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Aurora Limitless: AWS Introduces New PostgreSQL Database with Automated Horizontal Scaling
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a relational database designed to provide automated horizontal scaling. This new option can handle millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data, all within a single database environment.
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DevProxy 0.22 Improves API Permission Checks
Microsoft has released version 0.22 of DevProxy, an API simulation command-line tool. The new version improves logging and detects minimal permissions without the need for Azure API centre.
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Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Boot 3.4 Improve Containers, Actuators Ahead of New 2025 Generations
Broadcom released Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Boot 3.4, keeping the Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9 baselines. Spring Boot 3.4 has structured logging, adds container images to Docker Compose and Testcontainers, and improves container building and actuators. Broadcom announced Spring Framework 7 & Spring Boot 4 for 2025 with Java 17 and Jakarta 11. InfoQ spoke to Juergen Hoeller and Sébastien Deleuze.
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How to Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms and Practices
By focusing on the users, platform development teams can ensure that they build a platform that tackles the true needs of developers, Ana Petkovska said at QCon London. In her talk, Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices, she shared what their Developer Experience (DevEx) group looks like and what products and services they provide.
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ASP.NET Core 9: Enhancements in Static Asset Handling, Blazor, SignalR, and OpenAPI Support
Microsoft has released .NET 9, which contains features regarding ASP.NET Core 9. This latest release focuses on optimizing static asset handling, refining Blazor's component interaction, enhancing SignalR's observability and performance, and streamlining API documentation through built-in OpenAPI support.
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QCon SF: Mandy Gu on Using Generative AI for Productivity at Wealthsimple
Mandy Gu spoke at QCon SF 2024 about how Wealthsimple, a Canadian fintech company, uses Generative AI to improve productivity. Her talk focused on the development and evolution of their GenAI tool suite and how Wealthsimple crossed the "Trough of Disillusionment" to achieve productivity.
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Microsoft Introduces Long-Awaited Local Emulator for Azure Service Bus
Microsoft has unveiled a local Azure Service Bus emulator, transforming the way developers create and test applications. This tool eliminates cloud dependencies and costs, offering a streamlined development cycle and precise debugging in an isolated environment. Compatible with the latest SDKs, it empowers developers to innovate efficiently while ensuring reliable application communication.
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High-Performance Serverless with Rust: Insights from Benjamen Pyle’s Talk at QCon San Francisco
Benjamen Pyle's talk showcased the power of combining Rust with AWS Lambda for high-performance, scalable, serverless applications. He highlighted Rust's safety and efficiency and its ability to minimize cold start times and costs. Pyle emphasized best practices like multi-Lambda designs and infrastructure like code, enabling developers to build solutions that drive efficiency and sustainability.
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Timescale Bolsters AI-Ready PostgreSQL with pgai Vectorizer
Timescale recently expanded its PostgreSQL AI offerings with pgai Vectorizer. This update enables developers to create, store, and manage vector embeddings alongside relational data without the need for external tools or additional infrastructure.
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.NET MAUI 9 Launched with Better Performance, New Controls
On November 12th, Microsoft presented the .NET MAUI 9 in its final form. This version brings two new controls (HybridWebView and TitleBar), a slew of improvements throughout the framework, free SyncFusion controls and a Xcode sync tool for Apple-specific files. The performance and stability of the entire framework has been enhanced.
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QCon SF: Large Scale Search and Ranking Systems at Netflix
Moumita Bhattacharya spoke at QCon SF 2024 about state-of-the-art search and ranking systems. She gave an overview of the typical structure of these systems and followed with a deep dive into how Netflix created a single combined model to handle both tasks.
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Carle Lerche Talking at QCon SF about Rust: a Productive Language for Writing Database Applications
Discover how Rust is evolving beyond its systems programming roots to become a viable option for high-level applications. Carl Lerche, AWS principal engineer, showcased its productivity and safety for database-backed systems. Embrace Rust’s potential with innovative tools like Toasty and join the movement to enhance its growing ecosystem for ambitious backend development.
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How Recall.ai Saved $1M on AWS by Eliminating WebSockets
Recall.ai recently shared their experience running a platform for building and managing meeting bots on AWS, where they uncovered that using WebSockets was adding an extra 1M USD per year in costs. The team describes how they developed an alternative high-bandwidth, low-latency inter-process communication (IPC) solution to resolve the issue.
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QCon SF: Using Metaflow to Support Diverse ML Systems at Netflix
At QCon SF 2024, David Berg and Romain Cledat gave a talk about how Netflix uses Metaflow, an open-source framework, to support a variety of ML systems. The pair gave an overview of Metaflow's design principles and illustrated several of Netflix's use cases, including media processing, content demand modeling, and meta-models for explaining models.
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How Uber Sped up SQL-based Data Analytics with Presto and Express Queries
Uber uses Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to provide analytics across several data sources, including Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, MySQL, and Apache Kafka. To improve its performance, Uber engineers explored the advantages of dealing with quick queries, a.k.a. express queries, in a specific way and found they could improve both Presto utilization and response times.