AWS has announced native support for Apache Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) formatted events in AWS Lambda when leveraging Apache Kafka event source mapping (ESM) in Provisioned Mode. According to the company, this enhancement significantly simplifies the processing of efficient binary Kafka events by integrating directly with popular schema registries, including AWS Glue Schema Registry […]
(A response to this post.) If you use prediction markets to make decisions, you might think they’ll generate EDT decisions: you’re asking for P(A|B), where you care about A, and B is something like “a decision … is taken”. Okay, so say you want to use prediction markets to generate CDT decisions. You want to
Xiaomi Watch S4 41mm and Xiaomi Smart Band 10 were launched at the Human x Car x Home event on Thursday. The former arrives as a compact variant of the standard Watch S4, sporting a 1.32-inch circular AMOLED screen and up to eight days of battery life. Meanwhile, the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 is the
Key Takeaways Many software engineers reach a career point where strong performance no longer guarantees advancement, and demonstrating strategic and organizational impact becomes essential for further growth. With the help of allies, leveraging your manager and by listening to leadership, you’ll need to identify what is impactful for the business. You may
We know they can suppress appetite, lower blood sugar, and lead to dramatic weight loss. We also know that they come with side effects, which can include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. But we are still learning about some of their other effects. On the one hand, these seemingly miraculous drugs appear to improve health in
Transcript Shane Hastie: Good day folks. This is Shane Hastie for the InfoQ Engineering Culture podcast. Today, I’m sitting down with Mark Allen. Mark, welcome. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Mark Allen: Thanks for having me. Shane Hastie: My normal starting point in these conversations is, who’s Mark? Introductions [00:55] Mark
Google released the full version of Gemma 3n, its latest open-source model in the Gemma 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models, on Thursday. First announced in May, the new model is designed and optimised for on-device use cases and features several new architecture-based improvements. Interestingly, the large language model (LLM) can be run locally
Mindfulness that fits your coding flow When your mind wanders while coding, simply return to breath. No tracking, no metrics, no disruption—just pure awareness in your terminal. The noticing itself is the practice. ✨ > ~/.zshrc echo “alias breathe=”zenta now”” >> ~/.zshrc echo “alias reflect=”zenta reflect”” >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc # Use instantly breath #
June 27, 2025 Ryan is joined by Tobiko Data co-founders Toby Mao and Iaroslav Zeigerman to talk about the crucial role of rigorous data practices and tooling, the innovations of Tobiko Data’s SQLMesh and SQLGlot, and their insights into the future of data engineering with the rise of AI.
An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold from ore and electronic waste. Explained in the leading journal Nature Sustainability, the gold-extraction technique promises to reduce levels of toxic waste from mining and shows
