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Pfizer Uses Serverless Architecture on AWS to Scale Processing of Digital Biomarkers
Pfizer upgraded the serverless architecture for processing digital biomarker data at scale to make it more flexible and configurable. They created a framework that uses a file processing pipeline built with AWS Step Functions and other serverless services, as well as a custom Python package for data ingestion and processing.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 29, JDK 21 in RDP2, Helidon 4.0-M1, Oracle Critical Patch Updates
This week's Java roundup for July 17th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, JDK 20, BellSoft, releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Framework; Spring for GraphQL; Spring Session; Spring Integration and Spring HATEOAS; WildFly 29, Quarkus 3.2.1, Helidon 4.0-M1, Micronaut 4.0.1, Hibernate 6.3-CR1, MicroProfile Config 3.1, Infinispan 14.0.13, PrimeFaces 12.0.5, OpenXava 7.1.3 and Gradle 8.3-RC1.
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Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile: Learnings from QCon New York
In her QCon New York 2023 talk Success Patterns for building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile, Robin Yeman explored how we can use agile practices at scale for large initiatives with multiple teams, building cyber-physical safety-critical systems with a scope that includes software, firmware, and hardware development.
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Grammarly Replaces its in-House Data Lake with Databricks Platform Using Medallion Architecture
Grammarly adopted the medallion architecture while migrating from their in-house data lake, storing Parquet files in AWS S3, to the Delta Lake lakehouse. The company created a new event store for over 6000 event types from 40 internal and external clients and, in the process, improved data quality and reduced the data-delivery time by 94%.
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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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Microsoft Azure Cross-Region (Global) Load Balancer Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure cross-region (Global) Load Balancer in all Azure public and national cloud regions.
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LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company-wide rollout, they reduced the latency by up to 60% and improved resource utilization at the same time.
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Approaches and Techniques to Break Down Silos: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Emily Webber presented Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations, where she showed a worrying trend in the industry of specialisation and silos at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility, and valuable outcomes. She shared some approaches and techniques to break silos down to work together better.
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Yelp Rebuilds Corrupted Cassandra Cluster Using Its Data Streaming Architecture
Yelp created a solution to sanitize data from the corrupted Apache Cassandra cluster utilizing its data streaming architecture. The team explored many potential options to address the data corruption issue, however, ultimately had to move the data into a new cluster to remove corrupted records in the process.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, Spring Web Flow 3.0, JetBrains AI Assistant
This week's Java roundup for July 10th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Spring Web Flow 3.0, Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, point and milestone releases of: Spring projects, Open Liberty, Helidon, Hibernate Reactive, Tomcat, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Piranha, Project Reactor, JHipster, JHipster Lite, Yupiik Fusion, Maven and Gradle; and AI Assistant in JetBrains IDEs.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Enhanced Testcontainers and Development-Time Containers Support in Spring Boot 3.1
Spring Boot 3.1, the latest version of the popular Java-based framework for building stand-alone, production-grade applications, introduces enhanced support for development-time containers. This new feature was the focus of a recent livestream by Josh Long, a Spring developer advocate, on his YouTube channel "Coffee + Software with Josh Long."
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.
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UC Berkeley Researchers Open-Source API-Calling Language Model Gorilla
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Microsoft have open-sourced Gorilla, a large language model (LLM) that can write code to call APIs. In experiments measuring generated code accuracy, Gorilla outperforms several baseline models, including GPT-4.
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How LinkedIn Serves over 4.8 Million Member Profiles per Second
LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually.