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Couchbase Details Its Distributed ACID Transaction Architecture
Couchbase recently published a detailed explanation of its distributed multi-document ACID transaction implementation. In its blog post, Couchbase lays out how its DB engine supports the Monotonic Atomic View consistency model, which is a strengthened version of the Read Committed consistency model.
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HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of HCP Vault on AWS
Recently, HashiCorp announced the general availability of their fully-managed Vault service for AWS environments on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a SaaS service with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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Catchpoint Announces General Availability of Enhanced WebPageTest Performance Testing API
Catchpoint recently released an enhanced version of the WebPageTest (WPT) performance testing API. The now generally available API provides programmatic access to the WebPageTest data and test infrastructure, and offers in-depth front-end performance metrics and side-by-side video comparisons of user experience.
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Gluon Releases SceneBuilder 16
Gluon releases Scene Builder 16, a graphical design tool that visually simplifies the creation of cross-platform applications on computers and mobile devices.
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Charts.CSS, a Pure CSS Charting Library
Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while keeping the bundle size under 10KB when minified and gzipped.
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The Post COVID Normal Will Be Hybrid Work Environments
The Microsoft Work Trend Report points to flexible, hybrid work being the new normal, leaders being out of touch with their employees, an exhausted workforce, innovation at risk, shrinking networks, the need for authenticity to spur productivity and well-being & a huge negative impact on GenZ. The report provides concrete advice for charting the way forward to overcome these and other challenges.
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Perceiver: One Neural-Network Model for Multiple Input Data Types
Google’s DeepMind company has recently released a state-of-the-art deep-learning model called Perceiver that receives and processes multiple input data ranging from audio to images, similarly to how the human brain perceives multimodal data. Perceiver is able to receive and classify input multiple data types, namely point cloud, audio and images.
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Microsoft Releases AI Training Library ZeRO-3 Offload
Microsoft recently open-sourced ZeRO-3 Offload, an extension of their DeepSpeed AI training library that improves memory efficiency while training very large deep-learning models. ZeRO-3 Offload allows users to train models with up to 40 billion parameters on a single GPU and over 2 trillion parameters on 512 GPUs.
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.NET 6: Date and Time Structures
A long-standing problem with .NET’s Base Class Library is the inability to separately represent date and time values. As part of .NET 6, the new DateOnly and TimeOnly classes seek to correct this oversight.
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Quarkus 1.11 Introduces State Preserving Reload in Development Mode
Quarkus’ development mode, a hot redeploy mechanism through which code changes in an application will be recompiled and reloaded when refreshed in the browser, was improved with a new ability: state preserving reload. InfoQ reached out to Stuart Douglas, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, for a deeper understanding of Quarkus’ development mode.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 5th, 2021
A roundup of stories in the Java ecosystem for the week of April 5th.
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Announcing Refinery by Honeycomb: a Trace-Aware Sampling Proxy
Honeycomb, the company providing observability tools, recently announced Refinery. Supporting multiple sampling methods by default, Refinery runs on the customer's infrastructure to provide critical debugging data.
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Ebay Open-Sources Package to Reduce Test Flakiness Using Swift and Xcode
Targeted Auto Retry is Ebay's approach to dealing with test flakiness that aims to make a continuous integration pipeline more resilient to flaky test steps. To make this approach straightforward to use, Ebay has open sourced a lightweight framework for the Swift language that can be used with Xcode unit testing framework.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which provides a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. The service offers a fully-managed OpenShift service with joint support from AWS and Red Hat.
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Microsoft Introduces Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Microsoft has introduced a preview release of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new open-source downstream distribution of OpenJDK. Microsoft Build of OpenJDK supports x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java Engineering Group at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.