Uber Shuffle, Drift Management, Go 1.19, The Tao of Node, GraalVM 22.2, Functional Ballerina, Rules of Thumb

In this issue, August 16, 2022 [View it in your browser.]( [Uber Shuffle](#UberShuffle), [Drift Management](#Drift), [Amazon GuardDuty](#GuardDuty), [Azure Fluid Relay](#Fluid), [Go 1.19](#Go119), [The Tao of Node](#Tao), [Become a Better Dev](#Better), [GraalVM 22.2](#GraalVM222), [.NET Community Toolkit 8](#Toolkit8), [Functional Ballerina](#FunctionalBallerina), [Rules of Thumb](#Thumb) [QCon 2022 Events: Real and innovative strategies for scaling security in large, fast-moving environments.]( Julia Knecht, Manager, Security Platforms Engineering @Netflix, hosting track "Practical Security" will share scalable approaches to securing authentication & authorization architectures, cloud security, scaling privacy, and how this changing approach impacts the distribution of responsibility and the cost of security. Attend in-person at [QCon San Francisco]( (Oct 24-28) or online at [QCon Plus]( (Nov 29-Dec 9).  SPONSOR AD [DataStax]( [An Architect's Guide to NoSQL]( 
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