SageMaker JumpStart, Dropbox Resilience, PACMAN, Project Leyden, GraphQL and Ballerina, Scalable SRE

In this issue, July 5, 2022 [View it in your browser.]( [SageMaker JumpStart](#SageMaker), [Dropbox Resilience](#Dropbox), [AppSec](#AppSec), [Composable Ecosystems](#Composable), [PACMAN](#PACMAN), [Project Leyden](#Project), [Trivago Adopts Next.js](#Trivago), [GraphQL and Ballerina](#GraphQL), [Smashing Silos](#Smashing), [Scalable SRE](#SRE) [QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28): Helping thousands of senior software developers & architects adopt the right patterns & practices for over 16 years.]( Learn the emerging trends our [Program Committee]( believe have the most impact in software development. Explore the use cases shared by real-world practitioners to help you solve your biggest challenges. Implement the best practices to shape your projects beyond the conference. [Register before July 25th and save $450 off the full-price ticket](!  SPONSOR AD [LaunchDarkly]( [10 Critical KPIs for Stronger Software Releases]( 
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(Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Stanford University Open-Sources Controllable Generative Language AI Diffusion-LM]( - [] [Amazon Released Incremental Training Feature in SageMaker JumpStart]( [] [AWS and Microsoft Working Together on PyWhy, the New Home of Causal ML Library DoWhy]( AWS in a joint effort with Microsoft have established PyWhy as a fresh GitHub organization to integrate AWS algorithms into DoWhy, a casual ML library from Microsoft, which has moved to PyWhy. (News) SPONSOR AD [DataStax]( [Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (By O'Reilly)]( In this third edition - updated for Cassandra 4.0 and K8ssandra - you'll learn about Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structure, create a working data model and compare it with a relational model, develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js, and more. [Download now](. [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Dropbox Unplugs Data Center to Test Resilience]( [] [Analyzing Incident Data across Organizations: Courtney Nash on the VOID]( The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash on their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports. (Article) [] [Making Sense of Application Security]( Adib Saikali provides a roadmap for application developers and architects to master application security, identifying the security skills needed as an application developer. (Presentation with transcript included) Software Delivery Practices Evolve Fast, So Should Your Learning: [Attend QCon San Francisco Software Development (Oct 24-28)](. What are the major trends that matter right now in software development and technical leadership? Uncover emerging software trends and practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches. [Save your spot now!]( [] [Prod Lessons - Deployment Validation and Graceful Degradation]( Anika Mukherji discusses lessons learned in production at Pinterest: deployment validation framework and product-informed graceful degradation, preventing hundreds of outages. (Presentation with transcript included) SPONSOR AD [CockroachLabs]( [AWS, GCP & Azure: Which public clouds make the grade?]( [Download your copy]( of the 2022 Cloud Report for unbiased insight into how AWS, GCP, and Azure stack up across a range of instance types and benchmarks that app builders care about most. [Cloud Latest Content]( TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES - [] [TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS]( [] [The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems]( Being “free” and open source doesn’t hinder the value of these projects to businesses and end users; rather it unlocks it. The composability of open source ecosystems allows the innovation and value of the whole ecosystem to compound on itself. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Microsoft]( [Watch JDConf 2022 On-Demand]( Learn about development best practices, cloud computing, and the latest Java trends. At JDConf 2022, we’re featuring sessions from a range of community and Microsoft speakers highlighting Java expertise by showcasing the great work going on across the Java landscape. [Watch On-Demand](. [Development Latest Content]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Git 2.37 Brings Built-in File Monitor, Improved Pruning, and More]( [] [New PACMAN Vulnerability Affecting Apple Silicon CPUs]( Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downplayed the severity of this finding, the researchers hint at the fact that PACMAN brings an entire new class of attacks. (News) SPONSOR AD [ScyllaDB]( [SQL to NoSQL: Architecture Differences and Considerations for Migration]( Read this paper to understand SQL to NoSQL architectural differences, the tradeoffs between flexibility, scale, and cost, and considerations for successful SQL to NoSQL migrations. [Download now](. [Java Latest Content]( TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Project Leyden Delays OpenJDK AOT Compiler, Optimizes JIT Compiler Instead]( [] [Java News Roundup: Classfile API Draft, Spring Boot, GlassFish, Project Reactor, Micronaut]( This week's Java roundup for June 20th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point releases, GlassFish 7.0.0-M6, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.12, Micronaut 3.5.2, Quarkus 2.10.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M3, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.10.0, and Apache Tika versions 2.4.1 and 1.28.4. (News) SPONSOR AD [vFunction]( [79% of Application Modernization Projects Fail]( What do projects need to succeed? Read what architects want executives to know about app modernization projects, the differences in goals, challenges, and reasons for failure. [Download Now](. [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Trivago’s Journey from PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript]( - [] [Uber Introduces a Universal Signup and Login Stack]( [] [Using GraphQL and Ballerina with Multiple Data Sources]( The Ballerina programming language is well-suited to developing GraphQL applications, due to the network abstractions, network-aware type system, clear data representations, and visual diagrams. This article discusses the benefits of GraphQL and Ballerina, and walks through a sample application that retrieves data from a database and a 3rd-party API. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Curity]( [The Evolution of Signature Algorithms]( Algorithms are essential to avoid security incidents such as private keys being retrieved from signatures or valid signatures being created. [Read article](. [Culture & Methods Latest Content]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams]( [] [Smashing Silos: Scaling up an Energy Tech Disrupter Remotely]( Being a small EnTech disruptor in a rapidly evolving market can feel a bit daunting; add in an acquisition, a rebrand and twice the team members that you had a year ago and you have a recipe for growing pains. Here is how we leaned on our strengths and pulled experience from all directions to allow for team member fulfilment during a breakneck growth spurt. (Article) [] [Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops]( This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services. (Article) [] [Talk Like a Suit: Making a Business Case for Engineering Work]( David Van Couvering walks through some of the approaches and strategies used to make a business case, and walks through a few examples to help make it concrete. (Presentation with transcript included) InfoQ Call for Contributors Write for InfoQ: Share knowledge, connect with the global software development community, and grow your career Are you an experienced senior software engineer or technical leader that is passionate about innovation, adoption of technologies, and the learning and sharing of knowledge with your peers? 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