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Spring Boot and Azul JDK Support Java Startup Time Reducer CRaC
The OpenJDK project CRaC drastically reduces the startup time of a Java application and its Time to Peak performance. It does so by taking a memory snapshot at runtime and restoring it in later runs. Azul, the creator of CRaC, now ships an OpenJDK 17 distribution with built-in support for CRaC. Micronaut and Quarkus already support CRaC, and Spring Framework will do so in November 2023.
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Rx.NET v6.0: Enhancing Compatibility, Trimming Support, and Many More
Last month, the team behind Rx.NET announced the release of the 6.0 version. The latest version of the library brings several improvements and aligns itself with the current .NET ecosystem. While the update doesn't introduce significant new functionality, it focuses on enhancing compatibility, supporting the latest versions of .NET, and addressing common pain points for developers.
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Considering Remote Mob Programming in a High Stakes Environment
Remote mob programming helped a team in a high-stakes environment to be resilient, work under pressure, and deliver successfully. Setting expectations on the first call and being serious about the reasons for doing mob programming ensured that the team kept doing it.
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Swift 5.9 Brings Macro Expansion Power to the Language
Introduced at WWDC 2023, Swift 5.9, now available in beta, brings a major extension to the language capabilities through support for generating code at compile-time using macros.
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Public Preview of JSON Schema Support in Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry for Kafka Applications
Microsoft recently announced that the Azure Event Hubs schema registry now includes JSON schema support, providing Kafka applications with a centralized repository for schema documents used in messaging-centric and event-driven applications. The JSON schema support is currently in public preview.
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QCon New York 2023: Living on the Edge with Erica Pisani
Erica Pisani, Sr. software engineer at Netlify, presented Living on the Edge at QCon New York 2023. Pisani discussed: edge computing anatomy; communication between users, edge locations and origin servers; various edge computing challenges with corresponding solutions; and introduced the AWS Snowball Edge Device. Pisani spoke to InfoQ to learn more about edge computing.
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Avalonia UI v11 Release Candidate 1: Breaking Changes and API Stabilization
The Avalonia UI team made an announcement regarding the anticipated version 11 Release Candidate 1. In their official release post, they emphasized the significance of this milestone, as it signifies a crucial step forward for the project. The primary focus of this RC is to stabilize the API, bringing the final release of v11 even closer to completion.
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Slack Leverages Bespoke Tracing Architecture for Message Notifications
Slack leveraged its bespoke tracing architecture to help with investigating notification-delivery issues. Tracing helped resolve notification issues 30% faster and reduced escalations to the development team. It also simplified the analytics pipeline and unlocked new use cases for the data science team.
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Microsoft Guidance Offers Language for Controlling Large Language Models
Microsoft has recently introduced a domain-specific language called Guidance, to improve developers' ability to manage contemporary language models. The new framework integrates aspects such as generation, prompting, and logical control into a unified process for developers. The inclusion of regex pattern guides ensures the enforcement of formats, allowing for the natural completion of prompts.
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Google's PaLM-E Combines Vision and Language AI for Robot Control
Researchers from Google's Robotics team recently announced PaLM-E, a combination of their PaLM and Vision Transformer (ViT) models designed for controlling robots. PaLM-E handles multimodal input data from robotic sensor and outputs text commands to control the robot's actuators. Besides performing well on several robotics tasks, PaLM-E also outperforms other models on the OK-VQA benchmark.
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SharePoint Framework 1.17 Introduces Web Part Top Actions and Change to Update Cadence
Microsoft released version 1.17 of the SharePoint Framework in April 2023, which together with new features and bug fixes also ushers a shorter release cycle for minor fixes. The version has already seen four minor updates in the two and half months since the launch.
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Microsoft Previews .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard
Microsoft recently introduced .NET Framework Custom Code for Logic Apps Standard in public preview, allowing developers to call compiled .NET Framework code from a built-in action in their workflow.
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Microsoft Open Sources AzDetectSuite Library for Detection Engineering in Azure
The Microsoft security team recently released AzDetectSuite, a collection of KQL queries and detection alerts against security threads on Azure and AzureAD. The open-source project provides basic detection capabilities at a low cost, targeting small environments within the Microsoft cloud platform.
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New Azure Cosmos DB Features to Boost Performance and Optimize Cost
Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution.
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Java News Roundup: JNoSQL 1.0, Liberica NIK 23.0, Micronaut 4.0-RC2, Log4j 3.0-Alpha1, KCDC, JCON
This week's Java roundup for June 19th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, updates to: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Vault; Spring for GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server and Spring Modulith; Liberica NIK 23.0, Semeru 20.0.1, Micronaut 4.0-RC2 and 3.9.4, JNoSQL 1.0, Vert.x 4.4.4, updates to: Apache Tomcat, Camel, Log4j and JMeter; JHipster Lite 0.35, KCDC 2023 and JCON Europe 2023.