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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Arc-Enabled SQL
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability as per the end of July of Azure Arc-enabled SQL, which extends the Azure SQL instances to be hosted on an edge data center or in a multi-cloud environment. An Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance has near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server database engine.
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GitHub Previews Copilot, an OpenAI-Powered Coding Assistant
GitHub recently announced Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer designed to help developers write code faster and with less effort. The service learns from comments and existing code, suggesting new lines and the implementation of whole functions.
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Performance-Focused Reactive UI Framework Solid.JS Releases First Major Version
Solid.js, a reactive JavaScript UI library, released its first major iteration. Solid replicates many capabilities (e.g., server-side rendering, concurrent rendering) and APIs (e.g., stores, context, directives) present in other frameworks. Developers map the appearance and behavior of user interfaces to a set of reactive dependencies. Solid compiles the statements to imperative DOM operations.
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GitLab 14 Introduces Epic Boards, Improves Pipeline Editor and Kubernetes Agent, and More
With GitLab 14, GitLab is reaffirming its view of a unified DevOps platform integrating all the tools and tech stacks that are required by development teams. The latest release of the platform includes many new features meant to improve development velocity, application security, and analytics.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 28th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, GraalVM Native Build Tools, TornadoVM 0.10, the release of Quarkus 2.0 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.0, Apache Camel 3.11, Apache Wicket, Helidon, Micronaut Foundation, JReleaser 0.5.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1.3, Gradle 7.1.1, Hibernate, Scala, ASM and the Spring Framework.
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Visual Studio Code Boosts Java IDE Capabilities
According to surveys, 25% of Java developers use Microsoft’s free, cross-platform IDE Visual Studio Code. It recently became a more fully-fledged Java IDE: New welcome and configuration screens ease project set-up, new project and hierarchy views make navigation code easier, quality-of-life improvements save coding time, and the Spring framework & Microsoft Azure are better integrated now.
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What's New in SwiftUI 3
Apple is continuing to work to bring SwiftUI, its declarative UI framework for Swift, on a par with UIKit and AppKit. At WWDC 2021, SwiftUI got a number of new features, including extended List views, support for pull to refresh, asynchronous images, and more.
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Google Unveils New Firebase Features at Google/IO
At the recent Google I/O conference, Google introduced a new product in its Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service Firebase: App Check is a security layer for accessing other Firebase products. Existing Firebase products also improved: The local Emulator Suite now includes the file store Cloud Storage, the monolithic Web SDK will be modularized, and Performance Monitoring processes data in real-time.
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Fauna Introduces Fauna Labs to Help Developers Adopt Database Service
The company behind the Fauna transactional database has recently announced Fauna Labs, a collection of experimental tools to help developers integrate Fauna in their applications, including infrastructure as code and single sign-on application templates.
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AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs
Recently, AWS announced a global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million with AWS BugBust. The solution utilizes ML-powered developer tools - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler - to automatically scan code to weed out bugs, and gamifies fixing and eliminating them.
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Piral, a Modern React-Based Microfrontends Library
Piral is a JavaScript library for creating modular microfrontends application based on React.
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Microsoft Releases First Preview of Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022's first preview is now available , allowing developers to get their first hands-on look at the first 64-bit edition of the popular IDE. This preview primarily targets extension writers and those with large code bases, but adds notable new feature in IntelliCode.
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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption Transpiler
Google has open-sourced a general-purpose transpiler able to convert high-level code to be used with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.