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How HubSpot Uses Apache Kafka Swimlanes for Timely Processing of Workflow Actions
HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic. Using a combination of automatic and manual detection of traffic spikes, the company ensures the majority of customers’ workflows execute without delays.
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Meta Announces Generative AI Models Emu Video and Emu Edit
Meta AI Research announced two new generative AI models: Emu Video, which can generate short videos given a text prompt, and Emu Edit, which can edit images given text-based instructions. Both models are based on Meta's Emu foundation model and exhibit state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Microsoft Brings AI to Logic Apps (Standard) with Workflow Assistant in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced a workflow assistant for Logic Apps (standard), the company’s integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering in public preview. With the assistant, developers have a chat interface that provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring them to navigate documentation or search online forums.
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Transformers.js: ML for the Web, Now with Text-to-Speech
Transformers.js, the JavaScript counterpart to the Python Transformers library, is designed for running Transformers models directly within web browsers, eliminating the necessity for external server processing. In the recent update to version 2.7, Transformers.js introduced enhancements, including notable text-to-speech (TTS) support.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot 3.2, Spring Pulsar 1.0, Hibernate 6.4, JEP 447 Targeted to JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JCON World 2023, and point, milestone and GA releases for: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Session, Spring Vault, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster, JBang, OpenXava, Testcontainers and Gradle.
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Git-for-Data, Version-Controlled Database Dolt Gets PostgreSQL-Flavor
DoltgreSQL builds on top of the version-controlled database Dolt to provide Git-like log, diff, branch, and merge functionality for your Postgres database schema and data.
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Microsoft Debuts Custom Chips for Cloud and AI: Azure Maia AI Accelerator and Azure Cobalt CPU
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft introduced two custom-designed chips for their cloud infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator (Athena), optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks and generative AI, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, an Arm-based processor tailored to run general-purpose compute workloads on the Microsoft Cloud.
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Anthropic Announces Claude 2.1 LLM with Wider Context Window and Support for AI Tools
According to Anthropic, the newest version of Claude delivers many “advancements in key capabilities for enterprises—including an industry-leading 200K token context window, significant reductions in rates of model hallucination, system prompts and our new beta feature: tool use.” Anthropic also announced reduced pricing to improve cost efficiency for our customers across models.
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Google AlloyDB Omni: PostgreSQL-Compatible Database for On-Premises and VMware Cloud Foundation
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable version of the PostgreSQL-compatible database service AlloyDB. The new version is designed to run on-premises, has built-in support for generative AI, and will be available on VMware Cloud Foundation.
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KubeCon NA 2023: Ishan Sharma on Real-Time Generative AI for Gaming Apps Running on Kubernetes
Kubernetes provides a great platform for gaming applications using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for both game development and gameplay. Ishan Sharma from Google spoke at the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon NA 2023 Conference about real-time GenAI inference integrated with distributed game servers running on Kubernetes.
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Google Announces New DeepMind Model, Lyria, to Generate High-Quality Music
Google has introduced Google DeepMind's Lyria, an AI music generation model able to generate vocals, lyrics, and background tracks mimicking the style of popular artists. The model is experimentally available on YouTube through two distinct AI experiments.
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Spotify Open-Sources Voyager Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
Spotify Engineering recently open-sourced Voyager, an approximate nearest-neighbor (ANN) search library. Voyager is based on the hierarchical navigable small worlds (HNSW) algorithm and is 10 times faster than Spotify's previous ANN library, Annoy.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.1, Spring Data 2023.1, Payara Platform, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, and monthly, milestone and point releases of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Payara Platform; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Grails; Quarkus; Tomcat; Apache Camel; Vert.x; Mojarra; Micrometer Metrics and Tracing; Project Reactor; Piranha; JDKMon; JobRunr; JHipster Lite; Testcontainers for Java; Arquillian; and Gradle.
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Timescale Introduces Dynamic PostgreSQL, an Alternative to Serverless Databases
Timescale recently introduced Dynamic PostgreSQL, a new cloud-managed option to scale the database capacity within a predefined vCPU range. Promoted as “buy the base and rent the peak”, the new option scales the capacity according to the load, trying to address the unpredictability and variability of serverless options.
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OpenAI Launches GPTs to Enable Creating No-Code, Custom Versions of ChatGPT
At the recent OpenAI developer conference, OpenAI announced it is rolling out GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT created for specific tasks. Developers will also be able to share their GPTs on the forthcoming ChatGPT Store and monetize them, the company says.