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Feature Gates in Client-Go: Enhancing Control and Simplifying Feature Adoption in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library, providing developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption within their Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes components utilize the client-go library for API interaction. This library is also widely adopted across the Kubernetes ecosystem for building extensions like controllers, tools, and webhooks.
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Measuring and Reducing the Environmental Impact of Software
Software applications often manage big amounts of data; most of them are internet-based applications, and incorporate artificial intelligence. According to Coral Calero, these three aspects improve the capabilities and functionalities provided by software but they have also increased the amount of energy needed. We need to measure energy consumption of software to control its environmental impact.
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Terraform Google Provider 6.0: Automatic Labeling, Extended Naming Flexibility, and More
HashiCorp released version 6.0 of the Terraform Google provider, delivering key updates to improve cloud infrastructure management and developer workflows. The release introduces automatic labeling for Terraform-created resources, expanded naming flexibility, and removal of deprecated features. It also simplifies handling Google IDs and IAM binding for external resources.
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Anthropic Unveils Contextual Retrieval for Enhanced AI Data Handling
Anthropic has announced Contextual Retrieval, a significant advancement in AI systems' interaction with extensive knowledge bases. This technique addresses the challenge of context loss in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by enriching text chunks with contextual information before embedding or indexing.
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How Canva Scaled Real-Time Collaboration with WebRTC: from WebSockets to Seamless P2P Communication
Canva recently shared how it implemented real-time mouse pointers for collaborative whiteboarding. Canva chose a WebRTC-based solution to improve scalability, reduce latency, and lower backend load. Since WebRTC uses peer-to-peer communication, Canva can provide users with a smoother, more performant real-time experience than a traditional backend-based WebSocket and Redis solution.
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AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has introduced Graviton4-powered EC2 X8g instances, featuring up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. With 3x improved memory and network bandwidth, plus enhanced security, these instances offer unmatched performance and value. Ideal for databases, big data analytics, and more, X8g sets a new standard in cloud computing.
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Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET
Microsoft launched Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET, streamlining access to generative AI models in the Azure AI Studio model catalog. This catalog includes models from providers like Azure OpenAI Service, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face, organized into three collections: Curated by Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Models, and Open Models from Hugging Face Hub.
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Uber Creates GenAI Gateway Mirroring OpenAI API to Support over 60 LLM Use Cases
Uber created a unified platform for serving large language models (LLMs) from external vendors and self-hosted ones and opted to mirror OpenAI API to help with internal adoption. GenAI Gateway provides a consistent and efficient interface and serves over 60 distinct LLM use cases across many areas.
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Study Shows AI Coding Assistant Improves Developer Productivity
Researchers from Microsoft, MIT, Princeton University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study that showed the use of GitHub Copilot increased developer productivity. The team conducted three separate randomized controlled trials (RCT) involving over 4,000 developers; the ones using Copilot achieved a 26% increase in productivity.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-Built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios
Microsoft's Logic Apps (Standard) now features public preview template support, empowering developers with a library of pre-built workflows for diverse integration scenarios. Designed to simplify application management, templates offer detailed workflow insights and customizability. Aiming for GA by year-end, Microsoft encourages community participation to enhance this evolving resource.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
This week's Java roundup for September 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of JDK 23 and GraalVM for JDK 23; an update on Jakarta EE 11 and plans for Jakarta EE 12; introducing Micronaut GraalPy; and Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK 24.08.
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Netflix’s Pushy: Evolution of Scalable WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 16th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift across Platforms
While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platforms where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.
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Jetpack Compose Embraces Adaptive UIs with Compose Material 3 Adaptive
Compose Material 3 Adaptive, a library meant to create adaptive UIs able to adapt themselves automatically according to the current window size or device orientation, has reached 1.0 and is ready to be used in production apps.