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GitHub CodeQL Code Scanning Now Supports Setting a Threat Model
GitHub has recently extended its CodeQL-based code scanner by adding the possibility to specify the desired threat model. The new feature is available in beta for the Java language.
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Airbnb’s CI/CD Framework Employs Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite for Efficient Software Delivery
Airbnb recently discussed a DevOps framework tailored to their CRM platform, integrating Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite. This framework facilitates the involvement of all stakeholders, from developers to low-code users, in the development and deployment process. Using the DevOps framework, Airbnb has reduced deployment time from 90 to 15 minutes.
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Collecting Git Performance Data Using trace2receiver and OpenTelemetry
GitHub recently introduced trace2receiver, an open-source tool that integrates with OpenTelemetry to analyze Git performance data. This tool allows users to identify performance issues, detect early signs of trouble, and highlight areas where Git itself can be enhanced.
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Amazon Q Code Transformation: Automating Java Application Upgrades
AWS has recently announced the preview of Amazon Q Code Transformation, a service designed to simplify the process of upgrading existing Java application code through generative artificial intelligence. The new feature aims to minimize legacy code and automate common language upgrade tasks required to move off older language versions.
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Microsoft Announces Git Partial Clone Support in Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps has recently extended support for Git Partial Clone to all its users. Partial clones represent a streamlined version of git clones initiated through specific command line arguments. Repositories that employ partial clones have demonstrated an average reduction of 88.6% in cloning time.
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AWS Introduces Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: a Low Latency Datastore for CloudFront Functions
AWS recently announced Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore, a secure global low-latency key-value datastore that allows read access from within CloudFront Functions, enabling advanced customizable logic at the CloudFront edge locations.
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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 1: Refreshed UI, Debugging, AI, Productivity and More
Microsoft has released the first preview of Visual Studio version 17.9. Preview 1 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity. Including some AI features like GitHub Copilot, IntelliSense support for Unreal Engine projects, memory management and debugging improvements and this preview version is packed with refreshed UI.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.
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GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.
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GitHub Advanced Security Generally Available for Azure DevOps
Microsoft announced the general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, allowing users to integrate code, secret, and dependency scanning into their Azure Repos and benefit from the latest updates.
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Eating One's Own Dogfood: GitHub Using Actions and Runners for GitHub.com
To improve how they ship software in a scalable and effective way, GitHub has adopted GitHub Actions for a part of their continuous integration system. In particular, they leveraged the new Actions larger runners to get to run 15,000 CI jobs across 150,000 cores. In the process they also extended larger runners capabilities for all their users.
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GitHub's Learnings from Building Copilot, an Enterprise LLM Application
GitHub has published an article containing the lessons they learned in building and scaling GitHub Copilot -- an enterprise application using an LLM (Large Language Model). In a post on GitHub's blog, AI product leader Shuyin Zhao describes how -- over three years -- they broke the project down into three stages - "find it", "nail it" and "scale it", and successfully launched GitHub Copilot.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.