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Near-Optimal Scaling of Large Deep Network Training on Public Cloud
A recently published study, MiCS, provides experimental evidence that the infrastructure used to carry out model training should be taken into account, especially for large deep neural networks trained on the public cloud. The article shows distributing the model weights unevenly between GPUs decreases inter-node communication overhead on AWS V100 and A100 instances.
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How to Test Low Code Applications
For low code applications there are technical things you don’t have to test, like the integration with the database and the syntax of a screen. But you still have to test functionally, to check if you’re building the right thing. End-to-end testing and non-functional testing can be very important for low code applications.
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Azure Managed Grafana Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Grafana, a managed service that enables customers to run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform. With the managed service, they can connect to existing Azure Services to enhance observability and cloud management.
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Baidu Announces Superconducting Quantum Computer and Integration Solution
Baidu, the company behind the homonymous search engine, has announced its first quantum computing processor, named Qian Shi, along with an "all-platform" integration solution aimed to simplify access to quantum hardware resources via mobile, desktop, and the Cloud.
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Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3
Microsoft recently announced the ability to natively ingest data from Amazon S3 into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The new feature simplifies multi-cloud data analytics deployments, bringing data from Amazon S3 to Azure, without relying on custom ETL pipelines.
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Stability AI Open-Sources Image Generation Model Stable Diffusion
Stability AI released the pre-trained model weights for Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image AI model, to the general public. Given a text prompt, Stable Diffusion can generate photorealistic 512x512 pixel images depicting the scene described in the prompt.
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Google Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Pricing for Apigee API Management
Recently Google introduced a pay-as-you-go pricing model for Apigee’s API management to provide customers with more flexibility in using the service and control costs.
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Amazon Announces the Improvement of ML Models to Better Identify Sensitive Data on Amazon Macie
Amazon is announcing a new capability to create allow lists in Amazon Macie. Now text or text patterns not desire for Macie to report as sensitive data can be specified in allow lists. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data in AWS.
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Microsoft Releases SynapseML 0.1.0 with .NET and Cognitive Services Support
Microsoft announced the first .NET-compatible version of SynapseML, a new machine learning (ML) library for Apache Spark distributed processing platform. Version 0.1.0 of the SynapseML library adds support for .NET bindings, allowing .NET developers to write ML pipelines in their preferred language.
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Standardising Observability and Incident Management at Miro
The Miro Data Engineering team recently discussed how they systematised alerts and incident management. Along with standardising the observability metrics and alert(s) definitions, the team started using OpsGenie for incident management. This helped the team address challenges with scaling such as standard format for metric labelling, alert definitions, on-call duties, etc.
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Extended VMware and Microsoft Collaboration with Major Updates to the Azure VMware Solution
During the recent VMware Explore 2022, VMWare announced it would strengthen its collaboration with Microsoft regarding the Azure VMWare Solution. In addition, the solution received several new updates, including extended availability.
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Flutter 3.3 Previews New Rendering Engine
With Google’s UI framework Flutter, users can build natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from one codebase. Google just announced the third Flutter release of 2022, version 3.3, and version 2.18 of Flutter’s language Dart. Both releases are refinements without significant new features. A new rendering engine called Impeller is available, but only in preview and only for iOS.
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Java News Roundup: Eclipse GlassFish, Open Liberty, MicroStream, JHipster, WildFly, EclipseLink
This week's Java roundup for August 29th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.0-M8, Quarkus 2.12.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.9 and 22.0.0.10-beta, MicroStream 07.01.00-beta2, WildFly 26.1.2, JHipster 7.9.3, EclipseLink 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate 5.6.11, JDKMon 17.0.35 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.12.0.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Cloud Providers Target Middle East: AWS Adds Region in the United Arab Emirates, Microsoft in Qatar
Amazon recently announced a new region in the United Arab Emirates, its second one in the Middle East. Microsoft just opened its first global datacenter region in Qatar where Google plans to open a new region too.