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Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
Now available to developers, the first beta of Android 14 focuses on privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customization. In addition, it improves user experience with large-screen devices on tablets and foldables.
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Spotify Reveals Metrics for Success of Developer Portal Backstage
Music streaming giant Spotify has recently shared how it measures the return on investment (ROI) of Backstage, its open platform for building developer portals. Hgh-frequency Backstage users deploy software more often and in less time, with higher perceived productivity, and employees using it also stay longer with the company.
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C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming
Microsoft has published the release post which covers the three exciting new features that will be included in the upcoming release of C# 12, the latest version of its popular programming language. These features include primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters.
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New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new data mapper for Azure Logic Apps available as a Visual Studio Code extension. The mapper capability is currently in public preview.
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Meta Open-Sourced AI Tool to Animate Child and Amateur Drawings of Human Figure
Based on a joint research by Meta AI Research, Tencent America, MIT CSAIL, and Carnegie Mellon, Meta released Animated Drawings, an AI-based tool to create animations from hand drawn human-like characters.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework
AWS recently released an update to the Well-Architected Framework. The new version strengthens prescriptive guidance with over 100 best practices updated across all six pillars of the framework.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: HuggingGPT, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Visual ChatGPT, and StableLM
The latest update for the week of April 17th, 2023, includes the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The spotlight this week is on top players like Hugging Face, AWS, Microsoft, and Stability AI, who have introduced groundbreaking innovations.
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QCon New York: Five Tracks to Level-up on the Latest Software Development Practices
The 2023 edition of the QCon New York (June 13-15) software development conference, hosted by InfoQ, is set to bring together over 800 senior software developers. The three-day conference will feature over 80 innovative senior software practitioners from early adopter companies sharing how they are solving current challenges, providing new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
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Boosting Quarkus Native Performance: Should You Stick with Space/Time or Switch to Adaptive GC?
Quarkus, the Kubernetes Native Java Framework, has switched its default garbage collection policy from space/time to adaptive GC for native runtime in version 2.13.6.Final. Adaptive GC is designed to trigger GCs aggressively in order to keep memory consumption low. This makes it effective in situations where a low memory footprint is essential, and it appears to perform better under heavy stress.
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AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10
AWS recently announced that Lambda supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and container base image, allowing developers to leverage the improvements and features of the runtime.
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Node.js 20 Released, Features Experimental Permission Model for Improved Security
The Node.js team recently released Node v20 (Current release). Node v20 will be ready for full production deployments after entering the long-term support (LTS) stage in October. Key features include an experimental permission model for improved security and building Node applications into standalone executables.
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Android Auto Now Supports IoT Apps Running in Cars
Android IoT apps enable running internet of things (IoT) apps in cars powered by Android Auto and Android Automotive. This will open up the possibility of controlling IoT devices like home security, lights, doors, and more, directly from within a car.
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What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact
Engineers in the tech industry have the means for social impact through their network, skills, and experience. Companies can create impact by making business practices socially-minded. Inclusive training considers the circumstances and backgrounds of individuals, with minimum entry barriers to ensure broad participation, including ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic background.
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Microsoft Offers More App Service Plans Choices
Microsoft recently announced two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier of Azure App Service.