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Cloudflare Workers Introduces connect() API to Create TCP Sockets
During the recent developer week, Cloudflare announced a Worker API to create outbound TCP sockets. The new socket API allows developers to connect back to TCP-based infra directly from a Worker, including databases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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Remult, a Crud Framework for Fullstack Typescript
Remult is a full-stack CRUD library that simplifies development by leveraging TypeScript models, providing a type-safe API client and query builder.
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Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops
MLC LLM is a new open source project aimed to enable deploying large language models on a variety of hardware platforms and applications. It additionally includes a framework to optimize model performance for each specific use case.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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Efficiently Applying LLMs to Transform Semi-Structured Data
LLMs can be an effective way to generate structured data from semi-structured data, although an expensive one. A team of Stanford and Cornell researchers claim to have found a technique to reduce inference costs by 110x while improving inference quality.
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Meta Open-Sourced AI Tool to Animate Child and Amateur Drawings of Human Figure
Based on a joint research by Meta AI Research, Tencent America, MIT CSAIL, and Carnegie Mellon, Meta released Animated Drawings, an AI-based tool to create animations from hand drawn human-like characters.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10
AWS recently announced that Lambda supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and container base image, allowing developers to leverage the improvements and features of the runtime.
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Node.js 20 Released, Features Experimental Permission Model for Improved Security
The Node.js team recently released Node v20 (Current release). Node v20 will be ready for full production deployments after entering the long-term support (LTS) stage in October. Key features include an experimental permission model for improved security and building Node applications into standalone executables.
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Svelte Furthers Enterprise Readiness with SvelteKit General Availability and Svelte 4 Roadmap
Svelte, consistently voted the Web framework with the highest retention among the top 4 frameworks (next to React, Angular, and Vue), furthers enterprise readiness with SvelteKit's general availability, a new interactive documentation site, and the Svelte 4 roadmap.
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Deno Improves Node.js Support: Built-in Modules, package.json, Dynamic Import and Worker Compilation
Recent releases of Deno (1.30, 1.31, and 1.32) make it easier for Node.js developers to transition to Deno projects. Deno 1.30 improves support for Node built-in modules and import maps. Deno 1.31 adds package.json support and includes the Node compatibility layer into the Deno runtime. Deno 1.32 adds deno compile support for web workers and dynamic imports.
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Import Maps, Now Available in All Browsers, Improves Module Resolution in JavaScript
With Safari 16.4 recently adding support for import maps, JavaScript developers can now use import maps in all modern browsers. Older browsers can use a polyfill. Import maps bring better module resolution for JavaScript applications.
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New Rust-Based Web Bundler Rspack Touts up to 10X Speed Improvement over Webpack
Chinese internet technology company Bytedance and Valor Software recently open-sourced Rspack, a web bundler written in Rust that aims to be a fast, drop-in replacement for Webpack. Some early benchmarks show 10x improvement in cold start time.
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Web Framework Astro Now Features Static, Server, and Hybrid Rendering for Faster Web Sites
HTML-first web framework Astro recently released Astro 2.0 and complements previously available static and dynamic server rendering with new hybrid rendering capabilities. Hybrid rendering allows prerendering specific pages for faster performance.