• Connect/Enterprise: Building Products With Generative AI
• CNCF Observability Whitepaper
• 12 Microservices Patterns
• Bring Your Own Algorithm to Anomaly Detection
• The Future of Banking in a World of Digital Ecosystems
• Leveraging LLMs for Sequential Recommendation
• The Killer Use Case for LLMs Is Summarization
• FADU’s CXL 2.0 switch concept augments next-generation data centers with more RAM for AI use cases
• DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
• NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon
• Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
• Scientists surprised by source of largest quake detected on Mars
• How Discord Stores Billions of Messages — Big Surprises in System Design
• Sol Reader
• Microsoft’s futuristic ‘Project Silica’ stores data on glass plates for 10,000 years
• American Work-From-Home Rates Drop to Lowest Since the Pandemic
• How to Assess an E-voting System, Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

• State of AI: 2023 Report
• Akka vs ZIO: Framework Battle
• Apple Wallet app can now show current account balances from UK banks
• Microsoft closes $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition as UK approves restructured deal
• Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M
• Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 Uses AI To Replace Deceased Voice Actor
• Tesla API
• SpaceX details Starlink-for-phones plan, launching in 2024
• Cutting cloud cost by 99.9% when serving 128 TB data and 5 billion requests
• What is a bank?
• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche mission to metal asteroid
• Citi earning results
• Netflix is opening physical stores in 2025 as marketing ploy
• Adobe previews AI upscaling
• Microsoft is officially splitting from VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release

• Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year
• Amazon Prepares to Challenge SpaceX’s Starlink
• The latest Android version (14) adds customizable lock screens, better passkey support, and new on-device health features
• Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet Management
• Digital nomads are travelling by day and working by night
• QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 1: Architectures, Data Engineering, Infra Languages, Staff+ Skills
• QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 2: Design for Resilience, Platform Engineering, Modern ML, JVM Trends
• Sony’s high-bitrate movie service is now available on PS5 and PS4
• Building a Global Experimentation Platform: The Technical Challenges
• Resharper 2023.2 Brings Predictive Debugger
• PayPay: QR the one to lighten SoftBank’s gloom
• Spotify pushes into audiobooks in challenge to Amazon’s Audible
• Spotify is adding auto-generated transcripts to millions of podcasts
• Python 3.12 new features
• Java 21, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching

How does Docker Work? Is Docker still relevant?

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Docker's architecture comprises three main components:

🔹 Docker Client
This is the interface through which users interact. It communicates with the Docker daemon.

🔹 Docker Host
Here, the… pic.twitter.com/zJyZvsi49B

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) October 5, 2023

• Thoughworks, Technology Radar, Volume 29, PDF
• 2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
• Risk Entity Watch – Using Anomaly Detection to Fight Fraud
• Every iPhone screen has a barcode to prevent a manufacturing scam
• The Raspberry Pi 5
• Jobs of Tomorrow: Large Language Models and Jobs
• GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype
• OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
• OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture
• Meta: New AI Experiences Across Family of Apps and Devices
• Amazon’s $4 Billion Anthropic Investment Looks to the Cloud
• X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators
• The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film
• First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists

• 49 Engineering blogs
• Enabling Rate Limits using Envoy
• Curated list of microservices patterns
• Amazon to Run Ads on Prime Video in Key Markets Starting in 2024
• Unity’s updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity
• Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet
• Microsoft Copilot for Windows launches September 26th and unifies several formerly separate Copilot assistants.
• AI’s New Backer: Stablecoin Tether Makes A $420 Million Bet On Cloud GPUs
• GitLab: 2023 Global DevSecOps
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• Around the world, researchers are locked away in simulated space habitats in remote locations to see what it would be like to go to space for real
• What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?
• What’s New in the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
• Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
• Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation
• Bun 1.0…Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun​.

Starting your day with #copilot telling you what matters in your inbox and suggest key steps to address what is needed will take less than your morning pour over #MSEvent pic.twitter.com/z0R7HE3LbW

— Carolina Milanesi (She/Her) (@caro_milanesi) September 21, 2023

• Apple Taps New Chief for Team Developing Watch’s Glucose Tracker…”…Apple Inc. has named a new leader for its secret group working on a noninvasive blood sugar monitor, putting a veteran iPhone and Mac chip executive in charge of one of the company’s most ambitious forays into health technology…”
• Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
• “…Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature…”
• Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
• If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000
• The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp
• DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.
• Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear
• AWS Lambda is deprecating the go1.x runtime
• Where is the global economy heading in 2024?
• Starlink, which relies on a satellite fleet to provide high-speed internet connections, reported $1.4 billion in revenue for 2022
• For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic
• Instacart aims for valuation of up to $10 billion in upcoming IPO
• Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan
• Amazon launches generative AI to help sellers write product descriptions
• Amazon Searches for Its Next Big Hit

• How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
• MLEnv: Standardizing ML at Pinterest Under One ML Engine to Accelerate Innovation
• Apple Renews Qualcomm Deal in Sign Its Own Modem Chip Isn’t Ready
• Apple inks new long-term deal with Arm for chip technology, according to filing
• Instacart targets up to $9.3 bln valuation
• iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C has hidden potential to streamline computing
• Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?
• An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment
• Apple Event 2023: iPhone 15, new Apple Watches, and everything else to expect
• Nasdaq receives SEC approval for AI-based trade orders

• Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
• EMEA Data Centre Report Q2 2023
• Arm gets closer to creating full-blown server cpu designs
• Indeed’s CEO Wants to Create ‘Cyborg’ Recruiters Using AI
• OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts
• Klarna’s Q2 results include profitable month as GMV continues growth streak
• Starfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
• Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
• Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023
• Multi-layered calendars
• Banking on Status
• Generative AI and intellectual property
• sketchplanations.com
• Goodhart’s Law

• New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
• ARM IPO F-1 document
• Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change
• What prevents search orgs from being successful?
• First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
• “…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
• AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
• California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
• Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
• Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
• Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
• Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

Just wait until we chart YoY revs end of 2024. https://t.co/w3Tj8jdz4g

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) August 24, 2023

John-Deere now employs more software engineers than mechanical ones.

"Disruption" will have to wait.

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation"https://t.co/Vk6pw1x3ka pic.twitter.com/rUPqDJAhCo

— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) August 25, 2023