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The Allen Institute for AI research team has introduced OLMo 2, a new family of open-source language models available in 7 billion (7B) and 13 billion (13B) parameter configurations . Trained on up to 5 trillion tokens, these models redefine training stability, adopting staged training processes, and incorporating diverse datasets . OLMo-Mix-1124 dataset comprised 3.9 trillion tokens from high-quality repositories like DCLM and Starcoder .

Slack migrated all Enzyme tests to React Testing Library (RTL) to ensure continuity of their test coverage . Transitioning to RTL introduced a different methodology focused on simulating how users interact with components and their behavior in a real environment, Sergii Gorbachov said . Their tool achieved 80% accuracy on average with manual adjustments required for more complex cases .

Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124-billion-parameter multimodal model designed for advanced image and text processing . Built on Mistral Large 2, it achieves leading performance on benchmarks like MathVista and DocVQA, excelling in tasks that require reasoning across text and visual data . The model is available under the Mistral Research License (MRL) for academic and non-commercial use .

aisuite aims to provide an OpenAI-like API around the most popular large language models (LLMs) currently available . The library is written in Python and requires developers to own API keys for any LLM providers they would like to use . Currently, it is mostly focused on chat completions, but new use cases will be covered in future .

An annotated PR/FAQ that sparked the development of AWS Lambda highlights the initial vision for serverless computing at Amazon . It details challenges faced by customers managing EC2 fleets that often sat idle while awaiting tasks like writing to a database or processing files . In a separate article, Jeff Barr, VP and chief evangelist at AWS, highlights the ongoing shift toward composability and AI .

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024, Nandhakumar Venkatachalam and Payal Patel shared Yahoo's Kubernetes journey from on-premises to multi-cloud at scale . The speakers outlined Yahoo's cloud-native path, which involved using GitHub Enterprise for source control, and Screwdriver, an open-source build platform for continuous delivery .

Microsoft has launched Fabric API for GraphQL, moving the data access layer from public preview to general availability (GA) This release introduces several enhancements, including support for Azure SQL and Fabric SQL databases, saved credential authentication, detailed monitoring tools, and integration with CI/CD workflows .

Microsoft has released version 0.22 of DevProxy, an API simulation command-line tool . The tool simulates a vast number of API and network behaviours . It can simulate throttling, rate-limiting or slow API responses . New logging improvements now show the plugin name in the log output, allowing for easier identification of the intercepted requests and responses .

Spring Boot 3.4 has structured logging, adds various container images to Docker Compose and Testcontainers . Spring Boot also improves container image building and actuators . Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 will stick with Java 17 but move to Jakarta 11, adopt JSpecify for null-safety .

Microsoft released the .NET MAUI 9 in its final form on November 12th . This version brings two new controls (HybridWebView and TitleBar) and a Xcode sync tool for Apple-specific files . MAUI is an acronym that stands for Multiplatform Application UI . The new version bumps the minimum Apple devices support from iOS 11 and Mac Catalyst 10.15 to iOS 12+.

Benjamen Pyle demonstrated how Rust, combined with AWS Lambda, delivers high performance, safety, and scalability for modern serverless applications . The session highlighted the synergy between Rust's powerful systems-level capabilities and Lambda’s event-driven, pay-as-you-go compute model .

TimescaleDB is enhancing AI integration with the Postgres AI suite and the introduction of the pgai Vectorizer . This update enables developers to create, store, and manage vector embeddings alongside relational data without the need for external tools or additional infrastructure . The team is open to contributions from the community to help achieve this goal .

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will take place in North America in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hong Kong from June 10-11 . The theme scaling new heights focused on enhancing scalability, efficiency, and security . The CNCF announced the release of the return of the technology radar landscape .

Moumita Bhattacharya spoke at QCon SF 2024 about state-of-the-art search and ranking systems . She gave an overview of the typical structure of these systems and a deep dive into how Netflix created a single combined model to handle both tasks . The two problems of search and recommendation both can be solved via ranking but the scale of the problems means it's not possible to dynamically rank all the products for each user in real time .

NotebookLlama is an open-source alternative to Google’s NotebookLM . It converts PDF text into audio content without prior experience with large language models or audio processing . The toolkit is available through GitHub and requires a server or API provider for the larger models .

GitHub has introduced significant updates at GitHub Universe 2024, showcasing a shift towards enhanced developer autonomy and AI-native experiences . The event centered on accessibility, innovation, and multi-model flexibility, offering tools designed to simplify workflows and enable developers of all skill levels to harness the power of artificial intelligence . The platform’s Copilot now supports multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini .

Carl Lerche, Principal Engineer at AWS and creator of the Tokio Rust library, presented a talk at QCon San Francisco 204 . He argued that Rust is not suited for high-level productivity for database-backed systems . Rust's low-level performance makes it comparable to C++ but with the added benefit of a memory-safe design without a garbage collector .

Microsoft recently launched a public preview of native vector support for the Azure SQL Database . With this update, the database can now store and process vector embeddings directly within it . Native vector support offers significant performance benefits over external vector databases by eliminating the need for data movement between platforms .

Amazon Q Developer now supports inline chat, enabling developers to discuss and resolve code issues within the editor . The feature is powered by Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and available in Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs . The new inline chat functionality is a new addition to Amazon Q, though not unique within the AI coding assistant space .

Low-code and no-code software development platforms help establish common ground for product development . They can help developers avoid repetitive application bootstrapping tasks and considerably speed up development . In our opinion, Appsmith is best for low-code UI CRUD and workflow application building backed with various data sources .

Kate Gregory gave a talk about continuing to program as people age at NDC Tech Town . The number one body concern of older programmers was eyesight, pain and stiffness, and the number one mental concern was a lack of motivation and feeling cynical . Exercise and getting good sleep help to keep the abilities needed as a developer .

The Uno Platform has released its latest update, version 5.5, with new features, bug fixes and performance improvements . The new release aims to simplify and speed up the packaging and distribution of cross-platform desktop applications . Uno platform is an alternative UI platform for building multi-device applications in C# and XAML .

Cloudflare recently launched a dashboard to help create and manage a security.txt file for website vulnerability disclosures . The generated file adheres to the RFC9116 standard, offering security research teams a standardized method for reporting vulnerabilities . The new dashboard stores information in a distributed database .

Cloudflare launches Workflows, a durable execution engine on its cloud platform . Workflows enable developers to create scalable, multi-step applications that can persist through failures like server downtimes, or code errors . They allow automated retries to ensure that processes can restart from the point of failure, reducing the risk of data loss and operational delays .

Microsoft released Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions library for .NET in preview . It makes it easier to integrate .NET solutions with the AI Semantic Kernel SDK, using abstractions over concrete AI implementations and models . The library is released as a preview, and is expected to be in preview until 9’s issue is released .

Google Cloud has introduced log scopes for Cloud Logging, aimed at improving how organizations manage and analyze their logs . Log scopes complement metrics scopes, allowing users to define sets of correlated telemetry for their applications . SUSE recently launched its first cloud-based service called SUSE Cloud Observability .

JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24, and has already been merged to main . This currently experimental feature optimizes heap utilization by shrinking the size of the mandatory object header in HotSpot . This should reduce overall heap size, improve density of deployments, and increase data locality .

This week's Java roundup for November 4th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first candidate release of Spring Cloud 2024; an update on Project Loom; the release of Open Liberty 24.0.11; point and milestone releases for Apache Groovy . Five JEPs, having successfully completed their respective reviews, are now Targeted for JDK 24 .

Reinforcement learning is a branch of machine learning and optimal control that focuses on how an intelligent agent can make decisions in a changing environment to maximize a reward signal . Cooling systems are the second-largest consumer of resources in Meta’s data centers, following the IT load . Microsoft are also using reinforcement learning to improve their data centers .

JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, is the fifth JEP confirmed for JDK 24 . Four JEPs have been Proposed to Target and will be under review during the week of October 28, 2024 . JEP 490, ZGC: Remove the non-generational mode of the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC), has been promoted from Candidate to Proposed .

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) released Version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) after two years of development with contributions from global experts . The OSAID sets criteria defining open-source AI, aiming to bring clarity to the concept and establish benchmarks for transparency and accessibility in AI . The release has received support from organizations . Industry voices have raised questions on the scope and focus of the release, particularly around safety and ethical considerations .

Microsoft has announced the introduction of the Modern Web App (MWA) pattern for .NET . It is part of its Enterprise App Patterns (EAP) initiative aimed at accelerating application modernization to the cloud . The pattern focuses on modernizing applications through refactoring, specifically targeting high-demand areas by decoupling essential components .

Gemini 1.5 Pro is designed for tasks like code generation, analysis, and optimization . A key feature of this model is its extensive context window, capable of processing up to two million tokens . This expanded capacity enables Gemini to analyze extensive codebases, handling over 100,000 lines in a single session .

Aspire Aspire 9.0 is now generally available . It supports .NET 8 (LTS) and .NET 9 (STS) It supports the integration of AWS CDK, enabling developers to define and manage AWS resources such as DynamoDB tables, S3 buckets and Cognito user pools directly within their Aspire projects .

Hugging Face has introduced SmolTools, a set of applications built on the recently launched SmolLM2 model, a compact 1.7-billion parameter language model . Smol tools include tools for summarization, rewriting, and task automation, bringing efficient AI functionality to a broader range of users . The suite includes several applications designed to streamline common tasks .

Anthropic has released two new AI models: Claude 3.5 Haiku and an improved version of Claude 3 .5 Sonnet . The new model can interact with computers by interpreting the images on the screen, moving the mouse pointer, clicking buttons, and entering text via a virtual keyboard . Anthropic notes that the feature still remains slow and often error-prone

Uber's Schemaless and Docstore distributed databases are critical to its global operations . Problem arose when Uber migrated storage to MyRocks, a database engine based on RocksDB . The new differential backup system leverages the immutable nature of the storage engine's SSTable files, which often remain unchanged between consecutive backups . Uber reports an average 45% reduction in data storage across most instances .

Thoughtworks recently published their Technology Radar Volume 31, providing an opinionated guide to the current technology landscape . Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) dominate, with a focus on their responsible use in software development . The Radar stresses the need to balance AI innovation with proven engineering practices .

Google recently announced the launch of the Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution, a set of tools designed to enhance cost management through improved metadata and labeling practices . The company released the solution for its customers, who view managing cloud costs as a complex challenge . The solution's core is labels—key-value pairs that act as customizable metadata tags attached to cloud resources such as virtual machines and storage buckets .

Rhymes AI has introduced Aria, an open-source multimodal native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model capable of processing text, images, video, and code effectively . Aria has outperformed other open models and demonstrated competitive performance against proprietary models such as GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5 .

PyTorch has added support for Intel's latest Intel processors . The release includes a new FlexAttention API which makes it easier for researchers to experiment with different attention mechanisms in their models . A regional compilation feature for torch.compile reduces the need for full model compilation; instead, repeated nn.Modules, such as Transformer layers, are compiled .

Postgres 17 focuses on performance improvements, including a new memory management implementation for vacuum, storage access optimization, and enhancements for high-concurrency workloads . The latest GA release includes general improvements to query performance and adds more flexibility to partition management . The new version supports the JSON_TABLE option, which enables handling JSON data alongside regular SQL data .

Grab reduced the data discovery process by incorporating LLMs to generate dataset documentation . The company created a Slack bot to bring effective data discovery to data consumers . Grab plans further enhancements to the GenAI-based functionality, including enriching the documentation generator with more context and allowing analysts to auto-update documentation based on Slack threads .

Expedia Group, a global travel technology company that manages over 70 TB of data, disclosed its process of migrating Cassandra clusters with over 50 tables and thousands of connections to ScyllaDB . The migration started with the Cassandra cluster called Identity, which kept sensitive data for user authentication and sessions. The migration process included transferring 1 TB of non-compressed data (totaling 3 TB with replication)

Amazon Web Services has integrated Bria AI's latest text-to-image foundation models into Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, marking a significant expansion of its enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities . The addition includes three variants - Bria 2.3, Bria . Each is designed to address specific enterprise needs in visual content .

ChatGPT can now search the web when answering user questions . Bot may choose to include search results based on the user's prompt, or the user can manually force a web search via a UI button . OpenAI has partnered with select content publishers to provide content such as news and weather .

Decart.ai and Etched.ai have unveiled Oasis, an AI-driven model that generates a fully interactive, real-time open-world experience inspired by Minecraft . Oasis runs on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, supporting a resolution of 460p at 20 frames per second, with only a few minutes of gameplay possible at a time .

Microsoft announced new capabilities and tools that further integrate Microsoft Azure AI services directly into developer tools like GitHub and VS Code . GitHub Copilot for Azure offers developers tailored, context-aware guidance directly within GitHub . Microsoft has also expanded its capabilities for A/B testing and CI/CD workflows .

DORA can help to drive sustainable change, depending on how it is used by teams and the way it is supported in a company . Carlo Beschi spoke about using DORa for sustainable improvement at Agile Cambridge . Getting good data from your systems for the four key measures can be challenging, he said .

In-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs and fewer CO2 emissions . It stores Java object graphs as binary files in local or cloud file systems and uses Java Streams for queries . It does not manage concurrent writes, so applications must prevent threads from overwriting each other . The commercial MicroStream Cluster for shared storage across multiple JVM instances also did not factor into the calculation .

JEP 493, Linking Run-Time Images without JMODs, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 24 . JEP 488, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview) proposes a second round of preview, without change, to gain additional experience and feedback from previous round or preview .

Amazon Aurora has introduced a Global Database writer endpoint to streamline routing for applications in disaster-recovery scenarios . This highly available global endpoint removes the need for application code changes to reestablish connectivity following a cross-region switchover or failover operation . Aurora Global Database allows a single Aurora MySQL or Postgres database to span multiple regions .

Uber Engineering recently announced an upgrade to their search infrastructure, transitioning from Apache Lucene 8.0 to version 9.5 . This upgrade improves Uber's search capabilities, performance and efficiency across their various services . The engineering team made changes in a separate feature branch affecting over 400 files in the monorepo, which were incompatible with the current codebase .

MobileLLM shifts away from the generally accepted scaling law that relates improved performance with an increased number of parameters . Meta researchers say there is a growing need for large language models on mobile devices to reduce cloud costs and latency . They highlight the increasing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of larger LLMs .

JEP 491 aims to eliminate the longstanding issue of ‘pinning’ that limits thread scalability . Virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21, enable increased throughput of applications utilizing hundreds of thousands of threads . The proposed changes will allow virtual threads to unmount even within synchronized blocks, freeing their platform carriers to execute other virtual threads .

The release of Apache Tomcat 11.0 marks the ninth major release as an ASF project . The Tomcat project started at Sun Microsystems as the reference implementation of the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages Specifications . Tomcat also embraces modern development practices by requiring Java SE 17 as the minimum supported version .

Michael Gray spoke about the journey of Clearbank from start-up to scale-up at QCon London . As ClearBank grew, it faced the challenge of maintaining its innovative culture while integrating more structured processes to manage its expanding operations and ensure regulatory compliance . The bank is constantly trying to find the balance between autonomy and processes .

Meta's new model is based on a 7B pre-trained text-only language model (Llama 2) extended to include speech . The model is continuously trained on both text and speech units . Speech and text sequences are concatenated as a single stream of tokens, and trained with a word-level interleaving method .

The .NET Aspire has released version 9.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), a major update to the platform . This version supports both .NET 8 Long Term Support (LTS) and .NET 9 Standard Term Support . The dashboard now supports the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) over HTTP and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

QCon focuses on lessons learned by senior software practitioners pushing the boundaries in today’s environment . Each talk provides real-world insights, with speakers exploring not just technical success but also the challenges, pivots, and innovative problem-solving techniques needed to achieve this . The first track, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, brings together leading engineers from companies like Netflix, Uber, Slack, GitHub and more .

Slack Engineering has detailed significant improvements to its Chef infrastructure . The company recently moved from a single Chef stack to a more resilient, sharded infrastructure . Slack hopes to resolve a number of limitations, namely the following areas which proved difficult with the previous setup . The engineering team created multiple Chef stacks to distribute the load and ensure system resilience . Slack minimised risk for Chef roles by stripping them down to basic information .

Console-to-Code is a service that converts actions performed in the AWS Management Console into reusable code for the AWS CDK, Cloudformation, or CDK . In preview since last November, the service currently supports Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC .

Genie leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide accurate real-time responses and significantly enhance the speed and effectiveness of incident response . It has answered over 70,000 questions across 154 Slack channels, saving approximately 13,000 engineering hours with a helpfulness rate of 48.9%, as measured by its users . Uber has implemented a metrics framework to improve Genie's performance .

Central Package Management (CPM) has been added to the .NET Upgrade Assistant . The tool is available as a Visual Studio extension and a command-line interface (CLI) The CPM feature streamlines the upgrade process and maintains consistency across various projects within a solution . CPM consolidates package versions into a single Directory.props file .

Apache Pulsar 4.0.0, JHipster 1.21.0 and Apache Camel 4.8.1 and 4.4.1 are among the latest releases in the Java community . IBM has released version 24.0 .0.11-beta of Open Liberty as the first compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile .

AWS Lambda has launched a new code editing experience within its console, featuring an integration based on the Visual Studio Code Open Source (Code-OSS) editor . The editor offers a split-screen layout, letting users view test events, function code, and outputs simultaneously . Amazon Q Developer, an AI-driven coding assistant, provides real-time suggestions, code completions, and troubleshooting insights .

Cloudflare has upgraded its logging pipeline by moving to OpenTelemetry Collector . The logging pipeline collects and processes millions of log events per second from every server in the company's network . Other big companies such as Shopify, Splunk, Google and GitHub are also adopting the technology .

The Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) is a collection of controls and libraries that help Windows developers by providing additional features that the underlying platform doesn’t yet offer . The new release has updated dependencies, .NET 8 support, two new controls and several changes to existing controls and helpers .

The perfect language does not exist, says Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter . They discuss Rust and C++ in a podcast hosted by Kevin Ball and Kevin Ball . They also discuss what the languages have in common and what is unique to them, where they differ, how they evolve, and more .

JetBrains announced a significant change to its licensing model for Rider, making it free for non-commercial use . Rider can now be used for learning, open-source project development, content creation, or personal projects . Commercial clients will still need to obtain a paid license to use Rider .

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is an eight-billion-parameter model that can generate professional images at 1-megapixel resolution . The new model is optimized to run on standard consumer hardware, and to provide a diverse output, including skin tones, 3D images, photography, painting, and so on . The model is released under a permissive license, allowing free use for non-commercial projects .

There are two tracks dedicated to the rapid advancements in AI and ML, reflecting how these technologies have become central to modern software development . The conference spotlights senior software developers from enterprise organizations, sharing their approaches to adopting emerging trends . Each session provides actionable insights and strategies attendees can immediately apply to their own projects .

Microsoft has announced the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model . The model allows organizations to have additional flexibility and control over running their Logic Apps on-premises . The Hybrid deployment for Standard logic apps is available and supported only in the same regions as Azure Container Apps on Azure Arc-enabled AKS .

Princeton University and Yale University published a case study of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in LLMs . They found that an LLM's performance using CoT prompting depended on a mix of both memorization and what the team described as noisy reasoning . They also found that CoT can work even when examples given in the prompt are incorrect .

Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of its Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by Microsoft’s custom-designed cobalt 100 Arm processors . According to the company, these VMs offer up to 50% improved price performance over previous Arm-based offerings .

Peter Gillard-Moss said high-performing teams need empathy, understanding, and guidance from their managers . High-performing engineering teams expect their leader to enable them to make things better, he said at QCon London . Waiting for decisions is the single biggest productivity killer, he added .

Ines Montani gave a presentation at the inaugural edition of InfoQ Dev Summit Munich . She provided the audience with practical solutions for using the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications and distilling their knowledge into smaller and faster components . Montani: As developers, we need to ship things and not get stuck in the Prototype Plateau .

Ktor adopts kotlinx-io, a low-level I/O library built around the abstraction of Buffer . The new Ktor shows a significant reduction in the time required for file and socket operations, which can be as high as 90% in certain cases . Ktor 3.0 adds support for Server-Sent events, CSFR, serving static resources from ZIP files .

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs—NCC H100 v5 SKU) featuring NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs . These VMs combine hardware-based data protection from 4th-generation AMD EPYC processors with high performance . These virtual machines are ideally suited for tasks such as inferencing, fine-tuning, and training small to medium-sized models .

JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, proposed to target for JDK 24, Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2024 . Oracle has released versions 23.0.1, 21.5, 17.0 .5, 11.13.25 and 8u432, containing CPU and non-critical fixes, have also been released .

AWS has released the EC2 C8g and M8g instances powered by the latest Graviton4 processors . The general-purpose (M) and compute-intensive (C) EC2 classes are traditionally among the most popular . They are designed to deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances .

Swarm aims to allow developers to have multiple agents coordinate with one another to execute tasks using routines and handoffs . Multi-agent systems aim to enable the creation of more complex systems by working around limitations of LLMs, like single-turn responses, lack of long-term memory, and reasoning depth .

Google Cloud has introduced scalable vector-search capabilities to its Memorystore for Valkey and Redis Cluster . This update allows developers to perform vector searches at ultra-low latencies over billions of vectors . The update leverages the ability to partition vector indices across nodes in a cluster . Hybrid queries enable developers to combine vector searches with filters on numeric and tag fields .

Researchers from Microsoft AI and Tsinghua University have introduced a new architecture called the Differential Transformer (DIFF Transformer), aimed at improving the performance of large language models . This model enhances attention mechanisms by refining how models handle context and minimizing distractions from irrelevant information .

Drasi is an open-source system that simplifies detecting critical events in complex infrastructures . It eliminates the need for developers to manually build event-handling mechanisms by providing a unified framework that reduces complexity and ensures timely responses . Drasi operates using three primary components: Sources, Continuous Queries and Reactions . When changes meet criteria defined in a Continuous Query, Drasi triggers automated reactions .

Podman Desktop 1.13 includes Hyper-V support for managing Podman machines on Windows . The release also includes a reorganized Kubernetes navigation and an Image Layer Explorer extension . Some users have reported issues updating on Windows, requiring manual downloads . The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available on GitHub .

Google has released a colab to help developers through the steps required to integrate Vertex AI into their apps . The new colab covers several key topics, including prompt design, how to set up a Firebase project to use the model, configure your Android Studio project, and integrate it into your code using Kotlin .

Microsoft announced the preview release of two new AI libraries: Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions and MicrosoftExtensions .AI.API . The libraries offer a unified layer of C# abstractions for integrating AI services into .NET applications and libraries . Microsoft plans to continue releasing the libraries in preview, expecting them to remain so through the .NET 9 release in November .

A sustainable mindset in software engineering focuses on efficient resource use and thoughtful development practices . Marion Løken said that an unsustainable workload, lack of control over delivery, and absence of fulfillment and reward can lead to burnout . Integrating the team more deeply into discovery work, discussing feedback collectively, and fostering a culture of psychological safety, helped to engage her team .

Microsoft launched Copilot in OneDrive for commercial users, enhancing the platform with AI-powered tools designed to improve document management and productivity . This new feature set allows users to generate summaries, compare documents, retrieve information, and create content more efficiently, thereby reducing the time spent on manual tasks . Copilot is available only to commercial users through the OneDrive web interface .

PostNL is the largest logistics company in the Benelux and has been operating since 1799 . In 2012, the company committed to a 100% cloud strategy and decided to bring all software delivery in-house to build competitive logistical software rather than rely on off-the-shelf products . The company decided to go serverless due to the variability of application workloads, including daily and weekly patterns, as well as the high usage holiday period, starting with Black Friday in November .

JEP 489, Vector API (Ninth Incubator), and JEP 484, Class-File API, targeted for JDK 24 . Apache projects, Tomcat 11.0.0 and Cassandra 5.0, EclipseStore 2.0; the October 2024 Payara Platform release .

The AV1 decoder used in VideoLan VLC and FFMpeg, dav1d, has been under development for over six years and contains about 50k lines of C code and 250k assembly . It is mature, fast, and widely used, and is highly optimized to be small, portable and very fast .

The Realtime API enables real-time, natural speech-to-speech interactions using six preset voices, combining speech recognition and synthesis into a single API call . Audio input/output is now available in the Chat Completions API, expanding options for voice-driven applications . Early feedback highlights limited voice options and response cutoffs, similar to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode .

Cloudflare introduced Ephemeral IDs, a new feature for fraud detection . The tool identifies fraudulent activity by linking behavior to a specific client rather than an IP address . The new ID is designed to tackle the common issue of attackers who rotate a broad range of IP addresses to evade WAF monitoring techniques .

Google's SCoRe is a technique for improving LLMs' ability to self-correct when solving math or coding problems . It uses data generated by the LLM itself to generate self-correction traces . This data is used in a two-stage RL process to fine-tune the model . The goal is to prevent the model from learning to produce the best first-attempt response and only minorly edit it .

Uber has made significant improvements to its database fleet by upgrading from version 5.7 to 8.0 . The work took over a year and involved upgrading more than 2,100 clusters and 16,000 nodes across 19 production zones in three regions . The team opted for a side-by-side upgrade strategy rather than an in-place upgrade .

Linux 6.12 will officially include support for real-time processing in its mainline thanks to a PR that enables PREEMPT_RT on all supported architectures . It makes the Linux kernel fully preemptible and able to respond to external events in deterministic time and with low-latency on the x86, x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64 architectures .

Uber's batch data platform is a crucial element of its data infrastructure, supporting over 10,000 internal users . The transition leverages Google Cloud Storage for Uber’s data lake while moving the rest of the infrastructure to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud migration is not without its challenges, particularly related to storage and access limits imposed by cloud providers .

A data mesh is an organizational paradigm shift in how companies create value from data where responsibilities go back into the hands of producers and consumers . The mission of the platform team is to make the lives of the producer and consumers simple, efficient and stress free . Data must be discoverable and understandable, trustworthy, and shared securely and easily across the organization .

PayPal extended its MLOps platform Cosmos.AI to support the development of generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) The company incorporated support for vendor, open-source, and self-tuned LLMs and provided capabilities around retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic caching, prompt management, orchestration, and AI application hosting .

Hugging Face has released Open LLM Leaderboard v2, an upgraded version of their popular benchmarking platform for large language models . The leaderboard serves multiple purposes for the AI community . It helps researchers and practitioners identify state-of-the-art open-source releases by providing reproducible scores that separate marketing claims from actual progress .

JFrog has added real-time vulnerability detection to its software supply chain platform . The update is aimed at developers and DevSecOps teams working with Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications . It helps maintain the integrity of container images and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements .

Jesse Anderson published the latest findings from his annual Data Teams Survey of 81 data leaders and engineers across a range of enterprise types . The 2024 survey shows a slow adoption of LLMs by data teams, a neutral impact from remote work, and an overall decline in the perception of delivered value . Anderson also highlighted inconsistencies in how data teams tend to define the role of operations engineers .

The Uno Platform is an alternative UI platform for building multi-device applications in C# and XAML . It was launched in 2018, after years of internal use by a Canadian company nventive . It allows developers to write applications for Windows, iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS and Linux . It is released under Apache 2.0 open-source license .

Python 3.13 allows for the experimental disabling of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), alongside the introduction of a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler, enhancing performance . The update removes several outdated modules and introduces a random random selection of random modules .

Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative to containers . She spoke at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich . She believes that embracing serverless on top of WebAssembly units will allow organisations to have faster and cheaper infrastructure (financially and carbon-related)

NVIDIA unveiled NVLM 1.0, an open-source multimodal large language model (LLM) that performs on both vision-language and text-only tasks . NVLM-1.0-D 72B model shows an average 4.3-point improvement in accuracy on math and coding tasks . Model weights are now available on Hugging Face, with the training code set to be released shortly .

Java applications passed the 1 Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) from January 2024 in 1.5&nbsp;seconds . Gunnar Morling, Software Engineer at Decodable, detailed how the participants optimized Java at the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024 . Each submission was tested five times, with the slowest and fastest runs discarded for consistency .

Real-Time API allows for persistent WebSocket connections, enabling real-time voice interactions . API allows developers to send and receive JSON-formatted events representing various interaction elements such as text, audio, function calls, and interruptions . API also has the ability to handle simultaneous multimodal output . OpenAI announced they were expanding fine-tuning for vision models .

MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and new features . Highlights include embedded sharding configuration servers, expanded support for queryable encryption, and the capability to move collections across shards without requiring a shard key . The latest version is released under the SSPL license and can be deployed using MongoDB Atlas, on-premises, or in cloud environments .

Microsoft has updated OData .NET libraries to version 8.0.0 . The OData 8 libraries use a new JSON writer to serialise and deserialise the payload . The new writer is significantly faster and needs less memory than the old one, JsonWriter, created by the Microsoft.OData.Json.DefaultJsonWriterFactory .

LLaMA-Omni is based on Meta's Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct LLM and outperforms similar baseline models while requiring less training data and compute . The LLaMa-Ommni architecture includes a speech encoder and a speech decoder at the output . The model is fine-tuned on InstructS2S-200K, a custom dataset created by the UCAS team .

Meta has announced Movie Gen, a new AI model designed to create high-quality 1080p videos with synchronized audio . The system enables instruction-based video editing and allows for personalized content generation using user-supplied images . The core of Movie Gen is a transformer model with 30 billion parameters .

Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes . This release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features, and better handling of modern web protocols . These updates are part of a larger effort supported by the Google Summer of Code under the Honeynet Project .

Llama 3.2 is the latest version of Meta's open-source language model, which includes vision, voice, and open customizable models . New release includes vision models with 11 billion and 90 billion parameters, as well as lightweight text-only models with 1 billion and 3 billion parameters designed to run efficiently on edge and mobile devices . The models are available for immediate download on platforms like Hugging Face and Meta's own website .

JEP 475, Late Barrier Expansion for G1, was promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 24 . JEP 489, Vector API (Ninth Incubator), has been promoted from Candidate to Proposed . The review is expected to conclude on October 9, 2024 . Spring Framework 7.0; JobRunr 7.3.0, Keycloak 26.0 and Debezium 3.0.0 .

OpenAI has released a stable version of its official .NET library, following June's beta launch . The stable release introduces key features to enhance developer productivity . It includes both synchronous and asynchronous APIs, with support for streaming chat completions through IAsyncEnumerable&lt;T&gt; for more dynamic interactions .

Rspack 1.0 is compatible with 40+ of the top 50 Webpack plugins . ByteDance claims enterprise users like Microsoft, Amazon, and Discord are adopting it . The company behind Rspacks claims to be saving millions in CI costs . Raspack is written in Rust and compatible with Webpack . It claims to finish production builds in 282 ms (23x slower) than Webpack 5 .

The goal of the Safe C++ proposal is extending C++ by defining a superset of the language that can be used to write code with the strong safety guarantees . The only existing safe language, say Baxter and Mazakas, is Rust, but their design differences limit interoperability, thus making it hard to migrate from one language to another .

Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about how it uses custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure . The company uses Event Loop Utilization (ELU) as a custom metric for their Node.js applications . ELU measures the time the Node.JS event loop is busy processing events compared to being idle . The team used an HTTP load-testing tool to validate its new autoscaling setup .

The FXv2-series VMs are designed for compute-intensive workloads such as databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation . Powered by the latest 5th Generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C processors, they offer up to 1.5x better CPU performance compared to the FXv1-series . VMs now support up to 96 vCPUs, with larger sizes offering 2x the v CPUs compared to their predecessors .

Valkey is the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis . By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity . The first major release from the Valkey community comes just five months after Redis switched to the SSPLv1 license .

Microsoft has announced the release of Dev Proxy v0.21, introducing several notable features . The latest version allows developers to start and control Dev Proxy directly from Visual Studio Code, through global commands or editor actions that appear when a Dev Proxy configuration file is open . The update introduces the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2, the capability to quickly generate JWT tokens for testing .

Experimentation can help software teams solve problems in small steps, relieve their workload, and foster self-management . Terhi Aho gave a workshop about using experimentation to improve team performance at Agile Tampere . Aho: Experimentation is to test an idea as quickly as possible to see if the hypothesis holds and learn more .

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a general purpose AI solution that can handle a wide range of tasks . Many organizations would like to adopt this technology, but with the fast pace of innovation, it can be difficult to keep up with the different LLM options available . In our virtual panel, we'll discuss some issues people should think about when adopting LLMs .

Google has added support for Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer . The tool is aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time . Android engineers can optimize the performance of their apps by observing how the compiler works under the hood instead of using a set of pre-defined best practices .

Google developed a zero-shot voice transfer (VT) model that can be used to customize a text-to-speech (TTS) with a specific person's voice . This allows speakers who have lost their voice, for example from Parkinson's disease or ALS, to use a TTS device to replicate their original voice . The model also works across languages .

Large Language Models (LLMs) are large, capable models which are hosted on OpenAI’s servers and invoked using a web-based API . These API-based models are a way to quickly experiment with LLMs . Self-hosting is hard for three reasons: model size, expensive GPUs, and a rapidly evolving field .

AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer . This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the cloud provider’s long-standing commitment to existing services .

System Initiative aims to tackle some long-standing problems in conventional industry practices for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure . System Initiative's core concept is one of digital twins, which essentially decouples the monitoring of infrastructure status from potential modifications made by cloud engineers . This methodology enhances feedback loops significantly, allowing engineers to verify configurations without waiting for physical provisioning to happen .

Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 for the upcoming Android 15 release introduces desktop windowing for tablets as a developer preview . The feature makes it possible to manage freeform windows that users can create to display multiple apps and resize or move around . The possibility to resize and reposition multiple app windows allows users to easily compare documents, reference information while composing emails, and multitask efficiently .

JEP 475, Late Barrier Expansion for G1, promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 24 . JEP 486, Permanently Disable the Security Manager promoted from its JEP Draft 8338625 to Candidate status . Red Hat has released version 3.15 of Quarkus, a new long-term support release . Spring Boot versions 3.4.0-M3, 3.3.4 and 3.2.10 of Spring Shell have been released .

Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is generally available . This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning on transactional data . It allows multiple integrations from a single RDS database and provides data filtering for customized replication . The integration replicates data from the source database into the target data warehouse .

Distributed systems spanning over multiple availability zones can incur significant data transfer costs and performance bottlenecks . Zone Aware Routing is a strategy designed to optimize network costs and latency by directing traffic to services within the same availability zone whenever possible . This article aims to create awareness of those potential issues and provide guidelines on maintaining resilience .

DevEx framework helps identify key areas for platform improvement by focusing on the interconnected elements of feedback loops, cognitive load, and flow state . Empathy is the ability to see experiences from someone else's perspective . Building a culture of empathy, modeled through open communication and active listening, empowers you to understand users' true needs .

AWS announced that the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) supports the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement . ECDH key agreement allows two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel . The new DeriveSharedSecret API enables the establishment of secure communication channels by using a derived shared secret .

Intuit recently talked about how they managed the complexities of monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters using Generative AI (GenAI) The GenAI experiments were conducted to streamline detection, debugging, and remediation processes . Intuit implemented a system called Cluster Golden Signals, which mirrors the concept of service golden signals . This system provides a consolidated view of a cluster's health by filtering out noise and focusing on critical signals .

Teena Idnani, senior vice president at JP Morgan Chase, gave an overview of quantum computing and how we can prepare for its inevitable change in traditional computing . She also pointed to the quantum-ready programming languages that started appearing in preparation for the machines' broad availability . Having multiple entangled qubits will allow incomprehensible computing.

Danielle Sudai, security operations lead at Deliveroo, explored the fundamentals of cloud security posture management (CSPM) She stressed the importance of bridging the gap between the different layers of the organisation, from governance to technology . CSPM is a technology that helps to identify misconfigurations using its metadata to identify potential threats that lead to actual breaches .

Migrations are managed by a central team rather than service owner teams to avoid delays and inconsistencies . The company opted to centralize code migrations in most cases to speed up migrations and improve consistency across services . To switch between external libraries, the team ensures the wrapper is deployed to all services first .

Microsoft announced the public preview of built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard . These actions are designed to streamline Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based ingestion for Generative AI applications . With these actions, the company further invests in artificial intelligence capabilities for its low-code offering .

Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library . This allows developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption . Red Hat's Ben Luddy and Lukasz Szaszkiewicz, Principal Software Engineers at Red Hat, blogged on the announcement .

Coral Calero gave a keynote about software sustainability at the International Conference on Computational Science . Calero mentioned that the most widely used definition of sustainable software comes from Markus Dick and Stefan Naumann . Sustainable Software is software whose direct and indirect negative impacts on economy, society, human beings, and environment that result from development, deployment, and usage of the software are minimal and/or which have a positive effect on sustainable development .

Swift 6 is a new major version of Apple open-source language with focus on low-level and embedded programming, concurrent code safety, new cross-platforms APIs, and extended Linux and Windows support . Other major new features in Swift 6 are typed throws, memory ownership extensions for generics, 128 bit integers support and extended C++ interoperability . Swift 6 can be used now on more Linux platforms, including Amazon Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, and Windows .

The Linux Foundation hosted the PyTorch Conference 2024 around Fort Mason in San Francisco . The conference showcased the latest advancements in Pytorch 2.4 and Llama 3.1 . It highlighted the importance of open-source initiatives in advancing responsible generative AI . There was discussion of DOLMa, a 3T token open dataset curated for training language models, Tulu, and OLMo v1 .

Anthropic has announced Contextual Retrieval, a significant advancement in AI systems' interaction with extensive knowledge bases . This technique addresses the challenge of context loss in Retrieeval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by enriching text chunks with contextual information before embedding or indexing .

Canva's current solution for sharing real-time mouse pointers is based on the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) protocol . Canva chose a WebRTC-based solution&nbsp;to improve scalability, reduce latency, and lower backend load . The decision to use Redis was driven by its capabilities as a message broker and prior experience with the technology .

EC2 X8g instances are built upon the 5th generation of AWS Nitro System and Graviton4 processors . These processors include extra security features such as Branch Target Identification (BTI), which safeguards against low-level attacks that aim to disrupt control flow at the instruction level . The instances support ENA, ENA Express, and EFA Enhanced Networking .

Google and HashiCorp released version 6.0 of the Terraform Google provider, delivering key updates to improve cloud infrastructure management and developer workflows . The release introduces automatic labeling for Terraform-created resources, expanded naming flexibility, and removal of deprecated features . It also simplifies handling Google IDs and IAM binding for external resources .

Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar have been released . Spring Integration 6.4.0 ships with bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features . Spring Boot has been released with the addition of the Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) for structured logging built-in to Spring Boot .

Microsoft has launched the Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET . The catalog showcases hundreds of models from various providers, including Azure OpenAI Service, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face, as well as models developed by Microsoft . Users can request new models and deploy existing ones via managed computing solutions .

Microsoft recently released the public preview of template support for its low code offering Logic Apps (Standard) With templates, developers can access pre-built workflow solutions to address common integration scenarios . Each template contains detailed information, including a read-only view of the workflow, prerequisites, and connectors used .

Uber created a unified platform for serving large language models (LLMs) from external vendors and self-hosted ones . The GenAI Gateway is designed to simplify the integration process for teams looking to leverage LLMs in their projects . It provides a consistent and efficient interface and serves over 60 distinct LLM use cases across many areas .

Researchers from Microsoft, MIT, Princeton University, and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania published a study that showed the use of GitHub Copilot increased developer productivity . They found that developers using Copilot had an average increase of 26.08% in the number of pull requests, commits, and code builds performed .

The .NET Aspire is designed to simplify distributed application development by allowing developers to define application architecture using C# . It offers a powerful local orchestration toolset that enhances the development environment . The introduction of Fermyon.Aspire.Spin within Aspire allows the addition of serverless WebAssembly applications to the distributed architecture .

The new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests . The framework also enables parametrizing, parallelizing, categorizing, and associating tests with bugs . XCTest and Swift Testing can coexist in the same project, so you do not necessarily need to migrate your existing tests .

Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine, which ships with a final feature set of 12 JEPs . Oracle Labs has also released version 4.6.0.1 of the Graal Development Kit for Micronaut featuring alignment with Micronsaut 4.06.0 . The JakartaOne Livestream 2024 conference is scheduled for December 3, 2024 .

Netflix's Pushy is a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products . Pushy regularly reaches 300,000 messages sent per second . Engineers implemented improvements across many services involved in notification delivery, rewriting some entirely with scalability and reliability in mind .

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) consists of a list of software elements such as libraries and tools used in a development process . They have become more important in light of recent cybersecurity efforts such as the Secure by Design framework from the U.S. government . Traditional methods of sharing SBOMs, such as email or internal file servers, proved inefficient and prone to errors . sbomify aims to address these issues by integrating directly with CI/CD pipelines .

Developer experience (DevEx) goes beyond productivity, encompassing aspects like ease of use, collaboration, and empathy . It addresses a sociotechnical problem by creating relationships and engagement . Practical steps like running annual surveys, creating usability metrics, and fostering continuous engagement with users can help the team track progress and identify areas for improvement .

This article explores the transition from blocking I/O to non-blocking and asynchronous . The landscape of application requirements has shifted significantly recently, particularly with the advent of cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT . Adopting a reactive architectural style is essential to thrive in the modern application landscape .

Generative AI (GenAI) has become a major component of the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) industry . AI models have been developed that can generate realistic text, speech, images, and even videos . Using these models, anyone can now automate many tasks that previously required extensive and skilled human labor . However, using GenAI comes with challenges and risks .

Llama 3 base models come pre-trained and instruction-tuned in 8B and 70B versions, with 400+B coming soon . Within one month of release, HuggingFace had more than 3000+ variants . The enhanced capabilities will significantly drive the productionization of enterprise-level LLM-based applications .

A dormant bug, which was apparently a missing null check, caused the CrowdStrike outage . Crowdstrike outage is a good reminder to review and maintain a high bar for processes followed to commit and roll out production changes . We don't focus on who but on why rather than who, emphasizing process improvement over blaming individuals .

Using a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) approach helps teams decide when and if they need to address specific TD items by considering whether failing to address them will impair the success of the MVP/MVA . The idea that releases have to be perfect gets in the way of running experiments . TD reduces the cost of learning and the time it takes to get feedback .

AWS released an open source project called AWS Networking Costs Calculator . The tool allows users to run an AWS networking-focused calculator to estimate and visualize the various charges for a given network architecture . Users must ensure they have a Linux-based OS, NodeJS (version 18 or later) and NPM, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and an AWS account with AWS CLI (v2) installed and configured .

The Grafana k6 team releases a new version of its open-source load testing tool approximately every two months . Several recent updates have introduced key improvements, notably related to TypeScript support, ECMAScript compatibility, and enhancements to browser testing, gRPC, memory management, cryptography, and test result storage .

Spotify recently explained their Dashboard Quality Framework, a standardized practice to ensure the accuracy and consistency of dashboards across the organization . Skyler Johnson, Senior Data Scientist at Spotify, provided an understanding of Dashboard quality Framework . Spotify developed a service for creating and managing Tableau extracts, using a tool that enables the scheduling and execution of batch data workflows in Google BigQuery .

Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL . Google's solution to address perceived limitations in SQL is currently available in the GoogleSQL and ZetaSQL dialects . Microsoft has suggested a similar approach in Azure Data Explorer and Fabric KQL DB using the Kusto Query Language .

Compose Material 3 Adaptive, a library meant to create adaptive UIs, has reached 1.0 and is ready to be used in production apps . Adaptive UIs are designed to adapt themselves automatically according to the current window size or device orientation . The library provides several components and APIs .

Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect noisy neighbors The key metric identified by Netflix engineers as an indicator of possible performance issues caused by noisy neighbors is process latency . Netflix engineers also created a tool to measure the overhead, bpftop. Using this tool, they could identify several optimizations to reduce the overhead they initially had .

Jemma Hussein Allen presented how they automated their deployments and the benefits that they got from it at QCon London . The main challenges with manual deployments of application and infrastructure code were due to environmental inconsistencies that happened due to a range of factors, such as aligning code deployment with deployments of dependent resources such as databases . Human error can also be a big factor in testing if there are no mandated safety checks .

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new failover type for Azure Storage with customer managed planned failover . This new failureover type allows a storage account to failover while maintaining geo-redundancy, with no data loss or additional cost . Customers are no longer required to reconfigure their storage accounts after their planned failedover operation .

Microsoft released the first release candidate for the upcoming .NET 9 framework, which includes a range of updates across its core components, such as the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks like ASP.NET Core and .NET MAUI . New APIs were added to ClientWebSocket options and WebSocketCreation options .

Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine . It is the second non-LTS release since JDK 21 . The feature cadence for JDK 23 is similar to that of the previous releases dating back four years to JDK 14 with the exception of JDK 18, JDK 19 and JDK 20 . We examine some of these JEPs, discuss the JEP 23 Launch Event, and update predictions for features that may be included in JDK 24 .

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool . This release marks the graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features . The project has gained popularity among industry leaders such as Slack as we reported earlier this year .

Microsoft has released the first Go-live version of the ASP.NET 9 Release Candidate . The new release consolidates significant updates to the framework, including: keep-alive timeout for WebSockets, support for Keyed DI services in middleware . SignalR distributed tracing allows the emission of events for hub method calls . Other updates in this release include type overriding support for the InputNumber component .

Stability AI has introduced three new text-to-image models to Amazon Bedrock . These models focus on improving performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography . They are designed to generate high-quality visuals for various use cases in marketing, advertising, media, entertainment, retail, and more .

Kubernetes has announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed Elli This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced . The latest release introduces a new feature to track the timing of PersistentVolume phase transitions .

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially launched the Amazon EC2 P5e instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs . The new instances are equipped with 8 H200 GPUs, offering enhanced GPU memory size and bandwidth compared to the P5 instances . They support up to 3,200 Gbps of networking using second-generation EFA technology . The higher memory bandwidth enables higher throughput, allowing the GPU to process more inferences per second .

4M-21 is a single any-to-any AI model that can handle 21 input and output modalities . It performs well out of the box on several vision benchmarks and is available under the Apache 2.0 license . The model was trained on around 500 million samples of multimodal data, including COYO and C4 .

Storage Browser is an open-source Amplify UI React component that customers can add to their web applications to provide end users with a simple interface to access data stored in S3 . The project is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries . The component uses the new ListCallerAccessGrants API to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access .

The September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0 . Oracle Labs has released version 0.10.3 of Native Build Tools, a GraalVM project .

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of its new Parallel Computing Service (PCS) PCS aims to reduce the time required to process complex scientific computations significantly . System administrators can create clusters using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, low-latency networking, and storage optimized for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads .

Lyft has been using Protocol Buffers for many years across three language stacks (Python, Swift, and Kotlin) engineers gained experience in protocol definition design . The company promotes approaches that improve knowledge sharing, consistency, and development process quality over raw efficiency . Lyft will move from HTTP+JSON in 2020 to Probuf as an Interface Definition Language .

Nigel Kersten spoke about enabling fast flow in software organizations at FlowCon France 2024 . Start with a clear strategy that is easy to communicate, then follow the path to creating stream-aligned teams and platform teams . As you resolve impediments to flow and remove unnecessary sources of cognitive load can make culture issues disappear in organisations, he argued .

Microsoft released a CoreWCF service library and a WCF client library with the bindings for Azure Storage Queue . The new bindings allow developers to use Azure Service Queues for reliable and scalable messaging solutions . They also unlock simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ WCF solutions to an Azure cloud-based architecture . There is a sample of the usage of the new bindings on the Azure SDK for .NET GitHub account .

Vapor 5 aims at leveraging Swift 6 concurrency capabilities and laying the foundations for the framework's future evolution . An initial alpha release is planned to be ready when Swift 6 is officially released . Vapor 5 will migrate to Swift Foundation a lightweight base layer that replaces the Foundation API delivered with iOS and macOS .

Two security researchers demonstrated how they executed a simple SQL injection attack on a service that enables pilots and flight attendants to bypass airport security screening . This vulnerability allowed them to create fictitious users, enabling them to both skip security screening and potentially gain access to the cockpits of commercial airliners . The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the issue and confirmed that they are taking this very seriously

New paradigm could be less costly and more accessible, whereby games could be developed and edited via textual descriptions or example images . Google evaluated GameNGen by showing human judges a side-by-side comparison of video clips . The judges preferred the simulated game clip 40% of the time . While many important questions remain, we are hopeful that this paradigm could have important benefits .

HelixML's Helix platform for Generative AI is production ready at version 1.0 . Described as a 'Private GenAI Stack' Helix was launched in December 2023, and found some initial traction with a German company concerned about compliance with European Union regulations .

The latest edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series for 2024 took place, featuring AI development topics . The event targeted developers of all levels, with both informative and hands-on sessions showcasing how to use artificial intelligence within the .net ecosystem . This was one of the most technical events ever in the Focus series, with many high-quality, deep-dive sessions .

JEP 485, Stream Gatherers, promoted to Candidate status . Project Loom Build 24-loom+7-60 is based on Build 13 of the JDK 24 early-access builds . The Micronaut Foundation has released version 4.6.1 of the Micronsaut Framework .

Google has described an approach to use transformer models, which ignited the current generative AI boom, for music recommendation . This approach aims to build a recommender that can understand sequences of user actions when listening to music to better predict user preferences based on their context . The approach is currently being applied experimentally on YouTube . Initial experiments show an improvement of the recommender, measured as a reduction in skip-rate and an increase in time users spend listening .

Uber was managing around 4,500 microservices across three monorepos, processing 5,600 commits and 7,000 deployments weekly . Only 7% of these services were automatically deployed using CD, with many requiring manual intervention . Uber has seen a dramatic increase in the automation of service deployments . The rate of production incidents dropped by over 50% per 1,000 code changes .

AWS published a post that links the laws of frugal architecture with the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework . The authors outline areas of alignment between the WAF and the Frugal Architect laws Dr. Werner Vogels introduced in his re:Invent 2023 keynote .

AWS CodeBuild, its managed build service, now supports building applications on Mac . Developers must still reserve a dedicated Mac fleet to utilize this new option . The service builds artifacts on Apple M2 instances running macOS 14 Sonoma . Mac builds are currently available in only five regions: Ohio, Northern Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, and Sydney .

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Workspaces in Azure API Management . Workspaces allows developers to manage multiple API services from a single location . This allows them to easily view and modify all their API services in one place . Each workspace contains APIs, products, subscriptions, named values, and related resources .

Elastic announced today that Elasticsearch and Kibana will once again be open source . The two products will soon be licensed under the AGPL, an OSI-approved license . The AGPL was approved by OSI in 2008 and is the server-side version of the Apache 2.0 license .

TikTok's front-end team has announced a new tool to help deal with problems associated with using monorepos, solving many of the performance issues that come with larger repos . The TikTok team recently faced this challenge as their TypeScript monorepo grew to over 1,000 projects and 200,000 source files .

Developers find new tools much more interesting than old ones, as they offer an opportunity to learn new technologies and approaches . Using tools that have been around for decades, however, can save time and budget . Benjamin Bischoff will give a talk about the value of using timeless testing tools at QA Challenge Accepted .

The Uno Platform acts as a bridge for WinUI and UWP apps to run natively on iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, and WebAssembly . The highlight of the new release is the official support for JetBrains Rider . Other relevant features include improved Hot Reload experience, two new UI controls, new font options, and support for SkiaSharp 3 Previews .

Alibaba released two open-weight language model families . Qwen2-Math is a series of LLMs tuned for solving mathematical problems . The largest model outperformed state-of-the-art commercial models including GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet . The model can operate in two modes, Voice Chat or Audio Analysis .

Figma moved to run application services in containers and adopted Elastic Container Service (ECS) as its container orchestration platform by early 2023 . The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF . The move was dictated by pursuing cost savings, improved developer experience, and increased resiliency .

JEP 484, Class-File API, promoted to Candidate status, GlassFish 7.0.17, JHipster 8.7.0, JReleaser 1.14.0 and Hibernate Search 7.1.2.1, and Micronaut Framework 4.6.0 have been released . Spring Shell versions 3.4.0-M1, 3.3.2 and 3.26.9 are released .

A significant change in this version is the renaming of Components to Integrations . Integrations are packages that assist with the setup, initialization, and interaction with major cloud services and platforms . The team is working on enabling project builds without requiring the .NET Aspire Workload to be installed .

Grok-2 language model has been released in beta on the X platform . The release on X includes updated features for Premium and Premium+ users, such as advanced text and vision understanding capabilities . Both models have undergone evaluations across various academic benchmarks, including reasoning, reading comprehension, math, science, and coding .

CockroachDB is discontinuing the free Core version and making the Enterprise version the only option . The Enterprise version includes advanced features such as cluster optimization, disaster recovery, enhanced security, and access to expert support . The company has previously moved away from an open-source license . The community is concerned about potential changes by other vendors .

Cloudflare recently introduced new Automatic SSL/TLS settings to simplify provider's encryption modes for communication with origin servers . Free and Pro customers are expected to be enrolled starting September 16th, with Business and Enterprise customers to follow . The provider acknowledges that rolling out this feature took longer than anticipated .

Microsoft has released three new open-source AI models in its Phi-3.5 series . They are available under a permissive MIT license, which allows developers to freely use, modify and distribute the software for commercial and non-commercial purposes . These models offer developers tools for various tasks, including reasoning, multilingual processing, and image and video analysis .

The .NET 9 Preview 7 release includes significant updates to .NET MAUI, such as the introduction of HybridWebView and the deprecation of the MainPage property . It also introduces new lifecycle methods for managing remote notifications on iOS and also enhancements to Native Embedding capabilities and more .

Amazon announced support for conditional writing in Amazon S3, allowing users to check for the existence of an object before creating it . This helps prevent overwriting existing objects when uploading data, making it easier for applications to manage data . Conditional writes simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients can update data in parallel across shared datasets .

The .NET Community Toolkit 8.3 has been released with full support for .NET 8 and NativeAOT support . All APIs have been updated to be fully compatible with trimming and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation . New trim annotations provide warnings for potentially unsafe code .

The inaugural European InfoQ Dev Summit will be held in Munich on September 26th and 27th . Security and site reliability will be two of the major themes at the two-day event . The conference coincides with the first week of the Oktoberfest festival in Munich .

Microsoft announced the public preview of the Advisor Well-Architected assessment . The self-guided questionnaire aims to provide tailored, actionable recommendations to optimize Azure resources . The assessments are designed to enhance system performance, resiliency, security, and cost-efficiency while ensuring operational excellence . The assessment experience is positioned as a companion in the journey toward excellence in cloud workload optimization .

Eb Ikonne spoke at QCon London about fostering high-performing work environments for software development . He referred to the five conditions outlined in J Richard Hackman’s book Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances: The team must be a real team, rather than a team in name only; The team operates within a supportive organizational context; the team has expert teamwork coaching .

Thoughtworks’ global lead for AI-assisted software delivery, Birgitta Böckeler, recently published an article titled AI as a Scrum Team Member . Eric Naiburg wrote that AI provides developers with an assistant in the team to help decompose and understand stories . He called out the benefit of using AI to simplify prototyping, testing, code-generation, code review and synthesis of test data .

Microsoft has released a free tool to integrate AI-driven capabilities into development workflows . Prompty is available for free on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace . The tool is designed to integrate Large Language Models like GPT-4o directly into .NET development workflow . Some community members have expressed concerns about Prompty's availability to those using Visual Studio Professional .

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of August 19th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for . Apache Pulsar .

We reused key parts of Instagram to build Threads in five months . Using a code base for something new that it wasn't designed to serve brought in technical debt, which needs to be paid down now . Cleaner, newer code isn't necessarily always better, as all the learnings encoded into an old battle-tested code base add up .

Apple released details of its new family of large language models . AFM comes in two sizes: a 3B on-device version and a larger cloud-based version . Both models are based on the Transformer decoder-only architecture, pre-trained on 6.3T tokens of data . The models use pluggable task-specific LoRA adapters to tailor model performance for specific tasks .

Meta has released DCPerf, a benchmark suite designed to mimic real-world cloud cloud applications . The suite is expected to be a useful resource for researchers, hardware developers, and internet companies, helping the design and evaluation of future products . The team at Meta employed various techniques to ensure benchmark representativeness, ranging from examining low-level hardware microarchitecture features .

Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of its new C4 machine series powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) The series offers a range of configurations tailored to meet the needs of demanding applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), large-scale simulations, and data analytics .

JDK 23 has entered its second release candidate due to having fixed a conformance issue in Build 36 . The anticipated GA release is scheduled for September 17, 2024 . Infinispan, Quarkus, Helidon, Maven, JHipster, Kotlin and Kotlin point releases this past week .

Microsoft has released a preview version 1.20 of SharePoint Framework with several updates for Viva Connections cards . The public release is expected for September 2024 . Adaptive card extensions are a component of Microsoft's SharePoint framework . The new version introduces three new data visualization options: a bar chart, a pie chart, and doughnut chart .

Elastic and Google Cloud are aiming to transform security analytics through GenAI technologies like Google's Gemini, automating tasks and offering guided analysis using advanced AI . The integrated solution simplifies hybrid security management by unifying threat intelligence, compliance, endpoint protection, SIEM, response, and data intake . Elastic offers a free 14-day trial cluster available for users on Elastic Cloud using their respective Google Cloud account .

The zero-trust security model has gained traction in the last few years as an effective strategy to protect sensitive data, lower the risk of security breaches, get visibility into network traffic, and more . It can be applied to traditional systems as well as container-based architectures, which are affected by image vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, unauthorized access, and other security risks .

Amazon Aurora Serverless uses a combination of components at different levels to create a holistic approach for dynamically scaling and adjusting resources to satisfy the needs of customer workloads . Aurora customers configure scaling bounds using Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs), and the services dynamically adjust resources according to demand . Engineers changed DB engines, Linux kernel, and AWS Nitro hypervisor to allow more flexible memory management .

Google announced Spanner Graph, a managed feature that integrates graph, relational, search, and AI capabilities within Spanner . This new database supports a graph query interface compatible with ISO GQL (Graph Query Language) standards while avoiding the need for a standalone graph database . Google suggests that adopting standalone graph databases leads to fragmentation, operational overhead, and scalability and availability bottlenecks .

Meta is building Research SuperCluster (RSC) infrastructure that is used for advancements in real-time voice translations, language processing, computer vision, and augmented reality (AR) Large-scale model training faces significant challenges as the number of GPUs in a job increases . To address these challenges, Meta decided to build two 24k clusters, one using RoCE and another using InfiniBand .

Acorn Labs has introduced Clio, a command-line assistant designed to help engineers manage DevOps workflows . The assistant's capabilities span several key areas of DevOps practice . Clio represents an application of large language models (LLMs) to DevOps tools . It can interact with major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP and DigitalOcean .

Microsoft recently announced several capabilities for its Azure Data Box, a service that has been available since 2019 . These new capabilities enhance data transfer speed, flexibility, and security, offering organizations more efficient ways to move large datasets to the cloud without relying solely on network bandwidth . Self-encrypting drives provide hardware-based encryption, ensuring that data remains secure during transit .

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (September 26-27) is just under 40 days away . More than 20 active senior software developers will share unbiased talks packed with actionable takeaways . Topics include Generative AI, Software Supply Chain Security, Scalable Architectures . Summer Sale, with savings of up to 60%, ends August 30 .

JDK 23, the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate phase as declared by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle . The main-line source repository, forked to the JDK stabilization repository in early-June 2024 (Rampdown Phase One), defines the feature set for JDK23 . The final set of 12 new features, in the form of JEPs, can be separated into four (4) categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, HotSpot and Java Tools .

Collaboration technology can be leveraged to create a distributed network of teams, says Fabrice Bernhard . Bernhard spoke about tech-enabled networks of teams at FlowCon France . To empower their teams, leaders can support them with a systematic problem-solving culture aimed at delivering good products to customers .

Meta has developed a new investigation system that combines heuristic-based retrieval with large language model (LLM) ranking to assist in root cause analysis . This system has shown promising results, achieving 42% accuracy in identifying root causes at the start of an investigation related to Meta's web monorepo . Back testing has shown that in 42% of cases, the actual root cause is among the top five ranked suggestions .

Microsoft unveiled the seventh preview of the .NET 9 framework, introducing a range of updates and features across its components, including .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks like ASP.NET Core and .NET MAUI . The stable version of the framework, is expected to be released later this year .

The Composable Architecture (TCA) is an ergonomic Swift library that provides a general framework to address commonplace problems when you build an app, including state management, feature composition, side effect management, and testing . Its design has been heavily inspired by SwiftUI and complements it well, the library creators say .

Lyft recently published how it built the Glow emblem, its newest Internet-of-Things (IoT) device . The Glow is actively rolling out in markets across the US, with over 30,000 live devices . Its architecture addresses many challenges in previous iterations, including a unified IoT middleware framework, robust provisioning and authentication mechanisms .

AWS has announced the public preview of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault, a new type of vault that can be shared for recovery with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) The new feature aims to fulfill these customer needs by providing a new kind of vault . The vault works by introducing immutable backup copies that are locked by default and protected through encryption using AWS-owned keys .

KAN models outperform larger perceptron-based models on physics modeling tasks and provide a more interpretable visualization . KANs were inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, which states that complex functions of multiple variables can be re-written as the sum of several functions of a single variable .

Pinterest has revealed details about its journey to modernise its machine learning infrastructure using Ray, an open-source distributed computing framework . Pinterest faced several unique challenges in building its Ray infrastructure . Pinterest reports that the adoption of Ray has led to increased speed in bringing machine learning ideas to production, with this now taking days rather than weeks .

The MariaDB Foundation has announced the public preview of Vector search for the open-source fork of the MySQL engine . The new MariaDB Vector, a storage engine for LLMs, is on its way to becoming part of the standard MariaDB server . A feature complete MariaDB 11.6 Vector Edition is expected to be released within a few months . Unlike other databases, MariaDB does not yet provide a dedicated data type .

Project Loom Build 24-loom+4-42 is based on Build 11 of the JDK 24 early-access builds . Spring Framework 6.2.0-M7 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features . Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Piranha Cloud releases also released . Gradle 8.10.0; Helidon 4.1.0 and Eclipse JKube 1.17.0 are also available .

Microsoft released the .NET Aspire 8.1 version at the end of July . The latest version introduces a series of enhancements and new features designed for use in production environments . The most notable addition in this release is support for building container images and the capability to orchestrate Python code .

es-toolkit is a modern JavaScript utility library that offers a preformant, type-safe alternative to Lodash . It directly competes against Lodash and Underscore.js and claims impressive improvements in bundle size and performance . The performance gains are even more impressive and can have real effects on JavaScript applications that handle large data sets .

The primary challenge in resilience engineering is understanding what does not go wrong in order to expand what goes well . Building and maintaining resilience requires intentionally creating conditions where engineers can share, discuss, and demonstrate their expertise among others . We notice incidents, but we tend not to notice when they do not happen . Engineering resilience means enhancing and expanding how people successfully handle surprising scenarios .

Google has released the last scheduled beta release for Android 15 . Developers can update their apps and publish them on Google Play before non-beta users get access to the new Android version . Changes include changes to the package stopped state, support for 16 KB memory pages and a new private space behavior .

DORA surveys can help you reflect on how you are doing software delivery and operation . The way you design and run the surveys, and how you analyze the results, largely impact the benefits that you can get out of them . Carlo Beschi shared his experiences from doing DORa surveys at Agile Cambridge .

Users can now pause and resume their EC2 instances using the hibernation feature . The feature is designed to reduce the time it takes to get back to work . It is available in commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) region . Users can look forward to broader support for other types of EC2 .

Mistral AI has released three open-weight language models . Mistral NeMo is a 12B model general-purpose LLM . Codestral Mamba is a 7B parameter code-generation model . Mathstral is fine-tuned for math and reasoning . All three models are available under the Apache 2.0 license .

'GhostWrite' is caused by a hardware bug in T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs . The bug was found using RISCVuzz ‘Differential Hardware Fuzzing’ tool . They also discovered ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ bugs in C906 and C908 CPUs that could be exploited for denial of service attacks .

The Pigweed SDK leverages the Pigweed collection of embedded programming libraries that Google launched a few years ago and enhances it through a tool ecosystem that includes Clang/LLVM toolchain, an interactive REPL, IDE integration, and more . At the heart of the SDK lies Bazel, Google's own build system, which has been extended to better support workflows typical of embedded development .

JEP 483, Ahead-of-Time Class Loading &amp; Linking, a new HotSpot feature, has been promoted from its JEP Draft 8315737 to Candidate status . JDK 23 has entered its first release candidate as there are no unresolved P1 bugs in Build 36 . GlassFish 8.0-M7, the seventh milestone release, delivers notable changes .

The group's mission is to define common sets of annotation types for use in JVM languages, to improve static analysis and language interoperation . By participating in JSpecify, the members guarantee their projects will be backwards compatibility at source level . This means that they will not rename the annotations in the jar, move them or make other changes that would cause code compilation to fail due to an update .

Amazon announced general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, the managed in-memory database with Multi-AZ availability . The new capability provides ultra-low latency and the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among vector databases on AWS . It is now the recommended managed choice for vector search on AWS in scenarios like generative AI applications where peak performance is the most important selection criterion .

Draft JEP 8303099 aims to bring optional nullness-marking to the Java language . The intent is to add markers - not just annotations - to a type use to specify whether the permissible value set for that use includes null or not . For now Kotlin-like markers are used, so that, for a type Foo, there are three possibilities for how the type can be used .

Uber have added a new tiered storage feature to Apache Kafka, the popular distributed event streaming platform . This enhancement enables Kafka clusters to scale storage independently from compute resources, potentially reducing costs and operational complexity . The feature was added in 3.6.0 and currently in early access . Uber's motivation was to overcome limitations in how Kafka clusters are typically scaled .

Using Chicory, developers can run Wasm-compiled code, like SQLite, in the JVM environment, benefiting from enhanced portability and security . Porting native code to JVM retains its benefits, including platform-independent distribution and runtime safety, but it requires significant effort to keep development pace .

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have designed an electrical circuit similar to a neural network that can learn tasks such as nonlinear regression . The circuit operates at low power levels and can be trained without a computer . System learns by adjusting the resistor values using an approach called coupled learning .

Microsoft recommends upgrading .NET 6 applications to .NET 8 to stay supported for the future . Microsoft schedules .NET versions to launch one major version of .NET a year, alternating between LTS and current .NET .NET 7 already went out of support in May 2024 .

Elastic has donated its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry project . Elastic offers whole-system, always-on profiling capabilities with minimal overhead . The agent's capabilities include identifying non-optimal code paths and providing comprehensive visibility into application runtime behaviour . The technology shows promise in identifying issues like CPU spikes, memory problems, mutex contention, and network jitter .

Hugging Face has announced the launch of an inference-as-a-service capability powered by NVIDIA NIM . This new service will provide developers easy access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference for popular AI models . The new service allows developers to rapidly deploy leading large language models such as the Llama 3 family and Mistral AI models with optimization from NVIDIA microservices running on NVIDIA DGX Cloud .

Aleksandra Osińska and Natalia Sidor gave a talk about crafting public platforms at ACE Conference . Accessibility is important for everyone, not only people with disabilities, Sidor said . Government platforms must ensure their users’ trust so that they feel safe using government services online .

Meta Low Bitrate (MLow) audio codec is aimed at enhancing real-time communication (RTC) on low-end devices and slow-speed connections . The new codec achieves twice the quality of Opus (POLQA MOS 1.89 vs 3.9 at 6 kbps WB) while maintaining 10 percent lower computational complexity . MLow is designed to be lightweight, making it suitable for mobile devices and other resource-constrained platforms, reducing network congestion and latency .

Vaadin is an open-source web application development platform for Java developers . The 24.4.0 release introduces the Vaadin Copilot, a handy AI-powered development tool . The tool allows users to drag and drop components, reorganize layouts, and edit labels and captions .

HashiCorp has announced the general availability of Terraform 1.9, introducing several new features and improvements . The infrastructure-as-code tool is now available for download and use in HCP Terraform . New features include the expansion of input variable validations and new templatestring function .

GitHub Models is a free capability aimed at letting developers explore various AI models from within the GitHub tool ecosystem and make it easier to deploy AI-based services using Azure AI . GitHub Models includes both private and public models and is currently in closed preview . The playground is also integrated with GitHub Codespaces, allowing developers to spin a new pre-configured Codespace environment .

Canva processes around 25 billion product analytics events per day to power many user-facing features, such as personalization and recommendations, usage statistics and insights . Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS . Engineers opted for KDS for its low cost (85% cheaper than SQS+SNS) and extremely low maintenance .

Slack has developed a custom Kubernetes operator to address limitations in managing StatefulSet deployments . The Bedrock Rollout Operator addresses the limitation of the default RollingUpdate strategy, which updates only one pod at a time, leading to slow deployments for applications with many pods . The operator provides real-time updates to users through rich-text Slack notifications, which include details such as version numbers and the list of pods being rolled out .

Uber operates one of the most intricate real-time fulfillment systems globally . The system executes over two million transactions per second to manage the states of our users and trips on the platform . The special nature of using a cloud database requires careful warm-up and redundancy to keep the migration smooth and reliable .

The quality champion is the software quality equivalent of the Scrum product owner . The practice is about paying constant attention to specific metrics . It means encouraging people to improve themselves in both qualitative and quantitative ways . We have achieved and maintained high software quality for years and cope with the daily pressure of short-term achievements .

Architectural Retrospectives focus not on evaluating and improving the architecture itself, but on examining and improving how the team went about creating the architecture . Software architecture is defined by the decisions the development team makes about architecturally significant issues . Architectural reviews are important, but they are not a substitute for retrospectives .

Rust 1.80 stabilizes LazyCell and LazyLock, two new types that can be used to delay initialization of data until the first time they are accessed . OnceLock and OnceCell enable one-time initialization of shared data . Rust also brings support for exclusive ranges as well as a couple of related lint warnings . It allows variadic functions without a named parameter for compatibility with C23 .

VMware released Spring Boot 3.3 on May 23, 2024, with significant performance, security, and observability improvements . The upgrade also features expanded service connection options for Apache ActiveMQ and LDAP, Docker Compose support for Bitnami Container Images . Spring Boot removed dependency management for Dropwizard Metrics on which it never directly depended upon .

JEP 404, Generational Shenandoah (Experimental), has been updated to be included in JDK 24 despite its current Candidate status . Hazelcast has released version 5.5 of their Hazelcast Platform delivering numerous new features . Early-access releases for Project Loom and Project Valhalla have been made available .

JEP proposes to deprecate the memory access methods in the Unsafe class for removal in a future release . These unsupported methods have been superseded by standard APIs, namely, JEP 193, Variable Handles, and JEP 454, Foreign Function &amp; Memory API . The VarHandle API, delivered in JDK 9, offers methods to safely manipulate on-heap memory .

Netflix's JVM Ecosystem team shared insights from their experience with virtual threads . Netflix's SpringBoot-based applications experienced timeouts and hung instances . The issue was related to the interaction of virtual threads with blocking operations and OS thread availability, resulting in a deadlock-like situation . Netflix is optimistic about the future of the virtual threads and anticipates further improvements in upcoming Java releases .

Avalonia UI is an open-source and cross-platform UI framework for .NET developers . It is designed to facilitate the development of desktop applications that can run on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly . Avalonia 11.1 is labeled as a point release, but the volume of improvements suggests a major upgrade .

HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey 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 . High-maturity organisations are more likely to align their cloud infrastructure strategy with overall business goals, strengthen security, reduce risk, and simplify compliance . Forrester recommends embedding flexibility into cloud solutions to address organisational needs while promoting scalability, improving security, and optimising costs .

Pinterest deprecates HBase due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities . Pinterest used to host one of the largest production deployments of HBase in the world, which peaked at around 50 clusters, 9000 EC2 instances, and over 6 PBs of data . HBase is a key-value store built on top of HDFS and used by Apache Hadoop .

Google Cloud has announced extended support for end-of-life (EOL) Cloud SQL versions . The extended support period provides critical security patches and bug fixes, ensuring that databases remain secure and operational without needing immediate upgrades . This additional support period will give organizations more time to transition to newer database versions without disrupting operations .

Apple's Swift Assist aims to help developers transform ideas into code and focus on higher-level problems . Powered by a model running in Apple's Cloud, Swift Assist is integrated into Xcode and can generate code from a prompt expressed in human language . Swift Assist will be generally available later this year except for EU countries .

All 16 Jakarta EE 11 specifications have passed their respective reviews . Open Liberty 24.0.0 and Micronaut 4.5.0 have been released . Payara has released their June 2024 edition of the Payara Platform . Spring has delivered numerous milestone and point releases on Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring Tools .

Chameleon is a mixed-modal AI model that can understand and generate mixed text and image content . In experiments rated by human judges, the model's generated output was preferred over GPT-4 in 51.6% of trials, and over Gemini Pro in 60.4% .

Milestone 4 of the Jakarta EE 11 specifications are now available on Maven Central . Release candidates for updated MicroProfile specifications targeted for MicroProfile 7.0 have been made available to the Java community . The first-ever InfoQ Dev Summit Boston conference was held this week . Apache Camel 4.4.0 and Quarkus 3.12 released .

Google Cloud has introduced a significant update to 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 . Multi-region configurations required three regions, often resulting in one region being outside the country . The new dual-Region configuration alleviates this issue by allowing enterprises to maintain data residency compliance and high availability even with just two cloud regions within a country .

Meta (formerly Facebook) has reported substantial improvements in efficiency and reliability of its machine-learning model serving infrastructure by focusing on optimising tail utilisation . Tail utilisation refers to the utilisation level of the top 5% of servers when ranked by usage . It is a critical factor in system performance, particularly for large-scale operations like Meta's advertising platform .

AWS has discontinued several managed services within a matter of days . The deprecations have led to concerns within the community due to the lack of clear communication . The affected services are the source control AWS CodeCommit, the cloud-based IDE AWS Cloud9, and the time-series forecasting service Amazon Forecast . Jeff Barr, vice president and chief evangelist at AWS, confirmed the services were discontinued .

Meta AI has 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 . Models have a context window of 128k tokens, meaning users can enter hundreds of pages of content in prompts . They are multilingual, with support for eight languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai .

Marion Løken spoke about the changes that her software team went through at NDC Oslo . 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 . They leveraged generative AI to enhance productivity and get inspiration for improving the software architecture .

The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline, a digital platform in the European rail industry . Trainline's innovative approach enables real-time tracking of every live train in Europe, reflecting the vastness of its data management and operational responsibilities .

Long-running processes involving waiting for human actions, external responses, or intentional delays are crucial for handling various real-world scenarios within software applications . It’s crucial to embrace asynchronous communication and design patterns to build robust and scalable systems . Workflow engines and process orchestration platforms provide effective solutions for managing long running processes .

The guide details how AWS services support financial entities in complying with DORA's requirements for operational resilience, including ICT risk management, incident reporting, testing, and third-party risk management . It entered into force on January 16, 2023, and will require compliance by January 17, 2025 .

JavaScript Sets function similarly to Arrays but guarantees the uniqueness of each value . This automatic removal of duplicates makes Sets perfect for creating unique collections . The methods isSubsetOf() and isSupersetOf() return Boolean values based on the relationship between Sets . The intersection() method returns a new Set containing only elements present in both Sets .

Amazon EC2 R8g instances have been available in preview since November 2023 and are designed for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics . The instances come in 12 sizes, including two bare metal sizes, and offer enhanced networking bandwidth of up to 50 Gbps .

Cloudflare recently unveiled significant advancements in its load balancing capabilities, aiming to eliminate the need for hardware-based solutions . This development allows organizations to balance public and private traffic directed at privately hosted applications without needing dedicated hardware load balancers . Other load balancing solutions are available to provide high availability, scalability, and performance without need for dedicated hardware .

Google has announced a free trial program for AlloyDB, its fully-managed Postgres-compatible database service . The trial allows users to test the service's capabilities with their own workloads for up to 30 days . Google claims AlloyDB offers up to 4x faster transactional performance than standard Postgres .

Cloudflare 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 . WAF and Bot mitigations are the source of over half of that .

Amazon announced support for quorum queues for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ . Quorum queues are designed to be safer and provide simpler failure-handling semantics that users should find easier to reason about when designing and operating their systems . Developers can set the maximum queue length using a policy or queue arguments to limit the total memory usage of queues .

Adidas reduced the costs of running Kubernetes clusters in AWS by up to 50% . Karpenter is an AWS-developed cluster autoscaler that adjusts node counts based on application demand . Adidas chose Kyverno, a policy tool typically used for application security, to generate default VPAs .

Gregor Hohpe, author of The Software Architect Elevator, presented the Thinking Like an Architect session at QCon London 2024 . This article represents the talk, which starts by explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels . The most powerful models are the simplest, a good model simplifies and abstracts .

Gojko Adzic recently announced the preview release of Lizard Optimization . His latest book discusses how responding to product-misuse and marginal corner-cases of the few long-tail users helped drive customer retention, and product growth . He referred to these use cases as lizard behaviours

Google DeepMind has released a new algorithm for curating AI training datasets . JEST uses a pre-trained model to score the learnability of batches of data . Google's experiments show that image-text models trained with JEST require 10x less computation than baseline methods .

AWS App Studio has been launched in preview by AWS in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region . The service leverages generative AI to accelerate the application creation process . Users can describe the application they want and build a multi-page UI, a data model, and business logic, and connect the application to various data sources .

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) will end on July 31, 2025 . New customers can no longer sign up for QLDB, a managed service providing an immutable transaction log maintained by a central trusted authority . Current users are encouraged to migrate to Aurora Postgres . Cloud provider has been known for never shutting down existing services .

Team health checks are a great way to check in with your software team and get a pulse on how things are going from their perspective . The biggest indicator that a team is healthy is the psychological safety of those within the team . In healthy software teams, people feel psychologically safe to solve problems and contribute, Brittany Woods said .

The Secrets Manager Agent is an open-source tool that allows applications to retrieve secrets from a local HTTP service instead of reaching out to Secrets Manager over the network . It comes with customizable configuration options, including time to live, cache size, maximum connections, and HTTP port . The agent provides built-in protection against Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) to ensure security .

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) protocol . This vulnerability could potentially allow attackers to gain unauthorised access to network devices . The attack exploits weaknesses in the MD5 cryptographic hash function, which has been known to be vulnerable since 2004 . Cloudflare staff detailed the findings in a blog post .

Decathlon established an architecture committee, which plays a crucial role in guiding teams through the decision-making process . Decathlon manages complexity in software architecture by defining explicit scopes and boundaries using the C4 model . The committee's mission is not to make architectural decisions for software engineers but to provide them with the necessary support and guidance, similar to the Advice Process .

Amazon Q Developer is designed to simplify and accelerate the ML development lifecycle by allowing users to build, train, and deploy ML models without leaving SageMaker Studio to search for sample notebooks, code snippets, and instructions . The assistant is capable of generating code for various ML tasks, such as training an XGBoost algorithm for prediction or downloading a dataset from S3 and reading it using Pandas .

Google Cloud has announced adding geo-partitioning to Spanner, its fully-managed, globally distributed database . The feature aims to improve performance and user experience for geographically dispersed applications and users . Users can partition table data at the row level across various global locations . The benefits are reduced latency, as Spanner maintains a single cohesive table for queries and mutations .

Netflix uses server-driven UIs for rich notifications . Server-driven notifications allow Netflix to update the UI on the server without app updates . This saves developer time through reuse across platforms and better testing . The downsides are higher upfront costs for creating the notification framework and need to keep the framework backwards compatible with older Netflix apps .

JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase Two: the July 2024 Payara Platform release; Graal Development Kit for Micronaut 4.5.0.0 . JEP 472, Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI, promoted from its Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 24 .

Upwork Research Institute surveyed 2,500 workers across the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, including C-suite executives (50%), full-time employees (25%), and freelancers (25%) The survey has raised some criticism on the Internet . Some commentators see a credibility problem with a survey that makes freelancers appear more attractive .

Java roundup for July 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of WildFly 33; Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.4 . The second milestone release of Apache TomEE 10.0; LangChain4j 0.33; Micronaut 4.5.1; Eclipse Store 1.4; and an update on Jakarta EE 11 .

Consul 1.19 focuses on enhancing user experience, providing greater flexibility, and strengthening integration capabilities . The update introduces support for Consul API gateway deployment on Nomad, enabling external clients to access services within the mesh . The snapshot agent now supports saving Consul snapshots to multiple destinations simultaneously . The transparent proxy feature is now available for Nomad environments .

An estimated 8.5 million computers were affected by CrowdStrike's Falcon agent update . The issue stemmed from a conflict between the update and specific low-level system files in Windows . The update caused an incompatibility with the Windows kernel, the core part of the operating system responsible for managing hardware and system resources .

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's first model trained with an instruction hierarchy training method that improves the model's resistance to jailbreaks and system prompt extraction . It has the same context window, 128k tokens, and the same October 2023 training knowledge cutoff . On LLM benchmarks such as MMLU and HumanEval, it outperforms comparable small LLMs such as Gemini Flash and Claude Haiku .

Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) hype . The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI . He emphasized three scenarios where developers need to exercise caution: when learning about an AI system, using it wisely and safely, and creating one while minimizing harm .

Good interface design is a complex engineering challenge with many dimensions . In this article, I explore the key dimensions of Ownership and whether a Human is involved . This article is based on a paper written by Temenos' Chief Enterprise Architect, John Schlesinger, about application integration .

Bruno Borges, a principal PM manager at Microsoft, shared insights on optimizing Java applications on Kubernetes . His session focused primarily on leveraging JVM ergonomics, understanding the impact of CPU throttling and effectively managing garbage collection processes . He highlighted three main areas for reducing image size – base image layer (using slim versions or distroless images), application layer (including only necessary dependencies) and JVM runtime (shrinking down)

Passkeys can now be used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users . AWS now requires MFA for root users, starting with the root user account in an AWS Organization . This requirement will be expanded to other accounts throughout the year . Users without MFA enabled on their root account will receive a prompt to activate it upon login .

Distill is a personal project written in Rust written by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon . The tool uses Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio recordings directly from the command line . Vogels first mentioned the project earlier this year in the article Hacking Our Way to Better Team Meetings when he introduced Distill .

Atlassian recently released Compass, a developer experience platform that aims to enhance software architecture performance . Compass provides a software architecture catalog, integrates code repositories, and stores toolchain data . It also defines health standards to enable teams to track the continuous improvement of their software projects . Users can integrate component information directly into the code repositories by connecting Compass to Bitbucket .

Our infrastructures come with an environmental cost as well as an economic one . The IT sector alone is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide . Understanding the impact of our software on the environment requires a carbon-aware approach . With a simple Kubernetes addon like kube-green, you can use cloud resources more consciously .

Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 5, introducing significant enhancements to ASP.NET Core . This update focuses on optimizing static web asset delivery and improving the Blazor Server reconnection experience, alongside new features for . runtime detection of component render modes and various other improvements to simplify development and enhance user experience .

Microsoft has introduced a significant enhancement to its Azure Functions platform with the Flex Consumption plan, designed to handle high HTTP scale efficiently . This new plan supports customizable per-instance concurrency, allowing users to achieve high throughput while managing costs effectively . The plan aims to offer a robust and flexible solution for varying load requirements, from retail flash sales to large-scale data processing .

A data mesh is an organizational paradigm shift in how companies create value from data where responsibilities go back into the hands of producers and consumers . The benefits of a data mesh are faster implementation times and less cognitive load for producers and consumer . The entire data mesh platform is automated and maintained through Infrastructure as Code practices . Patzak gave a talk about data mesh platforms at FlowCon France .

Google Cloud has announced a significant update to its Cloud Storage services by introducing the Hierarchical Namespace (HNS) Feature allows users to organize their storage buckets in a hierarchical file system structure . HNS is particularly beneficial for scenarios that require high performance and manageability, such as big data analytics, content management systems, and large-scale application deployments .

Platform as a Runtime simplifies the environment, enabling quicker development cycles . Platform engineering goes beyond CI/CD, streamlines the development process by simplifying code, automating integrations, and eliminating dependencies . The impact of large and complex systems can hinder a company's ability to innovate quickly .

