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Meta Announces Next Generation AI Hardware Platform Grand Teton
Meta recently announced Grand Teton, their next-generation hardware platform for AI training. Grand Teton features several improvements over the previous generation, including 2x the network bandwidth and 4x the host-to-GPU bandwidth.
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Uber Freight Near-Real-Time Analytics Architecture
Uber Freight is the Uber platform dedicated to connecting shippers with carriers. Providing reliable service to shippers is crucial for Uber Freight. This is why the Carrier Scorecard was developed, with several metrics including on-time pickup/delivery, tracking automation, and late cancellations.
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Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Katherine Jarmul gave a talk on unravelling techno-solutionism, in which she explored the inherent bias in AI training datasets, the bias that assumes there will be a technical solution to almost any problem and that those technical solutions will be beneficial for mankind. She posed questions for technologists to consider when building products.
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Google Introduces Cloud Workstations in Public Preview
Google introduced the public preview of Cloud Workstations during its Cloud Next event, which provides fully-managed and integrated development environments on the Google Cloud Platform.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 6, Spring Updates and CVEs, Asynchronous Stack Trace VM API
This week's Java roundup for October 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JavaFX 20, GZC 20, Spring Framework milestone, point and release candidates, Payara Platform 6, Micronaut 3.7.3, MicroProfile 6.0-RC2, Hibernate ORM point releases, Apache TomEE 9.0-RC1, Apache Camel 3.18.3, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.17, JReleaser 1.3.1, JobRunr 5.3.1, JDKMon 17.0.39 and J-Fall 2022.
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Kubernetes 1.24 Released with Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and Subresource Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.24 in May by the name Stargazer. The release has new features such as Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and signing release artifacts, generally available for stable features such as PodOverhead, CSI volume expansion, and CSR duration.
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Amazon EC2 Introduces Replace Root Volume to Patch Guest Operating System and Applications
AWS recently introduced the ability to replace the root volume of EC2 instances using an updated AMI without stopping them. The Replace Root Volume helps patch the guest operating system and applications but still triggers a reboot of the instance.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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Microsoft Introduces New UI Experience for Trying out Computer Vision with Vision Studio
Microsoft recently introduced a new User Interface (UI) for developers called Vision Studio to try its Computer Vision API.
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Sigstore Moves to GA with Enhanced Stability and Reliability
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has moved Sigstore, an artifact signing, and verification technology, into general availability. This announcement sees the Sigstore certificate authority, Fulcio, and transparency log, Rekor, also move into GA with their 1.0 releases. The release brings improved stability and reliability to the services for use within production workloads.
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SFTP for Azure Blob Storage Now Generally Available
Azure Blob Storage now supports the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), allowing customers to use SFTP for file access, transfer, and management on the object storage service. The new option is generally available and simplifies the migration to the cloud of legacy applications and enterprise workloads.
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New Features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
New features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are in preview. These new features include encryption of data at rest with customer-managed keys, database authentication with Azure Active Directory, geo-redundant backups and fast restores of data, and a migration tool for moving workloads from the product’s older Single Server deployment option.
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Scaling Access Management at Airbnb
Airbnb's product engineering team recently discussed their implementation of a self-serving, centralized access control platform. Built on the principle of least privilege, the team designed a five-stage architecture, providing benefits from security, usability, and developer experience aspects.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Developer Tooling for Cloud-Native Wasm Is Going Mainstream
The focus of Cloud Native Wasm Day at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit is developer tooling for server-side WebAssembly.