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OpenAI Launches Public Beta of Realtime API for Low-Latency Speech Interactions
OpenAI launched the public beta of the Realtime API, offering developers the ability to create low-latency, multimodal voice interactions within their applications. Additionally, audio input/output is now available in the Chat Completions API, expanding options for voice-driven applications. Early feedback highlights limited voice options and response cutoffs.
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OpenAI Developer Day 2024 (SF) Announces Real-Time API, Vision Fine-Tuning, and More
On October 1, 2024, OpenAI SF DevDay unveiled innovative features, including a Real-Time API enabling instant voice interactions and function calling. Enhanced model distillation and vision fine-tuning empower developers to customize AI for diverse applications. Upcoming events in London and Singapore will further expand these capabilities.
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Lyft Promotes Best Practices for Collaborative Protocol Buffers Design
Lyft shared its experiences using Protocol Buffers for inter-system integration, primarily focusing on collaborative protocol design for definitions shared between teams and systems. The company promotes approaches that improve knowledge sharing, consistency, and development process quality over raw efficiency optimizations.
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NVIDIA NIM Now Available on Hugging Face with Inference-as-a-Service
Hugging Face has announced the launch of an inference-as-a-service capability powered by NVIDIA NIM. This new service will provide developers easy access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference for popular AI models.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Data API Builder for Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB. The open-source project provides REST and GraphQL endpoints to Azure databases and on-premises stores.
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AWS Cloud Control Terraform Provider Enables Quicker Access to AWS Features
HashiCorp has moved the AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider to general availability. The AWSCC provider is automatically generated based on the Cloud Control API published by AWS, implying that new AWS features can be supported in Terraform upon their release.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito
AWS recently announced that Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions. With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources.
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Gemini Code Assist to Create APIs, Integrations, and Automation Flows in Public Preview
At the Cloud Next Conference, Google unveiled its enterprise-focused AI Code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, which is available in public preview for Apigee API Management and Application Integration.
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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites
Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API for Enhanced Resource Insight Gathering
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API, which makes resource insight gathering more efficient by providing developers with the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call, thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling.
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Cloudflare Releases 2024 API Security and Management Report
Cloudflare recently released its 2024 API Security and Management Report, providing insights, predictions, and recommendations for safeguarding APIs in the new year. The report analyses the growing risk of shadow APIs, the most common API errors, and global API usage across different industries.
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Uber’s Checkenv Detects Cross-Environment RPC Calls to Prevent Data Leakage
Uber introduces CheckEnv, a tool using graphs to detect and manage cross-environment RPC calls in microservices, enhancing system reliability and preventing unintended interactions.
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Griffin 2.0: Instacart Revamps Its Machine Learning Platform
Instacart created the next-generation platform based on experiences using the original Griffin machine-learning platform. The company wanted to improve user experience and help manage all ML workloads. The revamped platform leverages the latest developments in MLOps and introduces new capabilities for current and future applications.