Amazon has released Amazon Q Developer Agent, an AI-powered assistant that uses natural language input from developers to generate features, bug fixes, and unit tests within an integrated development environment (IDE) Amazon claims the agent scored 13.82% on the SWE-bench benchmark .

Datadog identified two new scenarios in June 2023 for bypassing CloudTrail: using certain non-production endpoints with API actions that access account-level information . AWS has since remediated these specific bypasses . The research highlights that attackers can exploit misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in these non-Production endpoints to gain unauthorized access, escalate privileges .

E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveils a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service . Sansec says a malicious actor has taken control of a number of domains to spread malware since at least June 2023 . The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested removing Polyfill from any sites using it . CloudFlare has released an automatic JavaScript URL rewriting service .

Uber plans to migrate the batch data analytics and machine learning (ML) training stack to Google Cloud Platform . Uber runs one of the largest Hadoop installations in the world, managing over an exabyte of data across tens of thousands of servers in each of its two regions . The strategic migration plan consists of two steps: Initial migration and leveraging Cloud-Native Services . The Uber team has developed data access proxies for Presto, Spark, and Hive that abstract the underlying physical compute clusters .

Jennifer Davis, an Engineering Manager at Google, discussed strategies for enhancing developer productivity through intentional evolution of platforms . She emphasized the importance of effective documentation and code samples in fostering a thriving developer community . Davis also emphasized culture and fostering a positive environment where team members feel safe to share their thoughts and ideas .

Swift 6 introduces new data-race safe mode for Swift language . New compile-time static detector identifies data races at compile time to prevent different parts of the code from accessing and modifying shared data . Developers can opt-in to the new mode on a per- module basis . Apple also provided a few guidelines to help developers through the process of migrating an existing project to Swift 6 .

Redis Cloud Packages is a combination of pre-configured Redis instances designed to meet specific workloads and use cases . Users can use a package for caching, No.SQL databases, or vector search . Redis as a Vector search aims to provide a foundation for AI applications from recommendation systems to document chat .

GitHub has rolled out several technical upgrades to enhance the reliability and efficiency of code pushes, one of the frequent actions performed by developers on the platform . The move addresses potential issues and aims to provide a smoother experience for users who regularly push code to GitHub . Previously, handling all the actions triggered by a code push was done through a monolithic background job .

Kubernetes 1.30 has 45 enhancements, including 10 entering alpha, 18 graduating to beta, and 17 becoming generally available . The next release 1.31 is expected in August 2024 . The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) celebrated 10 years since the first git commit to the project .

Spring Boot versions 3.3.1 and 3.2.7 deliver improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and resolutions to notable issues such as: an IllegalArgumentException when trying to use an instance of the Tomcat Http11Nio2Protocol class with Spring Boot-configured SSL . Spring Framework 6.1.10, the tenth maintenance release, provides bug fixes (that include regressions from version 6.9) Spring for GraphQL have been released providing bug fixes, improvements in . documentation and new features . Spring Modulith has been released featuring an improved configuration of the Application module .

Five Jakarta EE specifications, namely: Jakarta Concurrency 3.1, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta Pages 4.0 and Jakarta Servlet 6.1 have been declared finalized for Jakarta EE 11.1 . Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 is rebranding and next generation of functions sub-module of Stream Applications project . Apache NetBeans 22 has been released for the first time in 24 years .

The VisualStudio.Extensibility Diagnostics Explorer has been released on the Visual Studio Marketplace . The tool provides developers with insights into how Visual Studio perceives extensions . The update also includes file and directory picker prompts and the TrackUpdatesAsync() method . The latest release introduces support for XAML resources, significantly enhancing UI development for extensions .

Traditional approaches using JavaScript to display data asynchronously are powerful but add additional complexity compared to server-side rendering . The Declarative Shadow DOM allows developers to display out-of-order content using templates and slots . HTTP streaming responses allow developers to send incremental elements of an HTML page to the user as data becomes available .

Microsoft has released the public preview of the Query Editor in Azure Monitor Metrics . This eliminates the need to switch between tools, streamlining the workflow and boosting productivity when working with various types of metrics . PromQL's features, including functions and operators, enable users to perform complex manipulations on metric data . This process simplifies metrics analysis and empowers users to make informed decisions .

JetBrains introduces a new licensing model with Free Individual Non-Commercial and Paid Commercial plans . Aqua works with major testing frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, and Cypress . It supports Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, and SQL .

MEGALODON is designed to address several shortcomings of the Transformer neural architecture underlying most LLMs . Instead of the standard multihead attention, the model uses a chunk-wise attention . The research team introduced sequence-based parallelism during training, improving scalability for long-context training .

Codestral is designed to address the requirements of developers across programming tasks like generating code snippets, completing functions, writing tests, or filling in incomplete code segments . It has a context length of 32k, much larger than other coding AI models . It supports over 80 languages, including Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Bash .

Casino was using Cloudflare’s Business plan for years to manage traffic and protect against DDoS attacks . The casino was asked to switch to an Enterprise plan costing $120,000 annually, citing unspecified critical issues A systems operations engineer at the casino provided a detailed account of the disruption and its aftermath .

Microsoft announced the general availability of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration . Integrating existing Cosmos DB accounts with Vercel involves a straightforward process . The integration allows Vercel projects to interact with Cosmos DB data, enabling the utilization of Azure’s powerful database services within applications . In response to community feedback, an AI template is under development .

At QA Challenge Accepted, Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing . Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) led them to explore Continuous Integration . Jira tickets from manual testing can trigger the build process to ensure that testers will have the correct software version to do the manual testing .

The Jakarta EE 11-M3 artifacts have been published to Maven Central . Jakarta Authentication 3.1 and Jakarta Security 4.0 are in the midst of their respective release reviews . Spring Framework 6.2.0-M4 and Hibernate 6.6.0.CR1 and 7.0 . Red Hat has announced they plan to move Quarkus to a yet-to-be-determined foundation to accelerate the adoption rate, foster . collaboration, foster and foster . and . transparency

Workflow Description Language (WDL) is an open standard specification for describing data processing workflows with a human-readable and writeable syntax . WDL makes defining analysis tasks straightforward, connecting them in workflows and parallelizing their execution . The language strives to be accessible and understandable to all users, including programmers, analysts, and production system operators .

Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to its Azure Logic Apps service by introducing .NET C# inline code execution . This new feature enables developers to call C# code directly within their workflows, providing greater flexibility and control over custom logic and complex operations . The C# Inline action complements the custom code feature in VS Code that the company introduced previously for invoking .NET FX and NET8 functions written and deployed to a Logic App .

Xcode 16 includes many more new features and bug fixes in distinct areas, including the UI, the Clang compiler, the asset catalog, the build system, C++ standard compliance, and more . Xcode is currently available as a beta and requires a Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.5 or later .

Microsoft released version 9.0.0 of their open-source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit . The new version improves the usage of the CompareConverter class and adds several bug fixes . MAUI is an acronym that stands for Multiplatform Application UI . The toolkit is hosted on GitHub and currently has 135 open issues .

Peter Gillard-Moss gave a talk at QCon London where he provided tips and ideas for engineers aiming to become a manager . He wanted to enter management because he believed his technical experience gave him the insight to lead and make decisions on behalf of the team . He suggested that engineers who want to become good at leading engineers should practice in the small .

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is used across the cloud-native world to enable faster and more customizable computing . eBPF is a virtual machine within the Linux kernel that allows for extending the kernel’s functionality in a safe and maintainable way . Using Rust for kernel and user-space code provides unmatched speed, safety and developer experience .

AI assistants are great productivity tools for experienced software professionals who are working at the edge of their familiarity and expertise . They can help synthesize and derive insights from the industry or organization-specific content required to define an effective software solution . AI assistants should be used ethically with consideration for privacy, energy consumption, transparency, and quality of the workplace our tools create for people .

Microsoft has announced that the Azure OpenAI and AI Search connectors for Logic Apps Standard are now generally available . These connectors are fully integrated into Azure Integration Services, providing developers with powerful tools to enhance application functionality with advanced AI capabilities . According to the company, this integration enhances application performance, improves search accuracy, and provides more intelligent data processing capabilities .

Elastic's information security team recently detailed their workflow automation using Tines . The system automatically triages alerts from its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system . Using this streamlined workflow, the team has investigated and resolved over 50,000 monthly alerts . This approach allows the team to focus on investigating complex threats, thereby improving overall security posture .

The official OpenAI library for .NET supports the entire OpenAI API, including Assistants v2 and Chat Completions . It also integrates with GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest flagship model . The library is designed with extensibility in mind, allowing the community to build additional libraries on top of it .

The new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server . They run custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and support up to 896 vCPUs, 32TiB of Memory, 200 Gbps of network, and 100Gbps of Storage (EBS)

Apple unveiled a suite of AI features coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and Mac OS Sequoia . Siri and Writing Tools will integrate ChatGPT's vast knowledge base to answer complex questions or perform tasks that go beyond Siri's current capabilities . Apple is also focusing on keeping users' data on their devices .

Cara's app's serverless backend, powered by Vercel Functions, recently incurred a significant cost of $ 98,280 due to a sudden surge in usage . The surge in app usage can be attributed to many artists migrating from Meta, primarily due to their discontent with its AI policies, to Cara .

Air-gapped containers allow administrators to restrict access to the Internet, but they are free to access the internal network . Docker Desktop can apply a custom set of proxy rules to network traffic from containers . Users running Windows on Arm will be able to run the latest Docker Desktop natively . The Compose File Viewer allows developers to see their configuration files in Docker Desktop .

Apache Software Foundation has released version 10 of Apache SkyWalking, an open-source observability platform designed to provide comprehensive monitoring, tracing, and analytics for distributed systems . New features and enhancements include: Service Hierarchy, which defines relationships between logically similar services across different layers, allowing users to see inter-layer service connections and metrics summaries . New monitoring dashboard for ApacheRocketMQ, ActiveMQ and Clickhouse .

Platform engineering is helping companies increase developer experience for engineer efficiency . Platforms provide development automation, easier use of technologies and integrations, removal of dependencies and handoffs for developers, and productivity gains . We’ll examine platforms from the perspective of developer experience and explore how leading companies are helping their engineers avoid bottlenecks and friction .

Kubernetes’s distributed nature makes it challenging to collect and centralize logs from various sources such as containers, pods, and nodes . Proper logging provides critical insights into application behavior, helping development and operations teams diagnose issues quickly and maintain high reliability . This article will explore advanced strategies and best practices for mastering log management .

Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library . By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered automation, Slack's innovative approach resulted in an 80% conversion success rate .

JetBrains has officially released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for Rust development . The new release brings many bug fixes and introduces a new licensing model that includes a free plan for non-commercial use . If you're planning to use the IDEs for commercial purposes, you need to purchase a license .

Microsoft has removed all mention of intra-regional cross-AZ charges from its bandwidth pricing . Microsoft will still charge for data transfers between Azure regions, with costs varying from $0.02 per GB between regions in the US or within Europe to $0 .16 per GB in South America .

AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate . Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy . The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times .

Google Cloud has expanded its customizable observability dashboards to over 10 services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, MySQL System Insights, and a few others . The new dashboard offers free features, such as adding or removing charts, incorporating raw logs, modifying chart configurations, and creating alerts . Engineers can choose relevant metrics and logs from specific instances or clusters to pinpoint the required data .

Falco provides real-time detection capabilities for environments ranging from individual containers and hosts to Kubernetes and the cloud . It alerts on abnormal behaviour and potential security threats, such as crypto mining, file exfiltration, privilege escalation, and rootkit installs . Falco 0.38.0 is the first release since its graduation within Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF .

Microsoft released a new version of MSTest, a testing framework for .NET . Version 3.4 introduces a couple of improvements, bug fixes, and new features . New rules to promote best practices and avoid common pitfalls . The testing process with Playwright and Aspire has been simplified by removing the project boilerplate .

Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service . Developer SKU designed for Dev/Test users who need secure VM connections without requiring extra features, configuration, or scaling . Premium SKU offers advanced recording, monitoring, and auditing capabilities for customers managing highly sensitive workloads .

JDK 23 is now in the crucial Rampdown Phase One, a significant milestone in the JDK development process . This phase involves integrating most changes via backports, mirroring the approach taken with JDK 22 . The final set of 12 new features, in the form of JEPs, can be separated into four (4) categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, HotSpot and Java Tools .

Brittany Woods gave a talk about how tech teams work in a DevOps world at QCon London . She argues that the way you structure your organisation is a key part of driving the culture you hope to promote . To measure the success of your team, several frameworks provide metrics indicating team health .

Monika Singh explains the significance of alert observability and Cloudflare's methods to improve it using open-source tools and best practices . Singh explains how alert fatigue can disrupt on-call personnel's sleep, social life, and leisure activities, potentially leading to burnout . He offers a demo for implementing alerts observability using Docker Compose, Alertmanager, Vector, ClickHouse, and Grafana .

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK-next) combines upstream Linux kernels with Oracle Linux patches . This allows users to preview and test the latest Linux features and hardware support before they are officially released in Oracle Linux . The release is not intended for production use and comes with limited support from Oracle .

At InfoQ's upcoming events, senior software developers will share their practical applications and ethical considerations of this transformative technology . Learn how to discern hype from reality to build trustworthy AI applications . Learn about selecting the right model, optimizing performance, and ensuring a scalable, secure infrastructure .

New Tensor&lt;T&gt; type is essential for deep learning and other mathematical models . The Tensor &lt;tgt; is a multidimensional array facilitating effective data handling and flow in neural networks . The updates extend to improving performance across .NET libraries and frameworks, including ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI, with C# 13 enhancing flexibility .

Developers must recognize their code's financial impact, underscoring how seemingly minor decisions can lead to significant costs . Engineers are crucial contributors to an organization's financial strategy, with their coding choices directly influencing outcomes . A balance is required between leveraging cloud scalability and managing financial limitations .

GitHub iOS team adopted Apple Silicon-powered macOS runners to reduce the time required to build and test their app using GitHub Actions . Apple Silicon improves build performance, increases reliability, and lets iOS teams test natively for all Apple platforms throughout the software development lifecycle . Using Apple Silicon runners helps ensure the code is compatible with the latest releases of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS, says GitHub .

This article is a gateway to unlocking the potential of ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes that provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications . By separating configuration from container images, ConfigMaps offer a host of benefits including simplified deployments, dynamic updates, fortified security, and streamlined maintenance .

HashiCorp has moved the AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider to general availability . The provider is automatically generated based on the Cloud Control API published by AWS . Any resource type published to the CloudFormation Public Registry has a standard JSON Schema that can be used with this API . There are now over 270 resources with sample configurations .

JEP 482, Flexible Constructor Bodies has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23 . JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview) and JEP 471, Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in Unsafe for Removal have been promoted .

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in Europe . The conference provides actionable insights and practical advice on today's developer priorities . The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries .

The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language . The proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reactive programming patterns . The plan for this proposal is to do significant early prototyping, including integration into several frameworks .

Trade-offs reflect the most important and difficult decisions a team will make about its architecture . The impact of architectural trade-off decisions can only be evaluated by building something and testing it, usually in the real world . Getting good at forming hypotheses and running low-cost experiments helps teams make better trade-offs .

OpenAI recently published their Model Spec, a document that describes rules and objectives for the behavior of their GPT models . The Spec is based on existing internal documentation used by OpenAI in their reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) training used to fine-tune recent generations of their models .

SharePoint Embedded is an isolated document storage partition in an M365 tenant that can only be accessed via rate-limited Graph API calls . It has an independent configuration from the rest of the customer or app provider tenant . Under the hood, the partitions are called File Storage Containers, a new type of storage that can be managed inside a Microsoft 365 customer tenant .

Microsoft announced updates to its AI capabilities, focusing on Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, and GPT-4o now available on Azure AI . The updates include Team Copilot, which expands Copilot's role from a personal assistant to a team collaborator . Custom agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio can now automate business processes, reason over user actions, and learn from feedback .

Microsoft has introduced a local emulator for Azure Event Hubs . Emulator is available as a Docker image on the Microsoft Container Registry . It can run on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Windows, and Linux . Emulators are powerful tools for developers in a local development environment . However, they may not perfectly replicate the actual cloud environment .

AI Gateway is a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads . It acts as a proxy between services and inference providers, regardless of where the models run . Cloudflare has also previewed Firewall for AI and made Workers AI generally available, among several other capabilities aimed at simplifying how developers build and deploy AI applications .

A new deep-learning algorithm allows users to enroll a speaker and cancel all environmental noise surrounding their voice . Currently, the system requires the person wearing the headphones to tap a button while gazing at someone talking or just look at them for three to five seconds . This directs a deep learning model to learn the speaker's vocal patterns and latch to it .

Chicory is a Wasm interpreter for the JVM with zero native dependencies and can run on any JVM . It is similar to Graal’s WebAssembly implementation, except that it only requires a library as a jar, and doesn't have native dependencies .

This article introduces the novel RIG model, which supports the design of guaranteed data-consistent microservices systems from a business perspective . RIG is an abbreviation of Reversible, Irreversible, and Guaranteed, and it categorizes microservices behavior within a sequence of local transactions, also known as a saga . The model formulates three rules for a saga call chain, guaranteeing eventual data consistency .

Ubuntu 24.04 has launched with a .NET release available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds . Container images for .NET 8+ are now available, including noble, noble-chiseled, and .NET 6 and 7 are accessible through the dotnet/backports repository . Microsoft and Canonical are collaborating on servicing and support, ensuring simultaneous availability of .NET fixes .

Fabrice Bernhard spoke about how their company uses technology with lean thinking for doing agile software development at scale at FlowCon France . Bernhard mentioned that the agile manifesto doesn’t apply to large organizations . Leaders looking for principles to keep their culture agile while scaling their software organization will need to look elsewhere .

OpenSilver is an open-source, MIT-licensed reimplementation of Microsoft's Silverlight web application framework . The latest version of OpenSilver 2.2 includes support for migrating applications created with Visual Studio LightSwitch that targeted Silverlight . With the demise of Silverlight, the only available alternative for developers would be to rewrite their existing LightSwitch applications .

JSR is free and open-source, supersedes CommonJS modules with ESM, natively accepts TypeScript packages . JSR aims to improve on the developer experience, performance, reliability, and security of Node.js . The registry is designed to work everywhere JavaScript works and to provide a runtime-agnostic registry for JavaScript and TypeScript code .

Deployment Stacks is a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit . It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources . The GA release follows last year's public preview and can be considered the follow-up of Azure Blueprints, which will be deprecated by July 2026 .

Qubes OS is being adopted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to improve its SecureDrop whistleblower platform, making it more user-friendly and secure for journalists . This approach allows for secure decryption and reading of downloaded messages within a familiar chat client interface on the same machine .

Microsoft announced the new preview features of C# 13, the latest version of the popular .NET programming language . The release includes several performance and memory enhancements for .NET developers . The most notable additions are the most notable improvements to parameters parameters, the new extension types, and the new escape sequence .

JLama is the first pure Java inference library available in Maven Central . The implementation leverages the Vector API and PanamaTensorOperations class with native fallback . The library was developed by DataStax chief software architect Jake Luciani . Developers can download models from Hugging Face by using the run-cli.sh script . They can chat with the model or complete a prompt .

Cobalt Arm-based VMs are the first generation of VMs to feature Microsoft’s new Cobalt 100 processor, custom-built on an Arm architecture . They offer users both performance consistency and linear performance scaling with workloads like web apps, microservices, and open-source databases .

Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 4 includes built-in support for OpenAPI document generation and HybridCache API . HybridCache is designed to be a drop-in replacement for most IDistributedCache scenarios . Blazor Web apps can enable global interactivity, allowing all pages in the app to use an interactive render mode .

CO2.js is a JavaScript library that enables developers to access the Green Web API and estimate the carbon emissions associated with their apps, websites, and software . The Green Web Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that maintains the world’s largest open dataset of websites that run on green energy . It also offers tools to manage the environmental impact of digital services .

Cloudflare has recommended updating the trust store to include the ISRG Root X1 certificate . The upcoming certificate chain change from Let’s Encrypt may cause compatibility issues for older devices and systems, notably Android devices running version 7.1.1 or earlier .

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Compute Fleet, a new service that streamlines provisioning and management of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models . Users can deploy up to 10,000 VMs with a single API, using Spot and Standard VM types together .

JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.0 along with the new K2 compiler . The K2 compiler brings several benefits, including faster builds, extended language capabilities with smart casts, and multiplatform support out of the box . K2 doubles compilation speed on the average, with some projects compiling faster than that .

Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has published its 2024 AI Index annual report . The report identifies top trends in AI, such as 8x growth in Generative AI investment since 2022 . The number of AI regulations in the USA has increased 56.3% in the last year; that model training costs, especially for LLMs, have increased significantly over recent years .

Kubernetes SIG Network announced the version 1.1 of Gateway API . This update sees several key features moving to the Standard Channel (GA), including support for service mesh and GRPCRoute . New experimental features such as session persistence and client certificate verification have been introduced .

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a public generative AI evaluation program . The pilot program focuses on text-to-text (T2T) and text to image . The first-round submission deadline is August 25, and the first pilot will run throughout 2024 . Those interested in participating can register on program’s website until May 2025 .

AWS Amplify helps developers host web applications and build and connect to a cloud backend . New version allows developers to write requirements such as data models, business logic, and authorization rules in TypeScript . New release includes a code-first developer experience that avoids the friction of CLI tools and enables AI assistance from services like Amazon Q Developer .

JetBrains has released Rider 2024.1.1 . This release contains a new monitoring tool window and a collection visualizer . There also appeared the plugins: .NET&nbsp;Aspire, AI Assistant and features regarding .NET debugging . The Run to Cursor feature enables a quick jump to a specific line of code while .NET Debugging .

The Rolldown project is led by Evan You (creator of the Vue web framework) and is intended to become Vite’s next bundler . Rolldown is designed to serve as the future lower-level bundler used in Vite . Vite sometimes parses the same TypeScript file 5 times at various levels in the stack, with the corresponding parsing/serialization overhead .

Uber built Gulfstream, its payment platform, in 2017 and used DynamoDB for storage . DynamoDB was used only for the most recent data (12 weeks old) and older data was stored in TerraBlob, an S3-like service created in-house by Uber . Uber started working on a dedicated solution for storing financial transactions with data integrity guarantees .

Spring Framework 6.2.0 and Spring Integration 1.3.0 have been released . Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring GraphQL have also been updated . Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.3 primarily addresses a vulnerability in Jayway JsonPath 2.8.0 .

JavaOne will return to celebrate Java's 30th birthday in March 2025 . Kotlin 2.0 and Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0 have been released . JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), targeted for JDK 23, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted .

JEP 477 proposes to evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs The latest draft of the specification document by Gavin Bierman, a consulting member of the technical staff at Oracle, is open for review . The proposal introduces several key features designed to simplify Java for beginners .

Amazon Bedrock Studio is a web interface for developers to collaborate and build generative AI applications . Currently in public preview, the rapid prototyping environment provides access to multiple foundation models, knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails . Developers will only have access to features provided by the platform, without access to the AWS console, infrastructure, and services .

Bicep templates simplify the deployment of Microsoft Graph resources, allowing for efficient infrastructure definition and repeated deployments using declarative syntax, well-suited for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code workflows . With the release, Microsoft Entra ID resources can now be declared within the same BiceP files as Azure resources . The deployment engine sends the managed identity request to the Resource Manager, then routes it to the Microsoft Graph resource provider .

A recent article claims that Ahrefs, an SEO software suite company, was able to prevent $400 million in expenditures over three years by not leveraging cloud resources . 37Signals, the makers of Basecamp, has begun a cloud exodus with the stated goal of saving seven million dollars in infrastructure costs over five years . Many instead called out that the cloud is not always cheaper and each company must review their own use cases carefully .

Google Cloud introduced Google Threat Intelligence, a new security offering for large organizations . The new solution provides users with actionable insights, external threat monitoring, attack surface management, digital risk protection, and in-depth analysis of Indicators of Compromise . Google protects 4 billion devices and 1.5 billion email accounts, blocking 100 million phishing attempts per day .

The Airbnb Tech Blog recently detailed how Airbnb enhances accessibility for users with vision difficulties . Airbnb maintains web content, functionality, and a good user experience even as text font size is doubled . Airbnb deemed the experience successful: Choosing font scaling as the product accessibility strategy brought about a range of significant benefits that notably enhanced our platform’s overall user experience .

Honeycomb for Frontend Observability aims to enhance web application performance . The tool integrates OpenTelemetry instrumentation as an NPM package, to collect and analyze Core Web Vitals data . The Web Launchpad provides deep insights into site performance . Honeycomb claims users can set this up in under an hour .

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.11 Preview 1 . This release contains features regarding pull requests, default shortcuts, debugging and the Visual Studio profiler . It is possible to create pull request drafts and start descriptions with templates . A default pull request template will be used when creating a new PR for GitHub and Azure DevOps .

Microsoft announced the Flex Consumption Plan for Azure Functions, which brings users fast and large elastic scale, instance size selection, private networking, availability zones, and higher concurrency control . Users can build serverless functions with this plan, leading to higher throughput, improved reliability, better performance, and enhanced security according to their needs .

GPT-4o has improved capabilities in handling speech, vision, and multilingual tasks . The new model was trained end-to-end to handle audio, vision and text . OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: It feels like AI from the movies; and it’s still surprising to me that it's real

JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23 . This feature proposes to enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rather than a mix of HTML and JavaDoc @ tags . Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is easy to read and write .

Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when its entire infrastructure subscription was deleted . This led to an outage that affected over 620,000 UniSuper fund members, leaving them unable to access their accounts for over a week . UniSuper had additional backups with another provider which helped minimize data loss and speed up restoration .

Podman AI Lab plugin aims to help developers start working with Large Language Models on their machines . plugin has built-in recipe catalogue, curated models, local model serving, code snippets, and playground environments . plugin intends to democratize gen AI for application developers and to close the gap between it works on my machine and that it runs in production on hybrid clouds .

Decentralized decision-making can reduce an organization’s reliance on consensus and expedite decisions . At Carta, we harnessed the power of a small group of senior engineers to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decisions . Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly .

An experiment was designed to test each of the above selected LLM’s ability to generate unit tests for an already coded, non trivial web service . No-cost LLMs were chosen to participate in this experiment . None of the LLMs could perform the task successfully without human supervision and intervention but many were able to accelerate the unit test coding process to some degree .

Platform engineering is about systems of systems – starting from the very purpose and the why for its existence, to the people that build it, operate it, use it, and the ecosystem that consumes, enhances and leverages it . A successful platform is surprisingly delightful to use; being thoughtful about migrations, onboarding and day zero adoption .

Oracle has introduced version 1.0.0 of the open-source Graal Cloud Native (GCN) IntelliJ IDEA plugin . GCN is a cloud-agnostic development framework based on the Micronaut framework . The plugin provides a new project wizard to create a project once and execute it on various cloud platforms .

WildFly Glow analyzes compiled Java code, i.e., an artifact commonly known as the WAR file . It then determines which specific components of WildFly (feature packs) and Galleon layers (modular pieces of the server environment) are necessary to correctly run the application . Glow includes a command-line interface (CLI), a Maven plugin, and an Arquilian plugin . The Glow tools aim to solve the common challenges inherent in monolithic application servers .

PGlite is a Wasm build of Postgres that is packaged into a TypeScript client library . It is packaged in TypeScript with no extra dependencies . It's used for reactive, real-time, local-first apps like ElectricSQL . ElectricSQL is a local first software platform for modern apps with instant reactivity and multi-user collaboration .

Google engineers use chaos testing to inject faults into production-like instances and stress the system's ability to behave in a correct way in the face of unexpected failures . Google engineers simulate server crashes, file faults, RPC faults, memory/quota faults, and Cloud faults . They run over a thousand system tests per week to validate that Spanner’s design and implementation actually mask faults .

InfoQ is running a special Memorial Day Sale with significant discounts of up to 60% off for the InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) software development conference . Get clarity on Generative AI, security, modern web apps, and more from senior software practitioners . Connect with peers from companies including Duolingo, Flutter International, Getty Images, Amazon, Klaviyo, Bank of Canada, Reddit, Cisco and more .

