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Google Spanner Unifies OLTP and OLAP with Columnar Engine
Google Spanner now features a columnar engine, allowing its distributed database to handle both OLTP and OLAP workloads on a single platform. This hybrid architecture eliminates the need for separate data warehouses and ETL pipelines. The engine's columnar storage and vectorized execution accelerate analytical queries up to 200x on live data, which is especially beneficial for AI applications.
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Android Studio Narwhal Extends Gemini AI Capabilities
The latest Android Studio Narwhal 3 Feature Drop introduces enhancements aimed at boosting developer productivity, including support for resizable Compose previews, new app Backup & Restore tools, and expanded Gemini capabilities such as automatic code generation from UI screenshots.
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Researcher Unearths Thousands of Leaked Secrets in GitHub’s “Oops Commits”
Security researcher Sharon Brizinov, in collaboration with Truffle Security, has conducted a sweeping investigation of GitHub's "oops commits", force-pushed or deleted commits that remain archived, and uncovered thousands of secrets left behind, including high-value tokens and admin-level credentials
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How Sociotechnical Design Can Improve Architectural Decisions
Sociotechnical design in software development emphasizes creating systems where people and technology thrive by fostering collaboration, emergent coherence, and shared understanding through enabling constraints, leading not only to improved architecture but also to more effective, adaptive, and fulfilling work.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025: Master the 'How' with Deep-Dive, Practitioner-Led Guidance
At InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Oct 15-16), learn directly from the senior engineers building complex systems. This practitioner-led conference offers deep dives on real-world implementation patterns from software leaders at Allianz, Skyscanner, Zalando, and Delivery Hero.
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Amazon EKS Enables Ultra-Scale AI/ML Workloads with Support for 100K Nodes per Cluster
Amazon Web Services has announced a significant breakthrough in container orchestration with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supporting clusters with up to 100,000 nodes, a 10x increase from previous limits.
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with Advanced Editing and Consistency Features
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (nicknamed nano-banana), its newest image generation and editing model. The system introduces several upgrades over earlier Flash models, including character consistency across prompts, multi-image fusion, precise prompt-based editing, and integration of world knowledge for semantic understanding.
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LinkedIn Re-Architects Edge-Building System to Support Diverse Inference Workflows
LinkedIn has detailed its re-architected edge-building system, an evolution designed to support diverse inference workflows for delivering fresher and more personalized recommendations to members worldwide. The new architecture addresses growing demands for real-time scalability, cost efficiency, and flexibility across its global platform.
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DeepSeek Releases v3.1 Model with Hybrid Reasoning Architecture
DeepSeek has released version V3.1 of its large language model, introducing a hybrid architecture that combines thinking and non-thinking modes in a single system.
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Hugging Face Releases Trackio, a Lightweight Open-Source Experiment Tracking Library
Hugging Face has introduced Trackio, a new open-source Python library for experiment tracking designed to be lightweight, transparent, and easy to integrate. Built as a drop-in replacement for Weights & Biases (wandb), Trackio offers local dashboards by default and seamless syncing with Hugging Face Spaces for sharing and collaboration.
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Agentic AI Expands into SecOps to Ease Human Workloads
Agentic AI is beginning to reshape malware detection and broader security operations. These systems are being used not to replace humans, but to take on the lower value jobs that have historically tied up analysts — from triaging alerts to reverse-engineering suspicious files.
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Java News Roundup: Groovy 5.0, Project Leyden, Helidon MCP, JReleaser, LangChain4j, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for August 25th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Apache Groovy; a new early-access build of Project Leyden; introducing the Helidon MCP server; point releases of JReleaser, LangChain4j, Quarkus, Camel Quarkus; the beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.9; and the first alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1.0.
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Node.js Moves Toward Stable TypeScript Support With Amaro 1.0
The Node.js team recently released Amaro v1.0.0, a significant milestone towards stable TypeScript support. Amaro is Node’s official type-stripping loader and is a key stepping stone towards official .ts loading.
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Advanced Autoscaling Helps Companies Reduce AWS Costs by 70%
The next generation of Kubernetes autoscaling techniques and tools is enabling organisations to make substantial cost savings in their cloud infrastructure. Svetlana Burninova recently used Karpenter to build a multi-architecture EKS cluster and managed a 70% reduction in cost whilst also improving performance.
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IBM and NASA Trained the First Foundational Model for Heliophysics
Surya is a 366M-parameter model created by IBM and NASA to forecast solar activity, including flare events, solar winds, and precursors to solar eruptions, which can significantly impact astronaut safety in space as well as terrestrial systems such as communications, power distribution, and more.