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Office Design for Hybrid Workplaces
With the shift from remote to hybrid work, organisations are rethinking office design with an understanding that what worked (or didn't work) in the pre-pandemic world does not work today. Office space needs to be redesigned to accommodate different ways of working and collaborating.
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Fitting Presto to Large-Scale Apache Kafka at Uber
The need for ad-hoc real-time data analysis has been growing at Uber. They run a large Apache Kafka deployment and need to analyse data going through the many workflows it supports. Solutions like stream processing and OLAP datastores were deemed unsuitable. An article was published recently detailing why Uber chose Presto for this purpose and what it had to do to make it performant at scale.
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PostgreSQL 14 Breaks the .NET and Java Drivers for PostgreSQL
In some circumstances, the new syntax in PostgreSQL 14 will break its official .NET and Java database driver, specifically, when using to create a SQL function using BEGIN ATOMIC ... END. If you are not modifying your database schema via Npgsql or PgJDBC, there’s no need to worry.
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Microsoft Launches New Storage Optimized VMs with Lasv3 and Lsv3
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of new storage-optimized Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs are the Lasv3 and Lsv3 series designed to run workloads requiring high throughput and IOPS, including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and data analytics engines.
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Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report: AMD Outperforms Intel
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report which evaluates the performance of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for common OLTP workloads. Differently from the past, this year’s report does not indicate a best overall provider, but concludes that AMD instances outperform Intel ones. ARM instances were not covered in the tests.
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OpenSSF Releases Fuzz Introspector to Improve C/C++ Fuzz Testing Coverage
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has just released a tool to improve fuzzing coverage by providing actionable insights to developers and helping them identify coverage blockers.
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MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances and Data API Now Generally Available
At the recent MongoDB World 2022 conference, MongoDB announced that serverless instances for Atlas and Data API are now generally available. The new managed serverless option introduces a tiered pricing, with automatic discounts on daily usage.
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Database Command Batching in .NET 6
.NET 6 adds the ability for ADO.NET database drivers to support efficient command batching using native protocols.
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JFrog Artifactory Supports Binary Dependencies for Swift
JFrog has announced its Artifactory repository can be used as a binary package registry for Swift dependencies using the Swift Package Manager.
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How to Become a Staff-Plus Engineer
If you are interested in becoming a staff-plus engineer, take time to explore your values and start discussing your career goals and ambitions with your manager. You can engage with engineering communities to develop your skills. Staff-plus engineers are able to lead tech people, where getting things done goes beyond their individual capacity to grow and mentor others.
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C# Warning Waves Hint at New Keywords in the Future
Like C# 9 and 10, C# 11 has quietly added a new compiler warning. This opt-in warning prevents the use of type names (e.g. classes, structs, and interfaces) that are all lowercase.
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Google's New Imagen AI Outperforms DALL-E on Text-to-Image Generation Benchmarks
Researchers from Google's Brain Team have announced Imagen, a text-to-image AI model that can generate photorealistic images of a scene given a textual description. Imagen outperforms DALL-E 2 on the COCO benchmark, and unlike many similar models, is pre-trained only on text data.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of Dynatrace for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced Dynatrace for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution from Dynatrace available in preview in the Azure Marketplace.
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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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Microsoft Introduces a New Learning Resource with Azure Skills Navigator
Recently Microsoft introduced a new learning resource with Azure Skills Navigator designed for those who are new to Azure or would like to learn more. It is a guide intended to help readers develop a strong foundation on cloud technologies when exploring Azure.