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Java Gets a Boost with String Templates: Simplifying Code and Improving Security
JEP 430, String Templates (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 21, a feature JEP type that proposes to enhance the Java programming language with string templates, which are similar to string literals but contain embedded expressions incorporated into the string template at run time.
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Late Architecture with Functional Programming
Many approaches to software architecture assume that the architecture is planned at the beginning. Unfortunately, architecture planned in this way is hard to change later. Functional programming can help achieve loose coupling to the point that advance planning can be kept to a minimum, and architectural decisions can be changed later.
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Meta's Toolformer Uses APIs to Outperform GPT-3 on Zero-Shot NLP Tasks
Meta AI Research announced Toolformer, a language model that learns to call APIs to help solve natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Toolformer automatically annotates a training dataset which is used to fine-tune the model and can outperform the much larger GPT-3 model on several zero-shot NLP tasks.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More
Recently Microsoft released .NET 8 Preview 3. This new release contains many new improvements to ASP.NET Core such as support for native AOT, server-side rendering with Blazor, rendering Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core, sections support in Blazor or monitoring Blazor Server circuit activity.
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Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, Payara Platform, Spring and Tomcat Updates, WildFly 28
This week's Java roundup for April 17th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, JMC 8.3.1, BellSoft, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring for GraphQL and Spring Shell, WildFly 28, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4-beta, Micronaut 3.9, Apache Tomcat updates, Ktor 2.3, JHipster Lite 0.32, JBang 0.106.3 and Gradle 8.1.1.
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Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
Now available to developers, the first beta of Android 14 focuses on privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customization. In addition, it improves user experience with large-screen devices on tablets and foldables.
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C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming
Microsoft has published the release post which covers the three exciting new features that will be included in the upcoming release of C# 12, the latest version of its popular programming language. These features include primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters.
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Meta Open-Sourced AI Tool to Animate Child and Amateur Drawings of Human Figure
Based on a joint research by Meta AI Research, Tencent America, MIT CSAIL, and Carnegie Mellon, Meta released Animated Drawings, an AI-based tool to create animations from hand drawn human-like characters.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: HuggingGPT, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Visual ChatGPT, and StableLM
The latest update for the week of April 17th, 2023, includes the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The spotlight this week is on top players like Hugging Face, AWS, Microsoft, and Stability AI, who have introduced groundbreaking innovations.
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Boosting Quarkus Native Performance: Should You Stick with Space/Time or Switch to Adaptive GC?
Quarkus, the Kubernetes Native Java Framework, has switched its default garbage collection policy from space/time to adaptive GC for native runtime in version 2.13.6.Final. Adaptive GC is designed to trigger GCs aggressively in order to keep memory consumption low. This makes it effective in situations where a low memory footprint is essential, and it appears to perform better under heavy stress.
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AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10
AWS recently announced that Lambda supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and container base image, allowing developers to leverage the improvements and features of the runtime.
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Node.js 20 Released, Features Experimental Permission Model for Improved Security
The Node.js team recently released Node v20 (Current release). Node v20 will be ready for full production deployments after entering the long-term support (LTS) stage in October. Key features include an experimental permission model for improved security and building Node applications into standalone executables.
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What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact
Engineers in the tech industry have the means for social impact through their network, skills, and experience. Companies can create impact by making business practices socially-minded. Inclusive training considers the circumstances and backgrounds of individuals, with minimum entry barriers to ensure broad participation, including ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic background.
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Svelte Furthers Enterprise Readiness with SvelteKit General Availability and Svelte 4 Roadmap
Svelte, consistently voted the Web framework with the highest retention among the top 4 frameworks (next to React, Angular, and Vue), furthers enterprise readiness with SvelteKit's general availability, a new interactive documentation site, and the Svelte 4 roadmap.