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Kubernetes 1.29 Released with KMS V2 Improvements and nftables Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29 named Mandala last month. The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy.
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Meta Releases Code Generation Model Code Llama 70B, Nearing GPT-3.5 Performance
Code Llama 70B is Meta's new code generation AI model. Thanks to its 70 billion parameters, it is "the largest and best-performing model in the Code Llama family", Meta says.
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TornadoVM Launches TornadoInsight Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
TornadoInsight is an open-source IntelliJ plugin released in December 2023 to improve developers’ experience while working with TornadoVM. Its key features include an on-the-fly static checker and a dynamic testing framework. The plugin is available on JetBrains Marketplace and is available to install and use with JetBrains IDE versions 2022.3 and above.
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Well-Architected Migration Lens for Streamlined Cloud Transition
AWS has introduced the AWS Well-Architected Migration Lens, an extension of the Well-Architected Framework. This extension incorporates best practices and implementation guidance that customers can utilize in their migration program across the three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate.
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Harnessing AI-Generated Cloudformation with Application Composer
The AWS Toolkit for VS Code has recently extended its support to include AWS Application Composer, introduced a year ago in the AWS Management Console. This enhancement empowers users to seamlessly craft Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for a comprehensive range of over 1100 AWS CloudFormation resources.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 31, Eclipse Store 1.1, Liberica NIK, Quarkus, JHipster Lite
This week's Java roundup for January 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: WildFly 31.0.0, Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, multiple releases of Quarkus and JHipster Lite, and Jakarta EE 11 updates.
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The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds
On the first day of 2024, Gunnar Morling, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Decodable, launched The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) to the Java Community. This ongoing challenge will run until the end of January and aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time. Until now, the podium contained algorithms that finished the processing in under 2.5 seconds.
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Cloud Monitoring Metrics in BigQuery Provides Improved GKE Cost Analysis
Google brings Cloud Monitoring metrics in BigQuery as a new capability in preview to combine billing data with resource utilization metrics. The combination allows users to perform detailed cost analyses in BigQuery. In addition, the company provides an out-of-the-box Looker Studio template that combines Cloud Monitoring and detailed billing metrics for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
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Microsoft Copilot: Copilot Pro, Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot GPT and More
Microsoft has released Copilot Pro and Copilot for Microsoft 365, and is providing free access to those tools for smaller organizations and educational faculty. They also created the Copilot mobile application. Moreover, Copilot is also available in the Microsoft 365 mobile application.
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AWS Console-to-Code: Generating Code for Console Actions
AWS recently introduced Console-to-Code, offering a new capability to transform actions executed in the console into reusable code for AWS CDK and CloudFormation. This generative AI feature is currently in preview, supporting only Amazon EC2, and provides a guided path for creating resources and testing prototypes.
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Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
Microsoft recently announced the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), a significant rewrite of the prior QDK, emphasizing speed, simplicity, and a browser experience for developers. QDK is mostly rewritten in Rust, which compiles to WebAssembly for VS Code or the web and native binaries for Python.
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Cake Build Tool Updated to .NET 8 in v4.0.0
Cake, the open-source .NET build automation system with a full C# DSL, has been updated to version 4.0.0, which supports .NET 8 runtime. The new version also brings minor improvements and dependency updates.
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LeftoverLocals May Leak LLM Responses on Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD GPUs
Security firm Trail of Bits disclosed a vulnerability allowing malicious actors to recover data from GPU local memory on Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Imagination GPUs. Dubbed LeftoverLocals, the vulnerability affects any application using the GPU, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) models.
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DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
In a recent move, DoorDash has significantly optimized its cloud infrastructure costs. The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture. To substantially reduce this cost, DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, JEPs for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11, GraalVM
This week's Java roundup for January 15th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 455 Proposed to Target for JDK 23, JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, an updated Jakarta EE 11 release plan, GraalVM, and Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for January 2024.