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Android 15 Beta Brings Loudness Control, Improvements for Satellite Connectivity, and More
Google has released Android 15 Beta. This version brings loudness control, screen recording detection, edge-to-edge apps by default, improvements for satellite connectivity and OpenJDK core libraries, new SQLite Apis, and more.
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New Cloud Governance Guidance in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Microsoft recently announced significant updates to the Govern section of its Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, enhancing cloud governance guidance across various domains, including identity, cost management, and AI, to support better organizations, from startups to large enterprises, in their cloud journey.
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Expedia Open-Sources Container-Startup-Autoscaler (CSA) for Scaling Kubernetes Workloads
Expedia's Performance and Reliability team has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA). It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-Place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of containers during startup based on user-defined startup/post-startup configurations.
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Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon
Chronon, Airbnb's platform which creates the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide low-latency streaming.
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How to Do Sustainable Software Development
Software sustainability includes computing for environmental purposes and using resources appropriately. According to Coral Calero, software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software. Several tools and frameworks are available for software engineers to do sustainable software development.
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Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: a Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup
Joni Collinge, Diagrid's founding software engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings.
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KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s Migration From Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies
During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance.
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Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions
At the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex AI platform.
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Thoughtworks’ VP of Data and AI Shares Insights for Building a Robust Data Product at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Danilo Sato, vice president of data & AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products. This ensures effective data encapsulation in a more complex landscape where data responsibilities are “shifting left” towards the developer.
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Stateful Cloud Services at Neon Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs: Q&A with John Spray
At QCon London, John Spray, a storage engineering lead @neon.tech, discussed the often-overlooked complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ carried out an interview.
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QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline
During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.
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Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default. The project is open-sourced.
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Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity
Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Robinson also recently spoke about the importance of taking a developer experience targeted approach to security platform engineering.
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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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Google Trains User Interface and Infographics Understanding AI Model ScreenAI
Google Research recently developed ScreenAI, a multimodal AI model for understanding infographics and user interfaces. ScreenAI is based on the PaLI architecture and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several tasks.