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Cultivating Professional Relationships in Remote Teams
Sumeet Moghe, author of The Async-First Playbook, recently wrote about building cohesive professional relationships in teams. Similarly, Laurie Barth, senior software engineer at Netflix, has written about the use of intentional communication in making remote teams effective. We report on a number of techniques that they have shared for cultivating professional cohesion in remote teams.
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Enhancing Security with Google Cloud's Service Account Key Expiry Feature
Google Cloud has recently introduced service account key expiry to address security challenges associated with long-lived service account keys. With this capability, the company states that "customers can now configure an Organization Policy at the organization, folder, and project level to limit the usable duration of new service account keys”.
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Unity Extension for Visual Studio Code: Preview Release
Microsoft released the initial preview of its Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. Extension builds upon the existing C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, providing developers with a toolkit for Unity development across Windows, macOS, and Linux. The integration aims to simplify the coding and debugging experience for Unity developers, regardless of the platform while using Visual Studio Code.
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Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform
Uber released a major version of its workflow orchestration platform named Cadence after six years in development. Uber and other companies use Cadence to build stateful services at scale using native programming languages.
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Tabnine Chat: AI Code Assistant Using Natural Language Launches in Beta
Tabnine has recently announced the beta of Tabnine Chat to interact with Tabnine’s AI models using natural language. The chat application works inside the IDE, allows organizations to train on permissive code only, and can run on isolated environment deployment.
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Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon
To increase productivity and scalability when creating new features to use in machine learning models, AirBnb has built Chronon, a solution to create the infrastructure required to turn raw data into features for training and inference.
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MDN Introduces Web Development AI Help in Beta
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has released AI Help, a beta tool aiming to streamline web developers' interactions with the platform and provide problem-solving assistance. Only users with an MDN Plus account can access AI Help for now. So far, the community reaction has not been overly positive, and a number of GitHub issues have been reported.
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Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
Meta has open sourced its text-to-music generative AI, AudioCraft, for researchers and practitioners to train their own models and help advance the state of the art.
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Faster Container Startup in AWS Fargate with Seekable OCI
AWS recently announced support for Seekable Open Container Initiative (SOCI) with AWS Fargate. SOCI enables lazy-loading of images which reduces container start-up times on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). In addition, AWS released two tools, SOCI Index Builder and SOCI Snapshotter, to help its customers take advantage of this new functionality.
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Building a Lifelong Technical Career in Software Development
Technical experience matters because it adds to the value chain. In engineering companies, the technical knowledge accumulated by people over many years can provide the basis for the next generation of products and projects. Sven Reimers spoke about building a lifelong technical career in software development at QCon London 2023.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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Avalonia Reaches v11 GA Release
Beginning this month, the Avalonia team announced the release of version 11.0 of their framework, bringing significant changes and new features. These changes include features like automated testing capabilities, improved accessibility support, the introduction of Input Method Editor (IME) support for text input, and advanced text rendering and layout options.
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AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
AWS recently announced that starting from February 2024, they will be charging for public IPv4 addresses. According to the cloud provider, this change aligns AWS with other cloud providers, encourages frugal usage of a scarce resource, and accelerates the adoption of IPv6.
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AWS Introduces a Generative AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Tool with HealthScribe in Preview
AWS recently announced a new HIPAA-eligible service called AWS HealthScribe in a preview that uses speech recognition and generative AI (powered by Amazon Bedrock) to generate clinical documentation.
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New C# 12 Preview Features Available
Earlier this month, together with Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3, Microsoft released new preview features for C# 12. The new language version will be the default for .NET 8, expected to be released later this year. The latest available features for C# 12 are inline arrays and interceptors (preview only).