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How to Prepare an Agile Business Game
To make playing games "interesting" from the business owner's perspective, we need to ensure that they are aligned with the business needs. There are four steps in preparing a game: exploring the context, knowing your target group, defining the focus, and deciding how to facilitate it.
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AWS Introduces the .NET Annotations Lambda Framework in Preview
Recently, AWS introduced a new framework for writing .NET 6 Lambda functions called Lambda Annotations. This framework was built alongside the .NET 6 managed runtime for Lambda released last February.
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JobRunr 5.0.0 Delivers Improved Framework Support
JobRunr 5.0.0 delivers improved support for Spring, Quarkus and Micronaut by providing a Spring Native implementation, configuration for the default number of retries, database type selection and transaction support. Now jobs may be scheduled based on an interval and cron expressions support the last day of the week and last day of the month.
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Google Trains 540 Billion Parameter AI Language Model PaLM
Google Research recently announced the Pathways Language Model (PaLM), a 540-billion-parameter AI natural language processing (NLP) model that surpasses average human performance on the BIG-bench benchmark. PaLM outperforms other state-of-the-art systems on many evaluation tasks, and shows strong results on tasks such as logical inference and joke explanation.
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Bloomberg Open-Sources Python Memory Profiler Memray
Developed at Bloomberg and now open source, Memray is a memory profiler that can track memory allocations in Python code, including native extensions and in the Python interpreter itself.
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Java News Roundup: Vector API, Spring Updates and CVE, Payara Platform, Groovy and TomEE Updates
This week's Java roundup for April 18th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 426, Oracle’s Releases Critical Patch Update for April 2022, JDK 19, Liberica JDK and Native Image Kit updates, multiple Spring point and milestone releases, April 2022 Payara Platform release, Quarkus 2.8.1.Final, Apache Groovy 4.0.2, Apache TomEE 8.0.11, JobRunr 5.0.1, and an update to JReleaser 1.0.
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JReleaser 1.0: Talking to the Early Adopters of the Release Automation Tool
JReleaser was powering its releases, to make sure it understood the consumer experience first hand. In the meantime, other projects decided to use it as well. InfoQ talked to the developers behind them to understand their experience and how stable JReleaser really is.
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Hibernate ORM 6.0 Delivers Improved Performance
Red Hat has released version 6.0 of their flagship product, Hibernate ORM, the popular object-relational mapping persistence utility. Significant new features include a migration to the Jakarta Persistence 3.0 specification, performance improvements to JDBC, and HQL translation and criteria translation. With this release, Hibernate requires a minimum of Java 11.
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An Overview of Apple's Unified Logging System in Swift
In a recent series of articles, iOS independent developer Majid Jabrayilov focused on the importance of logging to enable the analysis of bugs hard to catch in the debugger as well as to better understand user behaviour through the app.
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Amazon EC2 Introduces Automatic Recovery of Instances by Default
Amazon recently announced that EC2 instances will now automatically recover in case they become unreachable due to underlying hardware issues. Automatic recovery migrates the instance to a different hardware while retaining instance ID, private IP addresses, Elastic IP address, and metadata.
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Veracode Report Shows Signs of Progress in Securing Software Supply Chain
Veracode's recently released State of Software Security report found a general decline in the number of known security vulnerabilities found in third-party libraries along with a trend towards smaller applications being scanned more regularly for issues. It also finds that the industry still has a long way to go.
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RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL Vulnerability Leads to AWS Deprecating Many Minor Versions
A researcher at the security company Lightspin recently explained how she obtained credentials to an internal AWS service using a PostgreSQL extension and exploiting a local file read vulnerability on RDS. AWS confirmed the issue and deprecated dozens of minor versions of Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL.
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The Path to a Staff-Plus Engineer Role: from Management Back to Tech
When working in tech, a managerial career may not be for you. Fabiane Bizinella Nardon went from being a manager back to tech, becoming a staff plus engineer and creating a staff plus friendly company. She presented A CTO That Still Codes: My Tortuous Path to the Staff Plus Engineer Role at QCon London 2022 and will present at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Crypto Miners Exploiting VMware Vulnerability in the Wild
A critical vulnerability affecting VMware Workspace ONE Access and VMware Identity Manager allows malicious actors to remotely execute arbitrary code triggering a server-side template injection. According to VMware the vulnerability is actively exploited.
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Becoming an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer
To increase your effectiveness as a staff-plus engineer, it can help to develop your communication, listening, technical strategy, and networking skills. Blanca Garcia Gil presented Five Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer at QCon London 2022 and will present at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.