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From Hadoop to Kubernetes: Pinterest’s Scalable Spark Architecture on AWS EKS

Pinterest revamped its data infrastructure by transitioning from a legacy Hadoop system to the Moka platform, leveraging Kubernetes and Spark on AWS EKS. This strategic shift enhances job isolation, simplifies deployment, and optimizes resource management, leading to reduced costs and improved efficiency.

By Eran Stiller

Article: Understanding and Mitigating High Energy Consumption in Microservices

Microservices often consume more energy than monoliths due to distributed overhead. Architects can make design decisions that improve sustainability. This article covers several techniques, such as defining clear service boundaries, optimizing service granularity, using energy-efficient deployment regions, and consolidating workloads.

By Supriya Lal

Podcast: Microfrontends: Heuristics, Patterns and Antipatterns by Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira, a pioneer and enthusiast of microfrontends, discusses the microfrontends' evolution over the past years, underlying a set of heuristics that will allow you to gradually implement them in your product. He also touches on approaches to obtain quick feedback, both in your inner and outer development loops.

By Luca Mezzalira

Databricks Agent Bricks Automates Enterprise AI Development with TAO and ALHF Methods

Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, a new product that changes how enterprises develop domain-specific agents. The automated workflow includes generating task-specific evaluations and LLM judges for quality assessment, creating synthetic data that resembles customer data to supplement agent learning, and searching across optimization techniques to refine agent performance.

By Vinod Goje

.NET MAUI 10 Preview 6 Brings Performance Updates, Small Enhancements

On July 15th, Microsoft rolled out the sixth preview of .NET MAUI in .NET 10, introducing a couple of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing developer productivity and framework performance. This preview focuses on refining three existing controls (MediaPicker, WebView, and HybridWebView), along with updates and stability fixes for platform-specific code.

By Edin Kapić

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