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All-in-One, Integrated Front-End Toolchain Rome Released V10, Dubbed First Stable Release
The Rome team recently announced Rome v10, dubbed the first stable release since a Rust rewrite. The new release includes a small part of the all-in-one toolchain that Rome envisions, namely the linter and formatter. The Rust-based tools according to first benchmarks provide between one and two orders of magnitude improvement vs. ESLint and Prettier. The tools are available as a VSCode extension.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Edge-Native Application Principles
Edge computing is an extension to cloud computing. Companies are interested in bringing their cloud-native infrastructure and applications to the edge. Kate Goldenring and Amar Kapadia spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the progress made by the CNCF IoT Edge working group on principles to consider for edge-native applications.
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Rust 1.65 Brings Generic Associated Types in a Step towards Higher-Kinded Types
The latest release of Rust introduces a powerful new language feature, called generic associated types, that allows developers to specify generics on associated types in traits. Other notable new features include the let-else statement, and support for breaking out of labeled blocks.
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Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool
Debezium, an open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC), converts records from existing databases into event streams, enabling applications to detect and respond to database row-level changes. This release of version 2.0 introduces many changes: Java 11 is now required; incremental snapshots are improved [...]
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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.