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Deno 1.37: Significant Developer-Focused Enhancements
Deno 1.37 introduces enhancements to the developer experience, particularly through its seamless integration with Jupyter notebooks. This integration enables developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript within Jupyter notebooks for tasks such as data analysis, machine learning, and interactive report creation.
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TorchServe Potentially Exposed to Remote Code Execution
Israeli-based security company Oligo has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in TorchServe, the tool used to serve PyTorch models, that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities have been promptly fixed in TorchServe version 0.82.
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QCon SF 2023: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno by Ryan Dahl
Ryan Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO at Deno and Software Engineer best known for creating Node.js, presented “Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno” at QCon San Francisco 2023. Dahl introduced Deno, an open source next-generation JavaScript runtime, and discussed the benefits of using this framework. Dahl also provided numerous demos on how to build and deploy cloud applications with Deno.
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A Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI, ML, & LLM Workloads at QCon SF
Jules Damji, a lead developer advocate at Anyscale Inc., discussed the difficulties data scientists encounter when managing infrastructure for machine learning models. He emphasized the necessity for a framework that supports the latest machine learning libraries, is easily manageable, and can scale to accommodate large datasets and models. Damji introduced Ray as a potential solution.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 3: Architecting the Cloud, Deep Tech, Frontend Trends, Org Resilience
The 17th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Three, scheduled on October 4th, 2023, included a keynote address by Will Larson and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries, by Kate Sills at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference Kate Sills gave a talk about combating AI-generated fake images using existing JavaScript libraries. She advocated for using cryptographic timestamping to ensure the time photos were taken, and using digital signatures to verify that the image was made by a legitimate source.
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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform at QCon SF 2023
At QConSF, Airbnb staff software engineer Nikhil Simha presented Chronon, Airbnb's solution to address the challenges of managing and serving the vast number of features used in machine learning models. The platform focuses on four key areas: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving, and feature observability.
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Rethinking "Rethinking Reactivity" - Svelte 5 Introduces Runes
In their “Introducing runes” blog post, the Svelte team presents new syntax to express reactive dependencies in web applications. The extra syntax may increase the maintainability of complex web applications, further advancing Svelte’s enterprise readiness.
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Node.js Alternative Bun Now Generally Available
The release 1.0 of the JavaScript toolkit Bun has been recently announced. Aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is garnering attention from the JavaScript and serverless communities for its speed and ease of use.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.
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Java News Roundup: JCP 25th Anniversary, Foreign Function & Memory API, Eclipse Epicyro
This week's Java roundup for September 11th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JCP, JDK 22, JDK 21, Payara Platform, Eclipse Epicyro, Grails Plugin Portal and milestone and point releases for: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Tools, Quarkus, Micronaut, Helidon, MicroProfile Telemetry, Groovy, Camel Quarkus, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Piranha, JobRunr, JHipster Lite and Project Reactor.
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Java News Roundup: Introducing Spring AI, Spring Modulith 1.0, Testcontainers Desktop
This week's Java roundup for August 21st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Spring Modulith 1.0, Spring Boot, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Batch, Spring AI, Testcontainers, Open Liberty, Quarkus, MicroProfile Metrics and Telemetry, Micronaut, Groovy, Tomcat, Grails, JHipster Lite, Vert.x Pinot Client, Yupiik Fusion and SpringOne conference.
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Grails 6.0 Released: Embracing Modern Java, Enhanced Micronaut Integration, and More
The Grails Foundation has released version 6.0 of Grails, delivering a minimal JDK 11 version; support for Spring Framework 5.3.28, Spring Boot 2.7.12, and Gradle 7.6.1; the debut of Grails Forge UI, a starter project similar to Spring Initializr, and others; and enhanced integration of the Micronaut Framework.
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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon
To increase productivity and scalability when creating new features to use in machine learning models, AirBnb has built Chronon, a solution to create the infrastructure required to turn raw data into features for training and inference.