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Ubuntu Core 22 Brings Real-Time Compute Support for IoT Industrial Applications
The latest version of Canonical OS for IoT and embedded systems, Ubuntu Core 22, introduces real-time support for applications in robotics and industry.
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DeepMind Trains 80 Billion Parameter AI Vision-Language Model Flamingo
DeepMind recently trained Flamingo, an 80B parameter vision-language model (VLM) AI. Flamingo combines separately pre-trained vision and language models and outperforms all other few-shot learning models on 16 vision-language benchmarks. Flamingo can also chat with users, answering questions about input images and videos.
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Java News Roundup: NetBeans 14, End-of-Life for Spring Tool Suite 3, Hibernate 6.1, TornadoVM
This week's Java roundup for June 13th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Framework 5.3.21, Spring CVE-2022-22979 report, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M3, Spring Tools 4.15, end-of-life for Spring Tool Suite 3, Hibernate 6.1.0-Final, Apache NetBeans 14, Apache Tomcat 8.5.81, Piranha 22.6.0, TornadoVM 0.14, JDKMon updates, JobRunr 5.1.4, JReleaser early-access.
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Office Design for Hybrid Workplaces
With the shift from remote to hybrid work, organisations are rethinking office design with an understanding that what worked (or didn't work) in the pre-pandemic world does not work today. Office space needs to be redesigned to accommodate different ways of working and collaborating.
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Fitting Presto to Large-Scale Apache Kafka at Uber
The need for ad-hoc real-time data analysis has been growing at Uber. They run a large Apache Kafka deployment and need to analyse data going through the many workflows it supports. Solutions like stream processing and OLAP datastores were deemed unsuitable. An article was published recently detailing why Uber chose Presto for this purpose and what it had to do to make it performant at scale.
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PostgreSQL 14 Breaks the .NET and Java Drivers for PostgreSQL
In some circumstances, the new syntax in PostgreSQL 14 will break its official .NET and Java database driver, specifically, when using to create a SQL function using BEGIN ATOMIC ... END. If you are not modifying your database schema via Npgsql or PgJDBC, there’s no need to worry.
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Microsoft Launches New Storage Optimized VMs with Lasv3 and Lsv3
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of new storage-optimized Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs are the Lasv3 and Lsv3 series designed to run workloads requiring high throughput and IOPS, including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and data analytics engines.
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Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report: AMD Outperforms Intel
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report which evaluates the performance of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for common OLTP workloads. Differently from the past, this year’s report does not indicate a best overall provider, but concludes that AMD instances outperform Intel ones. ARM instances were not covered in the tests.
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OpenSSF Releases Fuzz Introspector to Improve C/C++ Fuzz Testing Coverage
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has just released a tool to improve fuzzing coverage by providing actionable insights to developers and helping them identify coverage blockers.
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MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances and Data API Now Generally Available
At the recent MongoDB World 2022 conference, MongoDB announced that serverless instances for Atlas and Data API are now generally available. The new managed serverless option introduces a tiered pricing, with automatic discounts on daily usage.
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Database Command Batching in .NET 6
.NET 6 adds the ability for ADO.NET database drivers to support efficient command batching using native protocols.
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JFrog Artifactory Supports Binary Dependencies for Swift
JFrog has announced its Artifactory repository can be used as a binary package registry for Swift dependencies using the Swift Package Manager.
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How to Become a Staff-Plus Engineer
If you are interested in becoming a staff-plus engineer, take time to explore your values and start discussing your career goals and ambitions with your manager. You can engage with engineering communities to develop your skills. Staff-plus engineers are able to lead tech people, where getting things done goes beyond their individual capacity to grow and mentor others.
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C# Warning Waves Hint at New Keywords in the Future
Like C# 9 and 10, C# 11 has quietly added a new compiler warning. This opt-in warning prevents the use of type names (e.g. classes, structs, and interfaces) that are all lowercase.
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Google's New Imagen AI Outperforms DALL-E on Text-to-Image Generation Benchmarks
Researchers from Google's Brain Team have announced Imagen, a text-to-image AI model that can generate photorealistic images of a scene given a textual description. Imagen outperforms DALL-E 2 on the COCO benchmark, and unlike many similar models, is pre-trained only on text data.