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Fullstack TypeScript on AWS: Amplify Gen 2 Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amplify Gen 2, a “code-first developer experience” that enables TypeScript and JavaScript developers to build and deploy fullstack applications on AWS.
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NIST Launches Program to Discriminate How Far from "Human-Quality" are Gen AI Generated Summaries
NIST launched a public Gen AI evaluation program for systems developed by the international research community. The pilot program focuses on systems that can generate human-like summaries from multiple documents, or discriminators to identify whether a summary was AI-generated. For now, information about text-to-text modality is available. The registration closes in May.
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Kotlin 2.0 Launched with New, Faster, More Flexible K2 Compiler
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.0 along with the new K2 compiler. While the language itself introduces no new syntax, the K2 compiler brings several benefits, including faster builds, extended analysis capabilities with smart casts, and multiplatform support out of the box.
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Java News Roundup: Java Turns 29, Kotlin 2.0, Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0, More OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 20th, 2024, features news highlighting: Java’s 29th birthday; the release of Kotlin 2.0 and Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0; JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), targeted for JDK 23; and four JEPs proposed to target for JDK 23.
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JEP 477 Enhances Beginner Experience with Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods
JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), has been promoted to Targeted status. This JEP proposes to "evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs." This JEP moves forward Brian Goetz's September 2022 blog post, Paving the on-ramp.
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Spring Ecosystem Releases Focus on Spring Boot, Spring Session and Spring Security
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of May 20th, 2024, highlighting GA releases of: Spring Boot 3.3.0, Spring Security 6.3.0, Spring Session 3.3.0 and Spring Integration 1.3.0.
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Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Bicep Templates Support for Microsoft Graph
Microsoft announced that the Bicep templates for Microsoft Graph resources will be in public review starting May 21st. Bicep templates simplify the deployment of Microsoft Graph resources, allowing for efficient infrastructure definition and repeated deployments using declarative syntax, well-suited for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.11 Preview 1: Pull Requests, Debugging, Profiler and More Improvements
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.11 Preview 1. This release contains features regarding pull requests, default shortcuts, debugging and the Visual Studio profiler. Additionally, the new release introduces enhancements for *.vsconfig files.
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Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Flex Consumption Plan for Azure Functions at Build
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the flex consumption plan for Azure Functions, which brings users fast and large elastic scale, instance size selection, private networking, availability zones, and higher concurrency control.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Bedrock Studio for Building Generative AI Applications
AWS has recently announced Amazon Bedrock Studio, a web interface for developers to collaborate and build generative AI applications. Currently in public preview, the rapid prototyping environment provides access to multiple foundation models, knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails.
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QCon London: a Tale of Team Topologies at m3ter
At QCon London 2024, Ricardo Nuno Almeida spoke about adapting Team Topologies at m3ter. Almeida, senior software engineering manager at m3ter, spoke about how adaptability proved crucial to success and ran through m3ter's journey of evolving team topologies to meet growth demands and changing priorities.
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Google Brings Gemini Nano to Chrome to Enable On-Device Generative AI
At its Google I/O 2024 developer conference, Google announced it is working to make support for on-device large language models a reality by bringing the smallest of its Gemini models, Gemini Nano, to Chrome.
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New Relic Release April 2024 Java Report
New Relic has launched the Spring 2024 edition of their report on the state of the Java ecosystem. This report is different from all of the developer studies because it is based on directly-reported data from millions of production JVMs, and is not self-reported.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Save up to 60% with Our Special Memorial Day Sale
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Amazon EC2 C7i-flex Instances: Price-Performance Benefits for Compute-Intensive Workloads
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, which, according to the company, deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances.