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The Future of Agile in Africa: Challenges and Progress
The African continent is trailing behind in the adoption of agile compared to other continents as it faces wicked challenges and setbacks. However, the next two decades seem to be promising to the young continent, as tech startups, SMEs and large corporations are recognizing that a collaborative approach to product development leads to more productive and value-driven results.
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Stanford Research Center Studies Impacts of Popular Pretrained Models
Stanford University recently announced a new research center, the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), devoted to studying the effects of large pretrained deep networks (e.g. BERT, GPT-3, CLIP) in use by a surge of machine-learning research institutions and startups.
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Dedicated ML Track at QCon Plus Nov: Learn All about the Latest ML Innovations
Dio Synodinos, president of C4media (creators of InfoQ and QCon), recently spoke with Frank Greco, senior technology consultant, chairman at NYJavaSIG, and QCon Plus November 2021 committee member, to discuss the topics and tracks he’s looking forward to attending this November at QCon Plus online software conference.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview release of Azure Functions 4.0 – its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering. The release of this new runtime includes support for .NET 6.0.
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JobRunr 4.0 Delivers Improved Integration with Spring Starter, Quarkus and Micronaut
JobRunr, a relatively new JVM job scheduling tool, has released version 4.0 which brings updated Spring Boot Starter support, new integrations with Quarkus and Micronaut and a new jobs analysis performance mode that checks if a job can be cached to speed up the subsequent calls. InfoQ spoke with Ronald Dehuysser about the development of JobRunr.
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Swift 5.5 Extends Concurrency Support, Enums, Property Wrappers, and More
The latest release of Apple's language, Swift 5.5, introduces new features aimed at making it easier for developers to write asynchronous code as well as several extensions to the language and compiler, not the least CGFloat and Double interchangeability.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Create Wireless Brain-Machine Interface
Researchers from Georgia Tech University's Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering have created soft scalp electronics (SSE), a wearable wireless electro-encephalography (EEG) device for reading human brain signals. By processing the EEG data using a neural network, the system allows users wearing the device to control a video game simply by imagining activity.
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Qwik, a Resumable Javascript Framework
Qwik is a DOM-centric JavaScript framework that aims to provide the quickest TTI (or time to interactive) by focusing on resumability for server-side rendering of HTML and optimized lazy loading of code.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). With this new feature for VMs, customers can reserve more compute capacity.
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms
With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot Updates, Eclipse Temurin JDK 17, Apache Camel Ends Support for JDK 8
It was relatively quiet during the week of September 20th, 2021, with most news coming from point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring Cloud. Other news includes the release of Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 binaries, Build 16 of the JDK 18 early-access builds, Hibernate ORM 5.6.0.Beta2, WildFly 25 Beta 1, Apache Camel dropping support for JDK 8 and JDKMon 17.0.0.
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Google Cloud Announces Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has recently announced the preview of Backup for GKE, a cloud-native way to protect, manage, and restore containerized applications and data running on Kubernetes.
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Pinecone 2.0 Aims to Bring Vector Similarity Search to Production
Pinecone recently introduced version 2.0 of its vector similarity search solution aiming to make it easier for companies to build recommendation systems, image search, and similar applications. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone.
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Find out What to Focus on in Software in 2022; See Randy Shoup’s Top QCon Plus Topics
Each QCon software conference is individually organized by a committee of senior software leaders who work across a wide spectrum of technology. We recently interviewed Randy Shoup, VP engineering and chief architect at eBay & QCon Plus November 2021 Committee Member, who shared some of the tracks he is looking forward to at the event this November.
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Litmus 2.0 Release Includes Multi-Tenancy, Chaos Workflows, GitOps, and Observability
Last month, Litmus 2.0 was released for general availability, with the goal of simplifying chaos engineering by adding new features like chaos center, chaos workflows, GitOps for chaos, multi-tenancy, observability, and private chaos hubs. InfoQ interviewed Umasankar Mukkara, CEO of ChaosNative and co-creator and maintainer of Litmus engineering platform.