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Will Quantum Computing Solve Humanity's Biggest Challenges? InfoQ DevSummit Munich Keynote
During her keynote at the inaugural edition of Dev Summit Munich, Teena Idnani, senior vice president at JP Morgan Chase, gave an overview of quantum computing and how we can prepare for its inevitable change in “traditional” computing. Besides decrypting its concepts and stating its benefits, she also pointed to the “quantum-ready” programming languages.
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RAG-Based Ingestion for Generative AI Applications with Logic Apps Standard in Public Preview
Microsoft's new built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard revolutionizes Generative AI ingestion. Streamline workflows with low-code solutions that transform structured and unstructured data into AI-ready formats. Unlock automation across industries, enhancing searchability and knowledge management effortlessly.
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How Canva Scaled Real-Time Collaboration with WebRTC: from WebSockets to Seamless P2P Communication
Canva recently shared how it implemented real-time mouse pointers for collaborative whiteboarding. Canva chose a WebRTC-based solution to improve scalability, reduce latency, and lower backend load. Since WebRTC uses peer-to-peer communication, Canva can provide users with a smoother, more performant real-time experience than a traditional backend-based WebSocket and Redis solution.
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AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has introduced Graviton4-powered EC2 X8g instances, featuring up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. With 3x improved memory and network bandwidth, plus enhanced security, these instances offer unmatched performance and value. Ideal for databases, big data analytics, and more, X8g sets a new standard in cloud computing.
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Uber Creates GenAI Gateway Mirroring OpenAI API to Support over 60 LLM Use Cases
Uber created a unified platform for serving large language models (LLMs) from external vendors and self-hosted ones and opted to mirror OpenAI API to help with internal adoption. GenAI Gateway provides a consistent and efficient interface and serves over 60 distinct LLM use cases across many areas.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-Built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios
Microsoft's Logic Apps (Standard) now features public preview template support, empowering developers with a library of pre-built workflows for diverse integration scenarios. Designed to simplify application management, templates offer detailed workflow insights and customizability. Aiming for GA by year-end, Microsoft encourages community participation to enhance this evolving resource.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
This week's Java roundup for September 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of JDK 23 and GraalVM for JDK 23; an update on Jakarta EE 11 and plans for Jakarta EE 12; introducing Micronaut GraalPy; and Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK 24.08.
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Netflix’s Pushy: Evolution of Scalable WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 16th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters, aligning with competitive offerings from AWS and Google Cloud.
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AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks like LLM training and simulations, they offer improved scalability and cost-efficiency, making them pivotal for modern cloud computing.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default and Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal - are final features without having gone through the preview process.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for September 9th, 2024, features news highlighting: the September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.0-M1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10.