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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.
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CNCF Incubating Project Update Focuses on Adoption and Releases at KubeCon EU
As part of the KubeCon EU keynotes, the CNCF provided a series of project updates underlying the notable changes in the ecosystem. The information provided focused on the ongoing initiatives, adoption rate, and notable publications or releases.
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CNCF Graduated Project Update Focuses on Landscape Diversity and Maturity at KubeCon EU
The CNCF’s charter defines its mission “is to make cloud-native computing ubiquitous”. Their supported technologies aim to allow organizations to build public, private, or on-premise clouds based on loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. During KubeCon EU, the CNCF provided a status update of the graduated projects.
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Kotlin 1.7.0 Beta Enables Definitely Non-Nullable Types
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta, enabling builder inference and definitely non-nullable types by default and reintroducing the min(), max(), minBy(), maxBy(), minWidth() and maxWith() functions. Regular expressions now support named capturing groups in Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/Native and allow checking for exact matches at specific positions.
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Allen Institute for AI Open-Sources AI Model Inspection Tool LM-Debugger
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) open-sourced LM-Debugger, an interactive tool for interpreting and controlling the output of language model (LM) predictions. LM-Debugger supports any HuggingFace GPT-2 model and allows users to intervene in the text generation process by dynamically modifying updates in the hidden layers of the model's neural network.
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How Lyft Is Improving Their Experiments beyond A/B Testing
Lyft’s product manager John Kirn recently published an article about the challenges they face when conducting experiments. Existing experimentation techniques did not fully adapt to Lyft’s real-time business nature or mitigate network effects. Lyft’s Experimentation team deployed new ones, such as time and region split testing, and improved internal experimentation norms and techniques.
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Microsoft Introduces "Dev Box" Service as a Cloud-Based IDE for Developers
During the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Dev Box. This new cloud service provides developers with secure, ready-to-code developer workstations for hybrid teams of any size. With the new service, the company aims to make life easier for developers to quickly access a preconfigured environment with all the tools and resources to write code.
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Microsoft Releases a New Power Platform Product with Power Pages in Preview
The latest addition to the Power Platform is Microsoft Power Pages. At the annual Build conference, the company announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages as a stand-alone Software as a Service (SaaS) platform product for anyone, regardless of technical background, to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites.
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Java News Roundup: Structured Concurrency, Java Turns 27, Micronaut 3.5.0
This week's Java roundup for May 23rd, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, virtual threads, Java turns 27, Jakarta EE 10, Spring Framework point and milestone releases, Micronaut 3.5.0, Quarkus 2.9.2.Final, Quarkus Tools for IntelliJ 1.11.0, Hibernate ORM 6.0.2.Final, Apache Tika 1.28.3 and the Spring I/O conference.
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DigitalOcean Enters the Serverless Arena with DigitalOcean Functions
On the heels of the acquisition of serverless computing platform Nimbella, DigitalOcean announced a new offering called DigitalOcean Functions based on Nimbella's technology and aimed to provide a developer-friendly and cost-competitive serverless platform.
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AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.
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Amazon EKS Blueprints Streamline Bootstrapping Kubernetes Clusters
AWS has released EKS Blueprints, a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to simplify configuring and deploying EKS clusters. EKS Blueprints are currently implemented in both HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The blueprints have support for a number of open-source add-ons including Prometheus, Nginx, and Argo CD.
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Amazon Rekognition Introduces Streaming Video Events
AWS recently announced the general availability of Streaming Video Events, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition to provide real-time alerts on live video streams.