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Roland Meertens on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Roland Meertens gave a talk on developing AI-based applications titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning." He demonstrated two examples of using foundation models and zero shot learning to rapidly deploy prototype applications and gain feedback without needing to gather large datasets and train models.
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Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Software Development
Cognitive biases help us to think faster, but they also make us less rational than we think we are. Being able to recognize and overcome biases can prevent problems and increase the performance of software teams.
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GitHub State of the Octoverse 2021 Highlights Trends and Predicts Good Practices
GitHub's latest State of the Octoverse research highlighted three major trends towards writing and shipping code faster, creating documentation, and supporting developer communities. It also includes three predictive models to help organizations identify what they can action to achieve success.
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Pulumi Announces AWS Native Provider
Pulumi, an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework provider, recently announced their AWS Native Provider, which can be used to build cloud infrastructure using an industry-standard language such as Python, TypeScript, Java, and C#.
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Dapr Joins CNCF Incubator: Q&A with Yaron Schneider
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced that it accepted the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) as a CNCF incubating project. This statement follows an earlier announcement by Dapr, announcing the formation of the Dapr project's Steering and Technical Committee (STC).
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EDB Announces General Availability of a PostgreSQL Database in the Cloud: BigAnimal
Recently, EnterpriseDB (EBD), a significant contributor to PostgreSQL, announced the general availability (GA) of its BigAnimal offering. The offering is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database in the cloud with compatibility for Oracle database technology.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Resilience Hub to Monitor and Improve RPO and RTO
Amazon recently announced the availability of AWS Resilience Hub, a service designed to help customers define, measure, and manage the resilience of their applications on the cloud.
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Francesca Lazzeri on What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Dr. Francesca Lazzeri gave a talk on machine learning operations (MLOps) titled "What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production." She covered four key topics, including MLOps capabilities, open source integrations, machine-learning pipelines, and the MLFlow platform.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 Release Schedule, Spring Data 2021.1.0, Apple Open-Sources GCGC
This week's Java roundup for November 8th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+4-273, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.4.2.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.0.Final, Piranha 21.11.0, Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.4.0.Final, Neo4J Migrations 1.0.0, Apple open-sources GCGC, and Gluon JavaFX 17.0.2-ea+2 and JavaFX 18-ea+6.
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Microsoft Edge for Linux Now Stable
After one year in preview, Edge for Linux has recently become stable, aiming to provide an alternative to Chrome and Firefox and support to legacy Web apps.
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CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on DevSecOps
CNCF published the sixth edition of the end-user Technology Radar. The theme for this edition was DevSecOps, the integration of security at every step of the software development lifecycle. The radar highlighted there are many DevSecOps tools today and the space is growing and changing rapidly.
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Google Document Translation Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced that allows formatting of documents to be retained throughout the translation process.
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Static Analyzer Rudra Found over 200 Memory Safety Issues in Rust Crates
Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rudra is a static analyzer able to report potential memory safety bugs in Rust programs. Rudra has been used to scan the entire Rust package registry and identified 264 new memory safety bugs.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.8 Adds Diagnose Command, Key Management Secrets Engine, and Expiration Manager
HashiCorp Vault 1.8 brings notable features and improvements to the secrecy and privacy product including Vault Diagnose, integrated-storage autopilot, Key Management secrets engine for AWS, expiration manager improvements, and control-group triggers. Vault helps users to manage secrets and protect sensitive data using UI, CLI, or HTTP API.
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Real-Time Exactly-Once Event Processing at Uber with Apache Flink, Kafka, and Pinot
Uber faced some challenges after introducing ads on UberEats. The events they generated had to be processed quickly, reliably and accurately. These requirements were fulfilled by a system based on Apache Flink, Kafka, and Pinot that can process streams of ad events in real-time with exactly-once semantics. An article describing its architecture was published recently in the Uber Engineering blog.