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Canonical Releases a Low-Touch, Open Source Cloud Solution with MicroCloud
Canonical recently announced the general availability of MicroCloud, a low-touch, open source cloud solution designed for scalable clusters and edge deployments. It's aimed at edge computing, as well as for customers in need of a small-scale private cloud.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.1, Spring Data 2023.1, Payara Platform, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, and monthly, milestone and point releases of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Payara Platform; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Grails; Quarkus; Tomcat; Apache Camel; Vert.x; Mojarra; Micrometer Metrics and Tracing; Project Reactor; Piranha; JDKMon; JobRunr; JHipster Lite; Testcontainers for Java; Arquillian; and Gradle.
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.NET Aspire: Cloud-Native App Development with Microsoft's Latest Project
Microsoft released .NET 8 last week; one of the most notable news within the launch was .NET Aspire, the cloud-native development stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with the dotnet. .NET Aspire includes a curated set of components enhanced for cloud-native by including service discovery, telemetry, resilience, and health checks by default.
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What's New in C# 12: Primary Constructors, Collection Expressions, and More
As part of the .NET 8 launch, on November 14th Microsoft unveiled the new features of C# 12, the latest version of the popular .NET programming language. As announced the most notable improvements include collection expressions, primary constructors for all classes and structs, syntax to alias any type, and default parameters for lambda expressions.
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OpenAI Launches GPTs to Enable Creating No-Code, Custom Versions of ChatGPT
At the recent OpenAI developer conference, OpenAI announced it is rolling out GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT created for specific tasks. Developers will also be able to share their GPTs on the forthcoming ChatGPT Store and monetize them, the company says.
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Microsoft Refreshes its Well-Architected Framework
Microsoft recently announced a comprehensive refresh of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for designing and running optimized workloads on Azure.
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New Amazon SQS Bindings Added to CoreWCF
Amazon delivered a new binding for CoreWCF, the open-source replacement for Windows Communication Foundation. The new binding supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in both server and client code. The new binding allows simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ binding to an AWS cloud-based implementation.
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xAI Introduces Large Language Model Grok
xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, recently announced Grok, a large language model. Grok can access current knowledge of the world via the X platform and outperforms other LLMs of comparable size, including GPT-3.5, on several benchmarks.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 22, Spring Shell, Quarkus, Apache Camel, JDKMon, J-Fall 2023
This week's Java roundup for November 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Spring Shell 3.2.0-M3, 3.1.5, 3.0.9 and 2.1.14, Quarkus 3.5.1 and 3.2.8, Apache Camel 3.14.10, Apache Camel Quarkus 3.2.2, JDKMon 17.0.81, Arquillian 1.7.2.Final, Gradle 8.5.0-RC1 and J-Fall 2023.
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AWS Unveils Gemini, a Distributed Training System for Swift Failure Recovery in Large Model Training
AWS and Rice University have introduced Gemini, a new distributed training system to redefine failure recovery in large-scale deep learning models. According to the research paper, Gemini adopts a daring strategy by utilizing CPU memory to ensure previously unheard-of speeds in failure recovery, overcoming obstacles related to high recovery costs and constrained checkpoint storage capacity.
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Cohere Unveils Advanced Embedding Model Embed v3
Cohere has unveiled Embed v3, their most advanced embedding model designed to transform semantic search and generative AI.
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Microsoft Introduces New Tiers for Its API Management Service in Azure
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two new Azure API Management tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2.
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Mojo Language SDK Available: Mojo Driver, VS Code extension, and Jupyter Kernel
Mojo SDK is available for developers. It contains the mojo driver, the Visual Studio Code extension and the Jupyter kernel. For now, SDK is available for MacOS and Linux.
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WildFly 30 Application Server Gets Ready for JDK 21
WildFly, an application framework written in Java and developed and maintained by Red Hat, released its latest version 30 in October 2023. The key focus of this release was to prepare for the latest LTS Java version 21, one feature request and several dependency upgrades and bug fixes.
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AI Researchers Improve LLM-Based Reasoning by Mimicking Learning from Mistakes
Researchers from Microsoft, Peking University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University claim to have developed a technique to improve large language models' (LLMs) ability to solve math problems by replicating how humans learn from their own mistakes.