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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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OpenAI Releases Stable Version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support and API Enhancements
OpenAI has released the stable version of its official .NET library, following June's beta launch. Available as a NuGet package, it supports the latest models like GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, and the full OpenAI REST API. The release includes both sync and async APIs, streaming chat completions, and key-breaking changes for improved API consistency.
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Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements
Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing some upgrades, including full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. Alongside the HTTP/3 advancements, this release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features, and better handling of modern web protocols.
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Valkey 8.0 Now Generally Available with Improved Memory Efficiency
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.
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Microsoft Launches Public Preview of Azure FXv2-Series VMs for High-Performance Workloads
Microsoft launched the public preview of its new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines, designed for high-performance and compute-intensive workloads. Powered by the latest 5th Generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C processors, the FXv2-series includes two models: FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2, both offering significant enhancements over the previous FXv1-series.
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Compiler Explorer Provides Insights into Low-Level Android App Optimization
Android engineers at Google added support for the Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer, an open source tool aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time. Using Compiler Explorer, Android engineers can optimize the performance of their apps by observing how the compiler works under the hood instead of using a set of pre-defined best practices.
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Microsoft Releases Dev Proxy v0.21: New Features Enhance API Testing and Development Efficiency
Microsoft has announced the release of Dev Proxy v0.21, introducing several notable features. Among the key additions are the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2, the capability to quickly generate JWT tokens for testing, a new version of the toolkit, and other improvements.
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How to Improve Software Team Performance with Experimentation
According to Terhi Aho, experimentation is a way of thinking that guides action. By experimenting we can develop ways of working without a major change process. It can help software teams to solve problems in small steps, relieve their workload, and foster self-management.
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Google Develops Voice Transfer AI for Restoring Voices
A team at Google Research developed a zero-shot voice transfer (VT) model that can be used to customize a text-to-speech (TTS) with a specific person's voice. This allows speakers who have lost their voice, for example from Parkinson's disease or ALS, to use a TTS device to replicate their original voice. The model also works across languages.
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AWS Sunsets More Services, Including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway
In a series of blog posts, AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer. This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the cloud provider’s long-standing commitment to existing services.
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System Initiative Launches DevOps Platform to Address Cloud Stack Drift
System Initiative aims to tackle some long-standing problems in conventional industry practices for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. Specifically, existing solutions requiring static configurations for cloud infrastructure cannot reliably reflect fast-changing and dynamic cloud services, leading to "stack drift": unpredictability when engineers apply changes to infrastructure.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS for MySQL's zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning on transactional data. This powerful feature allows customized data replication from a single RDS database and facilitates seamless scalability, ensuring businesses gain insights while controlling costs and maintaining data freshness.
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Java News Roundup: Proposed Schedule for JDK 24, SecurityManager Disabled, Commonhaus Foundation
This week's Java roundup for September 23th, 2024, features news highlighting: the proposed release schedule for JDK 24; JEP 475, Late Barrier Expansion for G1, promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 24; JEP 486, Permanently Disable the Security Manager, promoted from its JEP Draft 8338625 to Candidate status; and Quarkus joining the Commonhaus Foundation.
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Intuit Engineering's Approach to Simplifying Kubernetes Management with AI
Intuit recently talked about how they managed the complexities of monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters using Generative AI (GenAI). The GenAI experiments were conducted to streamline detection, debugging, and remediation processes.
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Android 15 Brings Desktop-Like Windowing UX on Tablets
The latest Beta 2 for the upcoming Android 15 release introduces desktop windowing for tablets as a developer preview. The new feature makes it possible to manage "freeform windows" that users can create to display multiple apps and resize or move around similarly to what they would do on a desktop computer.