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Agile Alliance Joins the Project Management Institute
The Agile Alliance has officially joined the Project Management Institute (PMI), forming the PMI Agile Alliance. The partnership aims to enhance global project management by integrating Agile principles with PMI's resources and reach. While many celebrate the opportunities for collaboration, development and innovation, critics express concerns about the potential dilution of Agile values.
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Netflix Enhances Metaflow with New Configuration Capabilities
Netflix has introduced a significant enhancement to its Metaflow machine learning infrastructure: a new Config object that brings powerful configuration management to ML workflows. This addition addresses a common challenge faced by Netflix's teams, which manage thousands of unique Metaflow flows across diverse ML and AI use cases.
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vlt Introduces New JavaScript Package Manager and Serverless Registry
Introducing **vlt**, a groundbreaking open-source JavaScript package manager by former npm team members. Designed as an intuitive drop-in replacement, vlt simplifies dependency management with an innovative query selector and new export formats. Alongside it, **vsr** offers a fair-source serverless registry for enhanced package access control. Embrace the future of JS tooling!
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Learnings from Internal Tool Migrations to Support Software Engineering Efficiency
In her presentation at QCon San Francisco, Ying Dai shared two critical software engineering migration stories - one focused on production monitoring and the other on production deployments with automated validations. Both migrations were driven by the goal of enhancing engineering efficiency, but each came with its own challenges and lessons.
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Amazon Launches High Memory U7inh EC2 Instance for Enhanced SAP HANA Workloads
AWS has unveiled the Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a game-changer for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, offering 32 TB of memory and 1,920 vCPUs. Designed with HPE, it doubles the performance of previous models, ensuring seamless integration in AWS. Maximize your SAP workloads in the cloud with enhanced speed and scalability.
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Meta Open-Sources Byte Latent Transformer LLM with Improved Scalability
Meta open-sourced Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a LLM architecture that uses a learned dynamic scheme for processing patches of bytes instead of a tokenizer. This allows BLT models to match the performance of Llama 3 models but with 50% fewer inference FLOPS.
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DX Unveils New Framework for Measuring Developer Productivity
Software development intelligence platform DX has introduced a new framework named DX Core 4, designed to help engineering leaders measure and improve developer productivity. The framework aims to simplify this task by building on older established frameworks like the DORA metrics and SPACE.
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Java News Roundup: GlassFish, Spring AI MCP, Grails, Helidon, JReleaser, Resilience4j, Arquillian
This week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 30th, 2024 features news highlighting: GlassFish 7.0.21; Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 and 0.3.0; Grails 6.2.3; Helidon 4.1.6; JReleaser 1.16.0; Resilience4j 2.3.0; and Arquillian 1.9.2.Final.
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Jakarta EE Working Group Delivers Core Profile for Jakarta EE 11
What was originally planned for a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 in July 2024, only the Core Profile was delivered in December 2024, 27 months after the release of Jakarta EE 10. The Platform and Web Profile will most-likely be released in 1Q2025. While some may characterize this as "just another significant delay," there were practical reasons for the change.
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.NET Application Porting with Amazon Q Developer AI-Powered Transformation Capabilities
AWS has launched Amazon Q Developer's generative AI capabilities, enabling .NET Framework applications to transition to cross-platform .NET up to four times faster, reducing licensing costs by 40%. With user-friendly automation, developers can modernize code and streamline compliance while leveraging the latest innovations.
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Hugging Face Smolagents is a Simple Library to Build LLM-Powered Agents
Smolagents is a library created at Hugging Face to build agents based on large language models (LLMs). Hugging Faces says its new library aims to be simple and LLM-agnostic. It supports secure "agents that write their actions in code" and is integrated with Hugging Face Hub.
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AWS Introduces S3 Tables Bucket: Is S3 Becoming a Data Lakehouse?
AWS has recently announced S3 Tables Bucket, managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads. According to the cloud provider, the new option delivers up to 3x faster query performance and up to 10x higher transaction rates for Apache Iceberg tables compared to standard S3 storage.
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NVIDIA Unveils Hymba 1.5B: a Hybrid Approach to Efficient NLP Models
NVIDIA researchers have unveiled Hymba 1.5B, an open-source language model that combines transformer and state-space model (SSM) architectures to achieve unprecedented efficiency and performance. Designed with NVIDIA’s optimized training pipeline, Hymba addresses the computational and memory limitations of traditional transformers while enhancing the recall capabilities of SSMs.
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Improving Threads' iOS Performance at Meta
An app's performance is key to make users want to use it, say Meta engineers Dave LaMacchia and Jason Patterson. This includes making it lightning-fast, battery-efficient, and reliable across a range of devices and connectivity conditions. In a recent article, they recounted their experience with the Threads app.
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LLaMA-Mesh: NVIDIA’s Breakthrough in Unifying 3D Mesh Generation and Language Models
NVIDIA researchers have introduced LLaMA-Mesh, a groundbreaking approach that extends large language models (LLMs) to generate and interpret 3D mesh data in a unified, text-based framework. LLaMA-Mesh tokenizes 3D meshes as plain text, enabling the seamless integration of spatial and textual information.