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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.
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Microsoft Launches VSCode.Dev, Visual Studio Code in the Browser
Microsoft has launched the Cloud-based version of its Visual Studio Code editor through the vscode.dev domain, which offers a lightweight version of the editor which can be run right out from the browser with no installation.
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ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere: Q&A with Deepak Singh of Amazon Web Services
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services, at Amazon Web Services who talked about the motivation, technical details, limitations, and the roadmap for ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere.
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Airbnb Open Sources Ottr: a Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
Airbnb announced that it has open-sourced Ottr, a serverless public key infrastructure framework developed in-house. Ottr handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. Ottr's primary design goal is to be a scalable and configurable serverless framework on AWS with little operational overhead or reliance on enrollment protocols.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021: Key Announcements and Q&A with Priyanka Sharma
InfoQ met with Priyanka Sharma, general manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles to talk about the event and other topics including new projects and tools for developers, diversity and inclusion, and women in tech.
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Baidu Announces 11 Billion Parameter Chatbot AI PLATO-XL
Baidu recently announced PLATO-XL, an AI model for dialog generation, which was trained on over a billion samples collected from social media conversations in both English and Chinese. PLATO-XL achieves state-of-the-art performance on several conversational benchmarks, outperforming currently available commercial chatbots.
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AWS Announces the General Availability and Open Sourcing of Babelfish for PostgreSQL
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Babelfish for PostgreSQL. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, customers can more easily move applications running on Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora to simplify operations and reduce costs by eliminating the licenses of SQL Server. Furthermore, the Babelfish open-source project is now available.