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances . Powered by Intel's 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids), which are exclusive to AWS and offer 5% lower prices . The instances, available in various sizes from large to 8xlarge, are an option for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources .

New Relic has been monitoring the Java ecosystem for the past few years to uncover shifts in how developers are using it . Less than 30% of applications remain on Java 8, and as such it should now be considered a legacy version, especially in light of major frameworks dropping Java 8 support . Oracle continues to lose ground to the OpenJDK vendors - especially Eclipse Adoptium and Amazon's Corretto .

According to ElMohanned Mohamed, communication in multicultural teams should be precise and clear with low dependence on the context . He gave a talk about agile and cultural diversity at XP Conference . People from different cultures vary in attitudes, beliefs, behavioural norms, and basic assumptions of the world, for instance when it comes to team communication .

Google recently hosted its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2024, where numerous announcements were made regarding Google’s apps and services . As anticipated, AI was a focal point of the event, being incorporated into almost all Google products . The most notable unveiling was the introduction of Google's latest AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro . This new model offers the longest context window of any foundational model yet . Google also introduced Project Astra, a future vision for AI that can respond to sight, sounds, voice, and text combined .

At QCon London 2024, Ricardo Nuno Almeida spoke about adapting Team Topologies at m3ter, a company that helps B2B software scale-ups manage complex pricing by automating bill calculation . He spoke about how adaptability proved crucial to success and ran through the company's journey of evolving team topologies .

Google is developing web platform APIs and browser features designed to integrate AI models, including large language models, directly into the browser . Chrome developers created a specific infrastructure to access foundation and expert models on-device . This infrastructure is currently in use to power the Help me write experimental feature, which aims to help users start writing .

Boundary is an access management tool designed to securely connect users to critical systems and services without exposing the underlying network . The new version includes new functionality such as custom resource aliases and improved search and filtering . It also expands storage options for session recordings by integrating MinIO as a storage solution .

JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), proposed to target for JDK 23 . Piranha Cloud, Spring Data 2024.0; and point and milestone releases of Spring Framework, GlassFish and Micrometer . JEP 482, Flexible Constructor Bodies has been promoted from its JEP Draft 8325803 to Candidate status .

The Open Source Security Foundation have announced Siren, a collaborative effort to aggregate and disseminate threat intelligence specific to open source projects The initiative comes in the wake of the XZ Utils compromise . Siren will provide a place to share Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise .

Gemini Flash is a lighter-weight version of the Gemini family of AI models . Google says it's optimized for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale and is less expensive to serve . Gemini Flash has been distilled from Gemini Pro, which means it retains the latter's most essential knowledge and skills in a more compact package .

The latest release of Jetpack Compose, announced at Google I/O 2024, brings several extensions, including support for shared element transitions, lazy list item animations, improved performance, and more . Jetpack improves by 17% the time to first pixel benchmark, as well as scroll performance .

Grafana Labs has announced significant enhancements to its Incident Response and Management (IRM) platform . These changes help teams manage and respond to incidents more effectively by streamlining incident management processes and reducing response times . Sift Investigations helps engineers focus their time on fixing problems by removing the toil involved in an incident .

Robin Yeman spoke about building large scale cyber physical systems at QCon New York . She suggested investing in test environments for both software and hardware early to enable being test-driven early to increase the safety, security, reliability, and availability of the systems . Yeman advised breaking the system problem down into smaller solvable problems .

Hugging Face has unveiled LeRobot, a new machine learning model trained for real-world robotics applications . The goal is to lower the barrier for entry to robotics so that everyone can contribute and benefit from sharing datasets and pretrained models . The announcement of the new model sparked great enthusiasm within the AI and Robotics community .

Microsoft has announced the general availability (GA) of Azure API Center . It offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location . API Center is not just a standalone tool but a fully integrated solution . It seamlessly integrates with CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure DevOps .

Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go and strives to be interoperable with the existing Go ecosystem . The Borgo language adds to Go algebraic data types, pattern matching, Option and Result types, and more Rust-inspired syntax . Borgo’s syntax is similar to Rust, with optional semi-colons .

Slack recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by Bedrock, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter . Over 80% of Slack applications now operating seamlessly on this innovative framework, resulting in enhanced testing precision and refined infrastructure management .

Cloudflare has showcased how to run Fortran on CloudFlare Workers by compiling to WebAssembly . The project leveraged recent advancements in LLVM Flang, enabling Fortran to compile to Wasm . The Workers platform currently natively supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Rust .

Apple has released OpenELM, a Transformer-based language model . The model uses a scaled-attention mechanism for more efficient parameter allocation and outperforms similarly-sized models . Apple released their full framework, including data prep and training code . The code is available on GitHub, while the model weights are available on Huggingface .

Phoenix LiveView allows developers to create rich, real-time server-rendered applications without writing JavaScript . LiveView leverages WebSockets rather than HTTP to maintain stateful long-lived connections between client and server . Web pages and their updates in response to user interactions are provided by the server .

TypeSpec is an open-source, extensible language inspired by TypeScript and C# . Microsoft's TypeSpec aims to make building and working with APIs less costly and more practical . Brian Terlson, principal software architect, Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft, is the architect for TypeSpec and the Azure SDK for JavaScript .

Microsoft has launched Trusted Signing, formerly known as Azure Code Signing . It allows developers to sign public and private trusts and provides a timestamping feature . The signing process involves digest signing, ensuring both confidentiality and speed . Service also supports various certificate profile types, including Public Trust, Private Trust, and Test, with additional types in development .

Elastic, a platform for search-powered solutions, discussed the advantages of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) This secure authentication method goes beyond traditional MFA, which uses passwords, SMS codes, or biometrics, by employing multiple layers of protection and a cryptographic registration process . Elastic's distributed remote-first workforce and reliance on SaaS applications make MFA crucial for asset protection .

Reliability means spending money to reduce the probability of failure, the blast radius, and recovery time to zero . Building reliable services at scale has to be done across the clients, servers, and at the APIs . Reliable servers are redundant, workload-optimized, and heavily cached . Netflix uses these techniques to reach very high scales of online stateful services .

A CI/CD pipeline potentially exposes sensitive information . Project teams often overlook the importance of securing their pipelines . Data protection is based on several basic principles designed to protect information from misuse, disclosure, alteration, and destruction . These principles are essential to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data in your pipelines .

GitHub Copilot Workspace is an AI-powered assistant that guides developers through the challenges at the start of a project . It offers a systematic and reliable plan to resolve issues by comprehending the codebase and issue context . The workspace efficiently streamlines the development process by presenting all the necessary elements for plan validation and code testing in a clear and understandable natural language .

Spotify has unveiled a suite of new products and services tailored to enhance internal developer portals (IDPs) with Backstage . Spotify's Backstage framework originated as a software catalogue within Spotify . It has been widely adopted with over 2,200 project contributors and 3,000 adopting companies, and consulting firms and tech services offering support and plugins .

GitLab announced a series of integrations aimed at enhancing the developer experience and streamlining cloud-based development workflows . These integrations combine GitLab's DevOps platform with Google Cloud's infrastructure and services . GitLab-Google Cloud integration aims to accelerate application deployment by providing two key features .

Payara has released their May edition of the Payara Platform . JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview) has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23 . The latest draft of the specification document by Gavin Bierman, Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, is open for review .

Microsoft has released Dev Proxy v0.17.0, which brings a range of enhancements . Users can now easily verify API registration with Azure API Center, ensuring compliance, and confirming the use of production APIs . Improved mocking requests enhance testing, while simplified acquisition and setup on Windows and macOS boost accessibility .

JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), was integrated into JDK 23 . The feature reduces the need for multiple import statements and eliminates the necessity of knowing the package hierarchy . This change does not disrupt existing code, as developers are not required to modularize their work .

Application Signals enables the use of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to instrument Python applications without code changes . The feature is still in a preview state and may undergo significant changes before being made generally available . Auto-instrumentation is only supported for Java and Python applications .

Amazon Q Developer provides code suggestions and recommendations in real time, while Amazon Q Business enables companies to get insights from structured and unstructured data . The general availability introduces new features, including custom plugins, as well as a preview of Amazon Q Apps, a feature enabling the creation of generative AI-powered sharable applications using natural language .

Infinispan is an open-source key/value data store and data grid platform written in Java . It is now possible to query directly using the cache API instead of the Search/QueryFactory combination . It implements most of the core Redis commands in the RESP endpoint, optimizes intra-cluster communications and enhances the tracing subsystem .

QCon London was a treasure trove of talks covering a wide spectrum of topics related to software architecture . From the burgeoning field of AI to the more established realms of cloud computing, the conference left no stone unturned . It also delved into the sociotechnical aspects of software architecture and engineering and, importantly, the pressing issue of sustainability .

The QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee has met and finalized the 2024 tracks (conference topics) The 12 tracks include: Generative AI in Production &amp; Advancements; Programming Languages and Paradigms for the Next Decade; Machine Learning; Sociotechnical Resilience; Modern Data Architectures .

Tech leaders can support and guide different kinds of autonomous teams by communicating the organization's core values, mission, and vision . Engineering managers can support teams on their journey toward high performance by delegating, trusting people, being curious, creating safety, and understanding what level of support their teams need .

At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, Senior Engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud . Livi's strategy involved cataloging functionalities and languages, revealing a diverse technology stack . The company’s approach effectively mitigated the drawbacks associated with both options .

Meta AI has released Llama 3, the latest generation of their open-source large language model family . The model is available in 8B and 70B parameters, each with a base and instruction-tuned variant . Llama3 outperforms other LLMs of the same parameter size on standard LLM benchmarks .

InfoQ article dispels common myths surrounding Lambda Cold Starts in serverless computing . Cold starts in AWS Lambda are often misunderstood, leading to misconceptions about their frequency, duration, and impact . Various factors influence cold start duration, including choice of runtime, configuration settings, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) involvement . AWS provides strategies like SnapStart and Provisioned Concurrency to manage and mitigate cold starts .

Andy Burgin discussed embracing Developer Experience (DevEx) as an operational philosophy at the betting company Flutter . Burgin explained how the container platform squad implemented and evolved their Developer Experience over several years . Flutter's foray into DevEx dates back to 2016, when the concept was still nascent .

Camilla Montonen spoke about building machine learning systems at NDC Oslo 2023 . Montonen suggests that we should bridge the divide between practices of data science and machine learning engineering . MLOps platforms and solutions contain components needed to build machine systems, but MLOps is not about the tools; it is a culture and set of practices .

Microsoft recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline . The pipeline is a containerized solution deployed on an Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster . It utilizes OpenTelemetry Collector and a pipeline configuration file to manage incoming client data flows . Subsequently, it forwards them to the cloud while using a local cache when required .

The WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) allows one WebAssembly binary to safely interact with another over a structured interface . With WCM, libraries written in different languages (such as Rust, Python, JavaScript, Go, and more) can interoperate in a true polyglot fashion . The WCM is similar to technologies such as gRPC and COM, but its advantage lies in a strong security sandbox .

GitHub has released two features to improve the security and resilience of repositories . The first feature allows Dependabot to run as a GitHub Actions workflow using hosted and self-hosted runners . The second release introduces the public beta of Artifact Attestations, simplifying how repository maintainers can generate provenance for their build artifacts .

JobRunr 7.0 features support for virtual threads, enabled by default, for applications running JDK 21 . Virtual threads enhance concurrency and reduce the overhead associated with traditional threads . The implementation detects if the application runs on JDK21 and automatically switches to virtual threads without requiring manual configuration from developers .

Podman 5 is the latest release of container management tool Podman . It uses now the Apple Hypervisor on Macs and deprecates QEMU . It adopts Pasta by default for rootless networking, and improves the containers.conf configuration file . There is no straightforward upgrade path for existing Podman 4 machines to run under Podman.com .

Stable Video 3D (SV3D) can generate 3D-mesh object models from a single 2D image . Stability AI leveraged their existing Stable video Diffusion model, which includes camera control abilities, allowing it to generate orbital videos . When evaluted on the GSO and OmniObject3D benchmarks, SV3D outperformed baseline models .

Fluent Bit is part of the Fluent CNCF project that provides the capabilities to gather observability data and then transform, filter, and route these events to appropriate tools . Multi-cloud and hybrid IT operations are no surprise—while the hyper scalers would rather you keep your workloads on their cloud, it isn’t practical .

Backdoor found its way into testing Linux distributions, but was caught before propagating into more highly used stable releases . It affects the SSH remote login protocol, basically by adding a hidden piece of functionality that requires a specific key to enable . Bruce Schneier describes it as a masterful piece of work that took time to identify the weakest link in software supply chain .

InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon hand-select all the speakers . Domain experts individually select each talk for fit and merit . These are not always the most famous people, but they are often the most compelling voices you’ll find in software . We offer training webinars, mentorship, and slide/code reviews with past speakers .

Nigel Kersten spoke about how technology can drive culture change at FlowCon France 2024 . Technology can help fix organisational issues around organisational dynamics and bad product delivery, he said . Technology that creates simplified abstractions over complexity drives the greatest cultural change, Kersten said . The best thing you can do to enable technical change is to create engaged, satisfied teams with clear context .

Node.js 22 adds support for synchronous require of JavaScript module (ESM) graphs . The feature is similar to dynamic import() but is run synchronously and returns the module name space object directly . The V8 JavaScript engine to 12.4 update includes features such as WebAssembly Garbage Collection and Iterator Helpers . The performance of node.js streams also improved through the increase of the High Water Mark for streams from 16KiB to 64KB .

Confluent announced last month the general availability (GA) of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink . This fully-managed service enables real-time data processing and the creation of high-quality, reusable data streams . The service is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure . The GA release is now available after last year's open preview .

JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview) promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23 . ZGC: Generational Mode by Default promoted to Target . Six specifications have been finalized for Jakarta EE 11.0 . Spring projects, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JHipster, JReleaser and JUnit 5.10.2 have been released .

CSS frameworks offer short-term gains in speed and consistency but become increasingly hard to maintain over time . Modern CSS has many features that make it possible to write maintainable styles . Frameworks offer the most significant benefit when developers stay within their prescribed bounds . Developers must become experts in overriding the framework rather than experts in how to use CSS .

Devoxx Genie is a 100% Java-based JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA plugin . It uses local- or cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating unit tests and explaining, reviewing and improving source code . The plugin supports local LLM providers Ollama, LM Studio and GPT4All . Alternatively, the following cloud based LLMs may be used: OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic, Groq and DeepInfra .

Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia . Key takeaways included the benefits of introducing Java to high school and college students, and the importance of knowledge management within software development . The event featured 160 speakers from the Java community who delivered six full-day workshops and talks on 14 tracks .

Microsoft announced the new MSTest SDK built on top of the MSBuild Project SDK system . There are features such as easier usage of Mstest Runner extensions, support running tests in Native AOT mode and better default suggestions . It is possible to use any target framework supported by MSTed .

Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced on git the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License . The public git repository contains unreleased beta binaries, the ibmbio.com&nbsp;source, and the scanned PDFs of the Multitasking MS-Dol-DOS . The open-source source code for versions 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum . Microsoft has also released Word, GW-BASIC and Windows File Manager .

JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview) promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 23; Hibernate ORM 6.5; and JobRunr 7.1.1 have been released . BellSoft has released versions 24.0.1 for JK 22, 231.3.3 for JDk 21 and 230.4 for their Liberica Native Image Kit builds as part of the Oracle Critical Patch Update for April 2024 .

Git is a popular tool for version control in software development . Mixing personal and work Git accounts may lead to a polluted Git history . The presented solution automatically loads Git credentials based on a directory path using a special global Git configuration, which does not require additional tools . Git does not allow account configuration for a group of repositories in one place .

Hannah Foxwell's QCon talk at QCon London 2024 will be broadcasted over the coming months . She discusses key elements for fostering a cohesive and productive team environment . Foxwell advocates for inclusive and accessible events during working hours to ensure everyone feels welcome and valued in the workplace . She also stressed the need for transparency in budget allocation and promotion opportunities .

OpenAI announced the release of new features in their fine-tuning API . The features include the ability to create a model checkpoint after every training epoch, compute metrics over the entire validation dataset, and integrate with 3rd-parties such as Weights and Biases . The model playground now has a side-by-side model comparison feature that allows users to enter a single prompt and compare the output of different standard models .

Eb Ikonne: 'Much of the change we experience in our software organizations is coercive' To catalyze change, he suggested identifying allies, inviting people to participate in the change, and creating and sustaining engagement through storytelling . Even people in software engineering management positions feel they cannot spark change without formal authority, Ikonne said .

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Gecko is a text embedding model that Google created by distilling knowledge from large language models into a general-purpose model . Google created a fine-tuning dataset, dubbed FRet (Few-shot Prompted Retrieval) using queries generated from LLMs .

Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs . The virtual network flow logs capability was in public preview last year and is now generally available . It allows users to gather data about the IP traffic passing through their virtual networks . This data can be used to monitor and optimize usage, troubleshoot connectivity issues, ensure compliance, and analyze network security .

The Uno Platform 5.2 version is the latest update with a flagship feature regarding the Single Project solution . This solution empowers developers with a unified approach across 9 platform targets, mobile, web, desktop, and embedded applications . The latest Single Project feature has been rolled out for Visual Studio and VS Code users, although its full implementation for JetBrains Rider users remains incomplete .

AWS announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages . Each issue affects a specific city-network, identified by a combination of location and Autonomous System Number, typically corresponding to an individual ISP . The map updates every 15 minutes, disregarding short-lived events lasting less than 5 minutes .

A software product’s architecture is defined by the decisions and especially the trade-offs that the development team makes . Making these decisions transparent is essential to a successful software architecture . The MVA approach is based on a simple set of ideas: Architectures are defined not by a set of diagrams or documents, but by critical decisions about how the system will meet its quality attribute requirements (QARs)

JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 featuring support for Java 22 features, OpenRewrite, WireMock server, the Maven Shade plugin and full line code completion for Java and Kotlin . The new AI Assistant requires a subscription and should be installed as a separate plugin .

Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions . With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources . The new feature includes an&nbsp;AWS CloudFormation template with a sample Lambda Authorizer for this purpose .

Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) mode hardens Docker Engine socket by blocking unapproved attempts to bind it into containers . ECI mode uses a variety of techniques to harden container isolation, including running all containers unprivileged, vetting some system calls and virtualizing /proc and /sys within container . The new Docker Desktop release also brings 2-10x faster file operations thanks to synchronized file shares .

Romain Kuzniak spoke about enhancing developer experience for creating AI applications at FlowCon France 2024 . They defined and established principles around simplicity, immediate accessibility, security and quality, and cost efficiency . The breakthrough in AI came with the emergence of large language models like ChatGPT, which shifted the approach to utilizing AI .

Coroot leverages eBPF for insights into system performance and supports monitoring heterogeneous infrastructures . The open-source observability tool was announced as an alternative to DataDog and NewRelic . Coroot initially supported applications running only in Kubernetes clusters . With the release of version 1.0, it now offers an agent for virtual machines or bare-metal servers .

Maciej Pocwierz, a Senior Software Engineer, recently revealed a significant issue— an empty S3 bucket can unexpectedly result in a substantial AWS bill . In a single day, he found out the bill was 1300 USD caused by 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests . The root cause of this incident was the default settings of a widely used open-source tool, which unintentionally targeted the same bucket name for its backups .

JEP 474 proposes to use the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) from non-generational to generational mode by default . This will ultimately reduce the cost of maintaining the two modes, so future development can primarily focus on the generational ZGC . Developers should test their applications to ensure compatibility and performance under the new default setting .

New metrics offer real-time visibility into email-borne threats, allowing organizations to correlate trends within their environment with broader security observations from Cloudflare . In February 2024, an average of 2.1% of emails were malicious, with spikes of 29% on February 10th and 11th, just before the Super Bowl . The largest TLD, .com, had the highest share of malicious emails and spam .

HashiCorp has released version 1.8 of Terraform, their infrastructure-as-code language language . This enables the creation of custom functions within a given provider that handle computational-style tasks . Providers can add this support to handle various use cases such as renaming provider or splitting provider .

The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of the cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform . The open-project has rapidly gained traction since its announcement in October 2023, as Mark Russinovich writes: The main Radius GitHub repository has received ~1300 stars. There are ~750 members engaging in support channels at the Radius Discord server .

Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches . Greaves: Minimising the amount of data that ill-willing actors can monetise will discourage further attempts to break into the system . She stressed that even if many of the results come from processes and governance, it is of the utmost importance .

Netflix engineers recently published how they use Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to reverse search entities in a connected graph . Reverse search means that instead of searching for documents that match a query, they search for queries that match documents . Netflix faced significant challenges with versioning in their indexing system .

Meta Horizon OS combines mixed reality features with others focusing on social presence . OS supports eye, face, hand, and body tracking to enable more natural interaction . OS is tightly tied to Snapdragon processors that power Meta Quest devices and companies building products using it are expected to use the same hardware and software stack as Meta itself . At the same time, Meta is making it easier for developers to ship software on the platform .

Microsoft has released an updated version of the Reliable Web App (RWA) Pattern for dotnet . This update focuses on improving production infrastructure and network security in response to user feedback . The update is driven by user feedback, prioritizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Bicep and enhancing network security measures .

The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription, effective April 5th 2024 . The content of the Spring Academy is divided into three parts: Guides, Courses and Learning Path . The Learning Path combines four courses so that developers may prepare for the Spring Certified Professional Exam .

Allegro uses Apache Kafka extensively as the backbone for asynchronous communication between microservices in its platform . The company was looking to start a new project where low-latency messaging was a critical requirement . After reviewing Kafka producer latency metrics, engineers discovered that p99 latency was 1 second and p999 latency was 3 seconds .

Google unveiled Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for data centers . The new processor will be available to customers later this year . Axion promises up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than current-generation x86-based instances . No pricing information has been provided .

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes and CRI-O 1.28 . This release introduces some changes for application build like the Red Hat Developer Hub operator, the Integration of role-based access controls (RBAC) via the web interface .

JetBrains says it is now making it generally available after testing it in beta with several large customers and addressing their feedback . IDE Provisioner, AI Enterprise, License Vault, Code With Me Enterprise, and CodeCanvas are all new tools . The Toolbox App is installed on developer machines and is used to download, update, and configure IntelliJ-based IDEs .

Don’t repeat yourself, or DRY, is a useful principle to apply to both application code and test code . The misapplication of the DRY technique can make tests hard to understand, maintain, and change . TDD (Test Driven Development) provides many benefits and can promote a shorter feedback loop and better test coverage .

Microsoft has released preview preview version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1 . The latest version of the .NET Aspire project has been released to enhance the security and reliability of the platform . New testing APIs have been introduced to assist in testing Aspire applications .

AWS announced support of multi-container jobs in AWS Batch through the management console . This new feature simplifies the process of running simulations, particularly for testing complex systems such as those used in autonomous vehicles and robotics . The new feature is available in any region where the cloud provider is available and there are no additional costs .

Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis led a QCon London talk about the Backstage architecture . They explained how Spotify has evolved the plugin architecture of Backstage to enable easier extensibility . Backstage is a React frontend with a horizontally-scalable ExpressJS backend communicating with third-party APIs .

Java roundup for April 15th, 2024 features news highlighting: Jakarta EE 11; Stream Gathers (Second Preview) and Vector API (Eighth Incubator) targeted for JDK 23 . GlassFish 8.0-M5, the fifth milestone release, delivers dependency upgrades and notable changes such as: an improved certificate authentication for the JmacHttpsTest class; and the addition of a lock and a notifyWaitingThreads() method in the Connection class .

Yelp reworked its data streaming architecture by employing Apache Beam and Apache Flink . The company replaced a fragmented set of data pipelines for streaming transactional data into its analytical systems, like Amazon Redshift and in-house data lake, using Apache data streaming projects to create a unified and flexible solution .

Google unveiled Gemini Code Assist, a new version of Duet AI with significant improvements . It can process up to 1 million tokens, four times more data than Anthropic's Claude 3 model and eight times more than OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo . Code Assist can perform complex tasks such as analyzing code libraries, understanding lengthy documents, and holding more extended conversations more easily .

Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability . The feature leverages standard features from the MqTT protocol to enable clients to communicate in a reliable, secure, and scalable manner . Other cloud providers like AWS and Google offer a service similar to Azure EventGrid .

Tiani Jones gave a keynote about a game of patterns at QCon London 2024 . The behaviour and disposition of an organisation are revealed in its patterns . Leaders should work on the system rather than in the system and create the conditions for the development and sustainment of good patterns in software organisations .

The Mistral Large Foundation Model has a grasp of grammar and cultural context and is proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian . Mistral AI is one of the primary European players developing advanced LLMs, together with Silo AI, located in Helsinki, and Aleph Alpha, based in Germany .

Datadog has released JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 . The new release runs on JDK 17 or newer and contains 118 bug fixes and new features . It is available for Windows, macOS X and Linux, where the new release now supports Linux on aarch64, which is among others used by some Raspberry Pi's .

Matt Massicotte, formerly at Crashlytics and Apple, has launched a GitHub repo collecting a number of useful recipes to make it easier to use Swift concurrency . The repository is structured in several sections, each devoted to one major topic, from the basic task of creating an asynchronous context to how to deal with concurrency within protocols, isolation, SwiftUI and so on .

Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices . He discusses testing from the inside out first . He advocates for an outside-in testing strategy, which prioritizes understanding the interconnections among system components .

Adidas' infrastructure extends from China through Singapore, across Europe, and reaching North and South America, adidas operates many ephemeral servers in the cloud, running containers around the clock to support global development teams . Adidas may not fit the mould of a startup or a tech organization, but it has technology that enables various teams to work efficiently .

Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters . The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance . The validation admission policies feature was released just in version 1.26 .

Cloudflare announced that object storage R2 now supports event notifications, which automatically trigger Workers in response to data changes . The migration service Super Slurper now extends its support to Google Cloud Storage and a new infrequent access storage tier is available in private beta . The Infrequent Access storage class can be assigned either through APIs or lifecycle policies and is tailored for scenarios involving infrequently accessed data .

Microsoft has updated its Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure . The new guidance includes a single, five-step process to establish and maintain cloud governance over time . The other cloud companies, AWS and Google, also offer governance guidance in their respective cloud adoption frameworks .

Expedia's Performance and Reliability team&nbsp;has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA) It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-Place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of containers during startup . CSA operates at the pod level and monitors pods designated for scaling (identified via a label), CSA responds to changes within these pods .

Android 15 has introduced support for the CTA-2075 loudness standard . Loudness standard is designed to ensure consistent audio loudness levels across different types of content and devices . Screen record detection allows apps to detect that they are being recorded . Apps will be edge-to-edge by default in Android 15+ after they target SDK 35 .

Ranbir Chawla, senior vice president of engineering at RB Global, presented the journey his team took from moving from an architectural perfect storm and a highly manual operational system, to a product company with a modern event-based architecture . The company now focuses on providing real business outcomes to its stakeholders, and ensuring developers find joy in their work .

Duolingo is an educational platform for learning foreign languages that leverages the AWS cloud platform . The company decided to run a marketing campaign during the Super Bowl that required sending out millions of push notifications precisely when a short ad was aired during the commercial break . At QCon London, engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities .

Lyft engineers used iOS ActivityKit to add dynamic content to their app . Live Activities allow the user not only to receive up-to-date information or launch an app, but also perform functionality without launching the app through buttons and toggles . Lyft engineers handle each Live Activity as a sort of mini app that is run on top of the main app .

Adora Nwodo, senior software engineer at NexaScale, discussed the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into application architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines . Her session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the QCon London conference .

LinkedIn wants to deprecate Rest.li because it does not support streaming, deferred responses, or deadlines . It's also relatively slow and has insufficient support for non-Java clients and servers . LinkedIn plans to change 20 million lines of code across 2,000 services without business interruption .

Pirita Maarit Johnsen led a software team to increase psychological safety in their software team . The team committed to testing the agile way of thinking in a project to see if they could gain something from it . They did several things to get to know each other and gain psychological safety . Johnsen encouraged team members to talk more with each other, not only about technical topics, but also about personal topics .

Microsoft announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2 . It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications . The v2 pricing tiers represent an evolution in Microsoft's approach to API management . These tiers complement the existing Developer, Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers .

