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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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AWS Announces AMD Based R6a Instances for Memory-Intensive Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability of the R6a instances, EC2 designed for memory-intensive workloads like SQL and NoSQL databases.. The new instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AMD Milan processors.
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Jetpack Compose 1.2 Includes Lazy Grids, Support for Google Fonts, and More
Jetpack Compose 1.2 stabilizes a number of features, including lazy grids, nested scroll, easing curve for animations, and more. In addition, it brings several new experimental features, like custom layouts and downloadable fonts, and fixes many issues.
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AWS Expands Amazon Detective for Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective is a security service in AWS that allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Recently, AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Detective towards Kubernetes workloads on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.
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Grafana 9 Brings Big Improvements to Alerting and User Experience
Grafana, an open-source graphing tool, has reached its version 9 release. The key goals behind version 9 are improving the user experience, making observability and data visualization easy and accessible, and improving alerting.
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Google AI Open-Sourced a New ML Tool for Conceptual and Subjective Queries over Images
Google AI open-sourced mood board search, a new ML-powered tool for subjective or conceptual queries over images. Mood board search helps users to define conceptual and subjective queries like peaceful, beautiful, over images.
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TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 Beta Releases Add ESM for Node.js and Better Type Inference
TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 introduce ES Module (ESM) support for Node.js, improved type inference and control flow analysis, and significant performance improvements.
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Microsoft to End Support for .NET Core 3.1 in December 2022
The long-term-support (LTS) version 3.1 of Microsoft .NET Core Framework is slated to go out of support on December 13th, 2022. Microsoft recommends upgrading .NET Core 3.1 applications to .NET 6.0 to stay supported for the future, while the developers have mixed feelings about the .NET support policy.
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Google Open-Source Quantum Computing Framework Cirq Reaches 1.0
After over four years in development, Google open source quantum programming framework Cirq has reached stability and established itself as the lingua franca that Google engineers use to write quantum programs for Google's own quantum processors.
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GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More
With the recent release of GitLab version 15.2, open-core company GitLab Inc. has announced a series of improvements, including an enhanced Wiki editor, adding SAML integration for enterprises, improving dashboards, and adding internal notes.
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Google Cloud Introduces Optimized Rocky Linux Images for Customers Moving off CentOS
Google recently announced the general availability of Rocky Linux optimized for Google Cloud. The new images are customized variants of Rocky Linux, the open-source enterprise distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.
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A New Service from the Microsoft and Oracle Partnership: Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure
Recently, Microsoft and Oracle announced the general availability (GA) of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, a new service that allows Microsoft Azure customers to provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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Promoting Empathy and Inclusion in Technical Writing
Empathy is the first step in practicing sustainable, genuine inclusion. If persons or groups of people feel unwelcome because of the language being used in a community, its products, or documentation, then the words can be changed. Identifying divisive language can help to make changes to the words that we use.
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The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify
Spotify engineers recently published how they standardized architecture diagrams at the company. They defined a standard system model named the Spotify Software Model and adapted the C4 model to visualize it. This combination created a shared language used across the organization, which helps communication, aids decision-making, and supports Spotify's software's evolution.
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Partytown, Offloading 3RD Party Scripts to Web Workers
Partytown is a small JavaScript library that speeds up web application load times by helping developers to move third party scripts into web workers and off the main thread.