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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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From Extinct Computers to Statistical Nightmares: Adventures in Performance
Thomas Dullien, distinguished software engineer at Elastic, shared at QCon London some lessons learned from analyzing the performance of large-scale compute systems.
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Open Liberty 23.0.0.3 Unveiled: Embracing Cloud-Native Java Microservices, Jakarta EE 10 and beyond
IBM unveiled Open Liberty 23.0.0.3, boasting support for Java SE 20, Jakarta EE 10, and MicroProfile 6.0. This significant release introduces the Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile, Web Profile, and Platform and enhancements to various features that comprise the profiles. Additionally, the release includes MicroProfile Telemetry 1.0 and updates to Metrics, OpenAPI, and JWT Authentication specifications.
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How Open-Source Maintainers Can Deal with Toxic Behavior
Three toxic behaviors that open-source maintainers experience are entitlement, people venting their frustration, and outright attacks. Growing a thick skin and ignoring the behavior can lead to a negative spiral of angriness and sadness. Instead, we should call out the behavior and remind people that open source means collaboration and cooperation.
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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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Efficiently Applying LLMs to Transform Semi-Structured Data
LLMs can be an effective way to generate structured data from semi-structured data, although an expensive one. A team of Stanford and Cornell researchers claim to have found a technique to reduce inference costs by 110x while improving inference quality.
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Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs
Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs as a result.
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Stability AI Open-Sources 7B Parameter Language Model StableLM
Stability AI released two sets of pre-trained model weights for StableLM, a suite of large language models (LLM). The models are trained on 1.5 trillion text tokens and are licensed for commercial use under CC BY-SA-4.0.
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AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion
AWS recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a capability of Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a serverless, auto-scaled, managed data collector that receives, transforms, and delivers data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.
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Yelp Adopted the MVI Architecture to Improve Performance and Testability of Their Android App
Four years into the adoption of the Model-View-Intent (MVI) architecture for their Android app, Yelp engineer Paul Martin says it allowed them to have performant screens and improve unit testing.
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Java News Roundup: Quarkus 3.0, MicroStream 8.0, JEP 442, GraalVM, Infinispan
This week's Java roundup for April 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.4, GraalVM 22.3.2, Microsoft OpenJDK, Spring releases. Quarkus 3.0.0, MicroStream 8.0.0, Micronaut 3.9.1, Hibernate ORM 6.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01, Apache Camel 3.20.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13.3, JUnit 5.9.3, JReleaser 1.6.0, JobRunr 6.1.4, JDKMon 17.0.49 and Foojay.io.
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Google Cloud Announces GA of Cloud Run Jobs
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Cloud Run jobs, a serverless option to execute scripts and jobs that do not respond to HTTP requests. A new execution environment provides increased CPU, network performance, and support for network file systems.
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Uno Platform for Figma Preview 5: Enhanced Features for Designers and Developers
Uno Platform has released Preview 5 of its Figma plugin, offering enhanced features for designers and developers. The latest version of the plugin allows the creation of custom colors, enables the import of Design Systems Packages (DSP), and offers new controls such as Pips Pager, TabBar, and ItemsRepeater for greater flexibility in creating dynamic designs.
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How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavily Regulated Organization
Ana Sirvent, AWS practice lead at KPMG UK, shared her experience at QCon London on how to work with public cloud on heavily regulated organizations. Sirvent explained how to build trust with security, compliance, and client risk teams while delivering quickly and leveraging cloud services.
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Amazon CodeCatalyst Moves to GA with Amazon CodeWhisperer Support
Amazon moved CodeCatalyst into full general availability with a number of new features. CodeCatalyst provides templates to streamline creating the project's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and issue management system. New features with the GA release include better support for GitHub repos, integration with Amazon CodeWhisperer, and support for AWS Graviton processors.