Software Development Round-Up

A Collection of Top Software Development News, Articles, Podcasts & Presentations August 2022 [InfoQ] Software Development Round-Up Sponsored by [AblyRealTime] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Podcasts & Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Software Development on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More]( (news, Jul 28, 2022) [TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 Beta Releases Add ESM for Node.js and Better Type Inference]( (news, Jul 29, 2022) [Microsoft Introduces a New Way for Faster Building Cloud Apps with Azure Developer CLI]( (news, Jul 26, 2022) [Slate 0.82 and Plate 15 Releases Improve Rich-Text Editing Experience]( (news, Aug 01, 2022) [Java News Roundup: JDK 19 in RDP2, Oracle Critical Patch Update, TornadoVM on M1, Grails CVE]( (news, Jul 25, 2022) [[eBook] Extend Kafka to the Edge]( Discover the benefits of extending Kafka beyond your private network to the Internet with Ably. Learn how to distribute to millions of end-users with no infrastructure overhead, easily route and distribute Kafka data in a granular way, keep your Kafka data secure end-to-end, and more. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Extend Kafka]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Data Oriented Programming in Java]( (articles, Jun 20, 2022) [Java News Roundup: Eclipse Soteria 3.0, Log4j, Hibernate ORM, IntelliJ IDEA]( (news, Jul 11, 2022) [It’s Time to Start Growing No-Code Developers]( (articles, Jul 04, 2022) [Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, JReleaser, Quarkus, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Apache Beam]( (news, Jul 04, 2022) [JetBrains Launches Containerized Dev Env Space On-Premises In Feature-Constrained Beta]( (news, Jul 19, 2022) [] Top News [The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify]( Spotify engineers recently published how they standardized architecture diagrams at the company. They defined a standard system model named the Spotify Software Model and adapted the C4 model to visualize it. This combination created a shared language used across the organization, which helps communication, aids decision-making, and supports Spotify's software's evolution. [Fitting Presto to Large-Scale Apache Kafka at Uber]( The need for ad-hoc real-time data analysis has been growing at Uber. They run a large Apache Kafka deployment and need to analyse data going through the many workflows it supports. Solutions like stream processing and OLAP datastores were deemed unsuitable. An article was published recently detailing why Uber chose Presto for this purpose and what it had to do to make it performant at scale. [AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available]( Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics. [[Report] The State of Serverless WebSocket Infrastructure Report]( Ably surveyed over 500 engineering leaders to understand the challenges they faced when building their own realtime, event-driven, serverless WebSocket infrastructure in order to create shared live experiences for end users, such as chat, order delivery tracking, document collaboration. View the results. [Download now](. Sponsored content [State of Serverless WebSocket]( [Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14]( Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption. [Uber Introduces a Universal Signup and Login Stack]( Uber recently introduced Unified Signup and Login (USL), an effort to consolidate signup and login experiences across all Uber apps and services. USL lowers the engineering complexity and maintenance overhead and allows faster rollout of security policies and fixes. Over the last two years, Uber rolled out USL and currently, more than 78% of Uber's traffic has adopted USL. [] Top Articles [Gatling vs JMeter - What to Use for Performance Testing]( A performance tool with a graphical interface will probably be easier to use at the beginning, but the idea of a performance test as code is the future. Tests are readable and much easier to maintain. [article]( [Building Neural Networks with TensorFlow.NET]( TensorFlow is an open-source framework developed by Google scientists and engineers for numerical computing. In this article, the author explains how to use Tensorflow.NET to build a neural network. [article]( [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. [article]( [Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London & Plus 2022]( QCon international software development conference returned to London this past April and online with QCon Plus in May. [article]( [API Friction Complicates Hunting for Cloud Vulnerabilities. SQL Makes it Simple]( With fast, frictionless, uniform API access, by way of Postgres foreign data wrappers, you can skip the grunt work of wrangling APIs and focus on working with the data they return. [article]( [] Top Podcasts & Presentations [Developer Satisfaction Is Key to Engineering Success]( In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Lilac Mohr of Pluralsight about engineering success, developer satisfaction, creating an environment of trust and growing new leaders. [podcast]( [Principles of Green Software Engineering with Marco Valtas]( In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. [podcast]( [Engineering with Empathy]( In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Kelsey Hightower, a principal engineer with Google Cloud, about engineering with empathy, rethinking the hiring process and making others better. [podcast]( [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. 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