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Meta MultiRay Allows Efficiency on Large-Scale AI Models
Meta developed MultiRay, a platform that allows the cost-effective running state-of-the-art machine learning models. MultiRay allows models to run on the same input in order to share the majority of the running cost with a little addictive cost per model.
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WildFly 27 Delivers Support for JDK 17 and Jakarta EE 10
Red Hat has released WildFly 27, featuring support for JDK 11, JDK 17, Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0. There are also dependency upgrades to Hibernate ORM 6.1, Hibernate Search 6.1, Infinispan 14, JGroups 5.2, RESTEasy 6.2, and Weld 5. WildFly 27 is a compatible implementation for Jakarta EE 10, having passed the TCKs in the Platform, Web and Core profiles.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown, JDK 21 Expert Group, Apache Tomcat, JakartaOne
This week's Java roundup for December 5th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase One, formation of the JDK 21 expert group, point and milestone releases of: Spring Shell, Spring Tools, Quarkus, Open Liberty, GraalVM Native Build Tools, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Vert.x, Resilience4j, JDKMon and Ktor; and JakartaOne Livestream 2022.
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Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon
After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say.
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Triggermesh Introduces an Open-Source AWS Eventbridge Alternative with Project Shaker
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud-native integration platform provider, announced Shaker, a new open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project that captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources in a unified manner.
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Amazon Announces Preview of OpenSearch Serverless
AWS recently announced the preview of OpenSearch Serverless, a new option of OpenSearch service that automatically provisions and scales the resources for data ingestion and query responses. The minimum capacity required for the serverless option raised some concerns in the community.
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Grafana Labs Announces Trace Query Language TraceQL
Part of the upcoming Grafana Tempo 2.0, TraceQL is a query language aiming to make it simple to interactively search and extract traces. This will speed up the process of diagnosing and responding to root causes, says Grafana.
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Microsoft’s Distributed Application Framework Orleans Reaches Version 7
Microsoft Orleans, a .NET framework for building scalable distributed cloud applications, has been updated for .NET 7 and released as Orleans 7.0.0 on November 8th, 2022. The improvements in this release include better performance, simplified development dependencies and simplified identification schema for the grains, a unit of execution in Orleans.
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Payara Cloud Automates Jakarta EE Deployments to Kubernetes
Payara introduced Payara Cloud, a serverless solution for Jakarta EE applications, which manages the infrastructure configuration and creation. It allows developers to focus on creating and configuring the application before pushing the application's WAR file to the cloud.
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How Defining Agile Results and Behaviors Can Enable Behavioral Change
Specifying and measuring behavior within a certain organisational context can enable and drive behavioral change. To increase the success of an agile transformation, it helps if you link the desired behaviors to the expected results. This way you set yourself up to be able to reinforce the behavior you want to see more of in order to reach your results.
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Swift to Add Support for Ownership, Macros, and C++ Interop
The Swift language workgroup has detailed the main focus areas for the development of Swift in 2023 and further on, which include defining an ownership model for memory management, non-copyable types, a macro system, and C++ interoperability.
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Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM
AWS announced support for local development and testing of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) apps defined in Hashicorp Terraform configuration files. The functionality is provided via the AWS SAM Command Line Interface (CLI) and is currently released as a public-preview.
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Amazon EventBridge Pipes Support Point-to-Point Integrations between Event Producers and Consumers
At re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon EventBridge Pipes, a new feature in Amazon EventBridge providing developers a more straightforward way to connect events from multiple services.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI
Microsoft Research recently open-sourced FarmVibes.AI, a suite of ML models and tools for sustainable agriculture. FarmVibes.AI includes data processing workflows for fusing multiple sets of spatiotemporal and geospatial data, such as weather data and satellite and drone imagery.
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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.