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Swift 6 Brings New Opt-In Data-Race Safe Mode
In his WWDC 2024 talk, Apple's Languages and Runtimes team lead and Swift core team member Ted Kremenek introduced Swift 6 new data-race safe mode, which promises to help developers create concurrent programs free of data races thanks to a new compile-time static detector.
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How Data Mesh Platforms Connect Data Producers and Consumers
A challenge that companies often face when exploiting their data in data warehouses or data lakes is that ownership of analytical data is weak or non-existent, and quality can suffer as a result. A data mesh is an organizational paradigm shift in how companies create value from data where responsibilities go back into the hands of producers and consumers.
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Google Cloud Introduces Hierarchical Namespace for Cloud Storage in Preview
Google Cloud has announced a significant update to its Cloud Storage services by introducing the Hierarchical Namespace (HNS). Now available in preview, this new feature allows users to organize their storage buckets in a hierarchical file system structure, enhancing performance, consistency, and manageability.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
At InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) hype. The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI.
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High HTTP Scaling with Azure Functions Flex Consumption: Q&A with Thiago Almeida and Paul Batum
Microsoft has introduced a significant enhancement to its Azure Functions platform with the Flex Consumption plan, designed to handle high HTTP scale efficiently. This new plan supports customizable per-instance concurrency, allowing users to achieve high throughput while managing costs effectively. In practical tests, Azure Functions Flex demonstrated the ability to scale from zero to 32,000 RPS.
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ASP.NET Core 9 Preview 5: Static Web Optimization, Blazor Additions, New Project Template and More
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 5, introducing significant enhancements to ASP.NET Core. This update focuses on optimizing static web asset delivery and improving the Blazor Server reconnection experience, alongside new features for runtime detection of component render modes and various other improvements to the platform.
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Atlassian Announces Compass, a Developer Experience Platform
Atlassian recently announced Compass, a developer experience platform that enhances software architecture performance. Compass streamlines software architecture cataloging, integrating code repositories and toolchain data. Also, it sets the health standards for continuous improvement.
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Meta's Chameleon AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 on Mixed Image-Text Tasks
The Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta recently released Chameleon, a mixed-modal AI model that can understand and generate mixed text and image content. In experiments rated by human judges, Chameleon's generated output was preferred over GPT-4 in 51.6% of trials, and over Gemini Pro in 60.4%.
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JEP 456: Preparing for the Removal of Unsafe Memory-Access Methods
JEP 471, Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal, has been delivered for JDK 23. This JEP proposes to deprecate the memory access methods in the Unsafe class for removal in a future release. These unsupported methods have been superseded by standard APIs: JEP 193, Variable Handles, delivered in JDK 9; and JEP 454, Foreign Function & Memory API, delivered in JDK 22.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Jakarta EE 11 Specs, Open Liberty, Micronaut, Quarkus
This week's Java roundup for June 17th, 2024, features news highlighting: the Payara Platform release for June 2024; all 16 Jakarta EE 11 specifications having passed their respective reviews; Open Liberty 24.0.0.6; Micronaut 4.5.0; and two Quarkus point releases.
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Spring Ecosystem Releases Focus on Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 17th, 2024, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot 3.3.1 and 3.2.7; Spring Security 6.3.1, 6.2.5 and 5.8.13; Spring Session 3.3.1 and 3.2.4; and Spring Modulith 1.2.1, 1.1.6 and 1.0.9.
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Kubernetes 1.30 Released with Contextual Logging, Improved Performance, and Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.30, named Uwubernetes in April. The release introduced features such as recursive read-only mounts, job completion policy, and fast recursive SELinux label change.
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Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist
Described as a companion tool for all coding tasks, Swift Assist aims to help developers transform ideas into code and focus on higher-level problems. Powered by a model running in Apple's Cloud, Swift Assist is integrated into Xcode and is able to generate code from a prompt expressed in human language.
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Pinterest Shuts down One of the World's Largest HBase Deployments
The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
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NET MAUI Community Toolkit 9.0.0 Fixes Bugs, Adds CameraView
On May 3rd, 2024, Microsoft released version 9.0.0 of their open-source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. The new version improves the usage of the CompareConverter class and adds several bug fixes, one of which is a breaking change. The version was followed by out-of-band additions to the toolkit.