At QCon London 2024, Bernd Ruecker recommended implementing long-running tasks asynchronously with a process-orchestration platform . Such a platform provides better service boundaries and efficiencies . Organizing the platform centrally in an organization eases orchestration adoption by applications .

Hannes Ricklefs, head of architecture at the BBC, gave a well-received talk on decision-making, The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making He spoke about the effects of biases on our ability to make good decisions in both a personal and business context . He also discussed the use of personality tests to help understand the shape of a team .

Yan Cui, a serverless advocate at Lumigo, shared patterns for effective local development with AWS serverless technologies . The focus areas were testing approaches, deployment practices, and application environments . Cui outlined the need for fast feedback loops in the development process and the common myth that achieving this is difficult .

At QCon London, Loubna Ben Allal discussed Large Language Models (LLMs) tailored for coding . She discussed the lifecycle of code completion models, highlighting pre-training on vast codebases and the finetuning step . She specifically discussed open-source models, facilitated by platforms like Hugging Face .

ScreenAI is based on the PaLI architecture and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several tasks . The model is pre-trained on a dataset of screenshots generated by crawling the web and automatically interacting with apps . Google has not released the model code or weights, they have open-sourced their evaluation datasets ScreenQA and Screen Annotation on GitHub .

Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of its system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years . The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform . 50% of the overall technology stack is owned by the core team, while the rest is split into product-aligned vertical teams .

Danilo Sato, vice president of data &amp; AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products . The two worlds of the data universe - the operational and the analytical world - are moving closer together .

John Spray discussed key considerations for data management and storage within modern IT infrastructures . He addressed questions about data localization and replication, the optimal strategies for storing data, and determining the necessary number of copies to maintain data integrity and availability . Spray also tackled the challenge of ensuring service availability during the initialization of a new node with an empty cache drive .

Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex platform . Gemini can process up to 1 million tokens, around four times the amount of data Anthropic's Claude 3 model can handle and eight times as much as OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo .

Airbnb's open-source Chronon aims to provide low-latency streaming features . The API can be used through clients in Java, Scala, and Python . It aims to make it easier for ML practitioners to define features using NLP . Chronon builds pipelines using Kafka, Spark/Spark Streaming, Hive, and Airflow .

Software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software . Coral Calero gave a keynote about software sustainability at XP 2023 . The Green Software Foundation is building an ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software . Calero mentioned that software is now in a revolution due to artificial intelligence .

Diagrid's Founding Software Engineer, Joni Collinge, presented at QCon London . Collinge discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the company's Cloud platform . He said a deliberate design isolating machinery layers from business logic specifics can simplify this process .

Tracy Bannon, senior principal/software architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC), though currently it’s at the code completion rather than code generation phase . She compared the adoption of generative AI in software development with the transition from physical maps to (now) ubiquitous navigation software .

Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET . This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs . The distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default . The code is fully open-sourced and available on GitHub .

Laura Bell Main, author of Agile Application Security and founder of SafeStack, recently presented a webinar titled Decoding Dev Culture 2024 . Bell discussed the need for DevSecOps practioners to move away from an overfocus on SAST and other tooling . Bell said effective security ownership can be encouraged through improved communication, and positively impacting engineer productivity .

Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution . Shadow APIs are not under a company's control but are used by developers to save time on repetitive tasks, become less dependent on other teams, or fill a gap in the organization's existing approved APIs .

Blackwell is the largest GPU ever built, with over 200 billion transistors . It can train large language models up to 4x faster than previous generation hardware . Blackwell also supports a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to provide protection for sensitive data . NVIDIA also announced several new compute systems based on Blackwell .

Meta leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time . Ten million users downloaded the app on the first day, and 100 million in the first five days . The company is working on gradually separating the data models from Instagram's as the Threads service gains new functionality .

Modern Java enterprise testing requirements have become increasingly diverse, and the underlying technologies are evolving rapidly . Developers and quality engineers should embrace data-driven testing, rather than applying traditional rules of thumb The required changes in testing practices can be demonstrated using the Jakarta Data and Jakarta No.SQL specifications .

InfoQ Culture and Methods Culture &amp; Methods Trends Report is published by InfoQ and QCon international software development conferences . The report summarizes how the InfoQ editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space . We discuss evolving roles within teams, the way staff plus roles can add value, how remote and asynchronous work continues to evolve .

The InfoQ team is running a limited-time article writing competition with free tickets to our event for a limited time as prizes . The authors of the articles that raise the most interest and/or appreciation from the community will be rewarded with a ticket for an upcoming event: The contest will be open for submissions only during the established period: April 08 - May 10, 2024 .

JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 23 . Spring Framework 6.2.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and numerous new features . JEP 475, Late Barrier Expansion for G1, has been promoted from its JEP Draft to Candidate status .

Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products . He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence . The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning .

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated . CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner . It allows events to be transferred without abstracting away any of the respective protocols' capabilities . Clemens Vasters, a principal architect for messaging and stream processing at Microsoft&nbsp;and one of the drivers for Cloud Events .

Merge queues have been developed and scaled to manage over 30,000 pull requests and the corresponding 4.5 million CI executions . The merge queue system organizes pull requests into deployable batches, initiates builds and tests through GitHub Actions, and maintains the integrity of the main branch by preventing updates with failing commits .

Microsoft has announced an open-source project named Retina . Retina is a cloud-native container networking observability platform . Users can run Retina in any Kubernetes instance, on-premises, or in AWS, Azure, or GCP . It is not tied to Microsoft's Azure directly .

The opening day keynote of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon EU 2024 focused on the combination of AI and Kubernetes . It explored how the cloud native ecosystem can help with the computational needs that the Generative AI gold rush requires . The panel considered that the ecosystem will change as developers discover which is the best size of AI model for their scenario . The other message that was relayed throughout the keynotes was efficiency to balance the exuberance of AI .

Maaret Pyhäjärvi gave a keynote about the impact of testers and testing in software teams at HUSTEF 2023 . She said that through testing, we can change the product, change the experiences of our users and become better testers and programmers . Collaboration and having conversations between team members can result in valuable impact that changes the product .

Data continues to be a major force in architectural decisions . Organizations are adopting cell-based architectures that contain and isolate a set of related services . Cell-based architecture is a new addition to the trends graph, appearing in the innovators category . The InfoQ Trends Reports offer InfoQ readers a comprehensive overview of key topics worthy of attention .

Copilot for Security is a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) security product designed to help security and IT teams with the capabilities to protect their digital assets . Microsoft introduces a flexible, consumption-based pricing model with Copilot . The pricing is based on Security Compute Units (SCU), with an in-product dashboard providing detailed insights into usage patterns .

Nvidia has announced a new model to build intelligent humanoid robots . Dubbed GR00T, the model will understand natural language and be able to observe human actions and emulate human movements . The company has joined the Open Source Robotics Alliance, which aims to provide financial and industry support to the Robot Operating System (ROS)

Meta announced the design of two new AI computing clusters, each containing 24,576 NVIDIA H100s . The clusters are based on Meta's Grand Teton hardware platform . One cluster is currently used by Meta for training their next-generation Llama 3 model . The storage layer is based on a custom-built Tectonic filesystem, which supports the synchronized I/O needed to handle checkpoints from thousands of GPUs .

Microsoft has released version 8.0.0 of their open-source MAUI Community Toolkit . The new version adds touch animation behavior, a rewritten Snackbar component and many bug fixes . MAUI is an acronym that stands for Multiplatform Application UI . The project repository is hosted on GitHub and currently has 108 open issues .

Microsoft announced the general availability of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code last month . The extension offers a range of productivity features, including Code Editing powered by Roslyn and the ability to Debug Unity and Unity games . Developers benefit from Unity-specific C# Analyzers and Refactorings, providing specialized tools for Unity development .

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed container platform built on Google’s scalable infrastructure . By enabling containers to access storage bucket or file server content as though it were local, Google enhances file system semantics . This eliminates the need for complex solutions or alternative services previously required to access shared data .

bpftop is a command-line tool aimed at enhancing the optimization and monitoring of eBPF programs . It shows metrics such as the average duration of program execution, the number of events processed every second, and an approximation of the total CPU usage percentage for each program . The tool is created using the Rust programming language and makes use of the libbpf-rs and ratatui packages .

JEP 466, Class-File API (Second Preview), targeted for JDK 23, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted . The feature provides an API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files . It will initially serve as an internal replacement for ASM, the Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework, in the JDK .

A basic chatbot can be developed by adding a messaging user interface to your application . You can give the chatbot access to custom functionality in your application using OpenAI functions . To enable a better user experience, we can extend our chatbot by adding voice commands using the browser's MediaRecorder API coupled with OpenAI's speech transcription API .

Microsoft officially noted that .NET 7, a version of their open-source, cross-platform application framework released in November 2022, will reach its end of support on May 14, 2024 . Developers advised to transition to .NET 8 before the specified end-of-support date to ensure continued support . Microsoft states that persisting with an unsupported version exposes users to potential security vulnerabilities .

Kubecost 2.0 is a Kubernetes cost monitoring and management solution . New features include advanced Network Monitoring, automation workflows, machine learning cost forecasting, and a high-performance API backend . The new release is available for free and can be installed using Helm, making it an accessible solution .

Reddit hosts billions of posts containing different types of media content, such as images, videos, and embedded third-party media . Previously, Reddit sourced media metadata from various systems, including directly from AWS S3 . The new solution handles 100k+ requests per second with latency below 5ms (p90) Reddit also expects more media content to be uploaded in coming years .

Databricks launched DBRX, a new open-source large language model (LLM) that promises to redefine the standards of open models . The model was pretrained on a vast 12 trillion tokens of meticulously curated text and code data, leveraging advanced technologies like rotary position encodings and curriculum learning during pretraining .

Elastic will donate its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry project . Elastic uses eBPF technology to monitor the performance of applications across different languages and environments . It constructs stack traces that start from the kernel, pass through user space native code, and extend into code executed in higher-level runtimes . Elastic is an active member of the OTel community, especially in the Profiling Special Interest Group .

DBOS Cloud is the world's first cloud-native operating system and a database alternative to Kubernetes . The new platform assures transactional serverless computing, offering reliable execution alongside so-called time travel capabilities . A free tier and a programming guide covering idempotency and workflow execution on the serverless platform are now available .

Multimodal large language models are built by combining a large language model and a vision foundation model into a single model . MMLMs aim at consuming image and text inputs to generate text data in a way that outperforms the foundation models they build upon . Apple researchers focused on two aspects of the process that leads to create MLLMs: decisions about the model architecture and choices for pre-training data .

Honeycomb has experienced growth, steadily attracting more customers and facing the challenges of scaling . As the company navigated through these growing pains, it managed each new hurdle, learning and adapting . The organization’s infrastructure has remained robust, albeit showing signs of strain as it encounters new boundaries .

Redis has announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers . Cloud service providers hosting Redis offerings will no longer be permitted to use the source code of Redis free of charge .

The count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco join the boring, but safe project list Falco is a cloud-native security tool designed for Linux systems . Cilium Project is the first project from the cloud network space to graduate .

The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 . It allows users to provision infrastructure internal or external to the KuberNetes cluster directly from the control plane . Version 2.3 introduces three new annotations within the Workspace custom resource to facilitate workspace run initiation . This enables users to plan, apply, and refresh runs on workspaces .

CNCF incubated projects are the toys for which the community already vouches . Backstage is an internal developer portal that aggregates all the information a developer needs commits, PRs, build pipelines, documentation and others . Crossplane aims to improve its developer experience (DX) KubeFlow and Volcano are working on easier installation and more features .

Marijn Huizendveld spoke about taming technical debt at OOP 2023 Digital Summit . Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately and agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical debt . Good technical debt is intentional, enables benefits for the organisation and is controlled .

Elon Musk announced that xAI would make its AI chatbot Grok open source . The release of Grok as open source is a bold step that will open up new opportunities in AI research and development . This move enables researchers and developers to expand upon the model, influencing how xAI evolves Grok in the face of competition from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and others .

Microsoft recently launched the public preview of the Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench (MSWB) This fully-managed engineering environment enables secure user collaboration while protecting data and IP via multi-layered security and access control solutions . MSWB enables teams to quickly set up optimized infrastructure for engineering design and simulations in the cloud .

DigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS . The new capability should also help optimize performance and cost, says DigitalOcean . Autoscaling will continuously collect CPU metrics and compare the average CPU utilization across all containers against a pre-defined threshold . When CPU utilization over a given period exceeds the threshold, the current deployment is cloned to create new container instances .

Preview 4 brings improvements across various aspects of its framework, addressing key community requests . Notable additions include new database management tools for MySQL and MongoDB databases . Podman, a container engine without a daemon, is now supported in .NET Aspire Preview 4, allowing users to develop, manage, and run OCI Containers on Linux systems .

Aayush Mudgal, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, presented at QCon San Francisco 2023 a session on Unpacking how Ads Ranking Works at Pinterest . In it he walked through how Pinterest uses deep learning and big data to tailor relevant advertisements to their users .

Vitess provides a database management solution designed for the deployment, scaling, and administration of large clusters of open-source database instances . The Vitess Maintainer Team discussed the release&nbsp;in a blog post which was also shared on the CNCF website . Vitess is aligning with these updates by discontinuing support for MySQL 5.7 in this latest release .

Netflix recently published how its Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team provides an ecosystem around Metaflow, an open-source machine learning infrastructure framework . The engineering team explains their key to success: Given the very diverse set of ML and AI use cases we support, we don't expect all projects to follow the same path from prototype to production .

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration . The private preview is available via a sign-up page, and more information is available on the FAQ page . It is not currently recommended for production workloads (obviously it is in preview phase)

The open-source Dagger project, which aims to be CI/CD as code that runs anywhere, recently released version 0.10. This release introduces custom Dagger Functions, a feature that simplifies CI scripts while expanding possibilities for developers seeking cleaner, more efficient pipelines . Also announced is the Daggerverse - a searchable index for public Dagger Functions .

GraalVM for JDK 22 supports most of the JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) delivered in Java 22 . Generational ZGC, available since JDK 21, is not yet supported for Just In Time compilation, but targeted for version 24.1.0 .

Terraform now supports config-driven remove capability, a safer way to remove resources from the managed stack’s state data . The new version also comes with mock providers and overrides, as well as several other enhancements in the test framework . Mocking can significantly reduce the time required to run a test suite with many different permutations .

Terhi Aho gave a talk about the culture of experimentation at work at ScanAgile 2023 . An experimental culture in software organizations requires strong management support and psychological safety . Aho: Experimentation can be applied to any kind of organization, not only software organizations .

Google Cloud has launched Security Command Center (SSC) Enterprise, a cloud risk management solution that offers proactive cloud security with enterprise security operations . The solution helps customers manage and mitigate risk across multi-cloud environments and is enhanced by Mandiant expertise . Security teams can get a single view of their posture controls, active threats, cloud identities, data, and more .

Cellular architecture can provide significant benefits for customers and businesses, such as increased availability, resilience, and increased engineering velocity . Automating cellular infrastructure requires addressing key problems: isolation, new cell creation, deployment, permissions, and monitoring . Automation can be implemented by infrastructure as code (IaC) and build pipelines .

Oracle has released version 22 of the Java programming language and virtual machine, which ships with a final feature set of 12 JEPs . The release of JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 delivers bug fixes and enhancements and new features such as: support for Eclipse 4.30, Linux/AArch64 and dark mode .

Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 2 contains some updates regarding ASP.NET Core . Blazor component constructor injection and WebSocket compression for Blazor interactive server components . Developers can streamline authentication integration by customising OIDC and OAuth parameters and configuring HTTP.sys extended authentication flags .

Researchers from the University of Washington, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Allen Institute for AI have open-sourced SafeDecoding, a technique for protecting large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks . The researchers tested the technique on five open-source LLMs and evaluated its performance on six different jailbreaks .

Several new projects joined the CNCF sandbox in December across a range of categories: kube-burner in CI/CD, Kuasar in the container runtime, K8sgpt in the observability, KRKN in chaos engineering, easegress in API Gateway, spider pool in Cloud-native network and kubestellar in Scheduling and Orchestration .

Data storage and access at the edge deliver massive performance gains by reducing location-sensitive latency . Cloudflare operates a distributed cross-region database architecture, distributing Postgres across multiple regions for resilience and quick failovers . The Control Plane safeguards over 27 million internet properties, managing 46 million requests per second on average .

Decathlon established the Backend For Frontend (BFF) architectural pattern as a company-wide recommendation and provided guidelines for its adoption among engineering teams . The four-part series introduces the pattern and explores its benefits and potential pitfalls . The company also shares alternatives to using the BFF pattern and reviews architectural considerations .

SUSE has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio . The enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments . SUSE also announced improvements to SUSE Edge, an integrated, edge-optimized stack purpose-built for edge computing on an open-source foundation .

Netflix's experience with pricing architecture highlights the importance of anticipating future needs and adapting technology choices to avoid costly transitions . Despite technological advancements, scalability and consistency remain persistent, necessitating exploring solutions like caching with EVCache to maintain performance while managing trade-offs . The journey of managing Netflix's memberships reflects the wisdom of computer science principles .

AWS has introduced support for io2 Block Express volumes on Amazon RDS . Priced as the existing Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io1 volumes . The new volumes support up to 64 TiB of storage and up to 256K PIOPS, achieving a maximum throughput of 4K MiB/s .

The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes . The project has more than 1600 contributors, 2800 users, and 15 companies using it in production including Ligthbend, Swisscom, and IBM .

Oracle Linux team recently announced the release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8 . This release includes Kubernetes 1.28 and introduces support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures . The update brings a set of commands designed to manage logs for long-running Platform CLI operations .

Daytona is designed to start a fully configured development environment with a single command . Developers can initiate coding instantly by typing /# and the name of the Git repository . Daytona is available on GitHub and offers a community Slack . The announcement of the open-source project has received mixed feedback from the community .

Discord engineers shifted from using MacBooks to working on machines in a remote development environment . The team realized the need for a single Linux-based development environment, Coder . Coder's remote development extension for VS Code was beneficial in this scenario . The migration was also set with a firm cutover date, simultaneously encouraging staff to switch to Coder.

Actionforge provides a visual, node-based interface to create and maintain GitHub Action workflows masking their underlying YAML textual definition . Packaged as an extension for Visual Studio Code, the tool does not require any external services . Free for non-commercial public GitHub repositories, while commercial and private repositories will be required to pay for its use .

Microsoft recently introduced .NET Smart Components, UI controls which offer AI-powered features to boost development productivity within .NET applications . These components are designed to simplify the integration of AI capabilities into existing .NET . Components are currently in the experimental phase, and initially available for Blazor, MVC, and Razor Pages .

Pingora has processed almost one quadrillion Internet requests through Cloudflare's extensive network to date . The Rust-based framework has been open-sourced under the Apache License version 2.0 . Pingora's multi-threaded architecture ensures fast and efficient performance, saving significant CPU and memory resources .

Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications . Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization . GraphQL query optimization, including horizontal and vertical slicing and asynchronous query execution, achieved big latency gains .

Software engineers may need to decide between going into management or staying in a tech position . Good communication abilities, experience in building relationships, knowing how to design something, and being able to solve problems, are some of the skills that you can reuse in your management position . In a staff+ you can combine engineering and people management responsibilities and remain involved in deep technical issues and problem-solving .

Oracle has released version 22 of the Java programming language and virtual machine . It is the first non-LTS release since JDK 21 . The feature cadence for JDK 22 is similar to that of the previous releases dating back four years to JDK 14 with the exception of JDK 18, JDK 19 and JDK 20 . Two of these - Foreign Function &amp; Memory API and Unnamed Variables and Patterns - have completed their respective rounds of previews .

Node.js web application framework AdonisJS has released its latest major release . Notable highlights include a transition to ECMAScript Modules (ESM) and TypeScript . The release also introduces a new validation library called VineJS, Vite integration for bundling frontend assets, and an overhauled scaffolding system .

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users . The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache . The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing .

Microsoft has officially made On Your Data generally available in Azure OpenAI Service . This feature enables users to harness the full power of OpenAI models, including GPT-4, and seamlessly integrate the advanced features of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model with their data . Users can leverage the feature for real-time document searches, analyze legal papers, generate sample code, and offer health advice .

Amazon Web Services has introduced new tools to simplify infrastructure management for its customers . The IaC Generator allows engineers to create CloudFormation templates based on pre-existing resources and their relationships . Engineers can use this configuration to import resources into an existing stack or create a new one from scratch .

Eric Evans, author of Domain-Driven Design, argued that software designers need to look for innovative ways to incorporate large language models into their systems . Evans believes there can be good combinations of DDD and AI-oriented software . He encouraged everyone to start learning about LLMs and conducting experiments now .

Google has announced a new text-to-speech engine for Wear OS, its Android variant aimed at smartwatches and other wearables . The new engine turns text into natural-sounding speech across more than 50 languages powered by Google’s machine learning (ML) technology . It can be used on devices running Wear OS 4, released last July, or higher .

eBay's AI endeavors have uncovered three pivotal avenues toward enhancing developer productivity: integrating commercial offerings, fine-tuning existing Large Language Models (LLMs) and harnessing an internal knowledge network . eBayCoder, a bespoke model trained on the organization's proprietary data (code base and documentation) showcases the potential for LLM customization in addressing nuanced challenges unique to eBay's ecosystem .

GitHub has started upgrading the Linux and Windows Action runners to 4-vCPU virtual machines with 16 GiB of memory, doubling their previous capacity . This enhanced infrastructure allows for a performance increase of up to 25% on most CI/CD tasks . GitHub Actions has been available at no cost for public repositories since its launch in 2019 .

Hubber Codespace (HCS) is a tool aimed at streamlining the inner-loop development process within GitHub's distributed service ecosystem . HCS is a Docker Compose project designed to locally stand up the entire GitHub ecosystem . GitHub empowers developers to build, test, and deploy code with increased efficiency and reliability .

WildFly has released WildFly 31, which delivers support for Jakarta MVC 2.1 and WildFly Glow, a Maven plugin . Glow analyzes the usage of subsystems and suggests a lightweight runtime, e.g., running in Docker containers . WildFly also introduces stability levels so users can choose features more carefully for use cases .

There is a surge in interest in zero-knowledge proofs, particularly in the context of blockchain-based decentralized systems . Zero-knowledge proof can be used to demonstrate knowledge of various secret solutions, such as hash preimages, private keys for public keys, or specific transactions for maintaining blockchain integrity .

The Vesuvius Challenge is to read the text of papyrus scrolls recovered from a town buried by the eruption of Vesuius in 79 C.E. The winning team used an ensemble of AI models to read text from a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years ago . Their code was able to decipher about 5% of the letters recorded in one of the scrolls .

Oracle introduces JEP Draft 8327844, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) and Hot Code Heap . BellSoft has released Alpaquita Containers with CRaC with support for Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) Infinispan 15; the March 2024 edition of Payara Platform; the first release candidate of JobRunr 7.0 .

OpenAI has unveiled a tool called the Transformer Debugger (TDB) designed to provide insights into the inner workings of transformer models . The tool was developed by OpenAI's Superalignment team and combines automated interpretability techniques with sparse autoencoders . It can be used to answer questions like, Why does the model output token A instead of token B for this prompt?

Distributed Functions is a feature that automatically distributes Static Web Apps’ managed functions to regions of high demand based on user traffic load . By distributing functions across different regions, developers can reduce network latency for requests to their backend-managed functions . This can be especially useful in the context of request pre-processing, where network latency is critical to providing a good user experience .

The company split the resource creation process into two phases (creation and stabilization), which allows for creating other resources in the stack earlier . The change is available in all regions and doesn’t require any user action . If resource creation fails, it is retried once the stabilization phase of the dependent resource is completed .

Gleam is an actor-based highly-concurrent functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) Gleam's concurrency system can run millions of tasks concurrently and scale easily thanks to immutable data and a garbage collector that never stops the world . Gleam can also run on JavaScript runtimes, making it possible to run Gleam code in the browser, on mobile devices, or anywhere else .

AWS has announced free egress traffic for customers leaving the cloud and withdrawing their data from the AWS infrastructure . This initiative follows the guidelines of the European Data Act and is designed to help customers switch to alternative cloud providers or on-premises data centers . Customers can request free DTO for additional data by contacting support . The waiver does not apply to services like CloudFront, Direct Connect, Snow Family, or Global Accelerator .

Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) is a new Android API that uses signals from motion sensors embedded in a smartphone to provide consistent and reliable device orientation . The main advantage of using FOP is its ability to mix signals from the magnetometer to those coming from the accelerometer and gyroscope, which were already used for the Android Rotation Vector .

Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood during QCon San Francisco 2023 . This article represents the talk, which will start with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals .

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) can be used to make technical decisions, both large and small . AHP’s approach to weighting alternatives (options) against criteria and the criteria against a goal helps to remove emotion from the analysis . The results of AHP are valuable to include in Architecture Decision Records to help explain why a decision was reached .

AWS announced general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source command-line tool . Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS . With the new support, Windows developers who develop containers can now easily set up Finch .

Continuous discovery is regular customer research that involves the entire software product team . Combining quantitative and qualitative research methods can help software teams gather data and understand what is behind the data . Neil Turner spoke about how Redgate does continuous discovery for product development at Agile Cambridge 2023 . Teams have learned there is no set approach to continuous discovery and that it isn’t the answer to every research question .

PHP 8.3 is one of the most widely used scripting languages on the web with 77.3% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known using it . PHP 8 brings many new features and other improvements, which we shall explore in this article series .

Freenginx aims to be a drop-in replacement of Nginx, run by developers rather than corporate entities . Nginx is open-source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming . Ngnix remains the leading web server serving 23.21% of all sites .

McDonald’s talked about how they leveraged GitHub Actions to emphasize readability, maintainability, and reduce code duplication . Their goals included establishing a streamlined CI process, enhancing developer productivity, and implementing pipeline observability and monitoring . This approach establishes a central golden path for essential steps while enabling developers to add new stages independently .

Version 3.0 releases of Micronaut and Quarkus Blueprints for JHipster, introducing the Jox Channel library, first release candidate of Infinispan 15.0 . JetBrains Ktor has released version 2.3.9 of Ktor, the asynchronous framework for creating microservices and web applications .

Microsoft has released Dev Proxy v0.15.0, featuring a range of enhancements aimed at streamlining app development processes . The most notable addition is the ability to mock CRUD APIs secured with Microsoft Entra . Other additions are related to the simulation of OAuth flows, improved monitoring URLs, improved support of CORS, custom commands and more .

Swift 5.10 adds a new flag -strict-concurrency=complete that will make it detect potential data races at compile time . This means that isolation violations that were detected at runtime and produced an assert are now flagged as potential programming errors by the Swift . The new stricter behavior includes the possibility of false positives, meaning correct code that will be mistakenly flagged by the compiler .

Agile is an empirical approach to delivering valuable increments of a product, while Lean is an approach to improving the flow of work by reducing waste and improving cycle time . Lean is optimized for an environment in which requirements are mostly certain and the problem that needs to be solved is well-defined . Lean and agile practices help a team to develop the architecture for a software product .

Procedural macros are a powerful tool for manipulating Rust code . But in more advanced use cases, the standard tools that syn provides might prove lacking . In this article, we will demonstrate these shortcomings through a toy example . We will first show the kind of code you would normally write . Afterwards we will turn to the Fold trait, which makes the code more elegant .

Falco is a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine . Falco allows defining rules that use Sysdig’s filtering expressions to identify potentially suspicious activity . The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining software licensing approvals .

Eagle 7B is based on the Receptance Weighted Key Value (RWKV) architecture, described as an attention-free Transformer . The architecture has also been benchmarked as the most energy-efficient, measured by joules per token . The code is available on GitHub, and the model weights on Huggingface .

The site will start phasing out reader commenting features across the website by March 18th, 2024 . This will remove functionality like: Commenting on posts, Following comment threads, Getting notifications about comments from users you follow . The legal requirements make user commenting practically impossible for international publishers . Spam has grown exponentially. There are dedicated services where communities have discussions .

Cloudflare recently announced a new capability called Firewall for AI in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) offering . The capability adds a new layer of protection that will identify abuse and attacks before they reach and tamper with Large Language Models (LLMs) The capability includes existing WAF features like rate limitation and sensitive data detection, as well as a new protection layer currently in development .

