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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters
Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms, services, and systems.
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QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.
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AWS Batch Introduces Multi-Container Jobs for Large-Scale Simulations
Recently, AWS announced the support of multi-container jobs in AWS Batch through the management console. This new feature simplifies the process of running simulations, particularly for testing complex systems such as those used in autonomous vehicles and robotics.
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Building a Platform to Gain an Unexpected Competitive Advantage: Ranbir Chawla at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Ranbir Chawla presented the journey his team took from moving from an “architectural perfect storm” and a highly manual operational system to a product company with a modern event-based architecture that can be released in < 1 hour. The company now focuses on providing real business outcomes to its stakeholders, and ensuring developers find joy in their work.
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Borderless Cloud at QCon London: Q&A with Adora Nwodo
At QCon London, Adora Nkowno, senior software engineer at NexaScale, discussed the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into application architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines. Her session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ did an interview.
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QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn
At QCon London 2024, Karthik Ramgopal and Min Chen described how AI helped LinkedIn change the remote procedure calls (RPC) protocol for 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to Google's gRPC. A planned 2-3 year manual migration turned into an AI-supported migration lasting 2-3 quarters. It changed 20 million lines of code across 2000 services – without business interruption.
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Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.
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QCon London: Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
At QCon London 2024, Bernd Ruecker recommended implementing long-running tasks asynchronously with a process-orchestration platform. Such a platform provides better service boundaries and efficiencies and reduces accidental system complexity and risk. Organizing the platform centrally in an organization eases orchestration adoption by applications.
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QCon London: The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision-Making
At QCon London 2024, Hannes Ricklefs, head of architecture at the BBC, gave a well-received talk on decision making. Ricklefs summarised the key reasons behind applying art, science and psychology to the discipline of decision-making, focusing on appropriate methodologies to use and the effects of biases on our ability to make good decisions in both a personal and business context.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.
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Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI: Q&A with Michael Friedrich
At QCon London, Michael Friedrich, senior developer advocate at GitLab, discussed how AI can help in DevSecOps workflows. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference. InfoQ interviewed Friedrich after the session.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Project Bisbane, Ktor Plugin Repository, JDKUpdater
This week's Java roundup for April 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP Candidates: JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator); JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview); and JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, Project Bisbane, and introducing the Ktor Plugin Repository and JDKUpdater.
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AWS Deadline Cloud: Q&A on the Cloud-Based Render Farm with Antony Passemard
AWS has recently introduced Deadline Cloud, a new service designed to help creative teams manage rendering tasks more efficiently. The service is particularly useful for customers in the media & entertainment (M&E) and architecture, engineering, & construction (AEC) industries who need to generate final frames for film, TV, games, industrial design visualizations, and other digital media.
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Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2: GitHub Copilot-Powered Pull Requests, SSDT Support for VS in ARM64
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2. This release contains features regarding GitHub Copilot-powered pull requests, support for SQL Server Developer Tools in VS on ARM64 and support for Garbage Collection Insights in Managed Memory Window.