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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.
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Kotlin 1.9 Brings New Language Features and Improved Multiplatform/Native Support
The latest release of Kotlin introduces a number of new language features, including the ..< operator for open ranges, extended regular expressions, and more. Additionally, it brings improvements to both Kotlin Multiplatform and Kotlin/Native.
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Approaches and Techniques to Break Down Silos: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Emily Webber presented Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations, where she showed a worrying trend in the industry of specialisation and silos at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility, and valuable outcomes. She shared some approaches and techniques to break silos down to work together better.
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Berkeley Open-Sources AI Image-Editing Model InstructPix2Pix
Researchers from the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab have open-sourced InstructPix2Pix, a deep-learning model that follows human instructions to edit images. InstructPix2Pix was trained on synthetic data and outperforms a baseline AI image-editing model.
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EU AI Act: the Regulatory Framework on the Usage of Machine Learning in the European Union
After the first publication of the proposal on the operation of machine learning applications in 2021, on June 14th negotiations have started for the realization of the legislation in the EU Council. The EU countries are expected to reach an agreement by the end of 2023. The EU Act takes a risk-based approach and plans to avoid disproportionate prescriptions when executing the regulations.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Recursive Loop Detection for SQS, SNS, and Invoke API
AWS recently announced a recursion control feature in AWS Lambda that detects and stops Lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop.
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Databricks Unveils Lakehouse AI and MosaicML Acquisition at Data + AI Summit
The Data and AI company Databricks recently unveiled Lakehouse AI, a suite of tools for building and governing generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs), within the Databricks platform. Among the tools were LakehouseIQ, a "knowledge engine" that uses AI to understand a company's unique data, culture, and language in order to improve natural language interfaces like chatbots.
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Google Announces Graph for Understanding Artifact (GUAC) v0.1
The Open Source Security Team at Google has recently introduced GUAC (Graph for Understanding Artifact) v0.1, a tool designed for security professionals. GUAC focuses on metadata synthesis and aggregation, addressing the requirement outlined in the U.S. Executive Order on Cybersecurity. This tool aims to assist security professionals in assessing the security posture of the supply chain.
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Micronaut 4.0.0 Brings Java Virtual Threads, GraalVM Support and Experimental HTTP/3 Features
The Micronaut Foundation has recently announced the general availability (GA) release of Micronaut Framework 4.0.0. This major release brings a plethora of updates and improvements to the popular JVM-based framework, enhancing its performance, modularity, and compatibility with other technologies.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Dev Box, a service providing developers access to preconfigured and centrally managed dev boxes.