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Stream All the Things: Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing Explored by Adi Polak at QCon SF
Adi Polak, Director of Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering at Confluent, illuminated the complexities of data streaming in her QCon San Francisco presentation. She outlined key design patterns for robust pipelines, emphasizing reliability, scalability, and data integrity.
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2024 Accelerate State of DevOps Report Shows Pros and Cons of AI
The DORA research group has published its 2024 report, its tenth year of publication. Based on a global survey of over 39,000 professionals and supplemented by some in-depth interviews, the annual Accelerate State of DevOps report gives a broad and detailed look at the factors influencing team productivity, job satisfaction, and organisational success.
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Epoch AI Unveils FrontierMath: A New Frontier in Testing AI's Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities
Epoch AI in collaboration with over 60 mathematicians from leading institutions worldwide has introduced FrontierMath, a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI systems' capabilities in advanced mathematical reasoning.
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Mistral AI Releases Two Small Language Model Les Ministraux
Mistral AI recently released Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, two small language models that are collectively called les Ministraux. The models are designed for local inference applications and outperform other comparably sized models on a range of LLM benchmarks.
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How to Use Programming Rules and Guidelines
According to Arne Mertz, using programming rules and guidelines helps developers work together, as they result in more consistent and better code. However, using them the wrong way can have the opposite result - code that is cumbersome to read or solves problems in suboptimal or even wrong ways.
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QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 3: Arch Evolution, Next Gen UIs, Staff+ and Hardware Architectures
The 18th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Three, scheduled on November 20th, 2024, included two keynote addresses by Hien Luu and Shruti Bhat and presentations from four conference tracks.
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Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS
Stripe replaced its observability platform, which used a third-party vendor solution, with a new architecture utilizing managed services on AWS. The company made the move due to scalability limits, reliability issues, and increasing costs while transitioning to microservices. The migration involved dual-writing metrics, translating assets, validation, and user training.
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Anna Berenberg Talks at QCon San Francisco on Google's One Network
Anna Berenberg, an Engineering Fellow at Google Cloud, unveiled One Network, a cloud-agnostic architecture that simplifies complex interconnected systems. Unifying disparate environments and leveraging open-source technologies enhances operational efficiency and consistency in security policies, empowering developers to focus on service endpoints while ensuring seamless platform integration.
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Uno Platform Launches Hot Design, a Cross-Platform Visual Designer for .NET Apps
Uno platform has unveiled Hot Design, a visual designer for .NET applications, as part of a suite named Uno Platform Studio. It allows developers and designers to design the app interface at runtime instead of design and development time.
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QCon SF 2024 - Scaling Large Language Model Serving Infrastructure at Meta
At QCon SF 2024, Ye (Charlotte) Qi of Meta tackled the complexities of scaling large language model (LLM) infrastructure, highlighting the "AI Gold Rush" challenge. She emphasized efficient hardware integration, latency optimization, and production readiness, alongside Meta's innovative approaches like hierarchical caching and automation to enhance AI performance and reliability.
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Agoda’s Unconventional Client-First Transition from a GraphQL Monolith to Microservices
Agoda recently described their innovative approach to transitioning from a monolithic GraphQL API to a microservices architecture. Unlike traditional methods focusing on breaking down server-side components first, Agoda adopted a client-first strategy, preparing their client applications to handle both the monolith and the microservices in parallel using an in-house smart orchestrator library.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK and Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Payara Platform, Vert.x, Log4j, JobRunr
This week's Java roundup for November 18th, 2024, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 24; Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile in release review; the November 2024 Payara Platform release; the first release candidate of Vert.x 5.0; and point releases of Log4j 2.24.2 and JobRunr 7.3.2.
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QCon SF 2024 - Incremental Data Processing at Netflix
Jun He gave a talk at QCon SF 2024 titled Efficient Incremental Processing with Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg. He showed how Netflix used the system to reduce processing time and cost while improving data freshness.
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Spring News Roundup: Delivering GA Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of November 18th, 2024, highlighting GA releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Scaling OpenSearch Clusters for Cost Efficiency Talk by Amitai Stern at QCon San Francisco
Amitai Stern, engineering manager at Logz.io and OpenSearch Leadership Committee member delivered practical insights on efficient OpenSearch cluster management at QCon San Francisco. His session highlighted strategies for scaling effectively amidst fluctuating workloads, focusing on optimal shard management and resource allocation to minimize costs without compromising performance.