Data Solutions Framework (DSF) is an opinionated open-source framework designed to accelerate the creation of data solutions on AWS . Built using the AWS CDK, the framework exposes abstractions and patterns as building blocks for constructing data solutions and is available in TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPi)

InfoQ Dev Summit Boston will feature 20+ technical talks by senior software practitioners over two days, with parallel breakout sessions emphasizing the essential topics development teams should prioritize now . Early bird savings and team discounts are available until April 16 . Learn about Generative AI, security, and modern web applications in a curated agenda .

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 is an open-source Jakarta EE-compliant platform . Jakarta EE 10 has undergone several changes, the most significant being the modification of the package namespace for Jakarta EE APIs . The legacy security subsystems, PicketBox and PicketLink, were removed in this edition of JBoss EAP .

Apple announced a new encryption protocol that will be used to secure iMessage communications . PQ3 is designed to function securely in post-quantum scenarios such as harvest now, decrypt later Apple researchers defined their own taxonomy of end-to-end encryption algorithms .

The beta release of jQuery 4.0 is a large release with numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and some breaking changes . IE&lt;11 browsers are no longer supported, many APIs have been removed . The new release aligns the ordering of focus events on that of browsers, and now supports FormData .

Google recently announced that BigQuery now supports vector search . The new functionality enables vector similarity search required by data and AI use cases such as semantic search, similarity detection, and retrieval-augmented generation with a large language model (LLM) Google also announced that Gemini 1.0 Pro is now accessible for BigQuery customers via Vertex AI .

Uber replaced the legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions . The main drivers for creating a new architecture were scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution . The new architecture consists of the front-end UI used by agents and a few back-end microservices .

The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into content management platforms used by the company . The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (Postgres) for storage .

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 - 17.10 Preview 1 . This update introduces notable enhancements across multiple areas including productivity, C++, game development, and also the Teams and Microsoft 365 development tools . It introduces features such as Contextual Understanding and Slash Commands for Common Tasks, simplifying coding processes . Inline Chat facilitates real-time collaboration among developers .

GitHub's Copilot Enterprise plan is a $39/month version of its code completion tool and developer-centric chatbot for large businesses . Copilot offers features like autocomplete-style suggestions within their integrated development environment (IDE) It integrates with Microsoft's Bing search engine (in beta) and will soon allow users to refine Copilot's models using their team's existing codebase .

Mistral AI has made its Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock . These models aim to offer users a broader selection of high-performing models for building generative AI applications . Mistral models extract the essence from lengthy articles, facilitating quick grasping of key ideas and core messaging .

BASE TTS supports voice-cloning and outperforms baseline TTS models when evaluated by human judges . Amazon's experiments show that scaling model and data size improves the subjective quality of the model's output . Base TTS is an autoregressive Transformer, similar to large language models . The model is trained on 100k hours of unlabeled speech audio scraped from the web .

Glasskube is an open-source emerging project in this domain with its first release (v0.0.1) The cloud-native approach offers a user-friendly experience with a graphical user interface (GUI) and shell autocompletion . The central package registry and housing package manifests, forms the nucleus of the Glasskub package ecosystem . Future versions will expand support to 3rd party registries .

GUAC provides a tool and underlying API to analyse and visualise software bill of materials (SBOM) and threat intelligence feeds to determine whether vulnerabilities impact an application . The project was created by Kusari, Google, Purdue University and Citi, and is supported by financial services and technology companies, including Yahoo! Microsoft, Red Hat, Guidewire, and ClearAlpha Technologies .

Written in Rust, Lapce sports a native GUI leveraging GPU acceleration and an extensible plugin system based on WASI . It comes with support for syntax highlighting, code completion, and code diagnostics . Lapce supports remote development by allowing you to connect to a remote machine all but giving you the same experience as when you work with a local project .

Corstian Boerman gave a talk about how complex software impacts our cognitive abilities at NDC Oslo 2023 . Since our memory is finite and fallible, there is a limit to our comprehension of complex systems . Boerman argues that software development should become boring . He suggests moving infrastructure out of the way so that it does not burden the day-to-day development process .

Testing machine learning applications is like testing with a Black Box mentality . Data is the key to any trained functionality . Testing should be independent and have a fresh approach to any code or functionality . We need to create independent test sets and not rely on the verification part in training .

Claude 3 family consists of three distinct models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus . Opus outperforms GPT-4's 35.7% by a significant 14.7%. Opus achieves 95% in basic math tests, surpassing GPT 4's 92%, and scores 86.8% in MMLU knowledge .

The use of managed relational databases has surged recently due to benefits in hosting, scalability, and cost . Cloud computing has become as ubiquitous as real clouds . Using any managed services is fairly trivial once a company adopts a public cloud, and databases are just one click away . This article is about the hidden cost of using managed services .

Slack engineer Sean McIlroy explains how they moved from having a rota of developers supervising deployments of their Webapp to using a bot to deploy these 150 changes a day . ReleaseBot's effectiveness lies in its anomaly detection mechanisms, particularly through the use of z-scores . This allows Slack to filter out routine variations while flagging genuine anomalies that warrant intervention . The transition from manual to automated deployments was gradual .

Apple open-sourced Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a configuration-as-code language . Pkl has the the goal of streamlining configuration management by serving as a command-line utility, software library, or build plugin . It enables the generation of static configuration files in various formats or integration as a library .

Software developers tend to forget to do things they don’t have to think about every day . This can cause delays or impact the functionality of the product during a software project . To prevent overlooking something, Ilian Iliev suggested automating deployment, setting up error logging, and using lists and reminders of things that were forgotten previously .

AWS has announced new features in CodePipeline, their managed continuous delivery service facilitating automated release pipelines for application and infrastructure updates . These additions aim to support teams employing various delivery strategies, providing customers with more flexibility in their pipeline designs . The process of setting up these pipelines involves configuring triggers and execution modes within the AWS Management Console .

Uber developed an innovative caching solution for its in-house distributed database, Docstore . CacheFront enables over 40M reads per second from online storage and achieves substantial performance improvements . Uber's engineers leveraged Docstore's integrated Change Data Capture (CDC) engine to handle cache invalidation . Uber can make the cache consistent within seconds of database change, as opposed to minutes, by using standard Time-to-Live mechanisms .

Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully-managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering . The cloud solution was publicly previewed in October 2022 and received several updates later . With the GA release, the company included new features that enable the investigation of performance and capacity metrics .

JDK 22, the first non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate phase . The main-line source repository, forked to the JDK stabilization repository in mid-December 2023 (Rampdown Phase One) defines the feature set for the new JDK . The final set of 12 new features, in the form of JEPs, can be separated into four (4) categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, HotSpot and Java Tools .

CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM) Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged . Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as main factors for overspending .

Android Studio Iguana brings several new features to Android Studio, including better integration with Crashlytics . Compose UI Check is a new tool aimed at helping developers build adaptive and accessible UIs in Jetpack Compose . The new progressive rendering, which reduces render quality to make view rendering faster, also improves rendering for Compose views .

Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.27 with Java support, synchronized file shares, support for TestContainers with Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI), Docker Build Cloud, Docker Debug and more . The list of supported languages now includes Go, Node.js, Rust, and ASP.NET .

Cloudflare detected a threat actor on their self-hosted Atlassian server on Thanksgiving Day 2023 . The threat actor engaged in intelligence gathering from November 14 to 17, obtaining access to internal wikis and bug databases . They returned on November 22, gaining persistent access to Atlassian servers and attempting to access source code management systems . CrowdStrike's Forensic team was brought in for an independent analysis and the analysis was completed in early February 2024 .

Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics . The team adopted the Boy Scout rule to improve the code quality by refactoring and test automation while not stopping all the feature work .

Deno 1.40 implements upcoming JavaScript’s Temporal API for advanced date and time operations . The API addresses shortcomings in JavaScript's Date object . JavaScript's decorator proposal is also Stage 3 and enables developers to extend JavaScript classes . The proposal is expected to be the final version that will ultimately get added to the specification .

TimesFM is trained on nearly 100B data points and has zero-shot forecasting performance comparable to or better than supervised-learning models . TimesFM uses a decoder-only transformer architecture similar to large language models like ChatGPT . Google did note plans to make the model available in their Vertex AI platform later this year

Gemma, a new open source AI model, was developed using the technology that underpinned Google's Gemini AI models . Available in two configurations, Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, this open-source AI model offers pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants to operate efficiently on standard computing devices such as laptops and desktops .

Software engineering is anything but just an act of programming: it requires analysis, continuous delivery, API integration, maintenance, collaboration, and above all: a creative endeavor . As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team . Different levels of creativity influence the individual, the team, and the company, which strategies can support creative problem-solving .

Java roundup highlights JEP 468, Derived Record Creation (Preview) JEP is promoted from its JDK Draft 8321133 to Candidate status . End-of-life planned for the Spring Framework 6.0 and 5.3 release trains . New point releases for Apache Kafka, Quarkus and JReleaser .

Jarred Sumner, CEO and founder of Bun Shell, recently announced the release of a cross-platform shell . This release aims to simplify the execution of shell scripts in JavaScript and TypeScript . It provides a bash-like environment that delivers features such as globbing, environment variables, redirection, piping, and more .

Loco is inspired by The One Person Framework, a blog post by David Heinemeier Hansson that promotes the idea of a toolkit powerful enough for a single individual to create modern applications . Loco 0.3.1 is the latest version, with 16 minor versions shipped since November 2023 . It follows the same principles as Ruby on Rails but for developers programming in Rust .

Oracle has released Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, its own build of the open source Micronaut framework . This version brings support for Java 21 and includes cloud integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), new guides for GCP, launcher and client updates, and more .

LLRT is an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications . The company claims LLRT offers up to over ten times faster startup and up to two times lower cost than other JavaScript runtimes running on AWS Lambda . LLRT does not include a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler, which reduces system complexity and runtime size .

Airbnb engineers moved their iOS development pipeline to Bazel . Bazel and Buck share some similarities, including a comparable directory structure, similar command line invocation, and most significantly use the same configuration language, Starlark . The new Bazel-based build system reduced build times, especially for incremental builds and enabled further optimizations to improve sharing and collaboration .

Microsoft announced Sudo for Windows will be available the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 . This tool transforms how users execute elevated commands directly from an elevated console session . Microsoft suggests for users seeking extended functionality not already implemented in Sudo, Gerardo Grignoli's gsudo as a compelling alternative .

Anton Angelov gave a talk about the essential role that moral values play in shaping software individuals and society as a whole at QA Challenge Accepted 2023 . Angelov believes that it is crucial for the QA industry to have a strong ethical framework to ensure quality and accountability in software development . The rise of technological advances, globalization, and demographic changes pose challenges to maintaining moral values in software delivery .

The secret to getting more done is to commit to less work . Humans are terrible multi-taskers . The more stuff we have going on, the less focus we can give to any single piece of work . Get work moving first, then think about how to reduce team size without compromising flow .

Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations . Grab leveraged AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH) to minimize the disruption to Kafka clients by draining the worker node, which triggers a graceful shutdown of the Kafka process with a SIGTERM signal . Engineers decided to use Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes instead of NVMe instance storage volumes .

Google announced that their Bard chatbot chatbot will now be called Gemini . The company also announced the launch of Gemini Advanced, the largest version of their language model, along with two new mobile apps for interacting with the model . Google also announced that the Ultra model will be released as Gemini Advanced and will be available as part of their One AI Premium plan .

OpenAI has released two new embedding models and updates to GPT-4 Turbo . The company also announced improvements to their free text moderation tool and to their developer API management tools . The new release includes two new models: text-embedding-3-small, and large . API calls to these models can specify smaller dimensions for desired dimensions .

ChatGPT has added memory function to allow it to remember conversations with context . Users will be able to ask what to remember explicitly, what to forget, or turn off the feature entirely . OpenAI says they may use memories to improve GPT training, but standard users are free to opt out .

Preview 3 brings changes including UI improvements to the dashboard, and new component support for Azure OpenAI, Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, CosmosDB &amp; Orleans, and many more . The dashboard now functions as a standalone executable, communicating via gRPC to retrieve information regarding projects, containers, statuses and logs .

AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead . Analysts from Grafana Labs, Dynatrace and Logz.io have published their observability predictions for 2024 . These contributions suggest that the fieldsd of AI integration, Fin Ops, Open telemetry and security will influence observability in the future .

Docker Build Cloud offers a remote shared cache and native builders for AMD64 and ARM64 CPU architectures . The Docker Builder is responsible for converting a series of instructions in a Dockerfile to an image . Docker is a virtualisation technology that provides a loosely isolated environment for an application at runtime .

This week's Java roundup for February 12th, 2024 features news highlighting: new JEP candidates, JEP 465 and JEP 466 . The first milestone and point releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data, Micrometer and Project Reactor, Hibernate Search 7.1.0-RC1 and Infinispan 15.0.0 .

Moshe Kolodny has introduced a novel approach to front-end web testing . SafeTest orchestrates a test runner, a browser automation library, a UI framework, and dependency injection capabilities to alleviate the pain points of traditional UI testing methods . It is currently used at Netflix .

Zurich Insurance Group streamlined its Cloud Adoption Strategy by using the Scalable Account Vending solution, automating the process of setting up new AWS environments easily . Zurich launched a multi-year initiative aimed at fast-tracking its digital transformation and innovation by moving 1,000 workloads, including essential insurance and SAP tasks to AWS . Zurich's shift to self-service DevSecOps for infrastructure meant setting up DevSec Ops environments in Azure DevOps and Terraform Cloud for workloads lacking them .

ScaleOps claims to reduce cloud costs by up to 80% with a fully automated platform that manages cloud-native resources during runtime . Platform ensures that application scaling aligns with real-time demand, dynamically allocating resources and automatically right-sizing containers based on application needs . The company plans to use a recent funding round to expand into the US and Europe .

ByteDance has unveiled KubeAdmiral, its next-generation cluster federation system for Kubernetes . It is designed to manage multiple clusters with the efficiency and effectiveness comparable to a seasoned navy admiral commanding a fleet The system is currently managing over 100,000 microservices with more than 10,000,000 pods .

Uber created a new load-shedding library for its microservice platform, serving over 130 million customers and handling aggregated peaks of millions of requests per second (RPSs) The company replaced the solution based on QALM with Cinnamon library . The library uses a modified TCP-Vegas algorithm to adjust the capacity of the service .

DevOps has morphed from nice to have to must have for any company that needs to move quickly from idea to production to product in users' hands . Platform engineering is not brand new; it’s an emerging model focused on not only simplifying developers’ lives, but also empowering them with a set of gold-standard tools .

Idempotence, also called idempotency, is a fundamental principle that is pivotal in ensuring software systems’ predictability, reliability, and consistency . This article will demonstrate how this is achieved with AWS Lambda functions, regardless of how the concept is replicable to any serverless service .

Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 support Java 21, Java’s latest LTS version, while Java 17 remains the baseline . Spring Boot, a popular framework for new Java applications, will turn 10 in April 2024, while Spring Framework will turn 20 in March 2024 . Virtual threads make concurrent programming simpler and more efficient with virtual threads .

Foundations is a powerful Rust library for building distributed, production-grade systems . The open-source project, now available on GitHub, empowers engineers to focus on core business logic rather than getting bogged down by intricate production operation setups . Foundations address challenges that emerge when transitioning from a simple local prototype to a full-fledged service in a production environment .

Red Hat has announced a revised pricing tied to vCPU count for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployments across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud . The updated pricing will be effective on April 1st and has sparked concerns among certain users . The pricing adjustment will help customers implement auto-scaling and elasticity in their deployments .

Google announced Gemini 1.5, the next generation of its AI model . The new model can process up to 1 million tokens and has expanded multimodal capabilities . Google CEO Sundar Pichai: This allows use cases where you can add a lot of personal context and information at the moment of the query

TypeScript 5.4 beta features improved type inference, a new NoInfer utility type, and breaking changes . TypeScript also adds declarations for JavaScript’s new Object.groupBy and Map .groupBy static methods . Developers can refer to the release note (Preserved Narrowing in Closures Following Last Assignments)

Real-Time Channel (RTC) powers simultaneous editing and collaboration inside Office documents . The service is built on top of the SignalR web sockets library with added functionality for session management, notifications and routing . Microsoft achieved 30% CPU reduction, 60% memory reduction, and 50% API latency reduction compared to original service .

AWS announced the general availability (GA) of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK – an open source project), which enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormations stacks or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application .

Erika Chestnut gave a keynote about developing a quality culture at Testing United 2023 . A culture of quality within a software organization is characterized by a pervasive and steadfast commitment to excellence in every aspect of its operations . A data-driven approach underpins the quality initiatives, ensuring decisions are informed by accurate and meaningful insights .

NVIDIA has expanded its Nvidia Metropolis Microservices Cloud-based AI solution to run on the NVIDIA Jetson embedded platform . The new extensions for Jetson support video storage and media management, tracking algorithms, system monitoring, and IoT services for edge-to-cloud connectivity, as well as microservices for login, authentication, secure access to device APIs, and analytics .

Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API . The GA release is a follow-up to the public preview launch in April 2023 . Developers can benefit from higher query limits compared to existing Azure Resource Manager APIs, as it allows up to 360,000 calls per hour . A single batch API call can accommodate up to 50 resource IDs, allowing a client application to consume more metric data .

Instacart combined machine learning with event-based processing to create an architecture that provides customers with an indication of item availability in near real-time . The new solution helped to improve user satisfaction and retention by reducing order cancellations due to out-of-stock items .

HCP Vault Radar is a secret scanning product that focuses on the proactive discovery of unmanaged or leaked secrets . The product is currently in a private beta program, and organizations interested in participating can sign up for updates to be considered for inclusion . The beta release expands on the data sources that can be used, now including Git-based version control systems .

The upcoming InfoQ events stand as a platform to help you stay ahead, learn valuable insights, and find practical solutions to your development challenges in 2024 and beyond . Our conference schedule for this year includes: QCon London (April 8-10) InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-22) Munich (Sept 24)

Developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing . Designed to reduce overhead of managing large and complex AWS deployments, the account-level subscription filter applies to both existing log groups and any future log groups that match the configuration .

Grafana 10.3.0 and 10.2.1 are being simultaneously released . The release introduces a range of enhancements for visualization, instance management, alerting, and log analysis . These upgrades include improved tooltips and zoom functionality for data navigation . Users can now track metric changes over time in stat panels, enabling an easier understanding of metric growth .

Researchers at Microsoft and GitHub Inc. conducted an in-depth study into the challenges, opportunities, and needs associated with building AI-powered product copilots . The research involved interviews with 26 professional software engineers from various companies responsible for developing these advanced tools . The race to embed advanced AI capabilities into products is on, with virtually every technology company looking to add these features to their software .

Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half . Pinterest uses messaging infrastructure throughout its platform, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and MemQ . The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it .

JDK 21 has entered its first release candidate as there are no unresolved P1 bugs in Build 35 of the JDK 22 early-access builds . The anticipated GA release is scheduled for March 19, 2024 . The final set of 12 features for the GA release in March 2024 will include: JEP 423: Region Pinning for G1; JEP 447: Statements before super(...) (Preview)

JEP 460, Vector API (Seventh Incubator), has been Closed / Delivered for JDK 22 . This JEP incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from previous six rounds of incubation . The most significant change from JEP 448 includes an enhancement to the JVM Compiler Interface (JVMCI) to support Vector API values .

European Commission Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to regulate the gatekeeper power of digital companies . Apple has published a set of complex rules, policies, and new APIs developers should adopt to comply with DMA . Developers, though, will be required to pay a new Core Technology Fee if they do .

Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients . For outbound traffic in V1 tiers, manual activation of the protocol will be required . The rollout will occur progressively across regions . An update will be released in the coming weeks for the enabling or disabling of ciphers of traffic through various channels such as the Azure Portal, ARM API, CLIs, and SDKs .

Ben Greenberg, head of DevRel at Fuel Labs, Ben Stratton and Matt Stratton discussed the skills required to be an effective manager homing in on local context . Stratton has had to coach senior ICs to appreciate that management requires a range of orthogonal skills . James Stanier, author of Become an Effective Software Manager, has refined his approach to managing software .

Microsoft's Copilot Studio is an end-to-end conversational AI platform that empowers IT professionals and makers to create and customize copilots using natural language or a graphical interface . Microsoft 365 Copilot can also delegate the natural language understanding to Azure AI Language Studio’s tools . Copilots can provide a natural language interface to an application programming interface .

MIT's Collins Lab used an explainable deep-learning model to discover chemical compounds which could fight MRSA bacteria . The model uses graph algorithms to identify chemical compounds that are likely to have antibiotic properties . Additional models predict whether or not the chemicals would be harmful to humans . By applying these models to over 12M compounds, the team created a list of 3,600 compounds that were likely to be antibiotic yet unlikely to be toxic .

Apache Pekko is an open-source framework designed to simplify the development of concurrent, distributed, resilient, and elastic applications . It originated as a fork of Akka 2.6.x, preceding Akka's adoption of the Business Source License . The actor model allows developers to think about their code in terms of communication between actors, similar to exchanges in a large organization .

OpenAI's Sora is a new text-to-video generation AI model to create videos from textual prompts . The new model is able to create photorealistic videos up to 60 seconds long leveraging its ability to understand how things exist in the real world and combine multiple shots together without character or style disruption .

This article, based on my talk at QCon SF in October of 2023, shares some of the frameworks I've used to foster productive and empowered teams that can thrive amidst change . It provides some examples of how I’ve integrated the frameworks together . In just the last three years, we've faced pandemic, war, return to work, macroeconomic conditions, the Great Resignation, and now generational AI .

DoorDash created a configuration management platform to help its logistics team maintain the growing number of business preferences and configuration values . The company used CockroachDB for persistence and simplified the architecture compared with the previous solution . The new platform enables experimentation, improves configuration value lifecycle and provides flexibility and extendibility .

OpenSilver was launched in October 2021 by a French company . It is an open-source, MIT-licensed reimplementation of Silverlight . It compiles .NET and XAML code into HTML5 and WebAssembly . The integration of F# includes support for F# code-behind files for the .xAML pages .

Technical debt is often caused by a deadline where you have to rush the code and you don’t have the time to do it properly, says Nedelcho Nikolov . To prioritise technical debt, development teams can show how much time we can save if we invest now, and how complicated the software will become in the future if we don't repay technical debt now .

Digital transformation has led to sophisticated fraud methods like synthetic identities and deep fakes, escalating rapidly due to changes in economic activities and consumer behavior . Traditional fraud detection systems face challenges in scalability, data balance, and require significant manual input, struggling to adapt to new fraud patterns . Generative AI revolutionizes fraud detection with its adaptive learning abilities, capability to handle large data sets, improved anomaly detection, and reduction in false positives . Combining adaptability, fraud pattern analysis, and contextual understanding in fraud detection .

Chat with RTX allows users to train a large language model with their own data . By feeding the app personal content, users can cultivate a chatbot tailored to their specific needs and knowledge base, unlocking a new level of personalized interaction . The app operates entirely on a local Windows PC or workstation, offering enhanced data privacy .

Java roundup for January 29th, 2024 features news highlighting: LibericaJDK 21 with support for RISC-V . Gradle 8.6, LangChain4j 0.26, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.10, and multiple releases of Open Liberty and Eclipse Vert.x .

JEP 458, Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs, has been Closed/Delivered for JDK 22 . This JEP proposes to enhance the Java Launcher to execute an application supplied as one or more files of Java source code . This allows a more gradual transition from small applications to larger ones by postponing a full-blown project setup .

Microsoft has released a preview version of the SharePoint Embedded extension for Visual Studio Code . The extension enables developers to set up Azure Entra app registrations for SharePoint . It also helps manage free trial container types, create guest apps, load sample apps, and export settings for use with the Share point Embedded Postman Collection . Users must log in to an existing Microsoft 365 tenant with administrative privileges .

Microsoft recently introduced the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension in public review . This extension improves the developer experience for both workloads that are running on the Edge, and services that are built to be published on the Azure Marketplace . A developer can deploy an Arc-enabled environment, learn Arc technologies and deploy to an AKS cluster for testing .

Pinecone announced the public preview of its new serverless vector database, designed to reduce infrastructure management costs while improving the accuracy of generative AI applications . The segregation of reads, writes, and storage significantly reduces expenses for workloads of all types and sizes . The new option has been well received by the community, with developers asking for higher read limits and options to move a workload to serverless .

AWS has been charging every public IPv4 address used by customers for $0.005 USD per hour . The new charge has been implemented universally, across all AWS regions and services, including EC2 instances, RDS databases, EKS nodes, and other service-managed public IP addresses . AWS is estimated to generate an extra annual revenue between 400 million and $1 billion USD .

Google has extended its experimental AI-powered, Cloud-based, shared workspace Project IDX with the introduction of integrated iOS simulator and Android emulator, new project templates, better integration with the Nix package manager . New project templates include support for Astro, Go, Python/Flask, Qwik, Lit, Preact, Solid.js, and Node.js .

The key to effective data residency lies in understanding customer motivations, often unrelated to GDPR . Engaging with various stakeholders helps uncover specific project requirements and tailor data residency to meet customer needs . The core concept is to distribute data, ensuring that specific sets are housed in distinct regions without any shared overlap – a practice referred as data residency .

JEP 455, under the auspices of Project Amber, proposes to enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns in all pattern contexts, and extend instanceof and switch to work with all primitive types . This proposal allows developers to directly test and convert between different primitive types, such as int, byte, and float .

Uno Platform released version 5.1.1, with the addition of a Solution Template Wizard for non-Visual Studio users . JetBrains Rider and VS Code users can use the new LIVE Wizard version for project setup steps . Uno.Sdk for a 50% smaller csproj footprint, three new controls and notable performance enhancements . Support for .NET 7 has been discontinued .

The motivation behind this upgrade was 5.7 reaching the end of life, and a need to leverage the latest security patches, bug fixes, and performance enhancements offered by 8.0. The upgrade process went on for over a year, involving multiple teams and highlighting the importance of an effective observability platform, robust testing plans, and reliable rollback capabilities .

Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing at QA Challenge Accepted 2023 . They opted for Appium, an open-source test automation project compatible with both Android and iOS platforms . The project’s scope should encompass essential features, common functions, and complex test cases .

TornadoInsight is a plugin to OpenJDK and GraalVM that can offload Java bytecode into OpenCL for heterogeneous computing . It extends the Java Programming language to support offloading computations to FPGAs and GPUs . The plugin's static checker identifies unsupported Java features, providing a detailed explanation of the limitation .

The Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ) can make product and tech conversations in the team and externally with users more outcome-oriented . Having tech people who identify with the product, challenge the requirements and circle their conversations around the users increases the overall team performance and productiveness of interactions .

AWS CloudShell is a web-based shell for command-line access to resources in an AWS environment . The Docker Engine is the latest addition to its list of pre-installed tools . With this integration, containers can be locally prototyped and pushed to registries prior to deploying them on AWS .

Kubernetes 1.29 has 49 enhancements, including 19 entering alpha, 11 becoming generally available or stable, and 19 graduating to beta . The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy .

Meta's new Code Llama 70B is the largest and best-performing AI model in the Llama family . Mark Zuckerberg says he looks forward to including those improvements in Llama 3 as well . The model is open source, with its inference code hosted on GitHub, while the model itself is available for download .

Gunnar Morling launched The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) to the Java Community . The challenge aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time . Morling wanted to explore high-performance programming techniques, new APIs, the capabilities of different Java distributions and anything else that will prove how fast Java has become .

Red Hat releases WildFly 31.0.0 and Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, JHipster Lite releases and Jakarta EE 11 updates . The Jakarta EE Working Group has created a Google Doc for the Java community to review and provide input/feedback .

Google wants to make cutting-edge AI discoveries available through Hugging Face's open-source frameworks . Google Cloud customers, Huging Face Hub users, and open source are the three main focuses of the strategic partnership . The cooperation enables the development of new generative AI applications .

The Migration Lens is a collection of customer-proven, time-tested design principles, and best practices to help customers align their migration to AWS best practices across the migration phases . The recommendations are based on the company’s insights from supporting thousands of its customers through large-scale cloud transformation projects .

