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Well, this is awkward. Coding Blocks is signing out for now, in this episode we’ll talk about what’s happening and why. We have had an amazing run, far better than we ever expected. Also, Joe recommends 50 games, Allen goes for the gold, and Outlaw is totally normal. (And we’re not crying you’re crying!) Thank you for the support over the last 11 (!!!) years. It's been a wild ride, and the last thing we ever expected when starting a tech podcast was getting to meet so many fantastic people. View the full show notes here: Tip of the Week UFO 50 is an odd collection of 50...
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Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications
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Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar
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Grab your headphones because it's water cooler time! In this episode we're catching up on feedback, putting our skills to the test, and wondering what we're missing. Plus, Allen's telling it how it is, Outlaw is putting it all together and Joe is minding the gaps! View the full show notes here: Reviews Thank you again for taking the time to share your review with us! iTunes: Yesso95 Spotify: Auxk0rd, artonus News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 DevFest Central Florida September 28th, 2024 Two water coolers walk into a bar... Several folks share their origin...
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How did We Even Arrive Here?
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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my!
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It's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers. View the full show notes here: News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 DevFest Central Florida on September 28th, 2024 Interested? Submit your talk proposal here: Water Cooler How many programmers are there now? () Are we still growing? What will it be like when we stop growing? What will people be...
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Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka
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View the show notes on the web: In the past couple of episodes, we'd gone over what Apache Kafka is and along the way we mentioned some of the pains of managing and running Kafka clusters on your own. In this episode, we discuss some of the ways you can offload those responsibilities and focus on writing streaming applications. Along the way, Joe does a mighty fine fill-in for proper noun pronunciation and Allen does a southern auctioneer-style speed talk. Reviews As always, thank you for leaving us a review - we really do appreciate them! From iTunes: Abucr7 Upcoming Events Atlanta Dev...
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Nuts and Bolts of Apache Kafka
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Topics, Partitions, and APIs oh my! This episode we're getting further into how Apache Kafka works and its use cases. Also, Allen is staying dry, Joe goes for broke, and Michael (eventually) gets on the right page. The full show notes are available on the website at News Thanks for the reviews! angingjellies and Nick Brooker Please leave us a review! () Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Kafka Topics They are partitioned - this means they are distributed (or can be) across multiple Kafka brokers into "buckets" New events written to Kafka are...
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Intro to Apache Kafka
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We finally start talking about Apache Kafka! Also, Allen is getting acquainted with Aesop, Outlaw is killing clusters, and Joe is paying attention in drama class. The full show notes are available on the website at News Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Intro to Apache Kafka What is it? Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Core capabilities High throughput - Deliver messages at...
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StackOverflow AI Disagreements, Kotlin Coroutines and More
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Reviews iTunes: ivan.kuchin News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 Topics People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition? Obfuscate data dumps with PostgreSQL Kotlin Coroutines Reminded Outlaw of the Cloudflare Workers we mentioned a while back Please leave us a review! You can control if YouTube keeps track of your history (at least that you can see) 100 Things You Didn't Know About Kubernetes Do the IDE AI's really make you more...
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Llama 3 is Here, Spending Time on Environmental Setup and More
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The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode224.
News
- Thank you for the reviews! justsomedudewritingareview, Stephan
- You can find links to leave us reviews on the website (/reviews)
- Orlando Code Camp is coming up February 24th, woo! (orlandocodecamp.com)
- Make sure you read up on your next MacBook pro, if you want to maximize the performance then you are going to need to pay for it!
- Reminder: Don't install packages from the internet in your CICD pipeline!
- You can find links to leave us reviews on the website (/reviews)
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024
No surprise, AI is a big topic - it looks like Gartner is suggesting the technologies and processes companies must follow to be successful using and incorporating AI
In this overview, Gartner has grouped these technologies into three different sections
- Protect Your Investment
- Rise of the Builders
- Deliver the Value
Protect Your Investment
- Be deliberate
- Ensure that you've secured appropriate rights for deploying AI driven solutions
AI Trism - AI Trust, Risk and Security Management
- AI model governance
- Trustworthiness
- Fairness
- Reliability
- Robustness
- Transparency
- Data protection
- Gartner Prediction - By 2026, companies that incorporate AI Trism controls will improve decision-making by reducing faulty and invalid information by 80%
Why is AI Trism Trending?
- Largely, those who have AI Trism controls in place move more to production, achieve more value, and have higher precision in their modeling
- Enhance bias control decisions
- Model explainability
How to get started with AI Trism?
- Set up a task force to manage the efforts
- Work across the organization to share tools and best practices
- Define acceptable use policies and set up a system to review and approve access to AI models
Continuous Threat Exposure Management - CTEM
- Systemic approach to continuously adjust cybersecurity priorities
- Gartner prediction - By 2026, companies invested in CTEM will reduce security breaches by 2/3 (statista.com)
- Aligns exposure assessment with specific projects or critical threat vectors (fortinet.com)
- Both patchable and unpatchable exposures will be addressed
- Business can test the effectiveness of their security controls against the attacker's view
- "Expected outcomes from tactical and technical response
are shifted to evidence-based security optimizations supported
by improved cross-team mobilization."
- "Expected outcomes from tactical and technical response
How to get started?
- Integrate CTEM with risk awareness and management programs
- Improve the prioritization of finding vulnerabilities through validation techniques
- Embrace cybersecurity validation technologies (cybersecurityvalidation.com)
- "security validation is a process or a technology that validates assumptions made about the actual security posture of a given environment, structure, or infrastructure"
- Sustainable Technology Framework
- Solutions for enabling social, environmental and governance outcomes for long term ecological balance and human rights
- Gartner prediction - by 2027, 25% of CIO's will have compensation that's linked to their sustainable technology impact
- Why trending?
- Environmental technologies help deal with risks in the natural world
- Social technologies help with human rights
- Governance technologies strengthen business conduct
- Sustainable technologies provide insights for improving overall performance
- How to get started?
- Select technologies that help drive sustainability
- Have an ethics board involved when developing the roadmap (gartner.com)
- Use the Gartner "Hype Cycle for Sustainability 2023" - helps identify well-established vs leading-edge technologies for enterprise sustainability (gartner.com)
Resources We Like
- "Where Online Returns Really End Up And What Amazon Is Doing About It" (YouTube)
Tip of the Week
- Lofi Girl is a youtube channel that plays lo-fi hip hop beats, with a relaxing minimalistic animations. The people behind Lo-Fi Girl also released a new channel featuring a Synthwave (80's influenced mid-tempo electro music) Boy. Same type thing, but Synthwave music. (youtube.com)
- If you are interested in streaming technologies and/or Apache Pinot then you should check out the Real-Time Analytics podcast by Tim Berglund (rta.buzzsprout.com)
- Are you having runtime issues with your Docker container? Why not run it, and poke around? (curl.se)