a part of GitHub Copilot, is designed to elevate natural language as a universal programming language. GitHub Copilot Chat, powered by GPT-4, is a contextually-aware AI assistant tailored for development scenarios.
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Real-Time Data Streaming Capabilities with AppSync Integration in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus
AWS recently announced that Amazon EventBridge Event Bus supports AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target, enabling developers to stream real-time updates such as sports scores from their applications to frontend applications, including mobile and desktop.
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Rider 2023.3: AI Asistant, .NET 8 Support, C# 12 and F# 8 Features, Debugging Improvements and More
JetBrains has released Rider 2023.3, the latest version of their cross-platform .NET IDE. This release contains an AI Assistant, support for .NET 8 SDK and an extended list of C# 12 and F# 8 features. There are also improvements regarding debugging, running multiple projects, UI/UX and Unity.
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Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
Slack migrated most of the critical user-facing services from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation. The new architecture allows incrementally draining all the traffic away from the affected availability zone within 5 minutes.
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Amazon ECS Integration with Amazon EBS for Data Processing Workloads and Flexible Storage
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which makes it easier for users to run a broader range of data processing workloads.
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Regionally-Scoped Google’s Cloud Armor Security Policies
Google announced the general availability of regionally-scoped security policies for Google Cloud Armor: Google's premier DDoS defense and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution.
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HashiCorp Adds Automated Generation of Terraform Provider Code
HashiCorp has released a technical preview of their Terraform provider code generation toolset. This includes a new tool that generates Terraform provider code from an OpenAPI specification. The release also includes a tool that can generate Terraform plugin framework code from a provider code specification.
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GitHub CodeQL Code Scanning Now Supports Setting a Threat Model
GitHub has recently extended its CodeQL-based code scanner by adding the possibility to specify the desired threat model. The new feature is available in beta for the Java language.
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Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
This week's Java roundup for January 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods; the Payara Platform 2024 roadmap; and a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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Google Eliminates Exit Fees and Advocates against Restrictive Cloud Licensing
Google recently announced that it will eliminate exit fees for customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises.
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Airbnb’s CI/CD Framework Employs Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite for Efficient Software Delivery
Airbnb recently discussed a DevOps framework tailored to their CRM platform, integrating Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite. This framework facilitates the involvement of all stakeholders, from developers to low-code users, in the development and deployment process. Using the DevOps framework, Airbnb has reduced deployment time from 90 to 15 minutes.
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OpenTofu 1.6.0 Now Generally Available: New Module Testing, Enhanced S3 Backend, and Many More
OpenTofu 1.6.0 is now generally available. A community-driven open-source fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, now offers a stable release with many features, including advanced testing features for configurations and modules, enhanced S3 state backend with new authentication methods, a new provider and module registry, and many more improvements and bug fixes.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms Can Now Directly Trigger Lambda Functions
AWS recently announced that Amazon CloudWatch alarms now support AWS Lambda functions as an action for state changes. This new feature enables developers to automate remediation actions when detecting an unhealthy resource.