InfoQ Homepage Programming Content on InfoQ
-
Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Arc-enabled servers (the company’s multi-cloud management solution).
-
Quarkus Defends REST APIs against Attack
Quarkus has released a new release that integrates RESTEasy APIs with an integrated control against CSRF attacks, making web applications more resilient against certain types of fraud.
-
PyTorch Becomes Linux Foundation Top-Level Project
PyTorch, the popular deep-learning framework developed by Meta AI Research, has now become an independent top-level project of the Linux Foundation. The project will be managed by the newly-chartered PyTorch Foundation, with support from several large companies including Meta, AWS, NVIDIA, AMD, Google, and Microsoft.
-
OpenSilver 1.1 Promises 99% of Code Compatibility with Silverlight Applications
OpenSilver, a "plugin-free" replacement for retired Silverlight browser technology, has released an update that claims to be able to reuse 99% of existing Silverlight application code and run it in a modern browser with WebAssembly and HTML5.
-
Error Prone Support Introduces New Bug Checks and Refaster Templates
Picnic, the “supermarket on wheels” company, has released Error Prone Support, an open source project that extends Google's Error Prone, that contains thirty new bug checks to detect, and optionally resolve, possible mistakes during compilation of a Java project. More than fifty new Refaster rule collections are available to improve code uniformity by automatically rewriting the codebase.
-
Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections, Spring 6.0-RC1, Apache Tomcat, Reactor 2022.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for October 10th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring Framework 6.0-RC1, Spring Batch 5.0-M8, Quarkus 2.13.2, Helidon 3.0.2 and 2.5.4, Project Reactor 2022.0-RC1, Piranha 22.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.18.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.83 and 10.1.1 Apache James 3.7.2 and Devoxx Belgium.
-
ArchUnit Verifies Architecture Rules for Java Applications
ArchUnit is an open source extensible library written in Java for verifying the architecture of Java applications. ArchUnit allows developers to enforce architecture rules such as naming conventions, class access to other classes, and the prevention of cycles. The library was originally created in 2017 by Peter Gafert and version 1.0.0 was released in October.
-
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Enters Beta
Created by JetBrains to enable using Kotlin to build iOS and Android apps with native UI from a single codebase, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile has exited the experimental phase and is now available in beta.
-
Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new generally available (GA) service to build cloud-native relational applications. It is a distributed relational database offering with the scale, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB.
-
NCC Group Dissect Aims to Scale Incident Response to Thousands of Systems
Developed at Fox-IT, part of NCC Group, Dissect is a recently open-sourced toolset that aims to enable incident response on thousands of systems at a time by analyzing large volumes of forensic data at high speed, says Fox-IT.
-
Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
The GoF Design Patterns published in 1998 qualifies as a classic still being taught in universities and recommended as best practice in the industry. In his deep dive session from Devoxx, Venkat Subramaniam gave them a contemporary twist, by implementing Iterator, Strategy, Decorator or Factory Method with modern Java. Extras were: call around method or the infamous optional usage.
-
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available
AWS announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium Chips. Trn1 instances deliver the highest performance on deep learning training of popular machine learning models on AWS, while offering up to 50% cost-to-train savings over comparable GPU-based instances.
-
Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx
Almost a year after the world was shelled by log4, Sonatype’s Steve Poole - a long-time secure code promoter, sounded the alarm regarding the advancement of cyber attacks during his Devoxx talk. Cyberwarfare is a reality, and countries use cyberattacks to fight other countries. More than awareness, the talk gives us hope by revealing the tools each developer has at hand to fight this evil.
-
Apache InLong: Integration Framework for Massive Data
Apache InLong, an integration framework designed for massive data, was originally built at Tencent, where it was used in production for more than eight years, to support massive data reporting services in big data scenarios. The project officially graduated as an Apache top-level project three years after the introduction of the project in the Apache Incubator.
-
University Researchers Publish Results of NLP Community Metasurvey
Researchers from New York University, University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have published the results of the NLP Community Metasurvey, which compiles the opinions of 480 active NLP researchers about several issues in the natural language processing AI field. The survey also includes meta-questions about the perceived opinions of other researchers.