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IBM Cloud Code Engine Serverless Fleets with GPUs for High-Performance AI and Parallel Computing
IBM Cloud Code Engine’s new Serverless Fleets revolutionizes how enterprises tackle compute-intensive tasks. Harnessing integrated GPU support, it simplifies the execution of large-scale workloads with a fully managed, pay-as-you-go model. This efficient platform eliminates operational complexities, enabling developers to focus on innovation while ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability.
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HashiCorp Warns Traditional Secret Scanning Tools are Falling behind
HashiCorp has issued a warning that traditional secret scanning tools are failing to keep up with the realities of modern software development. In a new blog post, the company argues that post-commit detection and brittle pattern matching leave dangerous gaps in coverage.
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10 AI-Related Standout Sessions at QCon San Francisco 2025
Join us at QCon San Francisco 2025 (Nov 17–21) for a three-day deep dive into the future of software development, exploring AI’s transformative impact. As a program committee member, I’m excited to showcase tracks that tackle real-world challenges, featuring industry leaders and sessions on AI, LLMs, and engineering mindsets. Don’t miss out!
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Seed4J 2.0 Delivers a Migration from JHipster Lite
The release of Seed4J 2.0 delivers a migration from JHipster Lite 1.35.0. Seed4J is a “modular code generator that helps developers bootstrap their applications with clarity, structure, and purpose.” Pascal Grimaud, creator of Seed4J and former co-leader of JHipster, spoke to InfoQ about this migration.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta Query and Spring Milestones, Open Liberty, Camel, Quarkus, Grails
This week's Java roundup for October 6th, 2025, features news highlighting: milestone releases of Jakarta Query 1.0, Spring AI 1.1 and Spring Batch 6.0; the October 2025 edition of Open Liberty; point releases of Quarkus, Apache Camel and JetBrains Ktor.
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PlanetScale Extends Database Platform to PostgreSQL
PlanetScale has announced the general availability of its managed sharded Postgres service, built for performance and reliability on AWS or Google Cloud. The launch extends PlanetScale's offerings to PostgreSQL users, adding to the company's existing popular MySQL-based platform built on top of Vitess.
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Cloudflare Achieves 99.99% Warm Start Rate for Workers with 'Shard and Conquer' Consistent Hashing
Cloudflare's innovative "Shard and Conquer" technique revolutionizes its serverless platform by slashing cold start rates by 90%. Utilizing a consistent hash ring, it routes traffic efficiently, keeping Workers warm and minimizing latency. Enhanced for larger applications, this approach ensures optimal performance while accommodating user demands for richer functionalities.
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11 Sessions Not to Miss at QCon San Francisco 2025
As QCon San Francisco (Nov 17-21, 2025) approaches, the conference's program committee and track hosts are sharing their top picks from this year's lineup. Their selections span a wide range of topics, from AI-accelerated development and platform engineering to resilience patterns and career growth, all with QCon's signature focus on real-world case studies and lessons learned.
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Uber Achieves 150M Reads per Second with CacheFront Improvements
Uber has updated its CacheFront architecture to handle over 150 million reads per second. The new design improves consistency and reduces stale reads by integrating Flux for MySQL binlog tailing, enhancing the storage engine, and introducing Cache Inspector for monitoring and optimization.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 26 Release Schedule, GlassFish, Spring AI, Helidon, Mandrel 25, Seed4j
This week's Java roundup for September 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3; the proposed JDK 26 release schedule; the release of Mandrel 25 and Seed4j; milestone releases of GlassFish 8.0 and 7.1; the beta release of WildFly 38; and point releases of Spring AI, Helidon, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Gatherers4j and Keycloak.
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New DNS Armor Service Helps Google Cloud Workloads Preemptively Block Cyber Threats
Google Cloud's DNS Armor, in partnership with Infoblox, offers a vital layer of security against DNS-based threats for Google Cloud workloads. Utilizing advanced threat detection and machine learning, it identifies and mitigates risks like malware and data exfiltration, ensuring robust protection without impacting performance. Deployable as a managed service providing seamless control for users.
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Agoda Leverages ChatGPT in the CI/CD Process for SQL Stored Procedure Optimization
Agoda started utilizing ChatGPT to optimize SQL stored procedures (SP) as part of their CI/CD process. After introducing the automated LLM-assisted step, the company observed shortened stored procedure optimization times, which lightened the load on DB developers. Agora works on making ChatGPT more accessible for SP optimization outside of the CI/CD pipeline.
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Instagram Improves Engagement by Reducing Notification Fatigue with New Ranking Framework
Meta has introduced a diversity-aware ranking framework for Instagram notifications. The system applies multiplicative penalties to reduce repetitive alerts from the same creators or product surfaces, improving engagement while maintaining relevance and introducing content variety.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Liberica NIK, Spring AI Milestone, Open Liberty, JobRunr, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for September 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs Lazy Constants (Second Preview) and Structured Concurrency (Sixth Preview); BellSoft Liberica Native Image Toolkit 25; the October 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the second milestone release of Spring AI 1.1.0; and point releases of JobRunr, LangChain4j and Quarkus.
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Imagine Learning Highlights Linkerd’s Role in Cloud-Native Scale and Cost Savings
Innovative education technology provider Imagine Learning relies on Linkerd as the backbone of its cloud-native infrastructure, enabling rapid growth and ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. With over 80% reduction in compute needs and a 40% cut in networking costs, Linkerd offers a proven solution that enhances efficiency across diverse sectors.