GitHub Models, Terraform 1.9, Rust 1.80, Netflix Virtual Threads, Spring Boot 3.3, Quality Champions

In this issue, August 13, 2024 [View it in your browser.]( [GitHub Models](#GitHub), [Mistral AI](#Mistral), [Terraform 1.9](#Terraform), [Slack Bedrock Operator](#Slack), [Uber's Migration](#Uber), [Rust 1.80](#Rust), [Netflix Virtual Threads](#Netflix), [Spring Boot 3.3](#Spring), [Avalonia 11.1](#Avalonia), [Architectural Retrospectives](#Architectural), [Quality Champions](#Quality) [Architectures You've Always Wondered About' at QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-22)]( Be inspired by senior software engineers from innovative companies pushing modern software limits. Discover how they've scaled systems to handle massive traffic, data, and complexity. Learn from their challenges to prepare for your journey to hyperbolic scale. [Explore the track](.  Sponsored by Curity [Authentication Solutions Could Save Organizations Millions - Sponsored by Curity]( [Authentication Solutions Could Save Organizations Millions]( Better customer authentication can significantly boost revenue, so why are so many organizations slow to adopt it? Discover the reasons and how your company can benefit—[explore the full insights now](. [( [] [Architecture Through Different Lenses]( How can we architect software for a greener future? How can a company ensure highly reliable online stateful systems? Software architecture can be viewed from many perspectives, such as technical, business, and organizational. This emag will explore the different lenses and discuss the implications of each perspective for software design and development. (eMag) [( [] [Enhancing Team Dynamics and Psychological Safety in DevOps with Brittany Woods]( In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Brittany Woods about about team dynamics, leadership, and the evolving nature of DevOps and platform engineering. (Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES - [] [NVIDIA NIM Now Available on Hugging Face with Inference-as-a-Service]( - [] [Amazon MemoryDB Provides Fastest Vector Search on AWS]( - [] [GitHub Models Brings New AI Playground and Tight Integration with Other GitHub Tools]( - [] [Mistral AI Releases Three Open-Weight Language Models]( [] [Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform]( Nikhil Simha discusses Airbnb's Feature Platform, focusing on the recent efforts to solve the challenges, specifically covering: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving and observability. (Presentation with transcript included) Sponsored by McKinsey [McKinsey: A Look Inside Xcel Energy's Digital Transformation - Sponsored by McKinsey]( [McKinsey: A Look Inside Xcel Energy's Digital Transformation]( Discover how McKinsey and Xcel Energy worked together to combine technology and innovation to provide safe, clean, and reliable energy at an affordable price. McKinsey brought technical expertise and deep experience within the nuclear power sector to help guide Xcel Energy's digital transformation, moving from black boxes for specific tasks to a platform-centric approach with small, reusable capabilities. [Read the full case study](. [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Terraform 1.9 Released with Enhanced Input Validation and New String Template Function]( - [] [Slack Develops Bedrock Operator for Kubernetes StatefulSets]( - [] [Forrester Recommend Cloud Maturity Fixes in HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey]( [] [Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples]( David Stenglein discusses the shift to a product model for internal platforms and how this benefits from people-centric tools like customer empathy and the new DevEx framework. (Presentation with transcript included) [Cloud Latest Content]( [] [Uber's Blueprint for Zero-Downtime Migration of Complex Trip Fulfillment Platform]( In large-scale distributed systems, migrating critical systems from one architecture to another is technically challenging and involves a delicate migration process. Uber operates one of the most intricate real-time fulfillment systems globally. This article will cover the techniques to migrate such a workload from on-prem to a hybrid cloud architecture with zero downtime and business impact. (Article) Sponsored by Lightbend [The Principles of Reactive Microservices - Sponsored by Lightbend]( [The Principles of Reactive Microservices]( In this ebook, you’ll explore how to unleash the full power of the cloud with Reactive microservices, including what the technology is, what it does, and the business value it can bring. You’ll also examine key principles that define a Reactive microservice, real-world customer stories from Fortune 100 companies, and more. [Download Now](. [Development Latest Content]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [MLow: Meta Introduces Audio Codec for Low-End Devices]( [] [Rust 1.80 Adds Support for Lazy Statics, Extends Ranges in Patterns, and More]( Rust 1.80 stabilizes LazyCell and LazyLock, two new types that can be used to delay initialization of data until the first time they are accessed. It also brings support for exclusive ranges as well as a couple of related lint warnings. Additionally, it allows variadic functions without a named parameter for compatibility with C23, stabilizes many APIs, and more. (News) Sponsored by ScyllaDB [Designing Data Intensive Applications (By O’Reilly) - Sponsored by ScyllaDB]( [Designing Data Intensive Applications (By O’Reilly)]( In this comprehensive guide, Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse and fast-changing landscape of approaches to processing and storing data for data-intensive applications. Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built, learn from the data architectures of major online services, and more. [Download Now](. [Java Latest Content]( TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Vaadin 24.4.0 Introduces Vaadin Copilot and a Unified Vaadin Platform]( - [] [Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability]( - [] [Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.5, Projects Loom and Valhalla, Hibernate ORM and Validation]( [] [Netflix Adopts Virtual Threads: a Case Study on Performance and Pitfalls]( Netflix, a long-time Java adopter, recently upgraded to Java 21. They are now harnessing new features such as generational ZGC and virtual threads to improve performance across their extensive microservices fleet. While virtual threads, designed for high-throughput concurrent applications, showed early promise, they also brought unique challenges in real-world scenarios. (News) [.NET Latest Content]( [] [Avalonia 11.1 Release: Major Enhancements in Performance, UI/UX, and Cross-Platform Support]( At the end of July, Avalonia 11.1 was released. It is labeled as a point release, but as stated in the official release post, the volume of improvements suggests a major upgrade for developers. The project changes are related to Performance Optimizations, UI and UX Improvements, Developer Productivity, Graphics and Animation Enhancements, and more. (News) [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Canva Opts for Amazon KDS over SNS+SQS to Save 85% with 25 Billion Events per Day]( [] [Architectural Retrospectives: the Key to Getting Better at Architecting]( The purpose of an architectural retrospective is to use experience to help the development team improve their architecting skills and their way of working as they make architectural decisions. This is different than traditional architecture reviews which are focused on improving the architecture. (Article) [Culture & Methods Latest Content]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Ideas for Crafting Inclusive Public Software Platforms]( [] [How Quality Champions Foster Sustainable Software Quality Improvement at Swiss Post]( Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their own software quality goals. In this article, we present a practice we use to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals and share our experience. The practice is about paying constant attention to specific metrics. It means encouraging people to improve themselves in both qualitative and quantitative ways. (Article) [Emerging Technologies Latest Content]( [] [GhostWrite Vulnerability in C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs]( CISPA security researchers have discovered a vulnerability they’ve called ‘GhostWrite’ that’s caused by a hardware bug in T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs. 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