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A Culture of Continuous Experimentation: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Sarah Aslanifar presented Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation. She showed how fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and leveraging the principle of continuous learning can drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and improve product outcomes.
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Microsoft Guidance Offers Language for Controlling Large Language Models
Microsoft has recently introduced a domain-specific language called Guidance, to improve developers' ability to manage contemporary language models. The new framework integrates aspects such as generation, prompting, and logical control into a unified process for developers. The inclusion of regex pattern guides ensures the enforcement of formats, allowing for the natural completion of prompts.
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What Software Developers Can Do to Learn Effectively
Software developers are constantly learning new languages, frameworks, tools, and techniques. It can be challenging to decide which topic to learn, estimate our competence level, prevent becoming overwhelmed, and keep our learning effective. For better learning, break it down into realistically sized phases, and repeat the same topic several times to really get to experience it properly.
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Scalable Automation Frameworks for Functional and Non-Functional Testing
Separating the capabilities of a testing framework from the actual tests can enable scaling automated testing for complex enterprise products. According to Alexander Velinov, we should agree on the types of tests to execute automatically during release and what should be kept as manually triggered tests.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Community Toolkit 8 with Automatic Source Generation
Microsoft has released version 8.0.0 of .NET Community Toolkit (NCT), a collection of helpers and APIs that make it easier to use patterns like MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) independently of the underlying platform. In this version, developers can benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined API methods.
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Microsoft Claims Entity Framework Core 7 Faster When Saving Changes
Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims. The performance of SaveChanges method in EF7 is up to 74% faster than in EF6, in some scenarios.
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MLGO Framework Brings Machine Learning in Compiler Optimizations
Google’s new Machine Learning Guided Optimization (MLGO) is an industrial-grade general framework for integrating machine-learning (ML) techniques systematically in a compiler and in particular in LLVM. Compiling faster and smaller code can significantly reduce the operational cost of large data-center applications.
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Microsoft's New Simulation Framework FLUTE Accelerates Federated Learning Algorithm Development
Microsoft Research has recently released Federated Learning Utilities and Tools for Experimentation (FLUTE), a new simulation framework to accelerate federated learning ML algorithm development. The main goal of federated learning is to train complex machine-learning models over massive amounts of data without the need to share that data in a centralized location.
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Waymo Releases Block-NeRF 3D View Synthesis Deep-Learning Model
Waymo released a ground-breaking deep-learning model called Block-NeRF for large-scale 3D world-view synthesis reconstructed from images collected by its self-driving cars. NeRF has the ability to encode surface and volume representation in neural networks.
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Micronaut 3.0 Delivers Significant Changes Adaptable for Future Development
Object Computing, Inc. has released Micronaut 3.0 featuring the removal of a default reactive streams implementation, a change in annotation inheritance, and HTTP compile-time validation. This release was a culmination of work to resolve design faults of the past to make the framework more intuitive and adaptable to future requirements.
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How Quantifying Information Leakage Helps to Protect Systems
Information leakage happens when observable information can be correlated with a secret. Secrets such as passwords, medical diagnosis, locations, or financial data uphold a lot of our world, and there are many types of information, like error messages or electrical consumption patterns, that can give hints to these secrets.
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Server-Rendered Web Applications in Deno with Aleph.js
Aleph.js, a React framework for server-rendered applications in Deno, is now available through an alpha release. Aleph makes many of Next.js’ core features available in Deno environments: zero-config server-side rendering, static site generation, file-system and API routing, and more. Aleph uses the standard EcmaScript Modules (ESM) import syntax and does not need a bundler in development.
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Ionic's Stencil Component Compiler Design Considerations -- Adam Bradley at DotJS2019
Adam Bradley, creator of StencilJS and co-creator of Ionic Framework, reviewed at dotjs2019 the design and architecture that went into Stencil, a component compiler which generates framework agnostic components.
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Material-UI 4.9 Release Improves Support for Material Design Specification
Material-UI, a React UI framework, recently released version 4.9.0 with dozens of improvements to UI components and better alignment with the Material Design specification. This release added or resolved inconsistencies with hover across several key UI components including the IconButton, ListItem, and TableRow. The release resolves dozens of smaller inconsistencies and makes refinements.
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New Features and Design Principles of Vue 3.0 - Evan You at VueConf Toronto
With the major iteration of the Vue.js framework scheduled for Q1 2020, Evan You, creator and project lead of Vue.js, discussed in detail at VueConf Toronto the design principles behind Vue 3, together with the latest additions to the new release.