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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.
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Write Directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery with BigQuery Subscription
Recently Google introduced a new type of Pub/Sub subscription called a “BigQuery subscription,” allowing to write directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery. The company claims that this new extract, load, and transform (ELT) path will be able to simplify event-driven architectures.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Liberica NIK, Open Liberty, Micronaut, JHipster, Apache ShenYu
This week's Java roundup for August 1st, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point and milestone releases, Liberica NIK 22.2.0 and 21.3.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.8 and 22.0.0.9-beta, Micronaut 3.6.0, WildFly 27 Alpha4, Hibernate ORM 6.1.2, Hibernate Validator 6.2.4, 7.0.5 and 8.0.0.CR2, Hibernate Search 6.1.6, JHipster 7.9.2, 7.9.1 and 7.9.0, JBang 0.96.4 and Apache ShenYu.
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GitHub Projects Now Generally Available
Announced in beta at GitHub Universe 2021, GitHub Projects is now generally available, including new features for issue grouping and pivoting, metadata customization, charting, and improved automation.
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Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?
Forrest Brazeal, head of content at Google Cloud, recently argued that serverless functions are the cloud's biggest billing risk for developers as there's no simple way to protect against recursive calls and they can scale out almost indefinitely on all the cloud providers.
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QCon Plus (Nov 29): Level-Up on the Engineering Trends You Might Need To Embrace
At the QCon Plus online software development conference this November 29 to December 9, over 1,500 senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will learn about important trends our Program Committee believes will have the most impact on software development.
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Developing and Evolving SaaS Infrastructures for Enterprises
SaaS companies that are focused on the enterprise market need to evolve their infrastructure to meet the security, reliability, and other IT requirements of their customers. IT admins and large customers are two important sources of requirements to drive development.
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PrefixRL: Nvidia's Deep-Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Design Better Circuits
Nvidia has developed PrefixRL, an approach based on reinforcement learning (RL) to designing parallel-prefix circuits that are smaller and faster than those designed by state-of-the-art electronic-design-automation (EDA) tools.
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Microsoft Claims Entity Framework Core 7 Faster When Saving Changes
Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims. The performance of SaveChanges method in EF7 is up to 74% faster than in EF6, in some scenarios.
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Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed everywhere and easily used through VS Code for the Web running in a browser.
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Meta Open-Sources 200 Language Translation AI NLLB-200
Meta AI recently open-sourced NLLB-200, an AI model that can translate between any of over 200 languages. NLB-200 is a 54.5B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that was trained on a dataset containing more than 18 billion sentence pairs. On benchmark evaluations, NLLB-200 outperforms other state-of-the-art models by up to 44%.