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Shopify Open-Sources Ruvy, a Toolchain to Create Wasm Modules from Ruby Code
Recently open-sourced by Spotify, Ruvy is a WebAssembly toolchain capable to translate Ruby code into Wasm modules. Based on ruby.wasm, Ruvy is implemented in Rust and includes some optimizations to improve performance and to simplify Wasm module execution.
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JAX London 2023: Team Dynamics, Developer Platforms, and the Adoption of AI
For the tenth time, Java fans attended JAX London in the first week of October. The keynotes argued that teams are the real product of software development, soft skills are anything but soft, developers should want to use internal platforms, and that AI won't take developer jobs – developers using AI will. JAX London will return in the first week of October 2024.
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AWS Adds New Code Generation Models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of two new foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: Code Llama and Mistral 7B. These models can be deployed with one click to provide AWS users with private inference endpoints for code generation tasks.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for October 23rd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M1, GraalVM 21.0.1, Spring 6.1-RC2, Spring Modulith 1.1-RC1, Spring Vault 3.1-RC1, Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, Quarkus 3.5, Liberica NIK 22.3.4, Hibernate ORM 6.4-CR1, Hibernate Search 7.0-CR1, Maven 4.0.0-alpha8, Camel 4.0.2, Camel Quarkus 3.5, JHipster Lite 0.46 and JDKMonitor.
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Foreign Function & Memory API to Bridge the Gap between Java and Native Libraries
After its review concluded, JEP 454, Foreign Function & Memory API has been promoted from Targeted to Integrated for JDK 22. This JEP proposes to finalize this feature after two rounds of incubation and three rounds of preview. The API aims to replace traditional, complex methods like JNI, offering a more efficient and secure approach.
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Python-Like Numerical Computation Library MatX Brings Transforms as Operators and Other Features
Developed by Nvidia for its own GPUs, MatX is a C++ library that aims to bring near-native performance in numerical computing using a high-level syntax not far from those available in Python scipy or MATLAB. Its latest release brings a number of new features, including the possibility to use transforms as operators, new operators such as upsample, downsample, pwelch, and more.
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Java News Roundup: Unnamed Variables and Patterns, WildFly 30, MicroProfile 6.1, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for October 16th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, BellSoft, Oracle VS Code extension, WildFly 30, Payara Platform, MicroProfile 6.1, EclipseCon and releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Micronaut, Quarkus, Open Liberty, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, JHipster and JHipster Lite.
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ASP.NET Core .NET 8 RC 2: Blazor, Identity, SignalR and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 brings a lot of additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. This release is planned to be the last one before the final version of .NET 8 is released. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Identity, API Authoring, SignalR, and new SPA templates for CLI.
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New Docker Compose Functionality Banishes Alt-Tabbing and Bind Mounts
Docker has announced the general availability of Docker Compose Watch - a tool to enhance the efficiency of application development, making it easier for developers to maintain their focus while coding.
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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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Deno 1.37: Significant Developer-Focused Enhancements
Deno 1.37 introduces enhancements to the developer experience, particularly through its seamless integration with Jupyter notebooks. This integration enables developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript within Jupyter notebooks for tasks such as data analysis, machine learning, and interactive report creation.
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TorchServe Potentially Exposed to Remote Code Execution
Israeli-based security company Oligo has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in TorchServe, the tool used to serve PyTorch models, that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities have been promptly fixed in TorchServe version 0.82.
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Java News Roundup: Foreign Function & Memory API, OpenJDK JEPs, Apache Tomcat CVEs
This week's Java roundup for October 9th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Apache Tomcat CVEs, Devoxx Morocco, and milestone, point and release candidates of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Micronaut; Quarkus; Micrometer Metrics; Micrometer Tracing; Apache Kafka; Apache Camel; Eclipse Vert.x; Project Reactor; JHipster Lite; Piranha; and RefactorFirst.
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GraalVM Replaces the GraalVM Updater with Language Libraries
The GraalVM team announced that Java libraries will replace the GraalVM Updater (gu) starting with JDK 21. The updater enabled the installation and management of GraalVM language runtimes and utilities. Libraries are available for languages such as JavaScript, Node.js, Python, WebAssembly and Ruby.