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PostgreSQL 17 Released with Improved Vacuum Process and Performance Gains
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group recently announced the general availability of PostgreSQL 17, the latest version of the popular open-source database. This release focuses on performance improvements, including a new memory management implementation for vacuum, storage access optimizations, and enhancements for high-concurrency workloads.
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Staying Innovative on a Journey from Start-Up to Scale-Up
As ClearBank grew, it faced the challenge of maintaining its innovative culture while integrating more structured processes to manage its expanding operations and ensure regulatory compliance. Within boundaries of accountability and responsibility, teams were given space to evolve their own areas, innovate a little, experiment, and continuously improve, to remain innovative.
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Meta Spirit LM Integrates Speech and Text in New Multimodal GenAI Model
Presented in a recent paper, Spirit LM enables the creation of pipelines that mixes spoken and written text to integrate speech and text in the same multimodal model. According to Meta, their novel approach, based on interleaving text and speech tokens, makes it possible to circumvent the inherent limitations of prior solutions that use distinct pipelines for speech and text.
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Slack Evolves Chef Architecture for Safety and Stability
In a recent blog post, Slack Engineering has detailed significant improvements to its Chef infrastructure. This manages tens of thousands of EC2 instances running its services, databases, and applications, and it recently moved from a single Chef stack to a more resilient, sharded infrastructure.
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.NET Aspire 9.0 RC1: Simplified Setup, Azure Functions Support Added, and Other Improvements
.NET Aspire has released version 9.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), a major update to the platform. This version supports both .NET 8 Long Term Support (LTS) and .NET 9 Standard Term Support (STS), incorporating many features and fixes requested by developers across the different components.
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AWS Lambda Introduces a Visual Studio Code-Based Editor with Advanced Features and AI Integration
AWS Lambda's new console features a VS Code OSS-integrated editor, enhancing code editing with customizable settings and support for larger function packages. It includes a split-screen layout for simultaneous viewing of code and outputs, real-time log tracking, and AI-driven suggestions via Amazon Q Developer.
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Central Package Management Now Available in .NET Upgrade Assistant
The .NET Upgrade Assistant team has recently introduced a significant upgrade: the Central Package Management (CPM) feature. This new capability enables .NET developers to manage dependencies more effectively, streamlining the upgrade process and maintaining consistency across various projects within a solution.
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PyTorch 2.5 Release Includes Support for Intel GPUs
The PyTorch Foundation recently released PyTorch version 2.5, which contains support for Intel GPUs. The release also includes several performance enhancements, such as the FlexAttention API, TorchInductor CPU backend optimizations, and a regional compilation feature which reduces compilation time. Overall, the release contains 4095 commits since PyTorch 2.4.
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RAG-Powered Copilot Saves Uber 13,000 Engineering Hours
Uber recently detailed how it built Genie, an AI-powered on-call copilot designed to improve the efficiency of on-call support engineers. Genie leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide accurate real-time responses and significantly enhance the speed and effectiveness of incident response. Since its launch, Genie has answered over 70,000 questions, saving 13,000 engineering hours.
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Cloudflare Overhauls Logging Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
Internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has documented how it significantly upgraded its logging pipeline by moving from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector.
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Java News Roundup: Apache Pulsar 4.0, Jakarta EE 11, Open Liberty, Helidon, JHipster, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for October 21st, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of Apache Pulsar 4.0; Open Liberty 24.0.0.11-beta as the first compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile; and point releases of Helidon 4.1.3, JHipster 1.21.0, and Apache Camel 4.8.1 and 4.4.4.
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Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution to Enhance Cloud Cost Visibility
Google Cloud's new Cost Attribution Solution revolutionizes cloud cost management with enhanced metadata and labeling tools. Tailored for both newcomers and veterans, it enables organizations to track expenses by team, project, and service, fostering informed financial decisions. With automated labeling and detailed reports, businesses can optimize resource allocation and cost visibility.
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Spring News Roundup: Release Candidates for Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of October 21st, 2024, highlighting first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Rhymes AI Unveils Aria: Open-Source Multimodal Model with Development Resources
Rhymes AI has introduced Aria, an open-source multimodal native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model capable of processing text, images, video, and code effectively. In benchmarking tests, Aria has outperformed other open models and demonstrated competitive performance against proprietary models such as GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5.
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OpenJDK News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Scoped Values, Generational Shenandoah, ZGC Non-Gen Mode
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of October 21st, 2024, highlighting: JEPs that have been Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 24; and drafts that have been promoted to Candidate status. JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, is the fifth JEP confirmed for JDK 24. Four JEPs have been Proposed to Target and will be under review during the week of October 28, 2024.