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Falco 0.38.0 Released with Enhanced Driver Selection, Configurations and Real-Time Monitoring
The maintainers of Falco announced its latest version: 0.38.0. This is the first release since its graduation within CNCF.
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How GitHub iOS Team Leveraged Apple-Silicon Actions Runners to Reduce Testing Time
The GitHub iOS team adopted Apple Silicon-powered macOS runners to reduce the time required to build and test their app using GitHub Actions. In the process, they also refactored the app to better leverage GitHub Actions parallelism.
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Microsoft Build 2024 Unveils .NET 9: Tensor<T>, OpenAI Collaboration, and .NET Aspire
At Microsoft Build 2024, .NET 9 was unveiled, introducing features such as the Tensor<T> type for deep learning and collaboration with OpenAI for GPT4o and Assistants v2. This release also brings .NET Aspire, streamlining cloud-native app development. Updates extend across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI, with C# 13 enhancing flexibility and performance.
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Local Emulator for Azure Event Hubs in Preview: Offering Developers a Local Development Experience
Microsoft recently launched the local emulator's preview release for Azure Event Hubs. This emulator is designed to give developers a local development experience for Azure Event Hubs, allowing them to develop and test code against the services in isolation.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, JHipster 8.5, Gradle 8.8, Spring AI 1.0-M1
This week's Java roundup for May 27th, 2024, features news highlighting: four JEPs targeted for JDK 23, namely: JEP 482, Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview), JEP 481, Scoped Values (Third Preview), JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview) and JEP 471, Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in Unsafe for Removal; and the releases of JHipster 8.5, Gradle 8.8 and Spring AI 1.0-M1.
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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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Google Cloud Introduces Customizable Dashboards
Google Cloud has recently expanded its customizable observability dashboards to over 10 services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, MySQL System Insights, and a few others.
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AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times
AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate. Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy. The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times.
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Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available
Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.
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.NET 8+ on Ubuntu 24.04: Official Release with Collaborative Support
Ubuntu 24.04 has launched with a .NET release available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds, making it immediately usable. Container images for .NET 8+ are available, including noble, noble-chiseled, and noble-chiseled-extra flavors. Additionally, .NET 6 and 7 are accessible through the dotnet/backports repository.
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General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
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Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java with Zero Native Dependencies
Recently, multiple languages have begun supporting compilation to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing developers to build real polyglot systems. Chicory is a Wasm interpreter for the JVM with zero native dependencies and can run on any JVM. As wazero in the Go ecosystem, Chicory promises developers to safely interact with libraries written in any language supported by the Wasm ecosystem.
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The Guardian's Deep Dive into Qubes OS: a Secure Solution for Whistleblowing and Journalism
The Guardian's engineering team recently shared their experience with Qubes OS, a security-focused desktop operating system. The engineering team configured the Quebes workstations utilizing SaltStack, the default management engine in the Quebes OS.
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Microsoft Launches Preview of Arm-Based Azure VMs Featuring Cobalt 100 Processor
The new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machine (VM), based on Microsoft’s custom silicon series announced in November 2023, is currently in preview.