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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
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Julia 1.7 Extends its Threading Capabilities, Improves Type Inference, and More
Julia 1.7 brings a number of significant enhancements, including new threading capabilities, new Package Manager features, improved type inference, and new syntactic features. It is also the first release to run natively on Apple Silicon.
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Chip Huyen on Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time ML
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Chip Huyen gave a talk on continual machine learning titled "Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time ML." Some key takeaways included the advantages of a streaming-first infrastructure for real-time and continual machine learning, the benefits of real-time ML, and the challenges of implementing real-time ML.
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Get Consistent Access to Third-Party APIs with AWS Data Exchange for APIs
During the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the AWS Data Exchange for APIs. This new capability enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products from providers on AWS Data Exchange.
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Amazon Introduces New EC2 Families G5g, M6a, Im4gn and Is4gen
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon introduced new EC2 instance families running on different processors, including G5g Arm-based instances, M6a AMD-based ones and storage-optimized Im4gn and Is4gen.
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Kotlin 1.6.0 Released
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.6.0 which ships with new language features, an improved standard library, and other new functionalities such as exhaustive when statements, a new experimental memory manager for Kotlin/Native, and Kover to measure code coverage.
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Java News Roundup: IntelliJ IDEA, JEP 421, Groovy, Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Collections
This week's Java roundup for November 29th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+7-288, multiple Spring project point releases, Quarkus 2.5.1.Final, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-Beta2, Eclipse Mojarra 2.3.17, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.8, Groovy 4.0.0-RC1, Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3, and JReleaser 0.9.0.
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AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully-managed, serverless service on AWS for real-time processing of streamed data at a massive scale. Recently, the company released a new capacity mode On-demand for the service, which eliminates capacity provisioning and management for streaming workloads.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Recently, AWS announced the release of a managed file storage service Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, the newest addition to the Amazon FSx family. It is one of the four new storage services the company announced at AWS re:Invent aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs, and helping customers better protect their data.
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Microsoft Introduces a Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Load Testing. With this fully-managed load testing service, users can generate high-scale load with custom Apache JMeter scripts and gain actionable insights to catch and fix performance bottlenecks.
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AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge
During the annual re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon S3 Event Notifications for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge. With S3 notifications, developers can leverage a more reliable and faster “directly wired” model.
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AMD Introduces Its Deep-Learning Accelerator Instinct MI200 Series GPUs
In its recent Accelerated Data Center Premiere Keynote, AMD unveiled its MI200 accelerator series Instinct MI250x and slightly lower-end Instinct MI250 GPUs. Designed with CDNA-2 architecture and TSMC’s 6nm FinFET lithography, the high-end MI250X provides 47.9 TFLOPs peak double precision performance and memory that will allow training larger deep networks by minimizing model sharding.
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AWS Announces Next Generation Graviton3 Processors
Amazon announced the next generation Graviton3 processors and the preview of the EC2 C7g instances. The cloud provider claims that the new instance type running the latest Arm-based processors will provide better compute, higher floating-point and faster cryptographic performances.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2021 Will Highlight Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0
The third annual JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference will go live on December 7th, 2021, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST preceded by a welcome reception by Tanja Obradovic and Ivar Grimstad at 5:45am EST. Focused primarily on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions include keynotes and 15-minute theme slots delivered by a host of Java luminaries.
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ClusterFuzzLite Brings ClusterFuzz to GitHub Actions and Other CI/CD Pipelines
ClusterFuzzLite, as implied by its name, is a light version of Google ClusterFuzz, a tool aimed to find security and stability issues in software systems through fuzz testing. ClusterFuzzLite is meant to be integrated in a CI pipeline with a few lines of code, says Google.