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Google Cloud Private Service Connect Now Generally Available
Google Cloud has recently announced the general availability of Private Service Connect, a service to keep all customer’s traffic private and secure over Google's global network while abstracting the underlying network infrastructure.
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The eBPF Foundation Aims to Further Advance eBPF Features and Adoption
eBPF, a technology used to extend the Linux kernel capabilities without requiring to change its code or reload kernel modules, now has its own foundation hosted within the Linux Foundation, announce Facebook, Google, Isovalent, and other founding members.
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AWS Announces Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Recently AWS announced the availability of the new general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances. The new Amazon EC2 M6i instances deliver up to 15 percent more performance and a better price when compared to the fifth-generation instances and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME).
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AWS Announces Python 3.9 Runtime Support for Lambda Functions
Recently AWS announced the support for Python 3.9 as both a managed runtime and a container base image for its Function as a Services (FaaS) offering Lambda. As a result, developers can now author AWS Lambda functions in Python 3.9 and use its new features, such as support for TLS 1.3, new string and dictionary operations, and improved time zone support.
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Oracle Introduces MySQL Autopilot with Machine-Learning Capabilities for MySQL Heatwave
Oracle released updates to its MySQL HeatWave service earlier this month. The new MySQL Autopilot feature uses machine learning to automate database provisioning and optimisation tasks, making recommendations and query optimisations based on each database’s usage patterns.
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How External IT Providers Can Adopt DevOps Practices
IT suppliers can follow the “you build it, you run it” mantra by working in small batches, using an experimental approach to product development, and validating small product increments in production. The supplier has to find out what his client’s goal is, and it has to become the supplier’s goal as well to work in a collaborative way.
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Google Releases Its Certificate Authority Service into General Availability
The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation and managing public key infrastructure (PKI). And last month, Google announced the general availability (GA) of this service.
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Eclipse IDE Working Group Established to Ensure Continued Sustainability
After 17 years, the Eclipse IDE established a working group to ensure its "continued sustainability, integrity, evolution and adoption". According to its charter, the working group establishes and drives funding, oversees the release plan, coordinates the simultaneous releases, helps to grow and evolve the ecosystem and Eclipse Marketplace, and provides governance for related open source projects.
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MIT Demonstrates Energy-Efficient Optical Accelerator for Deep-Learning Inference
Researchers at MIT's Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed the Digital Optical Neural Network (DONN), a prototype deep-learning inference accelerator that uses light to transmit activation and weight data. At the cost of a few percentage points of accuracy, the system can achieve an transmission energy advantage of up to 1000x over traditional electronic devices.
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.NET MAUI Summer Previews: New Layouts, Font Scaling, Alerts, Gestures, Clipping and Much More
The Microsoft team and community behind the .NET MAUI had an active and productive summer. New updates and features were introduced to the platform, giving the developers the updates in the form of Preview 6 in July and Preview 7 in August this summer. .NET MAUI summer previews introduce new layouts, font scaling, alerts, gestures, view clipping and much more...
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Java News Roundup: Project Loom, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Kotlin 1.5.30, Micronaut 3.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for August 9th, 2021, features news from Project Loom, OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Quarkus 2.1.2.Final, Micronaut 3.0.0-RC1, Kotlin 1.5.20-RC, Piranha 21.8.0, JDKMon 16.0.8, and the EclipseCon 2021 Community Day agenda.
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Codespaces is GitHub's New Development Platform, Now Supporting Emacs and Vim
GitHub has moved away from local development environment and adopted Codespaces for its day-to-day development flow. After careful configuration, GitHub achieved a 10 seconds bootstrap time for a new environment. Additionally, now Codespaces support Emacs and Vim besides Visual Studio Code.
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Microsoft Renames Its Azure for FHIR API to Azure Healthcare APIs
Recently Microsoft announced the renaming of its Cloud for Healthcare's Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) to "Azure Healthcare APIs." In addition to the renaming of the APIs, the company also expands support for healthcare data to include patient health data via FHIR, medical imaging data via DICOM - and medical device data via the Azure IoT Connector for FHIR .
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Amazon Introduces Cloudwatch Cross Account Alarms to Consolidate Management
Amazon CloudWatch recently announced cross account alarms, a new feature that enables customers to set alerts and take actions based on changes to metrics across different AWS accounts.
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AWS Announces Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for Conversation Insights
Recently, AWS announced Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a new feature of Amazon Transcribe. AWS customers can extract valuable insights from customer conversations like customer and agent sentiment, and conversation characteristics such as non-talk time, interruptions, loudness, and talk speed with this new feature.