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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum: Charity Majors at QCon SF
Charity Majors, founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, gave a talk at QCon San Francisco about the pendulum of being a senior engineer and manager. She discussed the need for managers in technical teams to have engineering credibility and the value that comes from deliberately embracing both senior technologist and manager roles, but not both at the same time.
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Azul Joins the Effort of Improving Supply Chain Security by Launching Vulnerability Detection SaaS
November, 2nd: Azul released a new security product that intends to offer a solution to the increased risk of enterprise software supply chain attacks, compounded by severe threats such as Log4Shell. Azul Vulnerability Detection is a new SaaS that continuously detects known security vulnerabilities in Java applications. In addition, they promise not to affect the application’s performance.
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Amazon Neptune Now Supports Serverless Deployment Option
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of a new deployment option for Amazon Neptune, providing automatic scaling capacity based on the application’s needs. The deployment option is called Amazon Neptune Serverless.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Doug Davis on CloudEvents and beyond
CloudEvents specification can help solve challenges associated with cloud event management lifecycle, like discovery of event producers, setting up subscriptions and event verification. Doug Davis from Microsoft spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about how CloudEvents project has been focused on eventing-related painpoints that might benefit from some standardization.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Google Cloud Introduces Blockchain Node Engine for Web3 Development
Google Cloud recently announced the private preview of Blockchain Node Engine, a managed node-hosting option for Web3 development. Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported.
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Kent Beck: Software Design is an Exercise in Human Relationships
In the closing keynote at QCon SF, Kent Beck spoke about how software design is an exercise in human relationships, why iterative and incremental development is the most cost effective way to build software, and how the overall cost of a software system is directly related to the cost of coupling and decoupling and the jackpot changes which result in cascaded coupling.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0
This week's Java roundup for October 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 release schedule, Build 20-loom+20-34, Spring Integration 6.0-RC1, Spring Tools 4.16.1, GraalVM 22.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.11 and 22.0.0.12-beta, Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.14, Apache TomEE 8.0.13, JReleaser 1.3.0, Hibernate Search 5.11.11 and 5.10.13, PrimeFaces point releases, JDKMon 17.0.37 and EclipseCon 2022.
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Azure Functions v4 Now Support .NET Framework 4.8 with Isolated Execution
Microsoft announced on September 26th that Azure Functions runtime v4 will support running .NET Framework 4.8 functions in an isolated process, allowing the developers to move their legacy .NET functions to the latest runtime. The isolated process execution decouples the function code from the Azure Functions’ host runtime.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Sei and Vinod Sridharan spoke at QCon San Francisco on Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Savings Plans for Compute
Microsoft recently announced Azure Savings Plans for Compute, providing customers with an easy and flexible way to save significantly on compute services compared to pay-as-you-go prices by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for one or three years.
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Interactive Query Service Amazon Athena Introduces New Engine
AWS recently announced version 3 of the engine for Amazon Athena, the serverless interactive service to query S3 data using standard SQL. The cloud provider claims that the new engine improves performance and supports new use cases thanks to over 50 new SQL functions and 30 new analytics features.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tejas Shikhare, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix. Shikhare has been working at Netflix’s federated GraphQL platform, distributed systems, and, more recently, developer tools and education. This talk is part of the editorial track Modern APIs: Building and Evolving.
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Leveraging Determinism: Frank Yu at QCon San Francisco 2022
Frank Yu, senior engineering manager at Coinbase, had his talk on leveraging deterministic systems to build and run consistent and predictable applications at scale, drawing direct and relevant experiences from building and running financial exchanges at Coinbase.