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SwiftUI Brings Charts, Data-Driven Navigation, and More
At WWDC 2022 Apple has announced a new iteration of SwiftUI, its declarative framework to build UIs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Among the most significant highlights are SwiftUI new charting capabilities, refined navigation, new controls, and more.
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Meta Open-Sources 175 Billion Parameter AI Language Model OPT
Meta AI Research released Open Pre-trained Transformer (OPT-175B), a 175B parameter AI language model. The model was trained on a dataset containing 180B tokens and exhibits performance comparable with GPT-3, while only requiring 1/7th GPT-3's training carbon footprint.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Generally Available as a Serverless Offering
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Serverless is generally available (GA). The offering is a serverless deployment option for customers to run big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
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Angular 14 - Typed Forms and Standalone Components
Angular 14 was released earlier this month with the most significant update since Ivy. It includes two long-awaited features, Typed Reactive Forms and Standalone Components, as well as several minor improvements.
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AWS Publishes Guide to Architecture Decision Records
Amazon Web Services has published a guide for using architecture decision records (ADRs). They recommend a process to adopt and review ADRs in software engineering teams. The process results in a collection of approved, rejected, or superseded ADRs in a decision log.
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Google Brings Confidential Computing to Latest C2D and N2D Machine Types
A few months after upgrading its general-purpose (N2D) and compute-optimized (C2D) virtual machines to adopt the latest AMD EPYC technology, Google is now making confidential computing available in preview on those machine types.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 428, MicroStream Joins Micronaut Foundation, Spring and Apache Groovy Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 30th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Spring Shell 2.1.0-M4, Spring Native 0.12.0, Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.2, end-of-life for Spring Security OAuth, Micronaut 3.5.1, Quarkus 2.7.6.Final, Apache Groovy versions 3.0.11 and 2.5.17, JobRunr 5.1.3 and MicroStream joins the Micronaut Foundation.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of NGINX for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced NGINX for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution with advanced traffic management and monitoring. The service is available in preview on the Azure Marketplace.
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AWS DataSync Supports Moving Data between AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
Amazon recently announced that AWS DataSync now supports Google Cloud Storage and Azure Files storage as storage locations. The two new options of the data service helps moving data both into and out of AWS, but data transfer fees still might still be a limitation.
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AWS Introduces PowerShell Custom Runtime for Lambda
AWS recently announced a new PowerShell custom runtime for AWS Lambda to run Lambda functions written in PowerShell. With the new runtime developers can write native PowerShell code in Lambda without having to compile it, simplifying deployment and testing.
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Google Introduces New AI Features in Workspace
Google’s latest AI developments are aimed at assisting employees in focusing on what matters, collaborating securely, and strengthening human relationships across all work modes and locations.
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QCon San Francisco: Tracks Announced Including Green Tech, Microservices, API, MLOps and More
QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28), powered by InfoQ, brings together the world's most innovative senior software engineers, architects and team leads across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices.
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JEP 428: Structured Concurrency to Simplify Java Multithreaded Programming
JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 19. Under the umbrella of Project Loom, this JEP proposes simplifying multithreaded programming by introducing a library to treat multiple tasks running on different threads as an atomic operation. It will streamline error handling, improve reliability, and enhance observability.
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 Improves Security, Updates GitHub Actions, and More
The latest release of GitHub Enterprise Server brings many new features with a special emphasis on security and compliance, says GitHub, including Dependabot integration, improved security features, updates to GitHub Actions, and more.
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Words Matter in Documentation to Build Better User Experience
The language that we use in our products or documentation can make people feel unwelcome or hurt people. We can choose words that are precise, not dependent on complex metaphors, and convey messages without negative connotations.