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Adopting Agile in Specific Business Domains Using Domain-Driven Agility
According to Nikola Bogdanov, the real challenge in agile transformations is adapting to business domain specifics and industry constraints; understanding agile is not the problem that needs to be solved. He presented domain-driven agility which utilizes design thinking to visualize agile adoption and make it empirical.
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InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston: Two Days of Talks for Senior Developers
InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now.
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AWS Announces Amazon Braket Direct: Reserve Dedicated Capacity on Different Quantum Devices
AWS recently announced the availability of Amazon Braket Direct, a new Amazon Braket program allowing quantum researchers to dive deeper into quantum computing.
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BellSoft Released Liberica with CRaC for Improved Startup Speed of Applications
BellSoft has released versions 17 and 21 Liberica JDK with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). This feature allows developers to create a snapshot of a running application at any point in time (checkpoint). This snapshot is then used to start the application in milliseconds by restoring the state of the application.
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Microsoft Announces Small Language Model Phi-2
Microsoft Research announced Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter Transformer-based language model. Phi-2 is trained on 1.4T tokens of synthetic data generated by GPT-3.5 and outperforms larger models on a variety of benchmarks.
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Cloudflare's Journey in ML and AI: MLOps Platform and Best Practices
Cloudflare's blog described its MLOps platform and best practices for running Artificial Intelligence (AI) deployment at scale. Cloudflare's products, including WAF attack scoring, bot management, and global threat identification, rely on constantly evolving Machine Learning (ML) models. These models are pivotal in enhancing customer protection and augmenting support services.
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Oracle Java Platform Extension for VSCode Delivers Comprehensive Support for Java Applications
Oracle has introduced the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code for building, running and debugging Java applications using JDK 11 or newer on Visual Studio Code.
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Expedia Uses WebSockets and Kafka to Query Near Real-Time Streaming Data
Expedia created a solution to support querying the clickstream data from their platform in near-real time to enable their product and engineering teams to explore live data while working on new and enhancing existing data-driven functional use cases. The team used a combination of WebSockets, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL to allow streaming query results continuously to users’ browsers.
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Privacy Engineering at Scale: DoorDash’s Journey in Geomasking and Data Protection
DoorDash recently published how it proactively embeds privacy into its products. It explains the importance of Privacy Engineering, an often overlooked software architecture practice, and provides an example of geomasking users' address data to protect their privacy better.
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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2: .NET MAUI, C++, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and More
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the last release concluding development efforts for 2023. This update builds upon the foundation provided by Preview 1 in November. Preview 2 brings improvements and new features regarding C++, .NET MAUI, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and many more.
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Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
Quarkus 3.7, planned for release in January 2024, will require Java 17 as the minimal JDK version to build and run applications. One of the reasons is the fact that the OpenJDK community stopped active support for Java 11 in September 2023. Next to that, Quarkus dependencies are also upgrading their baseline to Java 17.
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AWS Adds Automated Detection of Unused IAM Roles, Users, and Permissions
AWS recently added support for detecting unused access granted to IAM roles and users within their AWS IAM Access Analyzer tool. The new analyzer can identify unused roles, unused IAM user access keys and passwords, and unused permissions within a defined usage window. This analysis can be done across accounts within the organization and be controlled from a delegated administrator account.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
This week's Java roundup for December 11th, 2023, features news highlighting: OpenJDK early access releases, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Infinispan 15.0.0-Dev06, JHipster 8.1.0, Piranha 23.12.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M15, 10.1.17, 9.0.84 and 8.5.97 and the debut of the Payara Virtual Conference.
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Apple Open-sources Apple Silicon-Optimized Machine Learning Framework MLX
Apple's MLX combines familiar APIs, composable function transformations, and lazy computation to create a machine learning framework inspired by NumPy and PyTorch that is optimized for Apple Silicon. Implemented in Python and C++, the framework aims to provide a user-friendly and efficient solution to train and deploy machine learning models on Apple Silicon.
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AWS Improves Kubernetes Monitoring with New Enhanced Observability for Amazon EKS
AWS has released several monitoring and observability-themed improvements. The releases include Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon EKS on EC2 a fully managed service that provides visibility into containerized workloads. Other releases include a new Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector and Amazon Managed Grafana community plugins.