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Sentry Introduces Non-Open-Source Functional Source License
Sentry has recently announced the creation and adoption of the Functional Source License (FSL), a non-compete license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years. Similar to the Business Source License (BSL) but with a shorter non-compete period and less variability, the new license received mixed feelings from the community.
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Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Tech Decisions
The analytic hierarchy process uses pairwise comparisons and scoring for criteria between the alternatives to give insights into what the best option is and why. John Riviello spoke about applying the analytic hierarchy process to decide what JavaScript framework to use at QCon New York 2023.
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AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
AWS has introduced Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant designed for professional applications. This assistant is configurable to align with your company's requirements, facilitating conversations, issue resolution, content generation, and action-taking through the utilization of information present in your code, enterprise systems, and data repositories.
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How HubSpot Uses Apache Kafka Swimlanes for Timely Processing of Workflow Actions
HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic. Using a combination of automatic and manual detection of traffic spikes, the company ensures the majority of customers’ workflows execute without delays.
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What's New in ASP.NET Core 8.0 : Performance, Blazor, AOT, Identity, Metrics and More
In the most recent release of .NET 8, ASP.NET Core undergoes substantial improvements, with a primary focus on elevating Performance and fortifying Blazor. Notable updates extend to AOT, Identity, SignalR, Metrics, and various other features, marking a significant leap forward for ASP.NET Core developers.
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Meta Announces Generative AI Models Emu Video and Emu Edit
Meta AI Research announced two new generative AI models: Emu Video, which can generate short videos given a text prompt, and Emu Edit, which can edit images given text-based instructions. Both models are based on Meta's Emu foundation model and exhibit state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Swift 5.9 Backtracer is Now Concurrency-Aware, Improves Readability and Linux Support
Besides extending the language through macros and borrow-stile memory management, Swift 5.9 also introduces some helpful features for program debugging, including an out-of-process crash handler, just-in-time debugging support, and backtracking to makes it easier to interpret control flow when using structured concurrency.
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Microsoft Brings AI to Logic Apps (Standard) with Workflow Assistant in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced a workflow assistant for Logic Apps (standard), the company’s integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering in public preview. With the assistant, developers have a chat interface that provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring them to navigate documentation or search online forums.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot 3.2, Spring Pulsar 1.0, Hibernate 6.4, JEP 447 Targeted to JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JCON World 2023, and point, milestone and GA releases for: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Session, Spring Vault, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster, JBang, OpenXava, Testcontainers and Gradle.
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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 1: Refreshed UI, Debugging, AI, Productivity and More
Microsoft has released the first preview of Visual Studio version 17.9. Preview 1 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity. Including some AI features like GitHub Copilot, IntelliSense support for Unreal Engine projects, memory management and debugging improvements and this preview version is packed with refreshed UI.
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Microsoft Debuts Custom Chips for Cloud and AI: Azure Maia AI Accelerator and Azure Cobalt CPU
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft introduced two custom-designed chips for their cloud infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator (Athena), optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks and generative AI, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, an Arm-based processor tailored to run general-purpose compute workloads on the Microsoft Cloud.
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Anthropic Announces Claude 2.1 LLM with Wider Context Window and Support for AI Tools
According to Anthropic, the newest version of Claude delivers many ��advancements in key capabilities for enterprises—including an industry-leading 200K token context window, significant reductions in rates of model hallucination, system prompts and our new beta feature: tool use.” Anthropic also announced reduced pricing to improve cost efficiency for our customers across models.
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KubeCon NA 2023: Ishan Sharma on Real-Time Generative AI for Gaming Apps Running on Kubernetes
Kubernetes provides a great platform for gaming applications using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for both game development and gameplay. Ishan Sharma from Google spoke at the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon NA 2023 Conference about real-time GenAI inference integrated with distributed game servers running on Kubernetes.
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Principled API Design at the Heart of Canva’s Apps SDK
Canva created a new plugin framework to allow developers to create apps implementing custom functionality within its product. The team used iterative development and strongly emphasized API design principles to ensure the SDK supporting plugin development was developer-friendly, safe, and evolvable.
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Google Announces New DeepMind Model, Lyria, to Generate High-Quality Music
Google has introduced Google DeepMind's Lyria, an AI music generation model able to generate vocals, lyrics, and background tracks mimicking the style of popular artists. The model is experimentally available on YouTube through two distinct AI experiments.