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How Inclusive Leadership Can Drive Lasting Success in Tech Organizations
Inclusion isn’t something you do once; it should be woven into everything, from how you make decisions to how you structure teams and run meetings.. When people feel seen and heard, they contribute more fully and meaningfully, which sustains long-term success. Matthew Card gave a presentation about leading with an inclusive-first mindset at Qcon London.
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Azure Event Hubs Geo-Replication Reaches General Availability
Microsoft has launched the General Availability of Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs, enhancing data availability and redundancy. This feature allows seamless cross-region data replication, ensuring business continuity during outages. With synchronous and asynchronous options, users can choose their preferred data consistency, backed by increased health metrics for better monitoring.
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DevProxy 0.28 Adds AI Support
Microsoft has released version 0.29 of DevProxy, an API simulation command-line tool. The new version includes AI support for configuring and using the tool.
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Perplexity Launches Comet: a Browser Designed around AI-Assisted Interaction
Perplexity has introduced Comet, a new web browser designed to integrate natural language interaction directly into the browsing experience. Unlike conventional browsers built around navigation and search, Comet aims to support users in research, comparison, and task execution by combining browsing with persistent context and AI assistance.
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AWS Introduces New Risk-Free Account Plan with Enhanced Free Credits
AWS launches a new Free Account plan, enabling users to explore services risk-free for six months with $100 in credits. Ideal for developers and hobbyists, it encourages experimentation and innovation without costs. Users can upgrade anytime and still utilize unused credits. This shift aligns AWS with industry leaders, enhancing accessibility and fostering growth in cloud development.
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Mistral Voxtral is an Open-Weights Competitor to OpenAI Whisper and Other ASR Tools
Mistral has released Voxtral, a large language model aimed at speech recognition (ASR) applications that seek to integrate more advanced LLM-based capabilities and go beyond simple transcription. For two variants of the model, Voxtral Mini (3B) and Voxtral Small (24B), Mistral has released the weights under the Apache 2.0 license.
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OpenAI Announces Generalist ChatGPT Agent to Take on Excel, PowerPoint, and Chrome
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent merges advanced browsing and summarization for seamless data handling. Developers can now generate editable spreadsheets and presentations with simple prompts, integrating outputs directly into productivity tools. With impressive accuracy and connectivity, it enhances workflow efficiency while automating complex tasks, heralding a new era in AI-driven productivity.
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Amazon Launches Bedrock AgentCore for Enterprise AI Agent Infrastructure
Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a collection of enterprise-grade services that help developers deploy and operate AI agents at scale across frameworks and foundation models. The platform addresses infrastructure challenges developers face when building production AI agents.
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AWS Introduces Built-in Blue-Green Deployment Capability for ECS
Amazon Web Services has launched a new built-in blue/green deployment feature for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to reduce deployment risks and eliminate the need for additional tooling. This capability allows development teams to deploy containerised applications safely whilst maintaining the ability to roll back near-instantaneously if issues arise.
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Zendesk Streamlines Infrastructure Provisioning with Foundation Interface Platform
Zendesk has unveiled its new Foundation Interface, a unified platform designed to transform infrastructure provisioning into a fully self-service experience. This platform enables engineers to request infrastructure components, such as databases, object storage, compute resources, and secrets, by simply defining requirements in a declarative YAML file.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for July 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in rampdown phase 2; the seventh milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the July 2025 editions of the Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Oracle Critical Patch Update; and Eclipse DataGrid is open-sourced.
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Grab Switches from SQS and Redis to Temporal for Its Subscription Platform
Grab based the new architecture for GrabUnlimited on Temporal. The company enhanced user experience and reduced production incidents by 80% for its subscription platform, which serves millions of users. The new architecture significantly improved robustness and scalability, addressing a range of issues with the previous solution.
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AI Coding Tools Underperform in Field Study with Experienced Developers
Recent research reveals a surprising 19% increase in task completion time among developers using AI tools like Claude 3.5. Conducted by METR, this study highlights a "perception gap"—while developers felt faster, real-world performance lagged due to frictions with AI integration. These findings stress the need for rigorous evaluation of AI's impact in software development.
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Pulumi Enables Direct Consumption of Terraform Modules
Pulumi now empowers developers to use Terraform modules directly, streamlining the migration process. This preview feature eliminates barriers, enabling seamless integration with existing Terraform code while allowing new projects in Pulumi. With robust support and a focus on gradual transitions, teams can modernize their infrastructure without a complete rewrite.
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Wix Adds Chaos to CI/CD Pipelines with AI and Improves Reliability
Cloud-based web development service Wix has written about a new approach to integrating artificial intelligence into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems. In a blog post, Wix demonstrates how probabilistic AI can coexist with deterministic development processes, adding chaos without compromising reliability.