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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.
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Java News Roundup: Hibernate Reactive 1.0, Spring Updates, OpenJDK, Red Hat Introduces Cryostat 2.0
This week's Java roundup for October 25th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, numerous updates on Spring projects, MicroStream 6.0, Quarkus 2.4.0, Hibernate Reactive 1.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.11, Eclipse Vert.x 4.2.0, Red Hat introduces Cryostat 2.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.7.1, Liberica Native Image Kit 21.3 and JDKMon 17.0.7.
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Comparative Study of 11 CSS-in-JS Libraries - Andrei Pfeiffer at React Finland 2021
Andrei Pfeiffer recently presented the results of a comparative study of 11 CSS-in-JS libraries. In his talk at React Finland 2021, Pfeiffer focused on the distinction between static and runtime CSS-in-JS libraries and further explained how each category and browser caching relate to performance.
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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform Reaches Beta
A few months after its announcement as an alpha version, JetBrains Compose Multiplatform has reached beta, which includes many improvements and stabilizes its APIs as a step towards the 1.0 release.
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Amazon Introduces RDS Custom for Legacy and Custom Oracle Databases
Amazon recently announced RDS Custom, a managed database service for legacy and custom applications that need access to the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for Oracle is the first available service.
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Oracle's JDK 17 - Free Again for Commercial Use
The Oracle JDK is available free of charge for production use again - under the new "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) license. This move reverses a 2018 decision to charge for Oracle JDK production use and does not affect Oracle's OpenJDK distribution. The NFTC applies to the recently released version 17 of Oracle JDK and future versions.
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GitHub Introduces Projects, Updates Codespaces, Copilot, Code Scanning, and More
At its Universe 2021 conference, GitHub promoted its new Issues experience to public beta, providing projects and dynamic tables, expanded Copilot support for Jetbrains and Java, added Ruby support for code scanning, and announced many more features.
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Analyze Video Feeds at the Edge with AWS Panorama Appliance
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras.