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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.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux Now Generally Available in Microsoft Store
The Windows Subsystem for Linux has reached GA status in the Microsoft Store, adding support for Windows 10 in addition to Windows 11. Among the most notable features in WSL 1.0.0 are opt-in systemd support and the possibility of running Linux GUI applications on Windows 10.
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Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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AWS Introduces CloudFront Continuous Deployment for Blue-Green and Canary Strategies
AWS announced that CloudFront now supports continuous deployment to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic. The new feature of the AWS content delivery network simplifies blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
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Google's Code-as-Policies Lets Robots Write Their Own Code
Researchers from Google's Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting technique for code generation that outperforms previous methods on the HumanEval code-generation benchmark.
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Galactica: Large Language Model for Scientific Knowledge
Meta AI and Papers with Code recently released Galactica, a 120-billion-parameter scientific-language model which can search and summarize academic literature, solve math problems, and write scientific code. Galactica’s architecture is based on a transformer, an attention mechanism which draws global dependencies between input and output.
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Akka 22.10 Introduces Projections over gRPC
Akka 22.10 is the first release using the new Business License (BSL) 1.1 release. The Projections over gRPC module is introduced and Java 17 and Scala 3.1 are now supported.
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Java News Roundup: Major Spring Releases, Resilience4j, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Kotlin 1.8-Beta
This week's Java roundup for November 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 20, major, point and patch releases for Spring (namely Boot, Web Services, Security, Batch, Authorization Server, REST Docs, Framework, Modulith, GraphQL, Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ), Open Liberty 22.0.0.12, GlassFish 7.0-M10, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.18, Resilience4j 2.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.84 and Kotlin 1.8-Beta.