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PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB Now Generally Available on Google Cloud
Recently Google announced the general availability (GA) of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service providing scale-out compute and storage, integrated analytics, and AI/ML-powered management.
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Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety across Teams
Applying ideas from psychological safety can enable people to speak up in teams about what they don't know, don't understand, or mistakes they have made. Trust and creating safe spaces are essential, but more is needed. People need to feel that they will not be punished or embarrassed if they take interpersonal risks.
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Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Provides Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 Implementations
More than two-and-a-half years after being introduced to the Java community, VMWare has released Spring Authorization Server 1.0. Built on top of Spring Security, the Spring Authorization Server project supports the creation of OpenID Connect 1.0 Identity Providers and OAuth 2.1 Authorization Servers. The project supersedes the Spring Security OAuth project which is no longer maintained.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.
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Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
Grafana has announced two new additions to its suite of observability and monitoring tooling. Grafana Faro is an open-source web SDK for real user monitoring (RUM) of browser frontend applications. Grafana Phlare is an open-source backend database for storing and querying profiling data. A new flame graph panel is available to facilitate visualizing and interpreting the collected profile data.
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Linux 6.1 Officially Adds Support for Rust in the Kernel
After over two years in development, support for using Rust for kernel development has entered a stable Linux release, Linux 6.1, which became available a couple of weeks ago.
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How Twitter Automated Data Quality Check Process
Twitter engineering has recently shared a blog post on how they architected and developed a quality automation platform. Twitter digests and creates thousands of data sets for different data products and applications. The next natural step is to make sure of the quality of the data by adding automation on top of it. In this news post, we explore this architecture in more detail.
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Meta's CICERO AI Wins Online Diplomacy Tournament
Meta AI Research recently open-sourced CICERO, an AI that can beat most humans at the strategy game Diplomacy, a game that requires coordinating plans with other players. CICERO combines chatbot-like dialogue capabilities with a strategic reasoning, and recently placed first in an online Diplomacy tournament against human players.
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AWS Makes it Simpler to Share ML Models and Notebooks with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS announced that it is now easier to share machine learning artifacts like models and notebooks with other users using SageMaker JumpStart. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning hub that helps users accelerate their journey into the world of machine learning.
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Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge
Recently, Vercel announced the general availability of Edge Functions, which are either JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions. According to the company, these functions are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional Serverless Functions.
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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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Java News Roundup: GlassFish 7.0, Payara Platform, Apache NetBeans 16
This week's Java roundup for December 12th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0, Spring Framework 6.0.3, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10 Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1, Payara Platform, Quarkus 2.15, WildFly 27.0.1, Helidon 2.5.5, Piranha Cloud 22.12, NetBeans 16, Apache Camel, 3.14.7, JobRunr 5.3.2, JDKMon 17.0.43, Reactor 2022.0.1, JHipster Lite 0.24 and Ktor 2023 roadmap.
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AWS Key Management Service Now Supports External Key Stores
AWS recently announced the availability of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) External Key Store (XKS), allowing organizations to store and manage their encryption keys outside the AWS KMS service.
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NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plug-in Brings Temporal GPU Concurrency
Starting from the v12 release, the Nvidia GPU device plug-in framework started supporting time-sliced sharing between CUDA workloads on Kubernetes. This feature aims to prevent under-utilization of GPU units and make it easier to scale applications by leveraging concurrently-executing CUDA contexts.
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OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
OpenJDK has proposed a new OpenJDK Project, codenamed Galahad, to merge some of the GraalVM Native Compilation technologies into the OpenJDK codebase.