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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs.
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How Resilience Can Help to Get Better at Resolving Incidents
Applying resilience throughout the incident lifecycle by taking a holistic look at the sociotechnical system can help to turn incidents into learning opportunities. Resilience can help folks get better at resolving incidents and improve collaboration. It can also give organizations time to realize their plans.
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Improving Developer Experience in a Small Organization
A way to improve developer experience is by removing time-consuming tasks and bottlenecks from developers and from the platform team that supports them. How you introduce changes matters; creating an understanding of the “why” before performing a change can smoothen the rollout.
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Swift OpenAPI Generator Aims at Streamlining HTTP Client/Server Communication
Apple has introduced a new open source package, the Swift OpenAPI Generator, aimed at generating the code required to handle client/server communication through an HTTP API based on its OpenAPI document.
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QCon New York 2023: Day One Recap
Day One of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 13th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Radia Perlman and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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OpenAI Announces Function Calling, Allowing Developers to Describe Functions
OpenAI has introduced updates to the API, including a capability called function calling, which allows developers to describe functions to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 and have the models create code to execute those functions.
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Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance in Preview
At the recent annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a part of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.
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LinkedIn’s LIquid Graph Database: Scaling Real-Time Data Access for 930+ Million Members
LinkedIn recently published how LIquid, its graph database, automates the indexing and real-time access of all connections to members, schools, skills, companies, positions, jobs, events, etc. This knowledge graph, known as the Economic Graph, has 270 billion edges and growing, currently handling a workload of 2 million queries per second.
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Nvidia's NeMo Guardrails Enhances Safety in Generative AI Applications
Nvidia's new NeMo Guardrails package for large language models (LLMs) helps developers prevent LLM risks like harmful or offensive content and access to sensitive data, by providing an essential layer of protection in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.
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C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, uses an open-source Language Server Protocol (LSP) host to provide an efficient and configurable environment.
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Meta's Open-Source Massively Multilingual Speech AI Handles over 1,100 Languages
Meta AI open-sourced the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model, which supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in over 1,100 languages and language identification (LID) in over 4,000 languages. MMS can outperform existing models and covers nearly 10x the number of languages.
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AWS DMS Serverless Brings Automated Scalability and Performance Optimization with Database Migration
AWS recently announced a new option in its Database Migration Service (DMS) called serverless. It automatically sets up, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations easier and more cost-effective.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant: CLI Tool Synced with Visual Studio Extension Engine
A new and updated version of the Upgrade Assistant CLI tool. The latest release ensures that the CLI tool now includes all the new features which are already available in the Visual Studio Extension. The latest release now offers developers a choice between Visual Studio and CLI experiences, allowing them to take advantage of the latest features and improvements offered by the .NET upgrade tool.
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AWS Announced the Support of Kubernetes Version 1.27 for Amazon EKS
AWS announced the support of Kubernetes version 1.27, called Chill Vibes, for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. In this version of Kubernetes there are a lot of new features that are generally available and some of them are potentially destructive for the clusters.
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.NET Hot Reload Adds Support for Modifying Generics
In the .NET 8 Preview 4 release, .NET Hot Reload implements support for modifying generic methods, reducing the number of changes that require restarting for the change to take effect.