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Amazon Interactive Video Service Announces Real-Time Streaming
Amazon recently announced IVS Real-Time Streaming, a new option of the Interactive Video Service to deliver real-time live streams for latency-sensitive use cases. To address different network conditions for the viewers, IVS supports layered encoding (simulcast).
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Fluid Framework 2.0 Alpha Features SharedTree Distributed Data Structure and Developer Tools
Microsoft is readying version 2.0 of their Fluid Framework for real-time collaboration. The available alpha and internal releases add a new object-oriented shared data structure and browser-based developer tooling.
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Cost-Effective Solution for Infrequent Data Access and Retention with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier, an online tier designed explicitly for efficiently storing infrequently accessed or modified data while ensuring immediate availability.
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Grails 6.0 Released: Embracing Modern Java, Enhanced Micronaut Integration, and More
The Grails Foundation has released version 6.0 of Grails, delivering a minimal JDK 11 version; support for Spring Framework 5.3.28, Spring Boot 2.7.12, and Gradle 7.6.1; the debut of Grails Forge UI, a starter project similar to Spring Initializr, and others; and enhanced integration of the Micronaut Framework.
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Redis 7.2 Now Available with Scalable Search, Auto Tiering, Triggers and Functions
Redis Inc recently announced the unified release of Redis 7.2, which includes several new features like auto-tiering, native triggers, and a preview of an enhanced, scalable search capability that provides increased performance for query and search scenarios, including vector similarity search (VSS).
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.NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 with Keyboard Accelerators, Fixes and Improvements
.NET MAUI is now available in .NET 8 Preview 7. This version introduces keyboard accelerators and more bug fixes and enhancements. This is the final familiarisation release of .NET 8. With this announcement came further community concerns about the framework.
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Golem Unveils a Resilient Computing Platform for Serverless Workers with WebAssembly Component Model
Recently Golem released its flagship product Golem Cloud, a durable computing platform allowing developers to build and deploy long-running, stateful serverless workers that are resistant to failures, upgrades, and updates. The product is currently in developer preview.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 RC1, Apache Camel 4.0, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 14th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, Apache Camel 4.0.0, Payara Platform and point and milestone releases of: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Modulith, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Project Reactor, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster React Native, JBang, Piranha, Byte Buddy, JobRunr, Arquillian and Gradle.
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Obituary: Stefan Tilkov
With great sadness, we announce that former InfoQ editor and CEO/co-founder of INNOQ Stefan Tilkov has unexpectedly passed away. Tilkov was a regular presenter on the global software development conference circuit, a well-known technical writer, and a mentor to many.
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Pinterest Revamps Its Asynchronous Computing Platform with Kubernetes and Apache Helix
Pinterest created the next-generation asynchronous computing platform, Pacer, to replace the older solution, Pinlater, which the company outgrew, resulting in scalability and reliability challenges. The new architecture leverages Kubernetes for scheduling job-execution workers and Apache Helix for cluster management.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 with .NET and C++ Development Features, Performance Improvements, and More
Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback. There are new features within .NET and C++ development as well as these ones that improve overall performance. The latest version is available for download.
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Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations
Recently AWS announced the general availability of faster standard retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. According to the company, the retrieval can be up to 85% faster and applies to the Standard retrieval tier when using S3 Batch Operations.
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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.