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Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters, aligning with competitive offerings from AWS and Google Cloud.
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.NET 9 Release Candidate 1: Approaching Final Release with Updates across the Framework
Last week, Microsoft released the first release candidate for the upcoming .NET 9 framework, which includes a range of updates across its core components, such as the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks like ASP.NET Core and .NET MAUI.
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New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs
A new platform named sbomify has been announced to address the growing challenges businesses face in managing and sharing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). The platform aims to automate and simplify SBOM processes as regulatory requirements increase across industries.
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Stability AI Announces Integration of Top Text-to-Image Models with Amazon Bedrock
Stability AI has introduced three new text-to-image models to Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models focus on improving performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography. They are designed to generate high-quality visuals for various use cases in marketing, advertising, media, entertainment, retail, and more.
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AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks like LLM training and simulations, they offer improved scalability and cost-efficiency, making them pivotal for modern cloud computing.
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Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support
The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default and Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal - are final features without having gone through the preview process.
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Apple Open-Sources Multimodal AI Model 4M-21
Researchers at Apple and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have open-sourced 4M-21, a single any-to-any AI model that can handle 21 input and output modalities. 4M-21 performs well "out of the box" on several vision benchmarks and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
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ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-Alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More
Last week, Microsoft released the first Release Candidate of .NET 9. This is the first Go-live version of the new framework, expected to be released later this year, and it consolidates significant updates to ASP.NET Core. Among the new features are: Keep-alive timeout for WebSockets, support for Keyed DI services in middleware, and improvements to SignalR distributed tracing.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for September 9th, 2024, features news highlighting: the September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.0-M1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10.
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AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates complex simulations, empowering users to tackle challenging workloads effortlessly across multiple global regions.
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Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features. Karpenter, initially launched in November 2021, has evolved into a comprehensive Kubernetes-native node lifecycle manager.
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Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3
Amazon has recently announced the alpha release of Storage Browser for Amazon S3, providing end users with a simple interface for accessing data stored in S3. The project is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries.
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CoreWCF Gets Azure Storage Queue Bindings
Microsoft released a CoreWCF service library and a WCF client library with the bindings for Azure Storage Queue. The new bindings allow developers to use Azure Service Queues for reliable and scalable messaging solutions. They also unlock simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ WCF solutions to an Azure cloud-based architecture.