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Java News Roundup: WildFly 32, JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 23, Hibernate 6.5, JobRunr 7.1
This week's Java roundup for April 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of WildFly 32; JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, and JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, proposed to target for JDK 23; Hibernate ORM 6.5; and JobRunr 7.1.
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Devnexus 2024 Celebrates 20 Years of Java Developer Conferences
Celebrating its 20th year, Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on tracks such as: Agile; Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Technology; Core Java; Jakarta EE; Core Java; and Security.
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Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches
At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools help with the ever-increasing data volumes as long as ethical principles are considered, allowing decisions to be challenged.
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For Practitioners, by Practitioners: Solve Your Software Challenges at InfoQ & QCon Software Events
Behind every InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon software development conference is a collective of distinguished senior software practitioners who carefully curate the topics based on the crucial trends and essential best practices you need to know about. These architects and leaders are charged with creating THE conference they would want to attend.
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Stability AI Releases 3D Model Generation AI Stable Video 3D
Stability AI recently released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), an AI model that can generate 3D mesh object models from a single 2D image. SV3D is based on the Stable Video Diffusion model and produces state-of-the-art results on 3D object generation benchmarks.
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Mistral Large Foundation Model Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
AWS announced the availability of the Mistral Large Foundation Model on Amazon Bedrock during the recent AWS Paris Summit. This announcement comes days after the release of Mistral AI Models on Amazon Bedrock.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M2, JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, Spring Boot, Hibernate, GlassFish
This week's Java roundup for April 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: the second milestone release of Jakarta EE 11; Stream Gathers (Second Preview) and Vector API (Eighth Incubator) targeted for JDK 23; the first release candidate of Spring Boot 3.3.0; the first alpha release of Hibernate 7.0.0; and the fifth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0.
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Yelp Overhauls Its Streaming Architecture with Apache Beam and Apache Flink
Yelp reworked its data streaming architecture by employing Apache Beam and Apache Flink. The company replaced a fragmented set of data pipelines for streaming transactional data into its analytical systems, like Amazon Redshift and in-house data lake, using Apache data streaming projects to create a unified and flexible solution.
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Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon
Chronon, Airbnb's platform which creates the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide low-latency streaming.
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Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions
At the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex AI platform.
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Thoughtworks’ VP of Data and AI Shares Insights for Building a Robust Data Product at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Danilo Sato, vice president of data & AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products. This ensures effective data encapsulation in a more complex landscape where data responsibilities are “shifting left” towards the developer.
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Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default. The project is open-sourced.
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Fix Your SDLC before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London
During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughout her presentation, she continuously stresses the importance of keeping humans in the loop and fixing your company’s SDLC before embracing AI.
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Google Trains User Interface and Infographics Understanding AI Model ScreenAI
Google Research recently developed ScreenAI, a multimodal AI model for understanding infographics and user interfaces. ScreenAI is based on the PaLI architecture and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several tasks.
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Java News Roundup: JobRunr 7.0, Introducing the Commonhaus Foundation, Payara Platform, Devnexus
This week's Java roundup for April 8th, 2024, features news highlighting: JobRunr 7.0; introducing the Commonhaus Foundation; the April 2024 edition of Payara Platform; JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview), and JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator), Proposed to Target for JDK 23; and Devnexus 2024.