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Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution
During her presentation at QCon London Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of explosion.ai (the maker of spaCy), stated that economies of scale are not enough to create monopolies in the AI space and that open-source techniques and models will allow everybody to keep up with the “Gen AI revolution”.
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JEP 474: Generational Mode Now Standard for ZGC in Java
JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, has also been targeted for JDK 23. This JEP proposes to use the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) from non-generational to generational mode by default. The non-generational mode will be deprecated and removed in a future JDK release. This will reduce the cost of maintaining the two modes, so future development can primarily focus on Generational ZGC.
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Understanding Email Threats with Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare recently announced the launch of a new Email Security section on Cloudflare Radar. This section will provide insights into the current state of email security. The new metrics offer real-time visibility into email-borne threats, allowing organizations to correlate trends within their environment with broader security observations from Cloudflare.
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Docker Desktop 4.29 Improves Container Isolation and Error Management, Integrates Moby 26, and More
The latest version of Docker Desktop implements socket mount permissions to enhance container isolation, updates error management to improve efficiency and reliability, integrates Moby 26, and speeds up file operations thanks to synchronized file shares.
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Enhancing Developer Experience for Creating Artificial Intelligence Applications
For one company, large language models created a breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) by shifting to crafting prompts and utilizing APIs without a need for AI science expertise. To enhance developer experience and craft applications and tools, they defined and established principles around simplicity, immediate accessibility, security and quality, and cost efficiency.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 Delivers Support for Java 22 Features
JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 featuring support for Java 22 features, OpenRewrite, WireMock server, the Maven Shade Plugin and full line code completion for Java and Kotlin.
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Terraform 1.8 Adds Provider-Defined Functions, Improves AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes Providers
HashiCorp has released version 1.8 of Terraform, their infrastructure-as-code language. The release introduces provider-defined functions. This enables the creation of custom functions within a given provider that handle computational-style tasks. Several providers have introduced new provider-defined functions. Version 1.8 also introduces improvements to refactoring across resource types.
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API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito
AWS recently announced that Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions. With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources.
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Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure.
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Uno Platform 5.2 Brings .NET Single Project Targeting 9 Platforms
Last week, Uno Platform released its latest update, 5.2, with a flagship feature regarding the Single Project solution. This solution, as reported, empowers developers with a unified approach across 9 platform targets, mobile, web, desktop, and embedded applications.
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AWS Introduces CloudWatch Internet Weather Map
AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offers a worldwide perspective on Internet conditions, allowing users to zoom in and analyze performance and availability problems in specific cities or with particular service providers.
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Google Text Embedding Model Gecko Distills Large Language Models for Improved Performance
Gecko is a text embedding model that Google created by distilling knowledge from large language models into a general-purpose model. Gecko is trained using a novel approach on a variety of tasks including document retrieval, semantic similarity, and classification, and aims to be as general-purpose as it goes as well as highly performant.
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QCon London: the Dangerous Dichotomies of People Management
In the world of people management, it's not just about ticking off tasks; it's about delving into the nuanced, impactful aspects that truly make a difference. Experienced manager and product director Hannah Foxwell highlighted many critical yet often overlooked elements for fostering a cohesive and productive team environment in a talk at QCon London 2024.
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OpenAI Releases New Fine-Tuning API Features
OpenAI announced the release of new features in their fine-tuning API. The features will give model developers more control over the fine-tuning process and better insight into their model performance.
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Catalyzing Change in Software Organizations: Find Allies, Invite People, and Sustain Engagement
Much of the change we experience in software organizations is coercive. Software engineers, architects, and people in software engineering management roles feel they cannot spark change without formal authority, Eb Ikonne mentioned at QCon London 2024. To catalyze change, he suggested identifying allies, inviting people to participate in the change, and sustaining engagement through storytelling.