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Uber Open-Sourced Its Highly Scalable and Reliable Shuffle as a Service for Apache Spark
Uber engineering has recently open-sourced its highly scalable and reliable shuffle as a service for Apache Spark. Spark is one of the most important tools and platforms in data engineering and analytics. It is shuffling data on local machines by default and causes challenges while the scale is getting very large. Shuffle as a service is a solution developed at Uber for this problem.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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Amazon GuardDuty Introduces Malware Detection
At the recent re:Inforce security conference, AWS announced the availability of malware detection for Amazon GuardDuty. The new functionality of the managed threat detection service initiates a scan of the EBS volumes when it detects suspicious behavior indicative of malware on EC2 or containers.
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Google Cloud Introduces Batch, a Service for Scheduling Batch Jobs
Google Cloud recently announced the preview of Batch, a managed service to run batch jobs at scale. The new service supports the latest T2A Arm-based instances and Spot VMs for large batch jobs utilizing task parallelization.
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Microsoft’s New Azure Fluid Relay Service Now Generally Available
Recently, Microsoft announced its Azure Fluid Relay service's general availability (GA). This managed cloud offering enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications.
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Amazon Comprehend Announces the Reduction of the Minimum Requirements for Entity Recognition
Amazon is announcing that they lowered the minimal requirements for training a recognizer with plain text CSV annotation files as a result of recent advances in the models powering Amazon Comprehend. Now, you just need three documents and 25 annotations for each entity type to create a unique entity recognition model.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 Uses Java 17 Runtime
IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 uses the JetBrains Runtime 17, a fork of OpenJDK. The latest versions of various languages and frameworks are now supported, such as Scala, Kotlin, Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3.
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Google Introduces Zero-ETL Approach to Analytics on Bigtable Data Using BigQuery
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Bigtable federated queries, with BigQuery allowing customers to query data residing in Bigtable via BigQuery faster. Moreover, the querying is without moving or copying the data in all Google Cloud regions with increased federated query concurrency limits, closing the longstanding gap between operational data and analytics.
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Go 1.19 Improves Generics Performance and Refines its Memory Model
Go 1.19 focuses on improving the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, especially for generics performance, the language memory model, and garbage collection.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Community Toolkit 8 with Automatic Source Generation
Microsoft has released version 8.0.0 of .NET Community Toolkit (NCT), a collection of helpers and APIs that make it easier to use patterns like MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) independently of the underlying platform. In this version, developers can benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined API methods.
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The Tao of Node: an Attempt to Formalise JS Development Patterns
Alex Kondov, principal engineer at News UK, reached the conclusion that Node’s focus on freedom and flexibility led to various approaches, many borrowed from other languages. As a trial to provide a more organic approach, he wrote the Tao Of Node as a set of development principles for an improved development experience. InfoQ reached out to him to find out more about these principles.
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Getting Feedback When Your Colleagues Are Also Your Customers
Getting and using feedback from colleagues who are also customers using your product can improve the quality of the product and help to improve the way of working. In this situation, it’s easier to receive feedback, but you can get overloaded by it.
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GraalVM 22.2 Adds Library Configuration Repository
GraalVM is known for compiling Java into small native executables that start much faster than traditional Java programs. Release 22.2 addresses a long-standing pain point by introducing a configuration repository for Java libraries. Native Java compilation uses less memory, and the GraalVM distribution runs better on Apple Silicon and is smaller.
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Meta's Genomics AI ESMFold Predicts Protein Structure 6x Faster Than AlphaFold2
Meta AI Research recently announced ESMFold, an AI model for predicting protein structure from a sequence of genes. ESMFold is built on a 15B parameter Transform model and achieves accuracy comparable to other state-of-the-art models with an order-of-magnitude inference time speedup.
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AWS Announced Tiered Pricing for Its Serverless Offering Lambda
Recently, AWS announced tiered pricing for Lambda, a serverless, event-driven compute service allowing developers to run their code for virtually any application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With tiered pricing, monthly costs for running large workloads on Lambda can be reduced.