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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for September 9th, 2024, features news highlighting: the September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.0-M1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10.
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AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates complex simulations, empowering users to tackle challenging workloads effortlessly across multiple global regions.
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Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features. Karpenter, initially launched in November 2021, has evolved into a comprehensive Kubernetes-native node lifecycle manager.
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Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3
Amazon has recently announced the alpha release of Storage Browser for Amazon S3, providing end users with a simple interface for accessing data stored in S3. The project is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries.
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CoreWCF Gets Azure Storage Queue Bindings
Microsoft released a CoreWCF service library and a WCF client library with the bindings for Azure Storage Queue. The new bindings allow developers to use Azure Service Queues for reliable and scalable messaging solutions. They also unlock simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ WCF solutions to an Azure cloud-based architecture.
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Enabling Fast Flow in Software Organizations
Resolving impediments to flow and removing unnecessary sources of cognitive load can make culture issues disappear in organisations, Nigel Kersten argued. Start with a clear strategy that is easy to communicate, then follow the path to creating stream-aligned teams and platform teams, he suggested.
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Lyft Promotes Best Practices for Collaborative Protocol Buffers Design
Lyft shared its experiences using Protocol Buffers for inter-system integration, primarily focusing on collaborative protocol design for definitions shared between teams and systems. The company promotes approaches that improve knowledge sharing, consistency, and development process quality over raw efficiency optimizations.
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Vapor 5 Materializes the Future of Server-Side Development in Swift
Over four years since the launch of its current version, the team behind Swift server-side development framework Vapor is making room for Vapor 5, which aims at leveraging Swift 6 concurrency capabilities and laying the foundations for the framework's future evolution. An initial alpha release is planned to be ready when Swift 6 is officially released.
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Security Experts Exploit Airport Security Loophole with SQL Injection
In the article "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection," two security researchers recently demonstrated how they executed a simple SQL injection attack on a service that enables pilots and flight attendants to bypass airport security screening.
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Google Announces Game Simulation AI GameNGen
A research team from Google recently published a paper on GameNGen, a generative AI model that can simulate the video game Doom. GameNGen can simulate the game at 20 frames-per-second (FPS) and in human evaluations was preferred only slightly less often than the actual game.
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HelixML Announces Helix 1.0 Release
HelixML has announced their Helix platform for Generative AI is production ready at version 1.0. Described as a "Private GenAI Stack," the platform provides an interface layer and applications that can be connected to a variety of LLMs. It can be used to prototype apps, starting with a laptop, with all components version controlled to ease subsequent deployment and scaling.
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Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on AI
Last month the latest edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series for 2024 took place, featuring AI development topics. The event targeted developers of all levels, with both informative and hands-on sessions showcasing how to use artificial intelligence within the .NET ecosystem. This was one of the most technical events ever in the Focus series, with many high-quality, deep-dive sessions.
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Java News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Project Loom, Hibernate Validator, LangChain4j, Clojure
This week's Java roundup for September 2nd, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, promoted to Candidate; Project Loom Build 24-loom+7-60; Hibernate Validator 9.0.0.Beta3; LangChain4j 0.34.0; and Clojure 1.12.0.
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AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Mac Builds
Amazon has recently announced that AWS CodeBuild, its managed build service, now supports building applications on macOS. However, due to Apple's licensing requirements, developers must still reserve a dedicated macOS fleet to utilize this new option.
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Optimizing Continuous Deployment at Uber: Automating Microservices in Large Monorepos
Uber's microservices architecture, consisting of thousands of services, requires a reliable and efficient system for deploying updates, security patches, and new features. To ensure this process is safe and timely, Uber embraced continuous deployment (CD), automating deployments to production. This has been essential for maintaining code quality and minimizing delays in delivering changes.