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Microfrontends: Heuristics, Patterns and Antipatterns by Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira, a pioneer and enthusiast of microfrontends, discusses the microfrontends' evolution over the past years, underlying a set of heuristics that will allow you to gradually implement them in your product. He also touches on approaches to obtain quick feedback, both in your inner and outer development loops. (Podcast)

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Team Building in the Brave New World: Transforming Software Engineering Culture and Leadership

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, spoke to Duncan Grazier about transforming software engineering teams into polymorphic cultures where humans work alongside AI agents, requiring leaders to rethink career paths, focus more on communication and coaching skills, and navigate the implications of how the gap between junior and senior engineers rapidly closes due to AI augmentation. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Cloudflare Chooses PostgreSQL Extension over Specialized OLAP for 100K Row/Second Analytics

  2. Google Releases Major Firebase Studio Updates for Agentic AI Development

  3. Apple Open Sources Diffusion-Based Coding Model DiffuCoder

  4. Anthropic Proposes Transparency Framework to Safeguard Frontier AI Development

  5. Databricks Agent Bricks Automates Enterprise AI Development with TAO and ALHF Methods

Building Reproducible ML Systems with Apache Iceberg and SparkSQL: Open Source Foundations

Traditional data lakes aregreat for storing massive amounts of stuff, but they're terrible at the transactional guarantees and versioning that ML workloads desperately need. Apache Iceberg and SparkSQL bring database-like reliability to your data lake. Time travel, schema evolution, and ACID transactions help support reproducible machine learning experiments. (Article)

Maximizing Deep Learning Performance on CPUs using Modern Architectures

Bibek Bhattarai details Intel's AMX, highlighting its role in accelerating deep learning on CPUs. He explains how AMX optimizes GEMM operations using low-precision data (INT8, BF16) and tile-based memory management, boosting performance and efficiency. He shows how to leverage AMX through frameworks like TensorFlow/PyTorch or Intel tools for substantial gains in CPU-deployed AI models. (Presentation with transcript included)

Stream and Batch Processing Convergence in Apache Flink

Jiangjie Qin explains the motivation and use cases for stream and batch unification in Apache Flink. He details how Flink unifies computing models via shared streaming semantics and adapts execution models for efficiency. He shares insights on Flink's handling of event time, watermarks, state in batch processing, and outlines future work for a more seamless & performant data processing experience. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Pinterest Automates Hadoop Cluster Scaling and Migration with Internal Orchestration System

  2. Vercel Adds External API Caching Analytics to Observability

New Open Source Tool Subtrace Brings Network Analysis to Container Environments

Y Combinator startup Subtrace has released an open-source tool to help analyse network traffic from containerised applications. The creators have positioned it as "Wireshark for Containers" and aim to simplify network debugging in Docker and Kubernetes environments. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon SQS Fair Queues: a New Approach to Multi-Tenant Resiliency

Serverless Development with Console to IDE and Remote Debugging for AWS Lambda

AWS enhances Lambda with console-to-IDE integration and remote debugging, empowering developers to streamline serverless application development. These features enable seamless transitions to IDEs like Visual Studio Code and robust debugging with full access to VPC resources. Discover how these tools optimize workflows in the AWS developer guide and Toolkit for VS Code. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Labs Introduces Opal, a Visual Platform for Creating AI Mini-Apps

A First-Timer’s Guide to Curating a Technical Conference Track

One first-time track host shares the process, constraints, and takeaways from building a track from scratch at QCon London 2025. (Article)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: CLI Tool for Quarkus MCP, Groovy 5.0 Milestone, JHipster, GraalVM

  2. Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Kafka, Pulsar

Jakarta EE 11 Overview: Virtual Threads, Records, and the Future of Persistence

Jakarta EE 11 delivers enhancements that include support for Java 17 and 21, integration with Java records and virtual threads, and the introduction of the Jakarta Data specification for unified SQL and NoSQL persistence. This release simplifies enterprise Java and establishes the groundwork for Jakarta EE 12, which will advance capabilities in data management. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Uno Platform 6.1 Introduces CommandBarFlyout Control

.NET MAUI 10 Preview 6 Brings Performance Updates, Small Enhancements

On July 15th, Microsoft rolled out the sixth preview of .NET MAUI in .NET 10, introducing a couple of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing developer productivity and framework performance. This preview focuses on refining three existing controls (MediaPicker, WebView, and HybridWebView), along with updates and stability fixes for platform-specific code. (News)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Apple Shares Details on Upcoming AI Foundation Models for iOS 26

Swift 6.2 Introduces Approachable Concurrency to Simplify Concurrent Programming

Announced at its latest developer conference, WWDC25, Swift Approachable Concurrency is a new feature in Swift 6.2 designed to simplify concurrent programming for the most common use cases in mobile apps. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. From Hadoop to Kubernetes: Pinterest’s Scalable Spark Architecture on AWS EKS

  2. Kubernetes Introduces Post-Quantum Support for TLS

Understanding and Mitigating High Energy Consumption in Microservices

Microservices often consume more energy than monoliths due to distributed overhead. Architects can make design decisions that improve sustainability. This article covers several techniques, such as defining clear service boundaries, optimizing service granularity, using energy-efficient deployment regions, and consolidating workloads. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Amazon Uses Guardrails in Software Development

Productivity Paradox: Why "More Work" Kills Creativity & Code Quality

Holly Cummins explains the surprising truth about productivity, revealing how "doing nothing" fuels creativity and problem-solving in software. She shares insights on the science behind creative downtime, the pitfalls of the "do more with less" mindset, and timeless truths for navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape, offering valuable perspectives for senior developers and leaders. (Video podcast with transcript included)

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