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Feature Gates in Client-Go: Enhancing Control and Simplifying Feature Adoption in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library, providing developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption within their Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes components utilize the client-go library for API interaction. This library is also widely adopted across the Kubernetes ecosystem for building extensions like controllers, tools, and webhooks.
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AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has introduced Graviton4-powered EC2 X8g instances, featuring up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. With 3x improved memory and network bandwidth, plus enhanced security, these instances offer unmatched performance and value. Ideal for databases, big data analytics, and more, X8g sets a new standard in cloud computing.
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Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET
Microsoft launched Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET, streamlining access to generative AI models in the Azure AI Studio model catalog. This catalog includes models from providers like Azure OpenAI Service, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face, organized into three collections: Curated by Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Models, and Open Models from Hugging Face Hub.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-Built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios
Microsoft's Logic Apps (Standard) now features public preview template support, empowering developers with a library of pre-built workflows for diverse integration scenarios. Designed to simplify application management, templates offer detailed workflow insights and customizability. Aiming for GA by year-end, Microsoft encourages community participation to enhance this evolving resource.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
This week's Java roundup for September 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of JDK 23 and GraalVM for JDK 23; an update on Jakarta EE 11 and plans for Jakarta EE 12; introducing Micronaut GraalPy; and Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK 24.08.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 16th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift across Platforms
While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platforms where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.
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Jetpack Compose Embraces Adaptive UIs with Compose Material 3 Adaptive
Compose Material 3 Adaptive, a library meant to create adaptive UIs able to adapt themselves automatically according to the current window size or device orientation, has reached 1.0 and is ready to be used in production apps.
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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Spotify's Dashboard Portal: Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making through Quality and Accessibility
Spotify recently explained their Dashboard Quality Framework, a standardized practice to ensure the accuracy and consistency of dashboards across the organization. The internal Dashboard Portal powered by the Dashboard Quality Framework enables the users to easily search for existing dashboards across the organization.
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Google Proposes Adding Pipe Syntax to SQL
In a recent paper titled "SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them", a research team at Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL. Google's solution to address perceived limitations in SQL is currently available in the GoogleSQL and ZetaSQL dialects, but it has received mixed feedback from the community.
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.NET 9 Release Candidate 1: Approaching Final Release with Updates across the Framework
Last week, Microsoft released the first release candidate for the upcoming .NET 9 framework, which includes a range of updates across its core components, such as the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks like ASP.NET Core and .NET MAUI.
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AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks like LLM training and simulations, they offer improved scalability and cost-efficiency, making them pivotal for modern cloud computing.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default and Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal - are final features without having gone through the preview process.