[Dev Catch Up #21] - GPT-4o, Google I/O 2024, Project IDX, and more.
[Dev Catch Up #21] - GPT-4o, Google I/O 2024, Project IDX, and more.
Bringing devs up to speed on the latest dev news from the trends including, a bunch of exciting developments and articles.
Welcome to the 21st edition of DevShorts, Dev Catch Up!
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Every week, we bring new stories with respect to AI and this week is no exception to that. Innovation in the field of AI is not taking a breather as OpenAI in recent days has announced a new model that converse using speech in realtime. The model named GPT-4o can read emotional cues and respond to visual inputs. It is being rolled out for free to ChatGPT users over the course of a few weeks and as a service through API. This new model is already crushing the leaderboard as it features twice the speed, five times higher rate limits, and 50% lower costs than that of GPT-Turbo. Paid subscribers of Chat-GPT will have five times the rate limits than that of free users. Learn more about this model from this article published by Arstechnica where the performance of the model has been explained in detail along with a long 26 minutes demo video demonstrating the capabilities.
Google completed its developer conference “Google I/O” a few days back and it has made a whole lot of headlines. Needless to say, the conference was filled with Google’s dedication towards the improvement of their AI models and bringing new features to its products using them. Google completely redesigned its search and billions of users will now get AI-generated summaries at the top of search results which will let them focus on important things. Furthermore, they introduced the concept of dual-search where you can click a picture of an object and get the preliminary information and then make further conversations about the object. Get an understanding on the different AI-powered features Google introduced in I/O from this article published by The Verge where detailed explanations on the AI-stacked features are given along with demos.
Continuing with Google and their pace towards developments of AI enabled products lead to the introduction of Project IDX. This is Google’s next-gen development environment that is AI-centric and browser-based. It is now available in open-beta after gathering inputs from over 100,000 developers who have used it on an invite-only basis since August last year. This IDE has integration with Google Maps platform and there is added integration of Chrome dev tools and lighthouse for debugging applications. It will soon open doors to deploy applications to Cloud run, which is Google Cloud’s serverless platform for running front-end and back-end services. Additionally, it will also have integration with Checks, Google’s AI-powered compliance platform. This short article from TechCrunch digs deep into this matter.
Now, we will head over to some of the news and articles that will be at a place of interest for developers and the tech community out there.
Good to know
OpenTelemetry has completely revamped the future of observability and it is taking strides in developing the future of API monitoring. In recent days, there is a rise in microservices architecture and the growth in complexity in distributed systems is also evident. Hence, the need for observability is greater than ever to tackle these complex systems. APIs or Application Programmable Interface is the backbone of the modern application as it facilitates seamless communication between several components and services. So, monitoring these APIs are a crucial part of the job that comes with a plethora of challenges. Monitoring the performance and reliability of the APIs are essential for the smooth functioning of the digital ecosystem. But traditional monitoring approaches are not beneficial when it comes to monitoring APIs as the legacy tools fail to provide insights on the performance of the microservice-based architecture, containerized deployments, and cloud-native applications. Akanksha Rana has penned down a wonderful article which is published by Kloudmate on the importance of API monitoring and how OpenTelemetry has emerged as a game changer in the space and is revolutionizing the future of API monitoring.
Most organizations that deal with a large amount of data have to maintain a complex system architecture for their software. In this age of microservice based architecture, many are fascinated with distributed systems and have implemented the same in their software architecture where a collection of servers work together as a single coherent system. But managing distributed systems at scale and providing insights to developers comes as a huge challenge.To tackle these challenges, comes the concept of distributed tracing which is a part of the broader concept of observability. It is seen as an effective tool to manage complex systems by mapping and analyzing distributed systems at scale. This provides insights to developers and helps manage the complexity. Distributed tracing also helps in showing the requests spreading through the distributed system and also points out the propagation of the error and its effect on various components of the system along with the original issuer. This article from Dash0 gives you a detailed idea on distributed tracing and along with its way of implementation within distributed systems.
In recent days, open-source technologies are acting as one of the leading technologies driving innovation in the modern world. Nowadays, a lot of tools are being introduced that are focused on developer productivity and one of such tools is Middleware. It is built by MiddlewareHq and is focused on improving developer productivity by helping engineering leaders measure and analyze the effectiveness of their teams using the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metric. It is integrated with various CI/CD tools. Alongside automated collection and analysis of the DORA metric, it supports visualization of key performance indicators. The reports generated can be customized based on reports and can be seen in a dashboard. Also, integration with different popular project management platforms are available. Check Middleware out from their GitHub page here and leave a star to support them.
Lastly, we will take a look at some of the trending scoops that hold a special mention for the community.
Notable FYIs
The Llama LLM model unveiled by Meta is creating a significant buzz among developers and AI enthusiasts. The scale and the performance of the model is overwhelming and it certainly interests implementing the model and understands the structure accurately. This article published from Likejazz talks about implementing the Llama 3 model in pure NumPy to understand the exact structure of the model.
Latency is a problem that a system doesn’t want to face and for high-scale user facing ones, it results in a big loss of revenue. Here is an interactive diagram-based short article from ByteByteGo that discusses 5 strategies to reduce latency in layman terms.
Platform Engineering is worth all the hype in the modern day cloud-native environment and it has taken flight as the best practice to optimize the software development lifecycle immensely. This article from the NewStack discusses the key themes on which platform engineering rules and is taking stride on optimizing the different aspects of the lifecycle from code creation to production deployment and beyond.
HyperText Transfer Protocol or HTTP is the underlying protocol for communication in the World Wide Web. It has acted as one of the evolving fundamentals in the development of the internet. But over the years the protocol itself has evolved and made advancements with HTTP2 and HTTP3. Here is a short article from ByteByteGo that goes into a deep dive into the functioning of HTTP and how the different versions have developed over the years.
If you are interested in cloud-native security and thinking of attending a security conference in the coming days, Cloud-nativeSecurityCon is the perfect destination for you. Hosted by Linux Foundation and CNCF, this is the biggest cloud-native security conference where you will find all the knowledge on security and resolving threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud-native space. Register for the event from the official Linux Foundation website here.
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