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Google Expands Duet AI in Google Cloud for App Development, DevOps, and More
At Google Cloud Next, Google has expanded its always-on collaborator Duet AI with new features aimed at helping developers with application development, DevOps, database management and migration, data analysis and visualization, as well as cybersecurity.
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Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Officially Announced
In a recent announcement, Microsoft revealed the Visual Studio for Mac Integrated Development Environment (IDE) retirement. As of August 31, 2024, Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will discontinue receiving support, marking it as the end of an era for Mac-based .NET developers.
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Stack Overflow Announced OverflowAI Initiative for Generative AI
Stack Overflow announced the roadmap for the integration of generative AI into their public platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, and brand new product areas, like an IDE integration that brings the vast knowledge of 58 million questions and answers from their community right into the area where developers find focus and get work done.
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Java News Roundup: Single Query Loading, GraalVM, GlassFish, JReleaser, Quarkus, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 28th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.25, Single Query Loading in Spring JDBC, Quarkus 3.3.1, 3.2.5.Final and 2.16.10.Final, Micronaut 4.1.0 and 4.0.6, Wildfly 29.0.1, Hibernate ORM 6.3.0 and 6.2.8, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.5, GlassFish 7.0.8, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.5, JKube 1.14.0, JReleaser 1.8.0 and OpenXava 7.1.5.
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Google Expands Vertex AI Search and Conversation Capabilities
At its Google Cloud Next conference, Google officially introduced new capabilities for its enterprise AI platform, Vertex AI, which aim to enable more advanced user workflows, among other things.
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JDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So Far
JDK 21, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of 15 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, HotSpot and Security Library. We examine JDK 21 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 22.
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How Spotify Improved its LLM Chatbot in Sidekick
While using a Large Language Model chatbot opens the door to innovative solutions, Spotify engineer Ates Goral argues that crafting the user experience so it is as natural as possible requires some specific efforts to order to reduce latency.
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External REST Endpoint Invocation in SQL Azure Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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OpenSSF New Manifesto Urges the Software Industry to Take Responsibility for Open Source Security
The Open Source Consumption Manifesto from OpenSSF aims to make the software industry more aware of its responsibility when it comes to ensuring the software supply chain remains secure and healthy.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant: Project Features Upgrade and .NET MAUI Improvements
Microsoft has announced an updated version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant in Visual Studio. The new release brings on a series of enhancements designed to simplify the migration process for .NET MAUI. Notably, developers can now also upgrade project features without needing to change the existing .NET version.
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MicroStream Debuts Eclipse Store Java Persistence Framework at Eclipse Foundation
MicroStream, an open-source Java persistence framework, recently announced the first release of Eclipse Store under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation. This first release contains two core components from MicroStream, its Serializer and StorageManager restructured as Eclipse Serializer, and Eclipse Store, respectively.
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Spring AI Provides Integration with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI
The experimental Spring AI project was introduced during the SpringOne conference and allows the creation of AI applications by using common concepts of Spring. Currently the project integrates Azure OpenAI and OpenAI as AI backends. Use cases like content generation, code generation, semantic search and summarization are supported by the project.
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Spring Modulith 1.0 Gains Production-Readiness, IDE Support and Improved Testability
Spring Modulith 1.0 was promoted from its experimental status and became a fully supported Spring project. It structures Spring Boot 3 applications through modules and events. That module structure is now visible in IDEs like Spring Tool Suite and Visual Studio Code. The Event Publication Registry persists event completion faster. And Integration Tests Scenarios ease testing events.
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Stability AI Launches Open Source Chatbot Stable Chat
Stability AI, makers of the image generation AI Stable Diffusion, recently launched Stable Chat, a web-based chat interface for their open-access language model Stable Beluga. At the time of its release, Stable Beluga was the best-performing open large language model (LLM) on the HuggingFace leaderboard.
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Google Launches Three New Cloud Storage Options: Cloud Storage FUSE, Parallelstore, NetApp Volumes
Google recently launched three new cloud storage options: Cloud Storage FUSE for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications that require file system semantics, a parallel file system Parallelstore for demanding AI and HPC applications that use GPUs, and NetApp Volumes for enterprise applications running in the cloud.