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Google's BigQuery Introduces Column-Level Encryption Functions and Dynamic Masking of Information
Google recently released new features for its SaaS data warehouse BigQuery which include column level encryption functions and dynamic masking of information. Specifically, dynamic masking of information can be used for real-time transactions whereas column level encryption provides additional security for data at rest or in motion where real-time usability is not required.
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LinkedIn Open-Sourced Its Feature Store to Evangelize Productive Machine Learning
LinkedIn Engineering recently open-sourced its feature store Feathr, which helps engineers to develop machine Learning products by simplifying feature management and usage in production. It defines features, computes them for training and inference purposes, and makes them discoverable by other machine learning developers.
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Amazon Unveils ML-Powered Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer
Amazon launched CodeWhisperer, an ML-Powered Coding Companion which provides code recommendations based on developers' comments in natural language and their code in the integrated development environment. The machine learning-powered service increases developer productivity.
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VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ Promise to Bring the Benefits of the Cloud to On-Premises Workloads
Recently announced, VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ integrate Kubernetes with VMware virtualization technology to help transform on-premises workloads into SaaS-enabled infrastructure and simplify its management and evolution, says VMware.
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Adobe Researchers Open-Source Image Captioning AI CLIP-S
Researchers from Adobe and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have open-sourced CLIP-S, an image-captioning AI model that produces fine-grained descriptions of images. In evaluations with captions generated by other models, human judges preferred those generated by CLIP-S a majority of the time.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, JReleaser, Quarkus, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Apache Beam
It was relatively quiet in the Java community during the week of June 27th, 2022, which features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Cloud 2020.0.6, Quarkus 2.10.1, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.40.0, JReleaser 1.1.0, Hibernate ORM 6.1.1, Apache Beam 2.40.0 and Apache Camel 3.14.4.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.
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Git 2.37 Brings Built-in File Monitor, Improved Pruning, and More
Git 2.37 brings many new and improved features, including a built-in file system monitor on Windows and macOS, better unreachable objects management, improved external diff, faster git add, and more.
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Dropbox Unplugs Data Center to Test Resilience
Dropbox has published a detailed account of why and how they unplugged an entire data center to test their disaster readiness. The disaster readiness team began building tools to make performing frequent failovers possible, and ran their first formalized failover in 2019. Eventually, with new tooling and procedures, the data center was unplugged. This provided a significantly reduced RTO.
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Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams
When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. Asking team members to provide information or fill in fields in tools adds a burden and distorts reality. Setting up observability in the software can provide alternative insights in a less intrusive way. Observability in the software can be an asset to organizing teams.
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Trivago’s Journey from PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript
Trivago’s platform was built using PHP and their Melody framework. A small number of engineers at Trivago maintained Melody, which was a continuity risk. Melody’s documentation and examples could not be as rich as desired due to a lack of capacity, making engineer onboarding and support much more difficult. Trivago then decided to rewrite its platform on Typescript using Next.js.
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Project Leyden Delays OpenJDK AOT Compiler, Optimizes JIT Compiler Instead
The goal of Project Leyden is to address “Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there by reintroducing Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation into OpenJDK. But it just pivoted to first optimize Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation. Oracle's Graal project has already achieved Project Leyden’s goal, but at a cost that Leyden wants to avoid for now.
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Uber Introduces a Universal Signup and Login Stack
Uber recently introduced Unified Signup and Login (USL), an effort to consolidate signup and login experiences across all Uber apps and services. USL lowers the engineering complexity and maintenance overhead and allows faster rollout of security policies and fixes. Over the last two years, Uber rolled out USL and currently, more than 78% of Uber's traffic has adopted USL.
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New PACMAN Vulnerability Affecting Apple Silicon CPUs
Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downplayed the severity of this finding, the researchers hint at the fact that PACMAN brings an entire new class of attacks.
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AWS and Microsoft Working Together on PyWhy, the New Home of Causal ML Library DoWhy
AWS in a joint effort with Microsoft have established PyWhy as a fresh GitHub organization to integrate AWS algorithms into DoWhy, a casual ML library from Microsoft, which has moved to PyWhy.