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ESLint Now Officially Supports CSS, JSON, and Markdown
Following up on plans to turn ESLint into a general-purpose linter, the ESLint team recently announced official support for the CSS language. The support comes in addition to recently added support for JSON and Markdown linting.
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JavaOne 2025 Day 1: Our World, Moved by Java
JavaOne 2025, celebrating the 30th birthday of the Java programming language, was held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This three-day event consisted of 80 sessions and hand-on labs, and two keynotes. Day One, scheduled on March 18th, 2025, included the opening keynote and presentations from various conference tracks.
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Dapr Agents: Scalable AI Workflows with LLMs, Kubernetes & Multi-Agent Coordination
Introducing Dapr Agents—a groundbreaking framework for creating scalable AI agents using Large Language Models (LLMs). With robust workflows, multi-agent coordination, and cloud-neutral architecture, it enables enterprises to deploy thousands of resilient agents. Built on Dapr’s proven infrastructure, Dapr Agents ensures reliability and observability in AI-driven applications.
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Applying DevOps Principles and Practices as a Quality Assurance Engineer
DevOps streamlines software development with automation and collaboration between development and IT teams for efficient delivery. According to Nedko Hristov, testers' curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to learn make them suited for DevOps. Failures can be approached with a constructive mindset; they provide growth opportunities, leading to improved skills and practices.
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AWS AppSync Events Adds Direct WebSocket Message Publishing
AWS has boosted AppSync Events with direct WebSocket message publishing, enhancing real-time communication. This serverless API facilitates seamless event broadcasting to numerous subscribers and simplifies development by allowing combined publishing and receiving via WebSocket. Discover a faster way to build engaging applications today!
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Inertia 2.0 Released, Now Supports Asynchronous Requests
The Inertia team recently released Inertia 2.0. New features include asynchronous requests, deferred props, prefetching, and polling. Asynchronous requests enable concurrency, lazy loading, and more.
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Gemini Code Assist Now Grants Generous Free-Usage Limits to Everyone
Born as an enterprise-focused AI-based code generation tool, Gemini Code Assist now provides a free tier to individual developers with a limit of 6,000 code completions and 240 chat requests daily.
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Uber Boosted Performance with Go's Profile-Guided Optimization
Profile-guided optimization (PGO) has emerged as a powerful technique for improving application performance by using runtime data to inform compiler decisions. In a recent implementation, Uber collaborated with Google to integrate PGO into Golang, resulting in significant performance improvements and resource savings across their service fleet.
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Cloudflare Launches Media Transformations: Optimizing Short-Form Video
Cloudflare’s Media Transformations simplifies video optimization for short-form content, eliminating complex pipelines and allowing users to enhance videos directly from their existing storage. With URL-based parameters for automation, it offers features like format conversion and frame extraction. Currently in beta, it's free until Q3 2025 and aims to streamline workflows across platforms.
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Java 24 Delivers New Experimental and Many Final Features
Oracle has released version 24 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 24 JEPs. Two of these - Generational Shenandoah and Compact Object Headers - are new experimental features. Also, nearly half of these features are final, some of which have gone through the incubation and preview processes.
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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini Robotics, an advanced AI model designed to enhance robotics by integrating vision, language, and action. This innovation, based on the Gemini 2.0 framework, aims to make robots smarter and more capable, particularly in real-world settings.
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Azure Database for MySQL Trigger for Azure Functions in Public Preview
Microsoft's Azure Database for MySQL now features a public preview of triggers for Azure Functions, enabling real-time data processing with event-driven automation. This innovative integration allows developers to track table changes seamlessly, enhancing analytics, compliance, and security, while scaling efficiently within Azure's serverless framework.
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Java Applications Can Start 40% Faster in Java 24
In Java 24, Project Leyden’s JEP 483, "Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking", starts Java applications like Spring PetClinic up to 40% faster without code changes or new application constraints. It needs a training run to build a cache file that ships with the application. With GraalVM Native Image and CRaC, the startup is 95-99% faster but faces more constraints. Leyden plans more improvements.
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Meta Unifies Facebook’s Video Delivery System across Mobile and Web Apps
Meta finalized efforts to consolidate Facebook’s video delivery system by migrating video experiences from older Watch product to more recent Reels product, which became the basis of the unified system. The unification process required changes across mobile UI, server backend, and ranking systems while ensuring a seamless transition for billions of users.
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Google Launches Gemma 3 1B for Mobile and Web Apps
Requiring a "mere" 529MB, Gemma 3 1B is a small language model (SLM) specifically meant for distribution across mobile and Web apps, where models must download quickly and be responsive to keep user engagement high.