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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.
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New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript
The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reactive programming patterns. It reflects input from authors/maintainers of Angular, Ember, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Svelte, Vue.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, JHipster 8.5, Gradle 8.8, Spring AI 1.0-M1
This week's Java roundup for May 27th, 2024, features news highlighting: four JEPs targeted for JDK 23, namely: JEP 482, Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview), JEP 481, Scoped Values (Third Preview), JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview) and JEP 471, Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in Unsafe for Removal; and the releases of JHipster 8.5, Gradle 8.8 and Spring AI 1.0-M1.
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AWS Cloud Control Terraform Provider Enables Quicker Access to AWS Features
HashiCorp has moved the AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider to general availability. The AWSCC provider is automatically generated based on the Cloud Control API published by AWS, implying that new AWS features can be supported in Terraform upon their release.
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Google Cloud Introduces Customizable Dashboards
Google Cloud has recently expanded its customizable observability dashboards to over 10 services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, MySQL System Insights, and a few others.
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AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times
AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate. Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy. The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times.
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Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available
Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.
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The Deno Team Releases JSR, a New JavaScript Package Registry
The Deno team recently beta released JSR, a new JavaScript registry that strives to better fit the current needs of modern development and unify a fragmented JavaScript ecosystem. In particular, JSR embraces ESM (JavaScript native modules), natively accepts TypeScript packages, and supports major JavaScript runtimes (e.g., Node, Deno, Bun, browsers, miscellaneous serverless environments).
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University of Washington AI-Powered Headphones Let Users Listen to a Single Person in a Crowd
"Target speech hearing" is a new deep-learning algorithm developed at the University of Washington to allow users to "enroll" a speaker and cancel all environmental noise surrounding their voice.
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.NET 8+ on Ubuntu 24.04: Official Release with Collaborative Support
Ubuntu 24.04 has launched with a .NET release available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds, making it immediately usable. Container images for .NET 8+ are available, including noble, noble-chiseled, and noble-chiseled-extra flavors. Additionally, .NET 6 and 7 are accessible through the dotnet/backports repository.
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How to Scale Agile Software Development with Technology and Lean
Agile software development can be done at scale with the use of technology like self-service APIs, infrastructure provisioning, real-time collaboration software, and distributed versioning systems. Lean can complement and scale an agile culture with techniques like obeyas, systematic problem-solving, one-piece-flow and takt time, and kaizen.
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General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
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OpenSilver 2.2 Migrates LightSwitch Applications
The latest version of OpenSilver 2.2, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, includes support for migrating applications created with Visual Studio LightSwitch that targeted Silverlight.
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Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java with Zero Native Dependencies
Recently, multiple languages have begun supporting compilation to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing developers to build real polyglot systems. Chicory is a Wasm interpreter for the JVM with zero native dependencies and can run on any JVM. As wazero in the Go ecosystem, Chicory promises developers to safely interact with libraries written in any language supported by the Wasm ecosystem.
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CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
The Green Web Foundation published a new release of CO2.js, a JavaScript library that enables developers to access the Green Web API and estimate the carbon emissions associated with their apps, websites, and software. CO2.js supports developers who want to create a carbon budget for their site or include carbon footprint estimation in monitoring tools.