Low Code/No Code, AWS re:Invent 2022, Asahi Linux, Payara Cloud, Microsoft Orleans v7, Leadership

In this issue, December 13, 2022 [View it in your browser.]( [FarmVibes.AI](#FarmVibes), [Low Code/No Code](#Code), [AWS re:Invent 2022](#AWS), [Triggermesh Project Shaker](#Triggermesh), [Asahi Linux](#Asahi), [Payara Cloud](#Payara), [Resilience4j 2](#Resilience4j), [Microsoft Orleans v7](#Microsoft), [Swift](#Swift), [Architect to Architecting](#Architect), [Leadership](#Leadership) [QCon London 2023: Join in-person or online and get clarity on what you should be focusing on in 2023]( At [QCon London (March 27-29, 2023)]( experience a curated learning journey developed by leading software domain experts on the trends that matter right now. You’ll go deep on [15 topics]( learning from the successes and failures of senior software practitioners from the world’s most innovative organizations. Join a global community of software engineers and level up your software skills. 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(Podcast) [( [] [Developer Experience is a Critical Issue for Organisations Today]( In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Abi Noda about the costs of poor developer experience, why it is a crucial issue for organisations to address, a framework for assessing developer experience and ways it can be improved. (Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( [] [Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI]( Microsoft Research recently open-sourced FarmVibes.AI, a suite of ML models and tools for sustainable agriculture. FarmVibes.AI includes data processing workflows for fusing multiple sets of spatiotemporal and geospatial data, such as weather data and satellite and drone imagery. (News) SPONSOR AD [Humanitec]( [What is platform engineering?]( Like DevOps, just better! Platform Engineering is the next evolutionary step in cloud native. It's the discipline of designing and building toolchains. [Click here to learn more](! Sponsored by Humanitec [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Grafana Labs Announces Trace Query Language TraceQL]( - [] [AWS Enters Remote Development and Collaboration Space with CodeCatalyst]( [] [Adopting Low Code/No Code: Six Fitnesses to Look for]( When selecting a no-code/low-code platform, six key fitnesses should be examined: purpose fit, cost fit, ops fit, user fit, use-case fit, and organization fit. The IT team should be heavily involved in this decision as they play a pivotal role in helping citizen developers with platform adoption. (Article) [] [Profiles, the Missing Pillar: Continuous Profiling in Practice]( Michael Hausenblas takes a look at the origins and the motivation of CP and discusses the benefits of using CP in production, making the case that profiles are the missing pillar of observability. (Presentation with transcript included) [Software Delivery Practices Evolve Fast, So Should Your Learning](. Attend QCon London software development conference (March 27-29, 2023) and uncover emerging software trends & practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches. [] [Vulnerability Inbox Zero]( Alex Smolen discusses dealing with security vulnerabilities both in the main product and the security scanner used to analyze it. (Presentation with transcript included) [] [The State of APIs in the Container Ecosystem]( Phil Estes attempts to demystify the state of APIs across the container landscape, overviewing the how and why of the layers of APIs that drive how containers work today. (Presentation with transcript included) SPONSOR AD [Camunda]( [2023 planning got you down?]( Camunda has all the process automation resources you need to budget, ensure team alignment, plan your tech stack, and more. [Visit the hub]( to make sure next year starts on the right foot. Sponsored by Camunda [Cloud Latest Content]( TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Amazon Announces Preview of OpenSearch Serverless]( - [] [Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM]( - [] [Amazon EventBridge Pipes Support Point-to-Point Integrations between Event Producers and Consumers]( - [] [AWS Announces Preview Release of Amazon Security Lake]( - [] [Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022]( [] [Colliding Communities, Cloud Native, and Telecommunications Standards]( What happens when an ecosystem driven from the bottom up collides with a community characterized by top-down development? The 5g broadband cellular network standard by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Service Function Chain RFC (request for comments) are examples. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Diffblue]( [Modernizing Applications with AI for Code]( Software that can write software is driving faster, safer transformation of business-critical applications. Find out how AI-augmented coding can accelerate application modernization via tools like Diffblue Cover. [Read the white paper](. Sponsored by Diffblue [Development Latest Content]( [] [Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon]( After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say. (News) SPONSOR AD [Teleport]( [📚 O'Reilly eBook — What is Identity-Native Infrastructure Access?]( [Download your copy today and learn how]( to prevent breaches by eliminating secrets and moving to an entirely passwordless infrastructure. Sponsored by Teleport [Java Latest Content]( TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Payara Cloud Automates Jakarta EE Deployments to Kubernetes]( - [] [Java News Roundup: JEPs Targeted for JDK 20, AWS Introduces Lambda SnapStart Feature]( [] [Resilience4j 2.0.0 Delivers Support for JDK 17]( Resilience4j, a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for functional programming, has released version 2.0 featuring support for Java 17 and dependency upgrades to Kotlin, Spring Boot and Micronaut. This new version also removes the dependency on Vavr, a functional library for Java, in order to become a more lightweight library. (News) [.NET Latest Content]( [] [Microsoft’s Distributed Application Framework Orleans Reaches Version 7]( Microsoft Orleans, a .NET framework for building scalable distributed cloud applications, has been updated for .NET 7 and released as Orleans 7.0.0 on November 8th 2022. The improvements in this release include better performance, simplified development dependencies and simplified identification schema for the grains, a unit of execution in Orleans. (News) [Mobile and IoT Latest Content]( [] [Swift to Add Support for Ownership, Macros, and C++ Interop]( The Swift language workgroup has detailed the main focus areas for the development of Swift in 2023 and further on, which include defining an ownership model for memory management, non-copyable types, a macro system, and C++ interoperability. (News) [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( - [] [Triggermesh Introduces an Open-Source AWS Eventbridge Alternative with Project Shaker]( [] [Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role]( This article explores the cultural change of moving towards shared architecture, and the role that the architect has evolved into; from one with an air of authority and singular vision, to one in which system design issues are surfaced, which require team-wide input to resolve. Teams being coached and guided towards shared ownership might be struggling with the paradigm shift of ownership. (Article) [Culture & Methods Latest Content]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [How Defining Agile Results and Behaviors Can Enable Behavioral Change]( - [] [Mythical Man Month Author and Father of the 8-Bit Byte, Fred Brooks, Dies at 91]( [] [The Future of Technology Depends on the Talent to Run it]( Effective nearshore staff augmentation—a savvier form of outsourcing—allows organizations to bypass the skills gap and mitigate turnover. Nearshoring can help companies build great teams of professionals who are located in the same time zone, charge reasonable rates, and collaborate directly with in-house teams. (Article) [] [Great Leaders Manage Complexity with Self-Awareness and Context Awareness]( People's perception and expectations on leadership requires a leader to understand their own contextual significance which makes it difficult to become an appreciated leader. Also trivialisation many times unknowingly stands in the way of progress in complex situations. 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