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Bloomberg Open-Sources Python Memory Profiler Memray
Developed at Bloomberg and now open source, Memray is a memory profiler that can track memory allocations in Python code, including native extensions and in the Python interpreter itself.
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New CodeGuru Reviewer Features Detector Library and Security Detectors for Log-Injection Flaws
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages machine learning to detect security defects in code (Java and Python) and offers suggestions for code quality improvement. Recently, AWS introduced two new features for the tool, with a new Detector Library and security detectors for Log-Injection Flaws.
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How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning
Applying machine learning techniques to its rule-based security code scanning capabilities, GitHub hopes to be able to extend them to less common vulnerability patterns by automatically inferring new rules from the existing ones.
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The Challenges of Reading Code and How to Deal with Them
Reading code can be confusing in many ways; we are not explicitly taught how to read code, and we rarely practice code reading. Being aware of the cognitive processes that play a role can help to become better at reading code.
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Announcing Cryostat 2.0: JDK Flight Recorder for Containers
Cryostat, a container-native JVM application developed by Red Hat, provides an API for monitoring and profiling Java containers using Java Flight Recorder (JFR). Cryostat brings JFR to container age allowing analysis and profiling of multiple JVMs directly from a central hub.
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GitHub Introduces Projects, Updates Codespaces, Copilot, Code Scanning, and More
At its Universe 2021 conference, GitHub promoted its new Issues experience to public beta, providing projects and dynamic tables, expanded Copilot support for Jetbrains and Java, added Ruby support for code scanning, and announced many more features.
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Facebook Superpack Leverages Code Analysis for Android App Compression
In a recent article, Facebook described its novel technique for Android app compression, Superpack, which combines compiler analysis with data compression. While not yet available for everyone, Facebook is hoping to open source it.
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Sonatype Lift Integrates Facebook Infer, Google ErrorProne, and Other Code Analyzers
Recently launched Sonatype Lift provides a unified code analysis platform that includes over 25 tools to help developers identify a wide range of bugs in their development pipelines as soon as possible, says Sonatype. InfoQ has spoken with Stephen Magill, VP of product innovation at Sonatype, to learn more.
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Angular DevTools Released, Includes Component Explorer and Profiler
Minko Gechev, software engineer working on Angular at Google, recently announced the Angular DevTools Chrome extension. Angular DevTools includes a component explorer and profiler that let developers visualize component trees and analyze change detection cycles. Angular DevTools supports applications built with Angular v9 and above with Ivy enabled.
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JDK Mission Control 8 Released
JDK Mission Control (JMC) is best known as the dashboarding solution used to analyze the data collected by JDK Flight Recorder. JMC 8 offers more insights into applications by introducing new graphs and including heap dump analysis by default.
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IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 Supports Java 16
JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 featuring full support for Java 16. Other noteworthy features include support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, a built-in browser to preview HTML files, and improved profiling support. This release also makes it possible to run applications via Docker, SSL, and WSL.
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New Relic Offers Real-Time Java Profiler via JFR
New Relic has released a continuous profiler that measures performance of production Java applications with low overhead. The platform incorporates additional data from other sources to help application teams better understand problems that appear across more than just the application alone.
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Q&A with New Relic Regarding Open Sourcing Agents and a Future of Open Instrumentation
InfoQ caught up with New Relic's principal software engineer, Ben Evans, director of software engineering, Sharr Creeden, and group VP of engineering, Greg Unrein regarding the open sourcing of New Relic's agents and the future of open instrumentation.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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CircleCI Releases API Version 2 with Improved Insights Endpoints
CircleCI has improved the stability of their insights endpoints in the version 2 release of their API. The insights endpoints allow for tracking the status of jobs and workflows, monitoring the duration of jobs, and investigating opportunities for optimizing resource consumption.