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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 3 with Productivity Updates
Microsoft has released the third preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7. Preview 3 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and helping maintain clean code. Preview 3 is focused on a new tool called # includes cleanup for C++ developers. The latest version is already available for download.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, Spring Web Flow 3.0, JetBrains AI Assistant
This week's Java roundup for July 10th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Spring Web Flow 3.0, Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, point and milestone releases of: Spring projects, Open Liberty, Helidon, Hibernate Reactive, Tomcat, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Piranha, Project Reactor, JHipster, JHipster Lite, Yupiik Fusion, Maven and Gradle; and AI Assistant in JetBrains IDEs.
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First Amazon EC2 Instances with Graviton3E Processors Now GA
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7gn and the Hpc7g instances, both using the new Graviton3E processors. The C7gn instances are designed for network-intensive workloads while the Hpc7g instances are tailored for high-performance computing ones.
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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 6: Blazor Updates and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 6 brings significant additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the debugging experience, testing metrics, API authoring, servers, middleware and many more.
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A Culture of Continuous Experimentation: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Sarah Aslanifar presented Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation. She showed how fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and leveraging the principle of continuous learning can drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and improve product outcomes.
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AI Assistant Comes to ReSharper
JetBrains released an AI-powered version of ReSharper, its developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. The new version, ReSharper 2023.2, is the first that will come with AI-powered development assistance.
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New AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB in Preview
Recently AWS announced the preview release of the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB. This library enables Amazon DynamoDB to be used as the storage for ASP.NET Core’s distributed cache framework.
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Vaadin 24.1.0: Enhancing Web Application Development with New Features and Optimizations
Vaadin, the open-source platform for building business-oriented single-page web applications, has announced the release of Vaadin 24.1.0. This latest version brings a host of new features and improvements, further enhancing the platform's capabilities and providing developers with more tools to create robust, high-performing web applications.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.2.1: New Code Fixers, Diagnostics and QoL Improvements
Microsoft has published the latest version of its .NET Community Toolkit, version 8.2.1, with several new enhancements and features. According to the release, this new version brings quality-of-life improvements across all libraries, performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators, new code fixers and improved diagnostics.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Modern Cryptography in OpenJDK: Introduction of Key Encapsulation Mechanisms API
JEP 452, Key Encapsulation Mechanism API, has been marked as completed for JDK 21. This JEP introduces a modern encryption technique for securing symmetric keys using public key cryptography. The API supports various KEM algorithms, including RSA-KEM, ECIES, and those under NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization.
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Google's Speech AI AudioPaLM Performs Translation with Voice Transfer
Researchers at Google announced AudioPaLM, a large language model (LLM) that performs text-to-speech (TTS), automated speech recognition (ASR), and speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with voice transfer. AudioPaLM is based on the PaLM-2 LLM and outperforms OpenAI's Whisper on translation benchmarks.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Quarkus LTS, Micronaut, Foojay Board, DevBCN, JCrete
This week's Java roundup for July 3rd, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Jakarta EE 11 updates, Micronaut 4.0.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.2.0 and 2.16.8, Helidon 3.2.2, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate Search 6.2.0, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.2, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev02, JDKMon 17.0.69, JBang 0.109.0, Kotlin 1.9.0, Foojay.io updates, and DevBCN and JCrete conferences.
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Descaling for Delivery and Using AI to Enhance Software Development: Learnings from QCon New York
The track Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow - Surviving in the Post-agile Aftermath at QCon New York 2023 comprised two talks in the morning that went into replacing an agile process with engineering and conversational software delivery using AI.
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JetBrains Launches the Kotlin Notebook Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Using the experimental Kotlin Notebook plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, developers will be able to combine code, visualizations, and text, as well as to run code snippets and view their results, all in a single document.