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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.
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VMware Overhauls Spring 6 & Spring Boot 3 for Another Decade
At Spring One 2021, VMware described how Spring 6, planned for an October 2022 release, prepares the framework for another decade: it will require Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9, provides first-class support for Java modules and native compilation, bakes observability into Spring, and drops outdated features and third-party integrations. Spring Boot 3 will use Spring 6 but has no release date yet.
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Flow Type Checker No Longer Just JavaScript with Types, Centers of Facebook Needs
Vladan Djeric, engineering manager supporting the Flow team at Facebook, announced that the Flow type checker will go beyond being just JavaScript with types and introduce new features based on Facebook’s internal user needs. In particular, Flow strives to deliver fast type-checking on large, complicated codebases. Flow’s vision is in contrast with TypeScript’s — JavaScript with syntax for types.
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Moving from Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome toward Seeing the Benefits of Diversity in Technology
As someone with a non technical background, Charu Bansal, has navigated the imposter syndrome in her career, often wondering what value she could bring to security. In her talk at The Diana Initiative 2021, she showed how having a diverse perspective helped her to solve challenging security problems as she pivoted from a non-technical career into information security.
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Canonical Anbox Cloud Appliance Simplifies Running Android Apps on AWS
Anbox Cloud is a solution from Canonical that lets you stream Android apps at scale to any device. The new Anbox Cloud Appliance makes a small-scale version of Anbox Cloud readily available on the AWS marketplace. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Simon Fels, engineering manager at Canonical and Anbox Cloud team lead.
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Data Collection, Standardization and Usage at Scale in the Uber Rider App
Uber Engineering recently published how it collects, standardises and uses data from the Uber Rider app. Rider data comprises all the rider's interactions with the Uber app. This data accounts for billions of events from Uber's online systems every day. Uber uses this data to deal with top problem areas such as increasing funnel conversion, user engagement, etc.
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Micronaut 3.0 Delivers Significant Changes Adaptable for Future Development
Object Computing, Inc. has released Micronaut 3.0 featuring the removal of a default reactive streams implementation, a change in annotation inheritance, and HTTP compile-time validation. This release was a culmination of work to resolve design faults of the past to make the framework more intuitive and adaptable to future requirements.
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Lit 2 Ships with New Custom Directives and Reactive APIs
The Lit Team recently released Lit 2.0, more than two years after Lit 1. Lit 2 features a new API for custom directives that include asynchronous directives. Lit 2 users will also be able to use reactive controllers to encapsulate reusable reactive logic.
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Facebook Open-Sources Computer Vision Model Multiscale Vision Transformers
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) recently open-sourced Multiscale Vision Transformers (MViT), a deep-learning model for computer vision based on the Transformer architecture. MViT contains several internal resolution-reduction stages and outperforms other Transformer vision models while requiring less compute power, achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy on several benchmarks.
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Practical API Design Using gRPC at Netflix
A two-part series of articles about API design at Netflix was recently published in the company’s technology blog. It describes how they solved the problem of ignoring irrelevant message fields in their backend API requests and responses by using the special Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) message FieldMask.
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Java News Roundup: JDK LTS Release Cadence, OpenJDK, Spring Updates, Helidon, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for September 13th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, a proposal to accelerate the JDK LTS release cadence from three years to two years, JDK 18, Liberica JDK 17, updates to Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Tools 4, Payara Platform, Helidon, JDK 17 dev builds of GraalVM, Hibernate, Piranha, Apache Camel, JobRunr 4.0 and the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer survey.
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Facebook Superpack Leverages Code Analysis for Android App Compression
In a recent article, Facebook described its novel technique for Android app compression, Superpack, which combines compiler analysis with data compression. While not yet available for everyone, Facebook is hoping to open source it.
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NSA and CISA Publish Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The National Security Agency(NSA) in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) recently published the Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a technical report focused on securing Kubernetes environments. The report identifies the common areas of Kubernetes security risks: supply chain, malicious actors, and insider threats.