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WildFly 31 Delivers Support for Jakarta EE 10 and the New WildFly Glow Provisioning Tools
WildFly 31 has added support for Jakarta MVC 2.1, a CLI tool, and a maven plugin called WildFly Glow. WildFly 31 also introduces stability levels for the different deployment use cases. Other updates include an upgrade to MicroProfile 6.1, Hibernate 6.4.2, and JakartaEE 10. Widlfly core now also supports JDK 21, the latest LTS version of the JDK.
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Eric Evans Encourages DDD Practitioners to Experiment with LLMs
In his keynote presentation at Explore DDD 2024 in Denver, Colorado, Eric Evans, author of Domain-Driven Design, argued that software designers need to look for innovative ways to incorporate large language models. He encouraged conference attendees to start learning about LLMs and conducting experiments now, and sharing those results with the community.
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Wear OS Gets New, More Efficient Text-to-Speech Engine
Google has announced a new text-to-speech engine for Wear OS, its Android variant aimed at smartwatches and other wearables, supporting over 50 languages and faster than its predecessor thanks to using smaller ML models.
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GitHub Announces Upgrade to Action Runners with 4-vCPU, 16 GiB Memory
GitHub recently announced an enhancement to their GitHub Actions-hosted runners. Moving forward, workflows from public repositories on Linux or Windows that utilize GitHub's default labels will be executed on the new 4-vCPU runners.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Drafts, Infinispan 15, Payara Platform, Alpaquita Containers with CRaC
This week's Java roundup for March 11th, 2024 features news highlighting: new JEP drafts, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) and Hot Code Heap; Infinispan 15; the March 2024 edition of Payara Platform; Alpaquita Containers with CRaC; the first release candidate of JobRunr 7.0; and milestone and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and Micronaut.
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OpenAI releases Transformer Debugger tool
OpenAI has unveiled a new tool called the Transformer Debugger (TDB), designed to provide insights into the inner workings of transformer models. The tool was developed by OpenAI's Superalignment team and combines automated interpretability techniques with sparse autoencoders.
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Hubber Codespace Improves Inner-Loop Testing at GitHub
GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team has recently unveiled a new tool aimed at streamlining the inner-loop development process within its distributed service ecosystem. Named "Hubber Codespace" (HCS), the solution addresses some challenges posed by integration testing in a modular team structure where different services are developed and operated independently.
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AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation up to 40% Faster
AWS optimized the stack creation process to make it faster and achieved significant improvements. The company split the resource creation process into two phases (creation and stabilization), which allows for creating other resources in the stack earlier. The change is available in all regions and doesn’t require any user action.
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Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0
Gleam, an actor-based highly-concurrent functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), has reached version 1.0, which means it is now ready to be used in production systems with a guarantee of backward compatibility based on semantic versioning.
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Microsoft Introduces Static Web Apps' New Feature: Distributed Functions for Enhanced Performance
Microsoft has announced a new Azure Static Web Apps feature called distributed functions. It automatically distributes managed functions to high-demand regions of Static Web Apps.
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AWS Waives Egress Fees for Customers Exiting the Cloud
AWS has recently announced free egress traffic for customers leaving the cloud and withdrawing their data from the AWS infrastructure. This initiative follows the guidelines of the European Data Act and is designed to help customers switch to alternative cloud providers or on-premises data centers.
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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis
Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.
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Azure OpenAI's “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially made On Your Data generally available in Azure OpenAI Service. This feature enables users to harness the full power of OpenAI models, including GPT-4, and seamlessly integrate the advanced features of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model with their data. According to the company, all this is backed by enterprise-grade security on Azure.
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CloudFormation IaC Generator Scans and Imports Existing AWS Resources
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new tools to simplify infrastructure management for its customers, announcing the "IaC Generator" and "CDK Migrate" tools. "CDK Migrate" has been recently covered at InfoQ, whilst the IaC Generator allows enineers to create CloudFormation templates based on pre-existing resources and their relationships.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.