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PlanetScale Introduces Managed Cloud to Scale MySQL Databases
The company behind the open-source Vitess database clustering system recently announced PlanetScale Managed Cloud, an option to run PlanetScale’s databases and management functionalities from existing public cloud accounts.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Chaos Studio in Public Preview
At the recent Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Chaos Studio, a fully-managed experimentation service to help customers track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering to improve the resilience of their cloud applications.
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Hibernate Releases Version 1.0 of Reactive API
Hibernate Reactive 1.0 is the first stable version of the reactive API for the popular Hibernate ORM, supporting non-blocking database drivers and a reactive style of interaction with the database.
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BigScience Research Workshop Releases AI Language Model T0
BigScience Research Workshop released T0, a series of natural language processing (NLP) AI models specifically trained for researching zero-shot multitask learning. T0 can often outperform models 6x larger on the BIG-bench benchmark, and can outperform the 16x larger GPT-3 on several other NLP benchmarks.
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Microsoft Introduces a New Cloud-Native Offering with Azure Container Apps Service
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a new cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers. This serverless Kubernetes-based service is in public preview.
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Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins JCP, Helidon 2.4.0, OpenJDK and JDK 18 Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 1st, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Helidon 2.4.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12-beta, point releases for Spring Cloud and its related subprojects, Quarkus 2.4.1.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.1, WildFly 25.0.1 and JReleaser 0.8.0.
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Google Embraces Large-Screen Android Devices at DevSummit 21
At its recent AndroidDevSummit'21, Google announced a number of new technologies aimed to help developers build better apps across different devices and device factors. Those include Material You for Jetpack Compose, support for large screen with Android 12L, extended Jetpack library, and more.
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Red Hat Releases Language Support for Java Plugin 1.0 for VSCode
Red Hat has released version 1.0 of Language support for Java on VSCode that supports Java 17, displaying type hierarchies and improved performance. The source lookup feature has been improved and now supports unmanaged projects and is able to display sources of any library available on Maven central. This release also contains new code actions and support for Gradle files written in Kotlin.
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GraalVM 21.3 Supports Java 17
Oracle Labs released GraalVM 21.3, featuring support for Java 17 and JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) for low-overhead production profiling of native Java executables. Compared to version 21.1 from April 2021, this release creates 14% smaller native executables for Spring PetClinic JDBC with 20% less build time. The release runs applications faster and begins to support the Java Platform Module System.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models
At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform.
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Amazon Releases DL1 Instances Powered by Gaudi Accelerators
Amazon recently announced the general availability of the EC2 DL1 instances powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs. The new instances promise better price performances in training deep learning models for use cases such as computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous vehicle perception and recommendation engines.
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Swift Experimentally Introduces Support for Distributed Actors
The new Swift Distributed Actors package provides a glimpse into what the future distributed actor language feature could look like in Swift.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
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Apache Spark Brings Pandas API with Version 3.2
The Apache Spark team has integrated the Pandas API in the product's latest 3.2 release. With this change, dataframe processing can be scaled to multiple clusters or multiple processors in a single machine using the PySpark execution engine.
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How Mob Programming Collective Habits Can be the Soil for Growing Technical Quality
Mob programming can support teams in changing old habits into new effective habits for creating products in an agile way. Collectively-developed habits are hard to forget when you have other people around. Mob programming forces individuals to put new habits into practice regularly, making them easier to adopt. Teams are intolerant of repetition, looking for better ways of doing their work.