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Anaconda Publishes 2022 State of Data Science Report
Anaconda, makers of a Python distribution popular among data scientists, recently published a report on the results of their State of Data Science survey. The report summarizes responses from nearly 3,500 students, academics, and professionals from 133 countries, and covers topics about respondent demographics and jobs as well as trends within the community.
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Next.js 13 Targets "Dynamic without Limits" Apps with New, Experimental Features
The Next.js conference recently introduced Next.js 13, the latest version of the React application framework. Next.js 13 wants to enable developers to make “dynamic without limits” applications through innovative features, many of which are still in alpha or beta. The new features update the compiler, routing, and rendering infrastructure, and improve the component toolkit.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Threat-Detection Tool Falco Now Supports Multiple Event Sources, Syscall Selection, and More
The latest release of Falco adds the ability to handle multiple simultaneous event sources within the same instance, support for selecting which syscalls to capture, a new Kernel Crawler to collect the most recent supported kernel versions, and more.
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Alpa: Automating Model Sharding for Distributed Deep Learning
A new open-source library called Alpa aims to automate distributed training and serving of large deep networks. It proposes a compiler where existing model-parallel strategies are combined and the usage of computing resources is optimized according to the deep network architecture.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0
This week's Java roundup for October 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 release schedule, Build 20-loom+20-34, Spring Integration 6.0-RC1, Spring Tools 4.16.1, GraalVM 22.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.11 and 22.0.0.12-beta, Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.14, Apache TomEE 8.0.13, JReleaser 1.3.0, Hibernate Search 5.11.11 and 5.10.13, PrimeFaces point releases, JDKMon 17.0.37 and EclipseCon 2022.
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Azure Functions v4 Now Support .NET Framework 4.8 with Isolated Execution
Microsoft announced on September 26th that Azure Functions runtime v4 will support running .NET Framework 4.8 functions in an isolated process, allowing the developers to move their legacy .NET functions to the latest runtime. The isolated process execution decouples the function code from the Azure Functions’ host runtime.
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Dynamic Web Apps without JavaScript - HTMX Showcase at DjangoCon and Devoxx
DjangoCon and Devoxx Belgium recently reported examples of interactive web applications developed without JavaScript developers. The showcased htmx HTML-first framework seems to target those applications that mainly propose a friendly interface to CRUD operations over remote resources. In one case, the team was able to remove the JavaScript developer.
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AWS Amplify for Swift Reaches 2.0, Brings Async/Await and macOS Support
Previously known as AWS Amplify iOS, AWS Amplify for Swift now offers a rewritten API to support Swift async/await and make concurrency code more idiomatic. Additionally, the new release introduces beta support on macOS for a number of AWS features, including Auth, Storage, Geo, and others.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tejas Shikhare, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix. Shikhare has been working at Netflix’s federated GraphQL platform, distributed systems, and, more recently, developer tools and education. This talk is part of the editorial track Modern APIs: Building and Evolving.
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Container Queries, Next Step Towards Truly Modular CSS - Maarten Van Hoof at Devoxx Belgium
Maarten Van Hoof, senior front-end developer at iO, recently explained at Devoxx Belgium how CSS container queries facilitate modular, component-based responsive web applications. With container queries, micro-front-end components can adjust their internal layout independently from the other components on the page.
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Komodor's Dashboard Brings Improved Debugging to Helm
Komodor's dashboard brings improved debugging to Helm. Helm Dashboard allows developers to quickly understand the status of Helm releases, with an intuitive interface showing the health of both the releases and the Kubernetes resources. The Dashboard provides visibility of common issues such as image version errors, resource limit problems and misconfiguration of secrets.
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James Gosling Shares Wisdom Related to IoT at Devoxx: Code on the Edge and Its Hurdles
In his Devoxx talk, James Gosling, the father of Java, zooms in on the technicalities of writing code for devices on the network's edge. Based on his impressive career developing software for devices ranging from satellites to autonomous submarines, he provides practical advice for the moments when the hardware is on the bottom of the sea, or when minor errors could cause mayhem or even fatality.
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Apache Kafka 3.3 Replaces ZooKeeper with the New KRaft Consensus Protocol
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Kafka 3.3.1 with many new features and improvements. In particular, this is the first release that marks KRaft (Kafka Raft) consensus protocol as production ready. In development for several years, it was released in early access in Kafka 2.8, then in preview in Kafka 3.0.