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BBC’s Enablement Team Principles Focus on Openness, Collaboration, and Respect
At QCon London BBC shared the five enablement principles paving the road for their teams towards improved development and release processes. Steph Egan shared techniques, challenges and learnings from her team’s journey, with the major takeaway being that the principles have almost nothing to do with the tools themselves.
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Celebrity Vulnerabilities: Effective Response to Critical Production Threats
Alyssa Miller, chief information security officer of EpiqGlobal, presented at QCon London about the lessons learned from three major open-source security events, the Equifax breach via Struts, the Log4j vulnerabilities, and the Spring4Shell exploit.
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Learnings from Measuring Psychological Safety
Asking people how they feel about taking certain types of risks can give insight into the level of psychological safety and help uncover issues. Discussing the answers can strengthen the level of safety of more mature teams and help less mature teams to understand how they could improve.
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Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.
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Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO: by 2025 We'll See Evolution in Architecture, But Not Revolution
On the second day of the QCon London conference, Rebecca Parsons, chief technical officer at Thoughtworks, revisited the idea of evolutionary architecture imaging how it might evolve until 2025. Starting from the definition, she visited each of the definitory attributes anticipating how they will evolve in the next period. Concluding that we will see evolution, but not a revolution.
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The Swift Package Index Now Backed by Apple
The Swift Package Index was created about three years ago by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, with the aim of making it easier for Swift developers to search and discover Swift packages. The project is now officially sponsored by Apple, thus making it the official place to go for anything related to Swift packages
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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco, principal engineer at Skyscanner, shared his experiences at QCon London on a large-scale observability initiative at his company, based on adopting OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services and the motivation and value gained from adopting open standards across the entire organization.
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PyTorch 2.0 Compiler Improves Model Training Speed
The PyTorch Foundation recently released PyTorch version 2.0, a 100% backward compatible update. The main API contribution of the release is a compile function for deep learning models, which speeds up training. Internal benchmarks on 163 open-source AI projects showed that the models ran on average 43% faster during training.
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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
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Low-Code API Builder Postman Flows Moves into General Availability
Postman moved Postman Flows, their low-code API building tool, into general availability. Postman Flows provides a collaborative, graphical interface for building API-driven applications and workflows. It integrates with the Postman API Network to access publicly available APIs.
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The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
At his inaugural keynote of the QCON London conference, Leslie Miley, technical advisor for the CTO at Microsoft, spoke about AI Bias and Sustainability, and how the march towards transformative technologies, like large-scale AI and even crypto, has an inherent cost in the increased CO2 that comes with deployment at scale. More than just context and impact, he suggests mitigation techniques.
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Oracle Introduces a New Java SE Universal Subscription
Oracle has introduced the new Java SE Universal subscription and pricing, replacing the now legacy Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscriptions as of January 2023. According to the FAQ released by Oracle, this new change should simplify tracking and management of licensed environments since the permitted use is universal across desktops, servers, and third-party clouds.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 Released, Spring Releases, Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for March 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Amazon Corretto 20, BellSoft Liberica JDK 20, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Quarkus 3.0.0.Beta1 and 2.16.5, Helidon 3.2.0, Open Liberty 23.0.0.3-beta, Micronaut 4.0.0-M1, Camel Quarkus 3.0.0-M1, JBang 0.105.1, Failsafe 3.3.1, Maven 3.9.1 and Gradle 8.1-RC1.
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Microsoft Previews Azure API Management Workspaces
Microsoft recently added a new feature to Azure API Management with Workspaces, designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location, allowing them to easily view and modify all of their API services in one place.
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Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More
Uno Platform released version 4.8 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings over 200 fixes and new features, as well as support for .NET 8 Preview 2. The highlight of the new release is the new startup experience, new App Template Wizard, OpenGL Acceleration, Design System Package Import, updates for Reactive / MVUX, and many more.