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Avalonia 11.1 Release: Major Enhancements in Performance, UI/UX, and Cross-Platform Support
At the end of July, Avalonia 11.1 was released. It is labeled as a point release, but as stated in the official release post, the volume of improvements suggests a major upgrade for developers. The project changes are related to Performance Optimizations, UI and UX Improvements, Developer Productivity, Graphics and Animation Enhancements, and more.
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Forrester Recommend Cloud Maturity Fixes in HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey
HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey, conducted by Forrester Consulting, provides critical insights into cloud adoption and maturity among global enterprises. The study surveyed nearly 1,200 organisations, revealing a significant disparity in cloud maturity levels, with only 8% of respondents qualifying as highly cloud mature.
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Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability
VMware released Spring Boot 3.3 on May 23, 2024, with significant performance, security, and observability improvements. These include Class Data Sharing (CDS) for faster startup and reduced memory usage, virtual thread support for websockets, enhanced security with JWT authentication auto-configuration, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support for better supply chain security.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.5, Projects Loom and Valhalla, Hibernate ORM and Validation
This week's Java roundup for July 29th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of Hazelcast 5.5; early-access releases for Project Loom and Project Valhalla; beta releases of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validation 9.0; and point releases for Quarkus, Helidon, GlassFish, JobRunr and Testcontainers for Java.
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AWS Discontinues Various Services, Raising Concerns in the Community
For the first time in its history, AWS has discontinued several managed services within a matter of days. Among the affected services are the source control AWS CodeCommit, the cloud-based IDE AWS Cloud9, and the time-series forecasting service Amazon Forecast. The wave of deprecations has led to concerns within the community due to the lack of clear communication.
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Meta Optimises AI Inference by Improving Tail Utilisation
Meta (formerly Facebook) has reported substantial improvements in the efficiency and reliability of its machine-learning model serving infrastructure by focusing on optimising tail utilisation.
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Increasing Productivity by Becoming a Dual-Purpose Stream Aligned and Platform Software Team
To manage their increased workload effectively and maintain quality and efficiency, a software team decided to become dual-purpose: stream-aligned and platform. They rewrote their main application to be API-first and implemented micro releases with their customer-facing products, to provide value to their end users quickly and maintain a steady flow of accomplishments for the team.
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Google Cloud Enhances Spanner with Dual-Region Configuration
Google Cloud has introduced a significant update to its fully-managed distributed SQL database service, Spanner, which now offers a dual-region configuration option. The company aims with this enhancement to assist enterprises in complying with data residency norms across countries with limited cloud support while ensuring high availability.
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Meta Releases Llama 3.1 405B, Largest Open-Source Model to Date
Meta recently unveiled its latest language model, Llama 3.1 405B. This AI model is the largest of the new Llama models, which also include 8B and 70B versions. With 405 billion parameters, 15 trillion tokens, and 16,000 GPUs, Llama 3.1 405B offers a range of impressive features.
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Support for Quorum Queues in Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ Classic and RabbitMQ, simplifying the setup, operation, and management of message brokers on AWS. Recently, AWS announced support for quorum queues, a replicated type designed for higher availability and data safety, for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ.
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How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
The multi-pronged approach the adidas team took can be useful for platform engineering teams in many other organizations, as a recent CNCF report stated that Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents.
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Cloudflare Application Security Report Highlights Surge in DDoS Attacks and CVE Exploits
Cloudflare recently released its 2024 Application Security Report, offering recommendations and insights on addressing many raised concerns. A key finding of the report is the increase in malicious traffic, driven by geopolitical events and voting seasons.
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Gojko’s Lizard Optimization for Product Growth and Retention
Gojko Adzic’s new book, Lizard Optimization, shows how addressing product misuse and marginal use cases enhances customer retention and drives growth. He discusses the book with Dave Farley for GOTO's Book Club, and shares examples illustrating how focusing on unique user needs leads to broader improvements. The techniques are suited to products seeking to grow market share or reduce churn.
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Google's JEST Algorithm Automates AI Training Dataset Curation and Reduces Training Compute
Google DeepMind recently published a new algorithm for curating AI training datasets: multimodal contrastive learning with joint example selection (JEST), which uses a pre-trained model to score the learnability of batches of data. Google's experiments show that image-text models trained with JEST-curated data require 10x less computation than baseline methods.
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AWS Announces a Generative Artificial Intelligence-Powered Service AWS App Studio in Preview
AWS App Studio, a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service designed to enable technical professionals without software development skills to create enterprise-grade applications using natural language, has been launched in preview by AWS in the US West (Oregon) AWS region.