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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.1, Spring Data 2023.1, Payara Platform, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, and monthly, milestone and point releases of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Payara Platform; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Grails; Quarkus; Tomcat; Apache Camel; Vert.x; Mojarra; Micrometer Metrics and Tracing; Project Reactor; Piranha; JDKMon; JobRunr; JHipster Lite; Testcontainers for Java; Arquillian; and Gradle.
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How Spotify Fights Global Warming by Taking Their Mobile App Size under Control
Adding new features has often a hidden impact on app size, with several undesired effects, including user disengagement and unnecessary carbon emissions. To keep app size under control, Spotify engineers established pre-PR and post-PR processes to help prevent an estimated 10MB app size growth over six months.
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OpenAI Launches GPTs to Enable Creating No-Code, Custom Versions of ChatGPT
At the recent OpenAI developer conference, OpenAI announced it is rolling out GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT created for specific tasks. Developers will also be able to share their GPTs on the forthcoming ChatGPT Store and monetize them, the company says.
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Things We Tend to Overlook Going from Architecture to Release
People tend to overlook things when developing a new software product or service because they don’t have to think about them on a daily basis. Companies should create an environment where everyone can express their opinion and concerns and encourage bringing up questions to explore different angles and increase understanding.
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Microsoft Refreshes its Well-Architected Framework
Microsoft recently announced a comprehensive refresh of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for designing and running optimized workloads on Azure.
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New Amazon SQS Bindings Added to CoreWCF
Amazon delivered a new binding for CoreWCF, the open-source replacement for Windows Communication Foundation. The new binding supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in both server and client code. The new binding allows simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ binding to an AWS cloud-based implementation.
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Cohere Unveils Advanced Embedding Model Embed v3
Cohere has unveiled Embed v3, their most advanced embedding model designed to transform semantic search and generative AI.
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Microsoft Introduces New Tiers for Its API Management Service in Azure
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two new Azure API Management tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2.
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AWS Restructures and Consolidates Its Well-Architected Framework
AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices. Other pillars received improved implementation guidance, including recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns.
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Microsoft Releases DeepSpeed-FastGen for High-Throughput Text Generation
Microsoft has announced the alpha release of DeepSpeed-FastGen, a system designed to improve the deployment and serving of large language models (LLMs). DeepSpeed-FastGen is the synergistic composition of DeepSpeed-MII and DeepSpeed-Inference . DeepSpeed-FastGen is based on the Dynamic SplitFuse technique. The system currently supports several model architectures.
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Polly v8 .NET Resilience Library: Resilience Pipelines, Built-in Telemetry, and More
Polly v8 is officially released. This version brings enhancements such as resilience pipelines, built-in telemetry support, and some changes within the configuration for individual resilience strategies.
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Diagrid Launches Catalyst, a Serverless, Fully-Managed Dapr Offering
Today Diagrid announced the launch of a managed Dapr offering, the industry's first set of APIs focused on eliminating fragmentation when building distributed applications.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.0, Implicit Classes and Instance Main Methods, Kotlin 1.9.20
This week's Java roundup for October 30th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, GlassFish 7.0.10, Spring Boot 3.2-RC2, Spring Cloud 2023.0-RC1, Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0, Spring Statemachine 4.0-M1, Spring Tools 4.20.1, Open Liberty 23.0.11-beta, Micronaut 4.1.6, Grails 6.1, TomEE 8.0.16, Infinispan 14.0.20, JHipster 8.0, JHipster Lite 0.47, JReleaser 1.9 and Kotlin 1.9.20.
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Goldsky’s Streaming-First Architecture for Blockchain Data with Flink, Redpanda and Kubernetes
Goldsky created a platform for the real-time processing of blockchain data. The platform allows clients to extract data from blockchains into their own databases to support product features, but without running the data pipeline infrastructure. The event-driven architecture (EDA) of Goldsky leverages Apache Flink, Redpanda, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services.
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Amazon MSK Replicator: Active-Passive and Active-Active Clusters for Apache Kafka Service
AWS has recently announced MSK Replicator, a new option for cross-region and same-region streaming data replication. The new feature of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka service provides automatic asynchronous replication across clusters, enhancing availability and ensuring business continuity.