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OLMo 2, Nexa AI Omnivision, Cloudflare Incident, Elastic VMware Service, Lambda SnapStart, Java JIT Compiler, Trends in InfoSec, Evolving Architecture, Production Microservices, React Testing, Automatic Testing

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In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Maria Apazoglou, Head of AI, BI & Data Platforms at Thomson Reuters, about as her experience in building great teams and democratizing the use of large language models across the organization. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Ai2 Launches OLMo 2, a Fully Open-Source Foundation Model

  2. Mistral AI Releases Pixtral Large: a Multimodal Model for Advanced Image and Text Analysis

  3. Nexa AI Unveils Omnivision: a Compact Vision-Language Model for Edge AI

  4. Physical Intelligence Unveils Robotics Foundation Model Pi-Zero

AWS Reveals Multi-Agent Orchestrator Framework for Managing AI Agents

AWS has introduced Multi-Agent Orchestrator, a framework designed to manage multiple AI agents and handle complex conversational scenarios. The system routes queries to the most suitable agent, maintains context across interactions, and integrates seamlessly with a variety of deployment environments, including AWS Lambda, local setups, and other cloud platforms. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss

  2. Optimizing Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling

  3. Static Analyser PHPStan Releases Version 2.0

AWS Introduces Visual Deployment Timeline to Aid CloudFormation Debugging

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced its CloudFormation service by adding a new deployment timeline view. The new view gives developers and cloud engineers a more intuitive way to track and understand the infrastructure deployment process, including new insights into dependencies. (News)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Simplified S3 Data Access through the Browser

  2. Amazon Introduces Elastic VMware Service for VMware Workload Migration to AWS in Preview

AWS Launches Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET Functions

AWS has unveiled Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET, enhancing serverless app performance by reducing cold start latency. This feature builds on the success of Lambda SnapStart for Java, allowing faster initializations through early environment caching. Available in multiple global regions, it offers efficient management of caching costs with Python 3.12+ and .NET 8+. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation at QCon SF 2024

  2. AISuite is a New Open Source Python Library Providing a Unified Cross-LLM API

Trends in InfoSec: Data Minimization, Autoclassification, and Ethical AI

Rachael Greaves provides a summary of the requirements for data lifecycle management, the technology approaches, and the risks, and includes a Data Minimization Best Practice Checklist. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Oracle Ships GraalVM Java JIT Compiler - but Only in Its Own JDK

Java News Roundup: Last of the JEPs Targeted to JDK 24, Quarkus 3.17, Maven 4.0-RC1, Kotlin 2.1

This week's Java roundup for November 25th, 2024, features news highlighting: the last of the JEPs targeted to JDK 24 before Rampdown Phase One; the release of Quarkus 3.17.0, Hibernate Search 7.2.2, Kotlin 2.1.0 and JDKUpdater 14.0.67+100; the second release candidate of Vert.x 5.0 and the first release candidate of Maven 4.0.0. (News)

Evolving Your Architecture: Essential Steps and Tools for Modernization

Camilla Crispim discusses aspects of architecture that require assessment, methods for conducting these assessments, and the tools available to facilitate the process and support decision-making. (Presentation with transcript included)

Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices

Martin Thwaites introduces outside-in testing, how to use Observability techniques in a local development to build applications that are easier to debug locally and run as a first class citizen. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Slack Used an AI-Powered Hybrid Approach to Migrate from Enzyme to React Testing Library

Reaching Your Automatic Testing Goals by Enhancing Your Test Architecture

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