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Amazon Athena Now Supports Apache Spark Engine
Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications.
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State of DevOps Report Finds Platform Teams Lacking Product Management Support
Puppet released the 2023 State of DevOps Report with a focus on Platform Engineering. The report found that organizations with platform engineering teams report increased developer velocity, improvements in system reliability, greater productivity, and better workflow standards. Organizations still need to work on adopting a product mindset with the platform teams.
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Google Address Validation API Is Generally Available to Improve Address Accuracy
Google recently announced the general availability of the Address Validation API. The new feature of the Google Maps Platform validates an address, standardizes it for mailing, and determines the best-known geocode location for it.
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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git's commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.
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New Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview Releases
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 1 in November 2022, and Preview 2 in December 2022. These new preview versions include several new features such as the Quick Add Dialog, Markdown preview support out-of-the box, and colorizing editor tabs using regular expression rules.
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Creating Environments High in Psychological Safety with a Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach
Leadership is critical for making psychological safety happen, but they need to lead by example and show that it’s safe for people to take interpersonal risks. Complementing leadership with team workshops in communication skills can enable people to speak up and feel safe to fail.
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Apache Druid 25.0 Delivers Multi-Stage Query Engine and Kubernetes Task Management
Apache Druid is a high-performance real-time datastore and its latest release, version 25.0, provides many improvements and enhancements. The main new features are: the multi-stage query (MSQ) task engine used for SQL-based ingestion is now production ready, and Kubernetes can be used to launch and manage tasks eliminating the need for middle managers...
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Grafana Adds Outlier Detection to Its Machine Learning Toolkit
Grafana has released outlier detection as part of their Grafana Machine Learning toolkit. Outlier detection can be used to monitor a group of similar things and be alerted when some of them start to behave differently than the norm.
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Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Delivers Updates to Sub-Projects and JDK 17 Baseline
VMware has released Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, codenamed Kilburn, based upon the recently introduced Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3. Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 is based on Spring Framework 6 requiring Java 17 and is compatible with Jakarta EE 9. This release supports Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation and the creation native images with GraalVM.
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GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.
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eBay New Recommendations Model with Three Billion Item Titles
eBay developed a new recommendations model based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and in particular on BERT model. This new model, called “ranker,” uses the distance score between the embeddings as a feature; in this way the information in the titles of the products is analyzed from the semantic points of view.
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Making IntelliJ Work for the Dev: Key Insights Exposed by the New Book Written by Gee and Scott
Professional developers spend most of their productive time writing code in an IDE Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA- the new book that promises to teach you how to make your IDE work for you. In return, amplifying their productivity. In order to extract its gist, InfoQ reached out- to the authors - both former developer advocates at JetBrains- with a couple of questions.
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MicroProfile 6.0 Delivers Alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and a New Specification
In a major move for the Java community, the MicroProfile Working Group has officially released MicroProfile 6.0. This anticipated release brings a host of new features and improvements, including alignment with the Jakarta 10 Core Profile and updates to several key specifications, such as Metrics, JWT Authentication, Open API, Reactive Messaging, and Reactive Streams Operators.
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Creating Great Psychologically Safe Teams with Sandy Mamoli
Sandy Mamoli, author and coach at Nomad8, recently appeared on the No Nonsense Agile Podcast to discuss her experience in creating safe, high-performing and self-selected teams. Keith Ferrazzi, author of Competing in the New World of Work, also recently wrote about his experience with using empowering social contracts to cultivate great teams. Both emphasized safety and candour.