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Fauna Introduces Fauna Labs to Help Developers Adopt Database Service
The company behind the Fauna transactional database has recently announced Fauna Labs, a collection of experimental tools to help developers integrate Fauna in their applications, including infrastructure as code and single sign-on application templates.
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AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs
Recently, AWS announced a global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million with AWS BugBust. The solution utilizes ML-powered developer tools - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler - to automatically scan code to weed out bugs, and gamifies fixing and eliminating them.
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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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.NET MAUI Preview 5: Animations, Ported UI Components and Single Project Templates Updates
One month after Microsoft Build and Preview 4, the .NET MAUI team continued the progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI and now Preview 5 is here . It brings animations and the view transformation support, a couple of ported UI Components from the renderer architecture of Xamarin.Forms, and Single Project Templates updates and improvements.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 21st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, Java Mission Control 8.0.1, Kotlin 1.5.20, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.0.CR7, PrimeFaces 6.2.30, 8.0.11, and 10.0.3, Eclipse GlassFish 6.2.0, WildFly 24, Micronaut 3.0.0-M2, and multiple point releases on several Spring projects.
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AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS introduced a new Workflow Studio for its Step Functions offering. Through the AWS Management Console, developers can now access a visual builder to create Step Functions workflows.
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AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys
AWS has recently announced the availability of KMS multi-region keys, a new feature for client-side applications that makes encrypted data portable across regions.
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Jakarta EE 9.1 and the Road to Jakarta EE 10
The Jakarta EE Working Group has announced the release of the Platform and Web Profile specifications of Jakarta EE 9.1. This is the first incremental point release of Jakarta EE in which developers may now develop and deploy Jakarta EE 9.1 applications on JDK 11 and JDK 8. Development has already started on Jakarta EE 10 in which many of the specifications are being updated.
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Google Introduces New Cloud TPU VMs for Artificial Intelligence Workloads
Recently, Google announced new Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines. With these VMs, the company offers a new and improved user experience to develop and deploy TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX on Cloud TPUs.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 14th, 2021
This week’s news features news from JDK 17 and JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.6, MicroProfile 4.1, Piranha 21.6.0, Spring Native 0.10.0, Hazelcast Node.js Client 4.2, Hibernate ORM 5.5.2, Hibernate Search 6.0.4, JHipster 7.1.0, the Snyk/Azul JVM Ecosystem survey, and a Jakarta EE webinar series offered by Payara.
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Next.js 11 Released with New Script and Image Loading Strategies
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 11. The new version strives to improve actual and perceived performance for developers and end-users (start-up time, third-party scripts loading, image and placeholder loading). Next.js v11 also provides an experimental codemod that migrates a Create React App application to Next.js.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of a New Set of Azure Arc-Enabled Services
Recently, Microsoft, during its annual Build conference, announced a new set of Azure Service in preview that customers can run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of its Azure Arc multi-cloud service. With Azure Arc, customers can use a single service in the Cloud to manage their container clusters across clouds and on-premises data centers.
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Google Cloud Improves SLA for Bigtable and Adds New Security Features
Google Cloud has recently raised the availability SLA for Bigtable instances up to 99.999%, matching the SLA for Firestore and Cloud Spanner. The data storage system introduced as well two new security features for enterprise workloads, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and data access audit logs.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications.