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What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact
Engineers in the tech industry have the means for social impact through their network, skills, and experience. Companies can create impact by making business practices socially-minded. Inclusive training considers the circumstances and backgrounds of individuals, with minimum entry barriers to ensure broad participation, including ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic background.
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Microsoft Offers More App Service Plans Choices
Microsoft recently announced two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier of Azure App Service.
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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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AWS Enters the Generative AI Race with Bedrock and Titan Foundation Models
AWS announced their entry into the generative AI race with the launch of Amazon Bedrock and Titan foundation models. Amazon aims to democratize access to generative AI technology, catering to customers across various industries and use cases. This groundbreaking development positions Amazon as a formidable competitor in the rapidly growing AI market.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Multimodal Chatbot Visual ChatGPT
Microsoft Research recently open-sourced Visual ChatGPT, a chatbot system that can generate and manipulate images in response to human textual prompts. The system combines OpenAI's ChatGPT with 22 different visual foundation models (VFM) to support multi-modal interactions.
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Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack
Slack recently described how it sends millions of messages daily in real-time across the globe. The company provides a comprehensive insight into its architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. It highlights the unique challenges posed by delivering real-time messages across different time zones and regions and how Slack's engineers designed the infrastructure to handle them.
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Docker 4.18 Extends Scout, Adds Container File Explorer, Docker Init, and More
Docker Desktop's latest 4.18 release, brings a wealth of new features, including vulnerability quickview, recommendations, and image diffing for Docker Scout, stable Container File Explorer, an init command to quickly add Docker to a project, and experimental Compose File Watch to monitor changes inside a project.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, MicroStream to Eclipse, Helidon, Piranha, Gradle 8.1
This week's Java roundup for April 10th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Framework and Spring Data updates, GraalVM Build Tools 0.9.21, MicroStream becomes an Eclipse Project, Micronaut 3.8.9, Helidon 4.0.0.Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2.1, Micrometer Metrics 1.11.0-RC1, 1.10.6 and 1.9.10, Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-RC1 and 1.0.4, Piranha 23.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.6 and Gradle 8.1.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Response Payload Streaming
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda functions can progressively stream response payloads back to the client. The new feature improves performance for web and mobile applications and is currently available for Node.js 14.x and newer runtimes, as well as custom ones.
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Android Studio Flamingo Brings Live Edit for Composable, Improved Build Toolchain, and More
The latest stable release of Android Studio, dubbed Flamingo, brings Live Edit for Composable UIs, new app inspection features, updated IntelliJ, and more.
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Patcher, a Tool to Keep Updating Infrastructure as a Code
Gruntwork announces the beta availability of Patcher, a tool to automatically keep updating the infrastructure as a code, even with breaking changes.
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Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity
Announced in preview at the latest re:Invent conference, Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available, with new capabilities for service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. The pricing model raised some concerns in the community.
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Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of the tool is smooth as editing is done locally and the JetBrains client synchronises changes with the backend.
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AWS Supply Chain Now Generally Available with New Features
AWS’s Supply Chain cloud application has recently been made generally available, offering unified data, actionable insights powered by machine learning, and contextual collaboration features to reduce costs and mitigate risk.