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Building Resiliency into the Twitter Ad Pacing Service
Twitter’s ad pacing algorithms were initially part of an ad-serving monolith. Later, Twitter’s engineering extracted them into a separate service to facilitate its development. Being an important service, it needs to be very reliable. An article was published recently describing how they built a reliable service by making economical design choices on managing different failure scenarios.
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Remain in Tech by Becoming a Staff Plus Engineer
Engineers who want to remain focused on tech can follow the path toward a staff plus engineer. Staff plus engineers enable others to have impact. Bringing the people along can be hard; you need to work on your communication and influential skills. Nicky Wrightson presented The Secret Strategy for Landing That Staff Engineer Role at QCon London 2022 and will present at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Google Announces AI-Generated Summaries for Google Docs
Google has announced a new feature for their Docs app that will automatically generate a summary of the document content. The summarization is powered by a natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on the Transformer architecture.
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Netflix Studio Search: Using Elasticsearch and Apache Flink to Index Federated GraphQL Data
Netflix engineers recently published how they built Studio Search, using Apache Kafka streams, an Apache Flink-based Data Mesh process, and Elasticsearch to manage the index. They designed the platform to take a portion of Netflix's federated GraphQL graph and make it searchable. Today, Studio Search powers a significant portion of the user experience for many applications within the organisation.
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Ten Lessons from Three Generations of Tensor Processing Units
A recent report published by Google’s TPU group highlights ten takeaways from developing three generations of tensor processing units. The authors also discuss how their previous experience will affect the development of future tensor processing units.
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Google Launches a New Cross-Platform Data Storage Engine BigLake in Preview
At the recent Cloud Data Summit, Google recently announced the preview of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes.
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How Open Source Can Pave the Path Towards a Staff+ Role
Open source contributions and long-term community engagement can help you on your path to a staff+ engineer role. Written communication skills are key for the async and remote work which is common in open source. Your contributions should be aligned with business needs, which can give you visibility that opens up career possibilities. Alex Porcelli presented at QCon London 2022.
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On Go's Generics Implementation and Performance
On the heels of Go generics becoming stable in Go 1.18, PlanetScale performance engineer Vicent Martà dissected how they work and highlighted some performance limitations of their actual implementation. He also provided a few handy suggestions about their usage.
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Level up on the Software Practices, Patterns and Skills Most In-Demand at QCon Plus
QCon Plus Online Software Development Conference (May 10-20) is brought to you by InfoQ to accelerate the learning path of senior software developers, software architects, software engineers and team leaders. Learn actionable insights from practising software leaders who are creating software, scaling architectures and fine-tuning their technical leadership to help you make the right decisions.
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Java News Roundup: CVE-2022-22968, Vector API, Jakarta EE 10 Update, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0
This week's Java roundup for April 11th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 426, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10 updates, Spring Framework point releases and CVE-2022-22968, Quarkus 2.8.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.4 and 22.0.0.5-beta, Micronaut 3.4.2, WildFly 26.1, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0-M4, Piranha 22.4.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.8.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0, and the Devnexus 2022 Conference.
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AWS Firewall Manager Supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls
AWS recently announced that Firewall Manager supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW). Palo Alto Networks partnered with the cloud provider to offer a managed firewall service designed to simplify securing AWS deployments.
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BBC New Serverless Platform Improves Scalability and Performance
One year into the transition to their new WebCore serverless platform, the BBC has started to reap the benefits of an architecture that removes the burden on engineers to solve performance and operational challenges and allows them to focus on the value they deliver to customers.
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React 18, Introducing the Concurrent Renderer
React 18 is out and includes the long-awaited concurrent renderer, which enables React to offer several improvements, including the ability to interrupt the rendering process.
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Amazon EKS Announces Support for Kubernetes 1.22
The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team announced support for Kubernetes 1.22. This Kubernetes version - released in August 2021 - comes with stable credential plugins, server-side apply, Windows related enhancements and security features in the Kubernetes control plane.
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How Software Affects Climate Change, and What Software Engineers Can Do about It
There are huge amounts of software running everywhere on the planet - and this software consumes energy when it is running. Unfortunately most of the energy world-wide is still being produced by burning fossil fuels. Software engineers can improve the software so that it uses less energy to do its job, then less energy needs to be produced by burning fossil fuels, which is better for the climate.