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Envoy as a Service-to-Service Proxy at Mux
Mux uses Envoy networking proxy within its Kubernetes clusters to solve known load-balancing issues with gRPC requests and long-lived HTTP/2 connections.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for Projects Loom and Panama, JobRunr 5.1.0, Kotlin 1.7.0 Preview
This week's Java roundup for May 2nd, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, JobRunr 5.1.0, Quarkus 2.8.3.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.1.Final, Kotlin 1.7.0 preview, Apache Camel versions 3.14.3 and 3.11.7, Apache Tika version 2.4.0 and 1.28.2, a Micronaut survey on a minimal JDK version and the 2022 JFokus Conference.
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Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced that SageMaker Serverless Inference is generally available. Designed for workloads with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, the new option provisions and scales compute capacity according to the volume of inference requests the model receives.
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Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced that Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available. The serverless option to manage an Apache Kafka cluster removes the need to monitor capacity and automatically balances partitions within a cluster.
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Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline
Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.
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Serving Deep Networks in Production: Balancing Productivity vs Efficiency Tradeoff
A recently published work provides an alternative modality for serving deep neural networks. It enables utilizing eager-mode model code directly at production workloads by using embedded CPython interpreters. The goal is to reduce the engineering effort to bring the models from the research stage to the end-user and to create a proof-of-concept platform for migrating future numerical libraries.
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How Developer Enablement Brings Benefits to Software Organizations
Developer enablement is about tools and approaches that can greatly increase the potential we can have as individuals. It can have an impact on productivity and happiness, on profits and retention. Developer tools make it easier for engineers to deploy products, enabling them to focus on building a product.
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Quarkus 2.8.0 Introduces Fine-Grained Transaction API
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.8.0 that delivers integration with the RESTEasy Reactive REST layer and GraalVM 22.0 by default. A fine-grained programmatic transaction API offers more control over transactions.
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How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments
Squeaky - a company which helps businesses to understand how visitors are using their website or web app without invading their privacy - have outlined why they don’t use a staging environment. They believe that this helps them to ship faster, and lower the number of issues found in production.
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Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview
Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Purview, a new product branding bringing together the Azure Purview data governance service with various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.
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GraphQL Syntax Used for a Novel Approach to Schema Validation and Code Generation
Nav Technologies has created an open-source schema definition and code generator that uses GraphQL syntax to define events and message formats. GraphQL was chosen for its expressiveness and familiarity among developers, but it is only used for its syntax; the Nav Schema Architecture (NSA) does not use the GraphQL runtime.
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Static Java Current State: Compiled Native Executables for Startup Speed and Small Footprint
Java’s long lasting motto of write once, run everywhere, seems to be adapting to the cloud native era. With the need for faster boot time and lower footprint, Static Java is gaining traction. To better understand the benefits and implications of adopting Static Java, InfoQ reached out to Dan Heidinga, principal software engineer at Red Hat.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 Introduces Dependency Analysis
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 that introduces the Dependency Analyzer to provide insights and improve the codebase. Usability and productivity improvements include inlay hints, running commands from Markdown files and improved debugging and profiling.
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GitHub Codespaces Add Support for Microservices and Monorepo Projects
GitHub continues to extend its cloud-based development environment Codespaces, aiming to make it more flexible and increase developer productivity. Specifically, the latest release of Codespaces targets teams developing microservices or using a large monorepo.
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NVIDIA Announces Next Generation AI Hardware H100 GPU and Grace CPU Superchip
At the recent GTC conference, NVIDIA announced their next generation processors for AI computing, the H100 GPU and the Grace CPU Superchip. Based on NVIDIA's Hopper architecture, the H100 includes a Transformer engine for faster training of AI models. The Grace CPU Superchip features 144 Arm cores and outperforms NVIDIA's current dual-CPU offering on the SPECrate 2017_int_base benchmark.