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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration
When a company migrated to the cloud, security issues arose due to difficulties in getting stakeholders on board and involving security from the start. Embedding security assessments as part of the continuous cloud DevOps process and adopting an agile strategy for security risk management throughout the lifecycle of the project helped to increase the governance of security during the migration.
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AlphaCode: Competitive Code Synthesis with Deep Learning
AlphaCode study brings promising results for goal-oriented code synthesis using deep sequence-to-sequence models. It extends the previous networks and releases a new dataset named CodeContests to contribute to future research benchmarks.
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Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions
Google recently announced the public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, the functions as a service platform on Google Cloud. The new version introduces more controls over functions runtime, provides better performances and scalability and supports triggers from more than 90 event sources.
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Tel-Aviv University Releases Long-Text NLP Benchmark SCROLLS
Researchers with Tel-Aviv University, Meta AI, IBM Research, and Allen Institute for AI have released Standardized CompaRison Over Long Language Sequences (SCROLLS), a set of natural language processing (NLP) benchmark tasks operating on long text sequences drawn from many domains. Experiments on baseline NLP models show that current models have significant room for improvement.
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JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far
JDK 18, the first non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into three categories: Core Java Library, Java Tools and Java Specification. We examine JDK 18 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 19.
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GitLens 12 Brings Support for Visual Studio Code for the Web
GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and fixes, GitLens 12 also introduces premium features, including Worktrees and Visual File History.
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Shepherd JavaScript Library: Guided User Tours of Your Application
Shepherd is a JavaScript library that provides a simple interface for creating guided user journeys in web applications. It's framework-agnostic, easy to use, and works great on desktop and mobile applications alike.
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Kotlin 1.6.20 Preview Features Context Receivers and Performance Improvements
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, a preview version of the upcoming GA release that introduces context receivers, several performance improvement options to reduce compilation time and a concurrent garbage collector.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Projects Updates, Value Objects (Preview) JEP, Quarkus 2.7.2
This week's Java roundup for February 21st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Quarkus 2.7.2.Final, JReleaser early-access, and multiple Spring project updates: Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1, 2.6.4, 2.5.10; a new ListCrudRepository interface for Spring Data 3.0-M2; Spring Security 5.7.0-M2, 5.6.2, 5.5.5; Spring Session 2021.1.2, 2021.0.5; Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3; and Spring Batch 4.3.5.
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Couchbase Mobile 3 Brings New C and Kotlin APIs, Simplified Administration
NoSQL database maker Couchbase has released Couchbase Mobile 3, its edge-ready mobile database, introducing a new C API to embed Couchbase Lite on embedded platforms, Kotlin support on Android, a new administration REST API, and security enhancements.
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Grafana Cloud Adds Incident and On-Call Management Solutions
Grafana has announced the addition of incident management and on-call support to their Grafana Cloud offering. Grafana Incident, currently in preview, generates meeting spaces, integrates with Slack, and constructs incident timelines with information pulled from Grafana dashboards. Grafana OnCall provides on-call rotation scheduling and notification from connected monitoring systems.
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AWS Introduces Managed Prefix List for CloudFront
AWS recently announced the availability of the AWS managed prefix list for CloudFront. Customers can now limit inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic to a VPC and an application from only IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers.
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Waymo Releases Block-NeRF 3D View Synthesis Deep-Learning Model
Waymo released a ground-breaking deep-learning model called Block-NeRF for large-scale 3D world-view synthesis reconstructed from images collected by its self-driving cars. NeRF has the ability to encode surface and volume representation in neural networks.
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OpenAI Introduces InstructGPT Language Model to Follow Human Instructions
OpenAI overhauled the GPT-3 language model and introduced a new default tool called InstructGPT to address complaints about toxic language and misinformation.