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QCon San Francisco 2019 (Nov 11-15): ML, Stream Processing, Compiled JavaScript, iOS Security & More
QCon San Francisco is back this November! The conference features 18 curated tracks that contain over 120 speakers. Designed for senior software professionals, QCon provides the latest insight into designing and delivering global-scale architectures, operating microservices across a diverse range of platforms, leading teams and building effective culture, & of course, the latest in applied AI/ML.
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Pinterest’s Journey to a Kubernetes Platform
Pinterest software engineers have revealed the custom tools and resources they introduced in the company's adoption of Kubernetes.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of Quantum Ledger Database
On September 10th, Amazon announced the general availability of Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a ledger database based on blockchain technology. As such, QLDB provides a fully managed ledger which can contain multiple tables, implementing an immutable transaction journal, which is cryptographically verifiable, and owned by a centralized trusted authority.
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Google Software Engineering Culture
Several Google engineering practices have been largely adopted across the company until today and still contribute to the company's success. In 2017, a staff software engineer published some of these practices, not limited to software development. Today, Google fosters a team culture of creativity, autonomy, and innovation.
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Change to AWS Lambda Networking Reduces Cold Start Time for VPC Customers
AWS announced changes to how Lambda functions connect to resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This change — using pre-created network interfaces instead of network interfaces created for each function execution environment — cuts out a major factor in "cold starts" for serverless functions.
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Highlights from JAFAC 2019 - Day 1: Leadership, Disruption, Ethics, and Social Good
JAFAC (Just Another F&#k!ng Agile Conference) 2019 was held in Wellington, New Zealand on 5 and 6 September, 2019. The conference brings different voices to the fore, avoiding the usual suspects, and also highlighting ways that agile ideas are being applied in a wide variety of contexts. Important themes that emerged were leadership, disruption, ethics and the application of tech for social good
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Denis Magda on Continuous Deep Learning with Apache Ignite
At the recent ApacheCon North America, Denis Magda spoke on continuous machine learning with Apache Ignite, an in-memory data grid. Ignite simplifies the machine-learning pipeline by performing training and hosting models in the same cluster that stores the data, and can perform "online" training to incrementally improve models when new data is available.
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Creating a Startup outside of Silicon Valley - Q&A with Rachel Carlson of Guild Education
Rachel Carlson spoke at Develop Denver about her decision to create a tech startup outside the expected location in San Francisco. Although the idea was initially met with resistance by her investors, she believes having the headquarters for Guild Education in Denver, Colorado, has provided many benefits.
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Addressing Multi-Cloud Automation, HashiCorp Releases Terraform Cloud
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
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Immer JavaScript Immutable State Management Framework Releases V4
Alec Larson released a few days ago the fourth major iteration of award winner JavaScript library Immer, thereby patching an important edge case. Immer is a JavaScript package which allows developers to work with immutable state as it was mutable, by implementing a copy-on-write mechanism.
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Jagadish Venkatraman on LinkedIn's Journey to Samza 1.0
At the recent ApacheCon North America, Jagadish Venkatraman spoke about how LinkedIn developed Apache Samza 1.0 to handle stream processing at scale. He described LinkedIn's use cases involving trillions of events and petabytes of data, then highlighted the features added for the 1.0 release, including: stateful processing, high-level APIs, and a flexible deployment model.
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Effectiveness or Efficiency: Agile Shouldn't Feel Like a Fight
Have you ever felt like the “agile” you’re advocating for is completely different from the “agile” your organisation or managers wants? If so, you need to stop and reassess, argued Tony O'Halloran in his talk at Agile Business Day 2019. Having a mismatch in these fundamental goals causes stress and anxiety in change agents and can put you in an isolating and lonely place professionally.
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VMware’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes with vSphere
VMware announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to provide uniform management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations.
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Eclipse Foundation Proposes Vulnerability Assessment Tool
The Eclipse Foundation is evaluating a proposal to incorporate a Vulnerability Assessment Tool that would help identify libraries with known security issues. The possible result would help inform developers when their application faces a downstream risk from using vulnerable components.