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Dropbox’s Asynchronous Platform Evolution: from Challenges to a Unified Messaging System Model
Dropbox, a file sharing cloud platform, recently discussed their Messaging System Model (MSM) that supports diverse use cases and handles over 30 million tasks per minute.
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DevProxy 0.24 Adds More OpenAPI Options
Microsoft has released version 0.24 of DevProxy, an API simulation command-line tool. The new version improves its compatibility with different OpenAPI specifications and adds a few improvements for daily tasks.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24-RC1, JDK Mission Control, Spring, Hibernate, Vert.x, JHipster, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for February 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 24; JDK Mission Control 9.1.0; milestone releases of Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0 and Hibernate 7.0; release candidates of Vert.x 5.0.0 and Gradle 8.13.0; and JHipster 8.9.0.
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Distributed Multi-Modal Database Aerospike 8 Brings Support for Real-Time ACID Transactions
Aerospike has announced version 8.0 of its distributed multi-modal database, bringing support for distributed ACID transactions. This enables large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications like banking, e-commerce, inventory management, health care, order processing, and more, says the company.
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Most Companies Experience Weekly Outages: The State of Resilience 2025 Report
According to The State of Resilience 2025 Report, published by Cockroach Labs, outages are commonplace in most organizations, with 55% of companies reporting weekly and 14% reporting daily outages. Staggering 100% of survey participants experienced revenue losses due to outages, with some companies (8%) reporting losses of USD $1 million or higher over the last 12 months.
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ClickHouse Reports 25% Performance Gain after Migrating Cloud Workloads to AWS ARM Instances
ClickHouse recently shared its migration strategy to AWS Graviton over the past six months, reporting a 25% performance improvement for end users. The engineering team outlines the steps taken to establish a performance baseline and transition the managed ClickHouse Cloud service to the new ARM deployment while handling large-scale production workloads.
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How to Foster a Continuous Improvement and Learning Mindset in Software Development
According to Ramya Sriram, individuals and teams must embrace a continuous improvement and continuous learning mindset to stay competitive and relevant. She spoke about continuous improvement and learning, where she explored how her company fosters a culture of innovation through programs that support experimentation, providing employees with the time and space to explore new approaches and adapt.
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Gemini 2.0 Family Expands with Cost-Efficient Flash-Lite and Pro-Experimental Models
Announced last December, the Gemini 2.0 family of models now has a new member, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, which Google says is cost-optimized for large scale text output use cases and is now available in preview. Along with Flash-Lite, Google also announced Gemini 2.0 Pro.
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Uno Platform 5.6 Released: Performance Enhancements, Hot Reload Improvements and More
Uno Platform team has announced the release of version 5.6, bringing substantial improvements in performance, productivity, and cross-platform development capabilities. Among the key updates are significant enhancements to Hot Reload, expanded app packaging support, and notable memory and runtime optimizations.
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Stack Refactoring for Enhanced Infrastructure Management in AWS CloudFormation Service
AWS CloudFormation's new stack refactoring feature transforms resource management, enabling seamless movement of resources between stacks. This enhances modularity and alignment with business needs, reduces misconfiguration risks, and boosts efficiency. Developers can optimize costs and improve clarity, making cloud architecture more manageable and adaptable.
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JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far
JDK 24, the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its first release candidate phase with a final set of 24 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, Security Library, HotSpot and Java Tools. We examine JDK 24 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 25.
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Microsoft Introduces CoRAG: Enhancing AI Retrieval with Iterative Reasoning
Microsoft AI has introduced Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation (CoRAG), a new AI framework designed to enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models. Unlike traditional RAG systems, which rely on a single retrieval step, CoRAG enables iterative search and reasoning, allowing AI models to refine their retrievals dynamically before generating answers.
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AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Fastlane to Simplify iOS Deployments
CodeBuild, AWS continuous integration service, now provides Fastlane support to manage tasks such as code signing, screenshot generation, beta distribution, and app store submissions for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS apps.
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OpenAI Releases Reasoning Model o3-mini, Faster and More Accurate Than o1
OpenAI released OpenAI o3-mini, their latest reasoning LLM. o3-mini is optimized for STEM applications and outperforms the full o1 model on science, math, and coding benchmarks, with lower response latency than o1-mini.
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Prezi's Journey from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
Prezi’s engineering team recently discussed their transition from a Prometheus-based monitoring system to VictoriaMetrics, focusing on cost optimization, performance improvements, and architectural simplicity. This transition reduced the costs by approximately 30%, and speed of completion for heavy queries reduced to 3-7 seconds from 30+ seconds.