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The Frugal Architect: AWS Promotes Cost Awareness for Sustainability
Dr. Werner Vogels, AWS' CTO, dedicated the first part of his re:Invent keynote to discussing the laws of frugal architectures, cloud-native architectures aiming at delivering cost-aware, sustainable, and maintainable solutions. Vogels laid out seven simple laws based on his and AWS’ experience building and evolving cloud platform services, with cost implications as one of the primary drivers.
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InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston: Two Days of Talks for Senior Developers
InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now.
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AWS Announces Amazon Braket Direct: Reserve Dedicated Capacity on Different Quantum Devices
AWS recently announced the availability of Amazon Braket Direct, a new Amazon Braket program allowing quantum researchers to dive deeper into quantum computing.
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BellSoft Released Liberica with CRaC for Improved Startup Speed of Applications
BellSoft has released versions 17 and 21 Liberica JDK with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). This feature allows developers to create a snapshot of a running application at any point in time (checkpoint). This snapshot is then used to start the application in milliseconds by restoring the state of the application.
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Cloudflare's Journey in ML and AI: MLOps Platform and Best Practices
Cloudflare's blog described its MLOps platform and best practices for running Artificial Intelligence (AI) deployment at scale. Cloudflare's products, including WAF attack scoring, bot management, and global threat identification, rely on constantly evolving Machine Learning (ML) models. These models are pivotal in enhancing customer protection and augmenting support services.
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Oracle Java Platform Extension for VSCode Delivers Comprehensive Support for Java Applications
Oracle has introduced the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code for building, running and debugging Java applications using JDK 11 or newer on Visual Studio Code.
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Expedia Uses WebSockets and Kafka to Query Near Real-Time Streaming Data
Expedia created a solution to support querying the clickstream data from their platform in near-real time to enable their product and engineering teams to explore live data while working on new and enhancing existing data-driven functional use cases. The team used a combination of WebSockets, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL to allow streaming query results continuously to users’ browsers.
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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2: .NET MAUI, C++, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and More
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the last release concluding development efforts for 2023. This update builds upon the foundation provided by Preview 1 in November. Preview 2 brings improvements and new features regarding C++, .NET MAUI, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and many more.
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Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
Quarkus 3.7, planned for release in January 2024, will require Java 17 as the minimal JDK version to build and run applications. One of the reasons is the fact that the OpenJDK community stopped active support for Java 11 in September 2023. Next to that, Quarkus dependencies are also upgrading their baseline to Java 17.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
This week's Java roundup for December 11th, 2023, features news highlighting: OpenJDK early access releases, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Infinispan 15.0.0-Dev06, JHipster 8.1.0, Piranha 23.12.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M15, 10.1.17, 9.0.84 and 8.5.97 and the debut of the Payara Virtual Conference.
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Apple Open-sources Apple Silicon-Optimized Machine Learning Framework MLX
Apple's MLX combines familiar APIs, composable function transformations, and lazy computation to create a machine learning framework inspired by NumPy and PyTorch that is optimized for Apple Silicon. Implemented in Python and C++, the framework aims to provide a user-friendly and efficient solution to train and deploy machine learning models on Apple Silicon.
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AWS Exposes Free Tier API to Help Developers Avoid Unexpected Bills
AWS has recently introduced a Free Tier API allowing developers to check their AWS Free Tier usage and monitor progress toward the free tier limits. This API can be accessed directly through the AWS CLI or integrated into applications using the SDKs, reducing the chance of unexpected bills.
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Microsoft Released ML.NET 3.0: Deep Learning and Data Processing Improvements
ML.NET version 3.0 has been officially released, introducing new features and enhancements. Notably, deep learning capabilities have been significantly expanded with advancements in Object Detection, Named Entity Recognition, and Question Answering and more.
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Amazon RDS Now Supports IBM Db2
During the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced that Amazon RDS now offers support for IBM Db2, including both the Standard Edition and Advanced Edition. Db2 becomes the sixth engine supported by this managed database service, joining PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, and Oracle.
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JEP 423: Introducing Region Pinning to G1 Garbage Collector in OpenJDK
After its review concluded, JEP 423, Region Pinning for G1, has been Integrated into JDK 22. This JEP proposes to reduce GC latency by implementing region pinning for the G1 garbage collector. This will extend G1 so that arbitrary regions may be pinned during both major and minor collection operations, so that disabling the garbage collection process may be avoided while implementing JNI.