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AlphaEvolve, AI at Build 2025, k0s, Amazon's Growth, EDA at Scale, Pyrefly, Clojure's Journey, OpenSearch 3.0., Java at 30, TanStack Form, Gemma 3n, GraphQL MCP Server, Sociotechnical Systems

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Architecting Enterprise-Grade GitOps with OpenTofu: Lessons from Platform Engineering at Scale

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Kubernetes Edge Resiliency: Recovering from Ransomware Attacks in Minutes

Julia Furst Morgado, global technologist at Veeam, discusses Kubernetes edge resilience after a ransomware attack. The mentioned challenges include resource limits, network issues, and security risks. A swift recovery underscored the need for specific backup approaches, write-protected storage, and automated, tested recovery for edge environments to limit disruptions. (Podcast)

Emerson Murphy-Hill on Engineering Productivity, Team Dynamics and Equity

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Emerson Murphy-Hill about how measuring developer productivity is tricky, why team dynamics and psychological safety matter more than things like meeting load, the impact of systemic bias and how new AI tools are shaping equity in engineering - sometimes helping, but sometimes risking new kinds of unfairness. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Releases LMEval, an Open-Source Cross-Provider LLM Evaluation Tool

  2. Google Releases MedGemma: Open AI Models for Medical Text and Image Analysis

  3. Microsoft Announces AI Agent and Platform Updates at Build 2025

  4. Google DeepMind Unveils AI Coding Agent AlphaEvolve

  5. Mistral Releases Devstral, an Open-Source LLM for Software Engineering Agents

Scaling Large Language Model Serving Infrastructure at Meta

Ye (Charlotte) Qi overviews LLM serving infrastructure challenges: fitting & speed (Model Runners, KV cache, and distributed inference), production complexities (latency optimization and continuous evaluation), and effective scaling strategies (heterogeneous deployment and autoscaling). Learn key concepts for robust LLM deployment. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Building Secure AI Agents with Serverless and MCP

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Another Lightweight Kubernetes Distro Choice as k0s Joins CNCF Sandbox

  2. Travel Giant Skyscanner Overhauls Observability, Cuts Engineering Costs by 90%

Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x

In this article, Carlos Arguelles elaborates on how engineering productivity needs a shift as organizations scale. He shares examples from his time at Google and Amazon, explaining how some architectural decisions made at these companies shaped the way they develop software. Engineering productivity investments depend on inflection points, scale, controls, data, and tooling choices. (Article)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI

  2. AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info

  3. Azure AI Foundry Agent Service GA Introduces Multi-Agent Orchestration and Open Interoperability

Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale

Learn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over-relying on retries and neglecting observability for robust, scalable architectures. (Article)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Have I Been Pwned 2.0 Adds New Tools for Data Breach Monitoring

  2. Microsoft Open Sources the GitHub Copilot Chat Extension

  3. Meta Open-Sources Pyrefly, a High-Performance Python Type Checker in Rust

  4. Can Open Source Projects Exit Foundations? How the NATS Controversy Unfolded

  5. OpenSearch 3.0 Now Generally Available, with a Focus on Vector Database Performance and Scalability

Clojure's Journey: From Simplicity to Enterprise Maturity

Jordan Miller discusses the evolution of the Clojure ecosystem, from Rich Hickey's initial vision tackling complexity to its current status as a mature enterprise solution. He explains key philosophies, highlights pivotal moments like the "Simple Made Easy" talk, and showcases the vibrant Clojure community and its innovative tools. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Spring Team on AOT Cache Handling, Null Safety with JSpecify, and Support Durations

  2. Java at 30: a Retrospective on a Language That Has Made a Big Impact

  3. Spring News Roundup: GA Releases of Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI

Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid

This week's Java roundup for May 19th, 2025, features news highlighting: Java’s 30th birthday; the release of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validator 9.0; the May 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and the introduction of Embabel, jaz, and Eclipse DataGrid. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. TanStack Releases TanStack Form V1

  2. Microsoft Announces Native TypeScript Compiler Port for 10X Performance Boost

Faster, Smoother, More Engaging: Personalized Content Pagination

Dynamic content loading powered by AI transforms user experiences by personalizing delivery based on user's behavior and network conditions. By analyzing scroll depth, speed, and dwell time, we optimize loading times, enhance engagement, and reduce infrastructure costs, especially on devices with poor internet connectivity. (Article)

Gemma 3n Available for On-Device Inference Alongside RAG and Function Calling Libraries

Google has announced that Gemma 3n is now available in preview on the new LiteRT Hugging Face community, alongside many previously released models. Gemma 3n is a multimodal small language model that supports text, image, video, and audio inputs. It also supports finetuning, customization through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and function calling using new AI Edge SDKs. (News)

Apollo GraphQL Launches MCP Server: a New Gateway Between AI Agents and Enterprise APIs

Apollo GraphQL recently launched its MCP Server, enabling businesses to securely and efficiently integrate AI agents with existing APIs using GraphQL. The platform empowers teams to scale innovation and drive faster time-to-value from AI investments by reducing development overhead, improving governance, and accelerating AI feature delivery. (News)

How a Sociotechnical Approach Can Help to Deal with Complexity

Today’s software professionals navigate a maze of technical, business, and social complexity. According to Xin Yao, thriving in this environment requires more than just technical and business expertise. We need fluency in decoupling systems for maintainability, reconnecting them for business value, and working with the messiness of organizational dynamics. (News)

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