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Implementing Application Level Encryption at Scale: Insights from Atlassian’s Use of AWS and Cryptor
Atlassian recently published how it performs Application Level Encryption at scale on AWS while utilising high cache hit rates and maintaining low costs. Atlassian's solution runs over 12,500 instances and manages over 1,540 KMS keys. It performs over 11 billion decryptions and 811 million encryptions daily, costing $2,500 per month versus a potential $1,000,000 per month using a naive solution.
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Grammarly Replaces its in-House Data Lake with Databricks Platform Using Medallion Architecture
Grammarly adopted the medallion architecture while migrating from their in-house data lake, storing Parquet files in AWS S3, to the Delta Lake lakehouse. The company created a new event store for over 6000 event types from 40 internal and external clients and, in the process, improved data quality and reduced the data-delivery time by 94%.
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GitHub Details Key Prompt Engineering Practices Used to Build Copilot
Prompt engineering is key to creating effective LLM-based applications and does not require to have a PhD in machine learning or generative AI, say GitHub engineers Albert Ziegler and John Berryman, who also shared the lessons they learned developing GitHub Copilot.
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JetBrains Unveils AI Assistant for IntelliJ-Based IDEs and .NET Tools
JetBrains, the software development company known for creating the IntelliJ IDEA, has announced the introduction of a new AI Assistant in its Early Access Program (EAP) builds for all IntelliJ-based IDEs and .NET tools. This significant addition is aimed at transforming the landscape of software development tools by integrating generative AI and large language models into JetBrains' products.
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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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Google Releases Hive-BigQuery Open-Source Connector
Google recently announced the general availability of the Hive-BigQuery Connector, simplifying integration and migrations between Apache Hive and Google BigQuery. The open-source connector is a Hive storage handler that enables Hive to interact with BigQuery's storage layer.
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Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Vector Search Feature in Azure Cognitive Search
At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Vector search in Azure Cognitive Search, a capability for building applications powered by large language models. It is a new capability for indexing, storing, and retrieving vector embeddings from a search index.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 6: Visual Studio Code Extension, Bug Fixes & Native AOT for iOS
Microsoft has recently released the sixth preview of the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) framework in .NET 8 roadmap. As reported, this latest release resolves a number of high-impact issues, including Visual Studio for Mac 17.6.1 support, Native AOT for iOS and the new Visual Studio Code extension for .NET MAUI development.
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Meta AI Reveals CM3leon, an Advanced Text-to-Image Generative Model
Meta AI has introduced CM3leon, a novel multimodal model combining text and image production. This model is the first of its type, using a modified formula from text-only language models to deliver remarkable outcomes with unequaled computational efficiency.
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Sustainable Software Systems Using Circular Economy Principles
The circular economy is a framework that aims to keep products and materials in use for as long as possible, reducing waste and pollution, and regenerating natural systems. As practitioners or change enablers, we can support sustainable product development using concepts from the circular economy in our daily work.
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Microsoft Azure Managed Lustre for HPC and AI Workloads Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Lustre, a managed file system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Cross-Region (Global) Load Balancer Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure cross-region (Global) Load Balancer in all Azure public and national cloud regions.
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Bun Releases Native Bundler and Introduces Macros
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps that aims to replace Node.js. Bun has recently launched its fast native JavaScript bundler, bringing enhanced bundling capabilities to the Bun ecosystem. The new bundler, now in beta, offers a comprehensive set of features and tools to simplify and accelerate the process of building frontend applications.
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LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company-wide rollout, they reduced the latency by up to 60% and improved resource utilization at the same time.
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Introduction to Mojo Programming Language
Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. It is at an early stage of development and offers users an online playground to explore its features. Mojo aims for excellence in data science and machine learning, providing a fast alternative to Python. There are gradual plans to make it available to open-source.