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LLM Evaluation, OpenTelemetry & Go Performance, Docker Image Analysis, PostgreSQL Migration, Shipping AI Products, Gemini CLI, Jakarta EE 11, Mobile AI, Declarative Spark, Software Architects & AI, Security

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Trust-first Leadership and Building Great Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Natan Žabkar Nordberg about how effective leadership requires treating people as whole humans, giving trust first, implementing guided autonomy with clear boundaries, and building diverse teams through shared experiences. (Podcast)

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Achieving Seamless Integration Through User Co-Design

Savannah Kunovsky and Jenna Fizel, co-managing directors of IDEO’s Emerging Technology division, talk about the future of technology in general and how we can work with our users to build the most impactful product. They explore prototyping and co-design techniques, as well as how generative AI can help with rapid prototyping. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Researchers Attempt to Uncover the Origins of Creativity in Diffusion Models

  2. LM Studio 0.3.17 Adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Tool-Integrated LLMs

  3. Apple's Illusion of Thinking Paper Explores Limits of Large Reasoning Models

  4. Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaGenome: a Unified AI Model for High-Resolution Genome Interpretation

A Framework for Building Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation

Denys Linkov shares lessons on preventing LLM production issues. He explains the flaws of single metrics, the importance of treating models as observable systems, building user-issue-alerting metrics, and focusing on business value. He emphasizes a "crawl, walk, run" approach to LLM metric maturity for successful, trust-building deployments. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Creating Certainty in the Age of Agentic AI

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Grafana Tempo 2.8 Released: Major TraceQL Enhancements and Memory Optimizations

  2. Logz.io and Dynatrace Innovations Shift Observability into the AI Age

  3. Report Shows OpenTelemetry’s Impact on Go Performance

Why Is My Docker Image So Big? A Deep Dive with ‘dive’ to Find the Bloat

AI images typically bloat from massive library installations and base OS components, with large Docker images slowing AI development and increasing costs. Chirag Agrawal demonstrates how to diagnose bloat using Docker's history and the interactive 'dive' tool to examine each layer in detail. The article shows how effective diagnosis leads to targeted optimizations. (Article)

Atlassian's 4 Million PostgreSQL Database Migration: When Standard Cloud Strategies Fail

Atlassian recently migrated 4 million Jira databases to Amazon Aurora, intending to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Jira Cloud platform. Due to the large number of files involved and the constraints of managed services, the team developed a custom tool to orchestrate the process, as traditional cloud migration strategies were not viable. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. DevSummit Boston: Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products beyond the Hype

  2. Google Launches Gemini CLI: Open-Source Terminal AI Agent for Developers

  3. Google's Agent2Agent Protocol Enters the Linux Foundation

  4. Anthropic Upgrades App-Building Capabilities to Claude Artifacts

Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI

In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow. We introduce a practical approach to staying in control while working with these tools by adopting key best practices from the discipline of software architecture, including defining an implementation plan, splitting tasks, and so on. (Article)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven

This week's Java roundup for June 23rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Jakarta EE 11; the new Agent2Agent Java SDK introduced by Red Hat; the release of Kotlin 2.2.0; the first beta release of WildFly 37; the first release candidate of JobRunr 8.0.0; and the fourth release candidate of Maven 4.0. (News)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Gemma 3n Introduces Novel Techniques for Enhanced Mobile AI Inference

Google Previews Gemini's Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal

Google has announced the integration of Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode into the latest canary release of Android Studio, Android Studio Narwhal preview. According to Google, the new Agent Mode is designed to handle multi-step development tasks that span across several files. (News)

Databricks Contributes Spark Declarative Pipelines to Apache Spark

At the Databricks Data+AI Summit, held in San Francisco, USA, from June 10 to 12, Databricks announced that it is contributing the technology behind Delta Live Tables (DLT) to the Apache Spark project, where it will be called Spark Declarative Pipelines. This move will make it easier for Spark users to develop and maintain streaming pipelines, and furthers Databrick’s commitment to open source. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Experiences from Using AI as a Software Architect

Security or Convenience - Why Not Both?

Dorota Parad shares the BLISS framework (Bulkheads, Levels, Impact, Simplicity, Pit of Success), explaining how we can eliminate productivity sacrifices made in the name of security. She discusses optimizing security practices to reduce friction, improve developer experience, and build more resilient systems that meet compliance without hindering innovation. (Presentation with transcript included)

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