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Mythical Man Month Author and Father of the 8-Bit Byte, Fred Brooks, Dies at 91
Dr Frederick P Brooks Jr, originator of the term "architecture in computing", author of one of the first books to examine the nature of computer programming from a sociotechnical perspective, architect of the IBM 360 series of computers, university professor and person responsible for the 8-bit byte, died on 17 November at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr Brooks was 91 years old.
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AWS Announces Preview Release of Amazon Security Lake
At re:Invent, AWS announced the preview release of Amazon Security Lake. This managed service automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from the cloud and on-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in their account.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022
After a virtual-only event in 2020 and a reduced-size 2021 edition, re:Invent was back last week in Las Vegas with over 50,000 attendees for the 11th edition. During multiple sessions and keynotes at the largest AWS yearly conference, the cloud provider announced new services and features, with the focus more on business solutions and data options than new building blocks.
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AWS Enters Remote Development and Collaboration Space with CodeCatalyst
At its recent re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon previewed CodeCatalyst, a service aimed to ease developer collaboration by integrating remote workspaces, project templates, issue management, continuous integration and delivery, and more.
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Resilience4j 2.0.0 Delivers Support for JDK 17
Resilience4j, a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for functional programming, has released version 2.0 featuring support for Java 17 and dependency upgrades to Kotlin, Spring Boot and Micronaut. This new version also removes the dependency on Vavr, a functional library for Java, in order to become a more lightweight library.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs Targeted for JDK 20, AWS Introduces Lambda SnapStart Feature
This week's Java roundup for November 28th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JavaFX 20, Spring Integration 6.0, Spring Vault 3.0, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC3, AWS introduces Lambda SnapStart, Quarkus 2.14.2, 2.13.5 and 2.15.0.CR1, Apache Camel 3.18.4 and progress on JHipster upgrade to Spring Boot 3.0.
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Enhance, SSR for Web Components - Brian Leroux at QCon San Francisco 2022
Brian Leroux, CTO at Begin, recently introduced Enhance, a new HTML framework, at QCon San Francisco. Enhance heavily lies on web standards and progressive enhancement for future-proof web applications. Enhance provides file-based routing, reusable Custom Elements, a customizable utility CSS system, and mapped API data routes that get deployed to isolated, single-purpose cloud functions.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon Omics
At re:Invent, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Omics, a managed service for storage, analysis, and elaboration of genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. The service is designed for healthcare and life science organizations to enhance patient care and advance scientific research.
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Apple Adds Core ML Support for Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon
Apple released a set of optimizations to Core ML to enable running the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model on Apple Silicon-powered devices running the latest iOS or macOS versions, respectively iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1.
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AWS Announces Blue/Green Deployments for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
At the beginning of the re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of RDS Blue/Green Deployments, a new feature for Aurora with MySQL compatibility, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB to perform blue/green database updates.
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Open Source SkyPilot Targets Cloud Cost Optimization for ML and Data Science
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley recently released Skypilot, an open-source framework for running machine learning workloads on the major cloud providers through a unified interface. The project focuses on cost optimization automatically finding the cheapest availability zone, region, and provider for the requested resources.
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OmniFish on Providing Support for Jakarta EE 10 and GlassFish 7
OmniFish, the Estonia-based Jakarta EE consulting company, launched support for Jakarta EE in September 2022. This includes JakartaEE 10, GlassFish 7, and Piranha Cloud and its components like Mojarra. OmniFish recently also joined the Jakarta EE Working Group as a participant member. InfoQ spoke to Arjan Tijms, David Matějček, and Ondro Mihályi about OmniFish.
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AWS Lambda SnapStart Accelerates Java Functions
At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.
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Effective Retrospectives Require Skilled Facilitators
Retrospective facilitators can develop their facilitation skills by self-study and training, and by doing retrospectives. Better retrospective facilitation can lead to higher effectiveness of change and impact the progress of an organization.
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AWS Announces DataZone, a New Data Management Service to Govern Data
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.