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Azure AI Foundry Supports NVIDIA NIM and AgentIQ for AI Agents
Microsoft and NVIDIA have teamed up to integrate NVIDIA NIM microservices and AgentIQ into Azure AI Foundry, streamlining AI agent application development. This partnership accelerates project lifecycles, optimizing performance and reducing costs. The toolkit enhances AI efficiency through real-time telemetry, enabling effortless deployment and advanced functionalities for developers.
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AWS Enhances EC2 Capacity Reservation Management with Split, Move, and Modify Features
AWS enhances Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations with powerful "split, move, and modify" features, enabling granular control over reserved capacity. These updates optimize resource allocation, boost efficiency, and reduce costs, offering flexibility while maintaining stability for critical workloads, surpassing similar offerings from Azure and GCP.
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European Cloud Providers: What Are the Options Today?
Current geopolitical tensions have raised attention to existing cloud providers in Europe, with many European companies increasingly concerned about reliance on US-controlled services. According to various articles by specialists and practitioners, local cloud providers still offer few viable alternatives for organizations focused on European digital sovereignty.
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JavaOne 2025 Day 3: the Future of Java is You
JavaOne 2025, celebrating the 30th birthday of the Java programming language, was held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisted of 80 sessions and hand-on labs, and two keynotes. Day Three, scheduled on March 20th, 2025, included the Java community keynote and presentations from various conference tracks.
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Confluent Cloud Streamlines Real-Time AI with New Flink Capabilities
Confluent Cloud now simplifies real-time AI development with Flink Native Inference, Flink search, and built-in ML functions—streamlining workflows and reducing costs. This unified Flink SQL solution enhances security and efficiency by keeping data secure within the platform, empowering developers to deploy AI applications quickly and effectively.
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Amazon GameLift Streams Launches for High-Fidelity, Browser-Based Game Streaming
Introducing Amazon GameLift Streams: a revolutionary service that empowers developers to stream games directly to WebRTC-enabled browsers at 1080p and 60fps. Simplify deployment, reach a broad audience, and enhance player engagement. No infrastructure hassles or code overhauls needed—just instant access to high-fidelity gaming. Transform your titles today!
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JavaOne 2025 Day 2: FFM API, Virtual Threads, Platform Engineering, Evolution of Jakarta EE
JavaOne 2025, celebrating the 30th birthday of the Java programming language, was held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisted of 80 sessions and hand-on labs, and two keynotes. Day Two, scheduled on March 19th, 2025, included presentations from various conference tracks.
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Microsoft Officially Supports Rust on Azure with First SDK Beta
Microsoft's beta release of the Azure SDK for Rust empowers developers to seamlessly connect with Azure services. Featuring libraries for Identity, Key Vault, Event Hubs, and Cosmos DB, this initiative underscores Rust's growing significance in high-performance applications. As Microsoft enhances the SDK, it aims to deliver a robust and user-friendly developer experience.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025
This week's Java roundup for March 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 24 and Apache Kafka 4.0; the March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; Spring Security CVEs; and JavaOne 2025.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Integration, AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 17th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Web Services.
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Google Cloud Introduces HDD Tier for Spanner Database, Cutting Cold Storage Costs by 80%
Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data while minimizing the overhead associated with traditional data migration.
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Google Cloud Launches A4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI Workloads
Google Cloud has launched A4 VMs, powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell B200 GPUs, revolutionizing AI workloads with a 2.25x performance boost and advanced networking. Key features include tight integration with Google Kubernetes Engine and Vertex AI, enhancing deployment and management of large-scale projects. This innovative partnership sets a new standard in cloud infrastructure for AI.
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JavaOne 2025 Day 1: Our World, Moved by Java
JavaOne 2025, celebrating the 30th birthday of the Java programming language, was held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisted of 80 sessions and hand-on labs, and two keynotes. Day One, scheduled on March 18th, 2025, included the opening keynote and presentations from various conference tracks.
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Dapr Agents: Scalable AI Workflows with LLMs, Kubernetes & Multi-Agent Coordination
Introducing Dapr Agents—a groundbreaking framework for creating scalable AI agents using Large Language Models (LLMs). With robust workflows, multi-agent coordination, and cloud-neutral architecture, it enables enterprises to deploy thousands of resilient agents. Built on Dapr’s proven infrastructure, Dapr Agents ensures reliability and observability in AI-driven applications.
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AWS AppSync Events Adds Direct WebSocket Message Publishing
AWS has boosted AppSync Events with direct WebSocket message publishing, enhancing real-time communication. This serverless API facilitates seamless event broadcasting to numerous subscribers and simplifies development by allowing combined publishing and receiving via WebSocket. Discover a faster way to build engaging applications today!