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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Release Schedule, Payara Platform, JBang, JHipster, WildFly
This week's Java roundup for March 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.3, Spring point and milestone releases, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.CR1, Micronaut 3.8.8, WildFly 28 Beta1, Hibernate ORM 6.2, Groovy 4.0.11, Camel 3.20.3, James 3.7.4, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.1, JHipster Quarkus Blueprint 2.0, JHipster Lite 0.30, JBang 0.106, Gradle 8.1-CR2 and new Foojay.io calendar.
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The Web's Next Transition: Kent C. Dodds at QCon London
Software engineer educator Kent C. Dodds opened the Modern Frontend Development and Architecture track at QCon London with his keynote on The Web’s Next Transition, focused on Modern Infrastructure and Techniques.
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Swift 5.8 Adds Function Back-Deployment and Upcoming Feature Support
The latest release of Swift introduces support for piecemeal adoption of upcoming features, which allows developers to start using new features that will become stable in Swift 6. Additionally, it opens the way for making new features retroactively available in earlier OSes.
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Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 Released
Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data.
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Strategies and Principles to Scale and Evolve MLOps - at QCon London
At the QCon London conference, Hien Luu, senior engineering manager for the Machine Learning Platform at DoorDash, discussed strategies and principles for scaling and evolving MLOps. With 85% of ML projects failing, understanding MLOps at an engineering level is crucial. Luu shared three core principles: "Dream Big, Start Small," "1% Better Every Day," and "Customer Obsession."
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Responsible AI: from Principle to Practice at QCon London
At the QCon London conference, Microsoft's Mehrnoosh Sameki discussed Responsible AI principles and tools. She emphasized fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. Tools such as Fairlearn, InterpretML, and the Responsible AI dashboard help implement these principles.
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GitLab Ultimate Adds Code Viewing Ability for Guest Roles
GitLab has added customizable roles to its Ultimate subscription, enabling customers to define their roles, based on the current Guest role. The minimal viable change allows Ultimate users to add one additional permission to the Guest role, which grants users the ability to view code, known as Guest+1.
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Microsoft Semantic Kernel Enables LLM Integration with Conventional Programs
Microsoft has open sourced Semantic Kernel (SK), a lightweight SDK enabling the integration of large language models (LLMs) with conventional programs which can leverage prompt templating, vectorized memory, intelligent planning, and other capabilities.
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The Swift Package Index Now Backed by Apple
The Swift Package Index was created about three years ago by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, with the aim of making it easier for Swift developers to search and discover Swift packages. The project is now officially sponsored by Apple, thus making it the official place to go for anything related to Swift packages
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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco, principal engineer at Skyscanner, shared his experiences at QCon London on a large-scale observability initiative at his company, based on adopting OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services and the motivation and value gained from adopting open standards across the entire organization.
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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
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Low-Code API Builder Postman Flows Moves into General Availability
Postman moved Postman Flows, their low-code API building tool, into general availability. Postman Flows provides a collaborative, graphical interface for building API-driven applications and workflows. It integrates with the Postman API Network to access publicly available APIs.
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The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
At his inaugural keynote of the QCON London conference, Leslie Miley, technical advisor for the CTO at Microsoft, spoke about AI Bias and Sustainability, and how the march towards transformative technologies, like large-scale AI and even crypto, has an inherent cost in the increased CO2 that comes with deployment at scale. More than just context and impact, he suggests mitigation techniques.
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Oracle Introduces a New Java SE Universal Subscription
Oracle has introduced the new Java SE Universal subscription and pricing, replacing the now legacy Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscriptions as of January 2023. According to the FAQ released by Oracle, this new change should simplify tracking and management of licensed environments since the permitted use is universal across desktops, servers, and third-party clouds.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 Released, Spring Releases, Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for March 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Amazon Corretto 20, BellSoft Liberica JDK 20, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Quarkus 3.0.0.Beta1 and 2.16.5, Helidon 3.2.0, Open Liberty 23.0.0.3-beta, Micronaut 4.0.0-M1, Camel Quarkus 3.0.0-M1, JBang 0.105.1, Failsafe 3.3.1, Maven 3.9.1 and Gradle 8.1-RC1.