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Meta Open-Sources Pyrefly, a High-Performance Python Type Checker in Rust
Currently in alpha, Pyrefly is a new open-source Python type checker developed by Meta in Rust for maximum performance. Inspired by tools like Pyre, Pyright, and MyPy, Pyrefly is intended to replace the OCaml-based Pyre type checker previously used for Instagram's codebase.
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Java at 30: A Retrospective on a Language That Has Made a Big Impact
On May 23rd, 1995, at the Sun World conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems formally introduced the Java programming language. Oracle marked this milestone with a six-hour 30th birthday event on May 23rd, 2025, featuring many Java luminaries and special guests.
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Google DeepMind Unveils AI Coding Agent AlphaEvolve
Google DeepMind published a paper describing their AlphaEvolve coding agent. AlphaEvolve uses LLMs to discover and optimize algorithms across a range of domains, including hardware design, data center operations, and AI training.
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Apollo GraphQL Launches MCP Server: a New Gateway Between AI Agents and Enterprise APIs
Apollo GraphQL recently launched its MCP Server, enabling businesses to securely and efficiently integrate AI agents with existing APIs using GraphQL. The platform empowers teams to scale innovation and drive faster time-to-value from AI investments by reducing development overhead, improving governance, and accelerating AI feature delivery.
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Mistral Releases Devstral, an Open-Source LLM for Software Engineering Agents
Mistral AI announced the release of Devstral, a new open-source large language model designed to improve the automation of software engineering workflows, particularly in complex coding environments that require reasoning across multiple files and components.
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Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for May 19th, 2025, features news highlighting: Java’s 30th birthday; the release of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validator 9.0; the May 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and the introduction of Embabel, jaz, and Eclipse DataGrid.
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Can Open Source Projects Exit Foundations? How the NATS Controversy Unfolded
Last month, Synadia threatened to pull NATS from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), moving from the Apache 2.0 license to a non-open source license. While the dispute lasted only a few days, with both Synadia and CNCF agreeing that the project remains in the open source ecosystem, the dispute left many concerned about the long-term availability and support of open source projects.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service GA Introduces Multi-Agent Orchestration and Open Interoperability
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Agent Service has launched with robust, scalable features for building and managing AI agents. This versatile, use-case-agnostic platform supports multi-agent orchestration and integrates seamlessly with tools like Logic Apps and SharePoint. Developers can effortlessly create intelligent ecosystems for diverse applications, boosting productivity and innovation.
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Travel Giant Skyscanner Overhauls Observability, Cuts Telemetry Costs by 90%
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the engineering teams at travel search giant Skyscanner an opportunity to introspectively examine their observability stack. Skyscanner has written about how it has overhauled its approach to technical observability with a system that improves reliability for engineers and travellers alike.
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Spring News Roundup: GA Releases of Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of May 19th, 2025, highlighting GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring for GraphQL, Spring AI and Spring Web Services.
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Cisco Reveals JARVIS: an AI Assistant for Platform-Engineering Teams
Introducing JARVIS by Cisco, an AI-powered assistant revolutionizing platform-engineering workflows. With seamless integration across 40+ tools, JARVIS automates complex tasks, reducing project timelines from weeks to hours. Powered by a hybrid AI architecture, it ensures accuracy and reliability while enhancing productivity.
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Uber Completes Massive Kubernetes Migration for Microservices and Large-Scale Compute Workloads
Uber has successfully completed a large Kubernetes migration, transitioning its entire compute platform from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes across multiple data centers and cloud environments.
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Google Enhances LiteRT for Faster On-Device Inference
The new release of LiteRT, formerly known as TensorFlow Lite, introduces a new API to simplify on-device ML inference, enhanced GPU acceleration, support for Qualcomm NPU (Neural Processing Unit) accelerators, and advanced inference features.
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Redis Returns to Open Source under AGPL License: Is It Too Late?
Redis 8 has recently hit general availability, switching to the AGPLv3 license. A year after leaving its open source roots to challenge cloud service providers and following the birth of Valkey, Redis has rehired its creator and moved back to an open source license.
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Microsoft Announced Edit, New Open-Source Command-Line Text Editor for Windows at Build 2025
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Edit, a new open-source command-line text editor, to be distributed in the future as part of Windows 11. Edit aims to provide a lightweight native, modern command-line editing experience similar to Nano and Vim.