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ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 2: QuickGrid and Enhanced Blazor WebAssembly Performance
.NET 8 Preview 2 brings several enhancements to the ASP.NET Core. The highlights of the release are the Blazor QuickGrid component, which promises to simplify data presentation and manipulation, and improved performance for Blazor WebAssembly through the use of the new runtime feature called jiterpreter.
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Programming Foundations for Test Automation
Proper programming foundations can improve your test automation, making it easier to maintain testing code, and reduce stress. A foundation of the theory and basic principles of coding and programming can help to bring test automation to the next level. Object-oriented programming principles can help to overcome code smells.
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Google AI Updates Universal Speech Model to Scale Automatic Speech Recognition beyond 100 Languages
Google AI has recently unveiled a new update for their Universal Speech Model (USM), to support the 1,000 Languages Initiative. The new model performs better than OpenAI Whisper for all segments of automation speech recognition.
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ChatGPT Now Available in Preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service
ChatGPT is now available in preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service allowing developers to integrate ChatGPT directly into a host of different enterprise and end-user applications using a token-based pricing system.
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Integrating Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure- making it easier to develop solutions for analyzing data, automating processes, and building apps. These new integrations include PowerBI, Logic Apps, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
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Zero-Copy In-Memory Sharing of Large Distributed Data: V6d
Zero-copy and in-memory data manager Vineyard (v6d) is maintained as a CNCF sandbox project and provides distributed operators that can be utilized to share immutable data within or across cluster nodes. V6d is of interest particularly for deep network training on big (sharded) datasets such as large language and graph models.
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Road to Quarkus 3: Improved Dev UI, Steps towards Diataxis Documentation and Performance Bumps
Our previous conversation with the Quarkus team focused on the technical changes to deliver on their mission. More than speed and cloud nativeness, Developer Experience (DX) and the focus on productivity were also an important part of each of the previous major releases. To find out whether version 3.0 will follow this tradition, InfoQ continued the conversation with Andersen.
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Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections for JDK 21, Vector API for JDK 20, Gen ZGC, Hilla 2.0
This week's Java roundup for March 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.2, Spring Modulith 0.5, Quarkus 2.16.14 and 3.0.0.Alpha5, Open Liberty 23.0.0.2, Micronaut 3.8.7, Helidon 2.6.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M4, Apache Camel-4.0.0-M2, JobRunr 6.1.1, Jarviz 0.3.0 and Hilla 2.0.
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JetBrains Releases Rider 2023.1 EAP 6 with Improvements in UI and Debugging Experience
Recently JetBrains released Rider 2023.1 EAP 6. This new release contains some UI improvements: adding Compact Mode, project tabs for macOS users and the option to split the tool window area. Additionally, EAP 6 improves the debugging experience for developers.
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Java's Collections Framework Gets a Makeover with New Sequenced Collection Types
JEP 431: Sequenced Collections has been promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target status for JDK 21. It proposes introducing "a new family of interfaces that represent the concept of a collection whose elements are arranged in a well-defined sequence or ordering, as a structural property of the collection."
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Open-Source Package ngrok-go Aims to Make it Easier to Embed Ingress into Go Apps
Ngrok-go is an idiomatic Go package that enables Go applications to securely receive network requests through ngrok's ingress-as-a-service platform as if they were listening on a local port.
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AWS Lambda Supports Powertools for .NET to Simplify Observability
AWS recently announced that the open-source library Lambda Powertools now supports .NET. The developer library helps implement observability when running Lambda functions based on .NET 6 or above, reducing the amount of custom code.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 5.0.0: Enhancing User Experience with New Features and Bug Fixes
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit version 5.0.0 is packed with updates to enhance user experience with improved accessibility and functionality. Features and updates including the SemanticOrderView, FileSaverResult, FolderPickerResult, and StateContainer offer greater control and flexibility to application users. Updates and bug fixes contribute to smoother and more efficient application performance.
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JetBrains Adds Taint Analysis for PHP to Qodana Code Quality Platform
Qodana, JetBrains' code quality platform, now provides support for PHP taint analysis in early preview. The feature aims to allow developers to detect taints in their programs, i.e. spots that are vulnerable to malicious inputs.
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Introducing Hilla 2.0: Reactive Endpoints, Native Image, Simplified Theming, SSO Kit, and More
Hilla, the type-safe web framework for Spring Boot, has announced the release of version 2.0. This release utilizes Spring Boot 3, Java 17, and Jakarta EE 10, providing access to the latest features in the Java ecosystem. It includes an improved TypeScript generator, web socket support for reactive endpoints, support for GraalVM native images, a simplified theming mechanism, and a new SSO kit.