Stable LM 2 is a 1.6B language model trained on 2 trillion tokens of text data from seven languages . The model is small enough to run in real-time on modern laptops, even those without a dedicated GPU, says Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque . Stability AI also recently released Stable Code 3B, a code-generation language model .

AWS Toolkit for VS Code has recently extended its support to include AWS Application Composer . This enhancement empowers users to seamlessly craft Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for a comprehensive range of over 1100 AWS CloudFormation resources . Generative AI is employed to create resource-specific configurations automatically .

Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller allows users to redirect traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone when a potential failure is identified by the cloud provider . The service redirects the traffic back once the failure is resolved . The feature is available at no extra cost in all regions except China and GovCloud .

RevenueCat uses various techniques to manage and operate its caching layer . The company’s Python memcache client library provides support for handling cache consistency for CRUD operations . The engineering team offers some tips regarding resharding or migrating cache clusters . A simple cache with a reasonably low TTL, can be enough in many situations, and you don't need to build anything complex for that .

The latest release of the Visual Studio GitHub Copilot Chat Extension introduces two notable productivity features, slash commands and context variables . Developers can explore a couple of preview features like the Exception Assistant, Test failure Analysis, Suggestions for Breakpoint Expressions, Commit message suggestions and many more .

Google Cloud users can combine billing data with resource usage metrics . The combination allows users to perform detailed cost analyses in BigQuery . The company provides an out-of-the-box Looker Studio template that combines Cloud Monitoring and detailed billing metrics for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) The capability is in preview; customers must sign up for access .

Console-to-Code is currently in preview, supporting only Amazon EC2 . It records actions and generates code in different infrastructure-as-code (IaC) formats . The service currently supports outputs for the CDK (in Java, Python, or TypeScript) and CloudFormation .

The Discord platform has been implemented using Elixir, a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM . Elixir-based components are responsible for routing and delivering message notifications to users . The guild server is a central hub for managing various business flows for the Discord community served by it . Developers introduced a new layer of relay processes to help with more efficient delivery of messages between the guild process and session processes .

Microsoft has released Copilot Pro and Copilot for Microsoft 365, and is providing free access to those tools for smaller organizations and educational faculty . Copilot uses data from emails, chats, documents and the Internet to execute complex tasks via a natural language prompt . Microsoft launched Copilot mobile application for Android and iOS .

Microsoft recently announced the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), a significant rewrite of the prior QDK . QDK is mostly rewritten in Rust, which compiles to WebAssembly for VS Code or the web and native binaries for Python . It contains a debugger and resource estimator in the editor and is integrated into Azure Quantum Service .

Google's Android toolkit Jetpack Compose 1.6 has major performance improvements across the board Most apps will benefit from the latest version without any code changes . Scrolling through a list of items is now 20% faster and startup time reduced by 12%, says Google .

Microsoft has introduced the MSTest Runner, a lightweight test runner designed specifically for Mstest tests . The primary goal of MSTst Runner is to enhance test portability, reliability, and speed while providing an extensible testing experience for users . It is integrated with common testing environments, including dotnet test, vstest.console, Visual Studio Test Explorer, and Code Test Explorer .

Mixtral 8x7B is a sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) large language model (LLM) The model contains 46.7B total parameters, but performs inference at the same speed and cost as models one-third that size . On several LLM benchmarks, it outperformed both Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 . Mistral AI also added support for the model to the vLLM open-source project .

Microsoft announced Dev Proxy v0.14.0, introducing several notable features . The 0.14 version includes the ability to combine rate limiting with mock responses, simplified OpenAPI spec generation, CRUD API simulation, improved macOS setup, easy access to Dev Proxy presets, enhanced mock structures, the introduction of JSON schemas and updated documentation .

The Minimum Viable Architecture or MVA balances the MVP by making sure that the MVP is technically viable, sustainable, and extensible over time . The MVP and its MVA co-evolve in a series of incremental deliveries . In an agile context, every new product release is a new MVP that extends the previous MVP with additional customer outcomes .

Serverless computing is evolving beyond its original scope, with functions partially or fully replaced by versatile cloud constructs . The cloud market is shifting toward hyperspecialized vertical multi-cloud services, offering unique, fine-grained features that cater specifically to developers’ needs . Upcoming cloud services are set to be rich in constructs, transforming the way developers handle tasks like routing, filtering, and event-triggering .

Chris Smith, Redgate’s director of engineering, spoke about self-selection reteaming at Agile Cambridge 2023 . He says very stable teams can suffer from having a limited pool of perspectives and ideas . Smith suggests encouraging people to move between teams at a reasonable cadence . This allows good ideas and practices to naturally move with them .

Cake is a build system running on top of .NET’s native Roslyn compiler . It performs a role similar to the Gulp runner in the JavaScript ecosystem, based on tasks and dependencies between tasks . A simple Cake script contains tasks that call different build and release-related libraries and tools .

LeftoverLocals allows malicious actors to recover data from GPU local memory on Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Imagination GPUs . The vulnerability affects any application using the GPU, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) models . Apple devices, i.e., the Apple iPad Air 3rd G (A12) or the iPhone 15, seem to have been patched, while others, e.g., the MacBook Air (M2) seem to be still vulnerable .

Generative AI will transform communication and information sharing in all business processes, across all industries . AI integration will work best when workers are allowed to determine the best ways to augment their roles with AI . Human workers bring innovation, reasoning, and empathy to our jobs – we can’t lose that .

The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture . DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture . This allowed DoorDash to efficiently direct traffic within the same availability zone (AZ)

The most popular project was shadcn/ui, a collection of UI components that can be used to create custom components . React continued to hold its ground as a frontrunner in the JavaScript ecosystem . Htmx took the lead as a JavaScript library enabling developers to create interactive web applications using HTML alone .

Each of the 210 talks can be assigned to any of the 40 time slots and 10 rooms . That’s 400 possibilities per talk . Geoffrey de Smet, CTO and founder of Timefold, said the ideal schedule is harder to find than a needle in a haystack . Even algorithms that reduce the search space by 99% need to comb through 10279 combinations .

Shopify recently published a tech blog containing details of its internal machine learning process . It uses a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning . The approach yields strong results and provides insights and better explainability . It helps user researchers and data scientists enhance their understanding, refine their solutions, and iterate more efficiently .

The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration built a dedicated platform for frontend development at NDC Oslo 2023 . It offers services like a CDN for static content delivery, an observability stack for monitoring and debugging, and feature management using Unleash . The platform is treated as a product prioritizing user needs, collaboration, and learning, to drive adoption .

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that allows AWS services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events . The support for AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target is welcomed by the community .

The widespread use of SaaS APIs has exposed an inconsistent approach to handling major version updates and breaking changes . Semantic Versioning (SemVer) has emerged as the universal standard for communicating and managing API changes . It is important now more than ever to build a shared understanding of the nuances of API breakages . Failing to do so could lead to customers losing trust in versioning as a communication tool .

JEP 455 Proposed to Target for JDK 23, JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, an updated Jakarta EE 11 release plan, GraalVM, and Oracle's Critical Patch Update for January 2024 . Java 21 and Java 17+ are now able to run on both Java 21+ and Java 21+. Oracle has released a critical patch update for Java 21 .

Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples . Measuring developer productivity at 17 well-known tech companies . Google, LinkedIn, Peloton, Notion and Postman use quantitative and qualitative metrics . Google's approach involves selecting indicators based on three classes of measurement relating to speed, ease and quality LinkedIn uses a combination of quarterly developer satisfaction surveys with quantitative metrics .

Dimitar Panayotov uses ChatGPT to generate test data, create email templates, and produce explanations based on test results . He also uses it to create test strategies based on requirements and based on best world practices, he said . ChatGpt is a more powerful tool than for example Google or Reddit, or even Stackoverflow, he added .

Meta's Engineering team have published a post explaining how they built the infrastructure for Threads, their new online social media and networking service . The infrastructure - built for scale, growth, performance, and reliability - exceeded expectations as Threads was an unprecedented success with over 100 million sign-ups within the first five days . ZippyDB, a distributed key/value datastore, and Async, an asynchronous serverless function platform, played a crucial role in Threads' success .

GitHub Copilot Chat is a natural language-powered coding tool . It offers real-time guidance for developers without leaving their Integrated Development Environment (IDE) The tool is generally available for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio . It is available at no cost to verified teachers, students, and maintainers of popular open-source projects .

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 3&nbsp;version with significant enhancements to the Code Search, also known as the All-In-One Search, feature . The search feature extends to include local variable names, words in comments, parameter names, or any other character string embedded in the codebase . Full-text support in Code Search is now a default feature in the Preview channel .

Xcode 15.2 is the first stable version of the visionOS SDK for Apple's visionOS software . The visionOS simulator is available to developers without needing to buy a visionOS device . Vision Pro devices will be available to the general public on February 2 . New features in several key frameworks, including Accelerate, StoreKit, and UIKit, are included .

Prompt engineering is about experimenting with changes in prompts to understand their impacts on what large language models (LLMs) generate as the output . Prompt engineering yields better outcomes for LLM use with a few basic techniques . Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting breaks down multi-step problems into intermediate steps allowing LLMs to tackle complex reasoning that can't be solved with zero-shot or few-shot prompting .

Researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic trained proof-of-concept LLMs showing deceptive behavior triggered by specific hints in the prompts . They say once deceptive behavior was trained into the model, there was no way to circumvent it using standard techniques . The researchers say more complex backdoor defenses might be required to protect LLMs against model poisoning and deceptive instrumental alignment .

CDN provider Cloudflare releases 2024 API Security and Management Report . The report provides insights, predictions, and recommendations for safeguarding APIs in the new year . The CDN company foresees a growing demand for governance, coinciding with the implementation of the first version of PCI DSS that directly addresses API security going into effect in March 2024 .

B2B Data Interchange is a platform allowing organizations to automate and monitor the transformation of EDI-based business transactions . The service provides a low-code interface for managing trading partners and translating EDI documents into JSON and XML formats . It costs $8.00 per month, plus $0.01 per transformation by each 200KB input increment .

A workflow orchestration solution abstracts away state management and provides retries, auditability, and observability out-of-the-box . Twilio is a customer engagement platform that allows you to engage with your customers on your application using different channels like Voice, Messaging, Whatsapp, email, video and voice .

Microsoft announced a new experimental tool called NuGetSolver in Visual Studio . The tool tackles common NuGet errors and warnings such as dependency constraints between packages . It can be accessed through the Solution Explorer by right-clicking and selecting the .Resolve Dependency Conflicts option . By default, the tool suggests stable versions, with the option to include prerelease versions if needed .

ReSharper 2023.3 is already available and JetBrains has added support for C# 12 and C++ . The latest improvements include AI-powered multiline code completion, the ability to create a library of custom prompts, generation of XML documentation and unit tests . There are also Entity Framework-specific analyses for potential issues in the EF model .

US Supreme Court decision forces Apple to make it possible for iOS and iPad apps to link to alternative payment systems . Decision only applies to apps published in the US App Store and raised some debate since Apple still wants to collect a commission on external purchases . Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney, who led the legal battle against Apple to open the App Store to additional purchase systems, described the decision as a sad outcome for all developers

JetBrains has released Rider 2023.3, the latest version of their cross-platform .NET .NET IDE . This release contains an AI Assistant, support for the .NET 8 SDK and an extended list of C# 12 and F# 8 features . There are also improvements regarding debugging, running multiple projects, UI/UX and Unity .

Slack has adopted a cell-based architecture for its core platform . The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation . Slack’s path follows the guidance laid out by AWS, further explored in the Cloud-Native Architecture Series .

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store . The integration makes it easier for users to run a broader range of data processing workloads . Users can provision Amazon EBS storage for their ECS tasks running on AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Microsoft announced version 7.0.0 of their open-source MAUI Community Toolkit . The new version adds support for .NET 8 and brings several bug fixes . MAUI is an acronym that stands for Multiplatform Application UI . Currently, MAUI supports writing applications that run on Android 5+ iOS 11+. iOS 11+ macOS 10.15+ Samsung Tizen, Windows 10 version 1809+.

Google announced general availability of regionally-scoped security policies for Google Cloud Armor: Google's premier DDoS defense and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution . DDoS attacks can be classified into two main categories based on their attack vector: Network Layer Attacks (L3/L4) and Application Layer (L7) Attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the application layer of the target system, flooding it with requests that consume its processing resources .

VideoPoet is a large language model (LLM) that can generate video . It was trained on 2 trillion tokens of text, audio, image, and video data . The model can handle multiple input and output modalities by using different tokenizers . Google says it can perform a variety of zero-shot generative tasks, including image-to-video, video inpainting, video stylization and video style transfer . In evaluations by human judges its output was preferred over that of other models .

JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods . Spring Framework versions 6.1.3 and 6.0.16 of Spring Framework have been released . The Payara Platform 2024 roadmap features a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA .

JetBrains JavaScript Days 2023 concluded, offering developers insights into Angular, AI integration, TypeScript, ECMAScript development, React best practices, JavaScript tooling improvements, and innovative view transitions . The series of talks featured in-depth discussions, providing knowledge for developers navigating the ever-evolving landscape of web development .

Fluid Framework 2.0 is a free and open-source library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications using JavaScript or TypeScript . The beta introduces the SharedTree Distributed Data Structure (DDS) for an intuitive programming interface supporting various data types, along with support for SharePoint Embedded, enabling developers to retain collaborative data within a Microsoft 365 tenant .

Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform . The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets . The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities .

HashiCorp has released a tool that can generate Terraform provider code from an OpenAPI specification . The tool is meant to be vendor and tool-agnostic and extensible . It is available on GitHub under the MPL-2.0 license . All code generator components are currently in a tech preview .

GitHub has added the possibility to specify the desired threat model in CodeQL-based code scanner . The new feature is available in beta for the Java language . In its default configuration, CodeQL uses a threat model that considers any remote sources, including HTTP requests, as tainted, i.e., untrusted .

Google Cloud will eliminate exit fees for customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises . The change applies, according to the company, to all customers globally . Google calls for a renewed regulatory focus on the most prohibitive form of lock-in for customers: anticompetitive licensing .

Researchers from Northwestern University found that GPTs are susceptible to prompt injection attacks . Prompt injection attacks are a known vulnerability vector to extract sensitive information or manipulate the model's output . Researchers stress that as AI technologies continue to evolve, it is crucial to strike a balance between innovation and security .

DoorDash's adoption of Apache Flink for real-time session detection and notification delivery significantly enhances user engagement and conversion rates . The new system is built with a large,&nbsp;stateful Flink job to monitor user sessions through mobile and web client events in memory in real time .

Microsoft released F# 8.0 as part of the .NET 8 release . The new version of F# brings in many features to make F# code simpler, more uniform, and apps more performant . The while! (while bang) feature, initially announced in an earlier preview, has been officially integrated .

The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration . Developers used RabbitMQ for messaging and Redis for storing results from data suppliers . The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization .

Amazon CloudWatch alarms now support AWS Lambda functions as an action for state changes . New feature enables developers to automate remediation actions when detecting an unhealthy resource . The community's response has been overwhelmingly positive, with Luc van Donkesgoed, Principal Engineer at PostNL, writing: It should shadow most of reinvent announcements

Using the DevOps framework, Airbnb has reduced deployment time from 90 to 15 minutes . The framework includes a pre-scheduled deployment window, build validation against the Production environment, and techniques like Quick Deploy and Incremental Deploys to reduce deployment . Airbnb made headlines for developing Riverbed, a data framework similar to Lambda, and shifting towards SwiftUI .

The 1.6.0 release of OpenTofu introduces a range of new features aimed at enhancing stability and functionality . Notable among these is the testing feature, enabling users to assess Open Tofu configurations and allowing module authors to conduct module tests, therefore strengthening overall stability . The S3 state backend has experienced a substantial update, featuring numerous new authentication methods while maintaining compatibility with S3-compatible object storage .

OpenAI has started rolling out its new GPT Store, announced a few months ago along with GPTs, to share custom ChatGPT-based chatbots they create . Users have created over three million custom versions of ChatGpt in a diverse range of categories, including DALL·E, writing, research, programming, education, and lifestyle . The store does not support monetization yet, but OpenAI says they will launch a revenue program in the next few months .

Incidents are inevitable, but organizations can build resilience through investing in culture, process improvements, and learning . When improving incident response, focus on enhancing coordination, collaboration, and communication . Identify process gaps and opportunities to leverage automation to reduce cognitive load . Conduct blameless, narrative-based incident analyses focused on gathering multiple perspectives . Drive action items that can realistically be completed in short timeframes .

KSP is an API that enables the creation of plugins to extend the Kotlin . It understands Kotlin language features like extension functions, declaration-site variance, and local functions in a compiler-independent way . KSP2 aims to address a shortcoming in KSP1 which leads to the same source files being potentially compiled multiple times .

Amazon has announced the preview of the Amazon OpenSearch Service's zero-extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) integration with Amazon S3 . Direct queries eliminate the need for ETL processes, thereby reducing operational complexity associated with duplicating data or managing multiple analytics tools .

Microsoft has announced a preview feature related to Arc-enabled servers, introducing the Run Command . The Run Command preview feature is built in the Connected Machine agent . It supports running scripts and centralizing script management across creation, update, deletion, sequencing, and listing operations . The command is currently supported through . Azure CLI and . PowerShell, supports non-Azure environments, including on-premises, SCVMM, AWS, GCP, and OCI .

Jakub Perlak gave a keynote about learning agility through games at ScanAgile 2023 . Games create space for intentional cognitive activity which helps us when learning something new and adapting to changes that are important for agility . Perlak quoted Stuart Brown: Nothing fires up the brain like play.

Angular has released version 17 of the popular Single Page Application (SPA) framework . It has introduced a declarative block template syntax and overhauling the framework documentation and logo . The new syntax separates the conditional statements from the components, making them much easier to follow . Deferrable views offer a simple alternative to ViewContainerRef .

Stanford University researchers presented an intelligent human brain-robot interface that enables controlling a robot through brain signals . Dubbed NOIR, the system uses electroencephalography (EEG) to communicate human intentions to the robots . NOIR has been able to accomplish 20 long-horizon tasks made of 4 to 15 skills, including meal preparation, cleaning, personal care, and entertainment .

OpenAI recently published a beta version of their Preparedness Framework for mitigating AI risks . The framework lists four risk categories and definitions of risk levels for each, as well as defining OpenAI's safety governance procedures . OpenAI plans to create a suite of evaluations to automatically assess a model's risk level .

Java constructors were required to place any explicit invocation of another constructor as the first statement . This constraint ensured top-down execution and prevented access to uninitialized fields, but it significantly limited the expressiveness and readability of constructor logic . JEP 447 relaxes these restrictions, allowing statements that do not reference the instance being created to appear before an explicit constructor invocation .

Java persistence patterns like Driver, Mapper, DAO, Active Record, and Repository are crucial for robust database interaction and application architecture . The persistence layer in a Java application bridges the gap between an application's business logic and the underlying data store . The choices made in this layer reverberate throughout the software's lifespan, influencing its performance, maintainability, and adaptability .

Java roundup for January 1st, 2024 features news highlighting: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr, and Apache Camel projects . Sharat Chander, Senior Director, Product Management &amp; Developer Engagement at Oracle, posted Tis the season of…Thanks!

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year . The absence of scaling to zero has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a true&nbsp;serverless relational database on AWS .

Microsoft announced a new tool, named Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET, abbreviated as AppCAT . Its primary purpose is to uncover any challenges that could be faced while .porting an application to . Azure and to enhance performance, scalability, and .security by recommending modern, cloud-native solutions . The tool is available in two versions, a Visual Studio extension and a .NET CLI tool .

LinkedIn has been using its AutoML framework, which trains classifiers and experiments with multiple model architectures in parallel . AutoML is a tool LinkedIn created internally to improve machine learning performance by continuously retraining models on new data, correcting them including false negatives and false positives, and fine-tuning their parameters . LinkedIn engineers say AutoML automates the deployment process by making the newly trained model available to production servers .

There are several challenges in building hardware-reliant cyber-physical systems, such as hardware lead times, organisational structure, common language, system decomposition, cross-team communication, alignment, and culture . A solution to such challenges is to apply agile at the systems level, and to architect both hardware and software into modular components .

Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in the Azure East United States region, with more regions coming in 2024 . Exadata Database Service is the first service to be available, along with support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Data Guard technologies .

Online game platform Roblox faced a system-wide outage lasting 73 hours in October 2021, triggered by a small issue in one data center which rapidly escalated into a large scale outage . The platform is committed to improving efficiency and resiliency as it continues to improve its infrastructure .

In-toto, short for integrity and transparency, is a framework designed to provide a verifiable and reproducible mechanism for establishing the integrity of software supply chains . The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has recently announced SBOMit, a tool designed to bolster Software Bills of Materials .

Amazon Route 53 Resolver will support using the Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS (DoH) protocol for both inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints . Data exchanged for DNS resolutions is encrypted . It prevents eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data during transmission between a DoH client and the DNS resolver .

Alphabet's autonomous taxi company Waymo recently published a report showing its autonomous driver software outperforms human drivers on several benchmarks . The analysis covers over seven million miles of driving with no human behind the wheel, with Waymo cars having 85% reduction in crashes involving an injury . Waymo currently operates their autonomous vehicles in three locations: Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles .

Oracle has published an updated draft specification for JEP 455, Primitive types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview) Oracle GraalVM is now available as a Paketo buildpack . Apache Camel 3.22.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrade and new features/improvements .

CheckEnv is designed to swiftly detect and address RPC calls crossing between different environments, such as production and staging, which could lead to undesirable outcomes like data inconsistencies or unexpected behaviors . The system employs advanced graph analysis techniques to automate the detection process, integrating these capabilities into Uber's monitoring and alerting systems .

Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures . JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and the MySQL Heatwave cloud service . JavaScript support is based on the ECMAScript 2021 standard, and all variations of integers, floating point, and CHAR/VARCHAR types are supported .

Instacart created the next-generation platform based on experiences using the original Griffin machine-learning platform . The company wanted to improve user experience and help manage all ML workloads . The revamped platform leverages the latest developments in MLOps and introduces new capabilities for current and future applications .

Microsoft announced an upgraded version of its developer tools, version 17.8.0, introducing significant improvements to Microsoft.CodeCoverage tools . The update includes the introduction of the dotnet-coverage tool, which carries various roles, including collecting code coverage for console and web applications, merging coverage reports, instrumenting binaries, and calculating code coverage .

97% of U.S. developers and technical decision-makers believe policy as code is crucial for efficient software building in cloud environments . The report's key findings highlight policy as the code's role in enhancing development efficiency, security, and simplicity . The State of Policy as Code report also highlighted the widespread adoption challenges, with 86% facing issues in authorization implementation .

Bazel 7 materializes several new features that have been in development for years . New modular external dependency management system Bzlmod replaces the old WORKSPACE mechanism . Project Skymeld is another feature aimed at boosting productivity, specifically for builds with multiple top-level targets . New optimizing Build without the Bytes mode reduces the amount of data that Bazel transfers for remote builds .

AWS introduced a new Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances . Currently available for Postgres clusters only, the Data API doesn't require persistent connections to a database cluster . Developers can access Aurora clusters through an HTTPS endpoint and execute queries without the need to manage connections or database drivers .

Quarkus LangChain4J extension allows developers to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into their Quarksus applications . The extension has quickly evolved with releases almost weekly, the latest version being 0.5.1 . The first public version of the extension, 0.1, was released in mid-November 2023 .

GitHub recently introduced trace2receiver, an open-source tool that integrates with OpenTelemetry to analyze Git performance data . This tool allows users to identify performance issues, detect early signs of trouble, and highlight areas where Git itself can be enhanced . The tech community is responding positively to advancements in handling large repositories .

GitLab has introduced a browser-based Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) feature in version 16.4 (or DAST 4.0.9) This development is part of GitLab's ongoing efforts to enhance browser based DAST by integrating passive checks . Customers can opt out and revert to ZAP alerts by setting DAST_FF_BROWSER_BASED_ACTIVE_ATTACK to false .

Staff engineers have the skills to excel as incident commanders during outages, including coordination across workstreams, communicating with stakeholders, and preventing responder burnout . Bolstering a supportive, inclusive engineering culture provides another layer of defense against incidents . Staff engineers can provide examples of – and coach teammates in – productive behaviors like transparency, admitting knowledge gaps, and questioning assumptions .

Stable Diffusion in Java (SD4J) is a deep learning text-to-image model based on diffusion . SD4J can be used, via the . GUI or programmatically in Java applications, to generate images . Images in this news story are created with guidance scale 10, seed 42, inference steps 50 and image scheduler Euler Ancestral unless stated otherwise .

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3 . The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down .

Hila Fish spoke about the DevOps perspective on open source at DEV: Challenge Accepted 2023 . The benefits of open source projects are supporting rapid innovation, flexibility provided to customize and adapt tools, and transparency of the code which can enhance security efforts . The downsides are that security by obscurity doesn’t apply, open source is potentially prone to abuse, and when open source tools are not backed up by companies, it might result in a lower level of maintainability .

Google announced the general availability (GA) of its Duet AI for Developers, providing developers with an AI coding assistant and chat . The company has incorporated its Gemini model into it or plans to do so in the coming weeks . Currently, until the end of January 2024, the service will cost $19 per user per month with an annual commitment .

LinkedIn announced that it would be moving to gRPC with Protocol Buffers for the inter-service communication in its microservices platform . LinkedIn previously used the Rest.li framework with JSON as a primary serialization format . LinkedIn is working on migrating all our state and storage systems to Protobuf+Protobuf over REST+JSON . LinkedIn said it observed up to 60% latency improvement for some of the services .

VISS aims to help organizations enforce security measures based on a new approach to vulnerability scoring that prioritizes actual demonstrated impact over theoretical security impact possibilities . VISS does not replace the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) but rather complements it to provide an additional evaluation viewpoint. VISS scores are adjustable and provide flexibility for environment owners to tailor scores according to individual risk profile and tolerance .

OpenAI recently published a guide to Prompt Engineering . The guide lists six strategies for eliciting better responses from their GPT models . Many of the tactics are based on results of LLM research, such as chain-of-thought prompting or recursive summarization . Microsoft Azure, Google and Google have also released prompt engineering tips .

Amazon Q Code Transformation is a service designed to simplify the process of upgrading existing Java application code through generative artificial intelligence . The new feature aims to minimize legacy code and automate common language upgrade tasks required to move off older language versions . It will soon support the upgrade of Windows-based .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET, accelerating migrations to Linux .

Compliance is crucial for organizations to manage risks, protect against legal penalties and reputational damage, and provide a competitive advantage . A risk-first attitude is a philosophy that focuses on identifying, treating, and managing the highest compliance risks . Organizations can safeguard their reputation and ensure long-term sustainability by prioritizing compliance .

Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire - second preview . Preview&nbsp;2 brings changes and improvements to the dashboard, hosting, components, Dapr and many more . Microsoft revealed in November that Microsoft and .NET team announced the release of the new cloud-native development stack .

This week's Java roundup features news highlighting: Jakarta EE 11-M1 and GA release plan; Payara Platform December 2023 release; Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Security point releases for Spring Boot and Spring Cloud . CVE-2023-46131, a Grails data binding vulnerability, has been released .

Google introduced its new Google AI SDK to simplify integrating Gemini Pro, its best-performing model to date, in Android apps . The easiest way to use Gemini, says Google, is with Google AI Studio, a web-based tool that enables prototyping and running prompts in a browser . Using this SDK, developers need not build and manage their own backend infrastructure .

AWS announced the preview of memory-optimized R8g instances powered by the fourth-generation Graviton processor . The new instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads, including databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics . Graviton4 processors deliver 30% better compute performance, 50% more cores, and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3 ones .

NuGet 6.8 was announced and is now included in Visual Studio 2022 . NuGetAudit now provides notifications regarding known vulnerabilities in PackageReference packages . Package Source Mappings during installation/update via Package Manager UI . Conditional Package Updating is now implemented in Visual . Studio .

Werner Vogels, the CTO at AWS, delivered the closing keynote at the re:Invent conference . He used Matrix-inspired video clips to introduce the topic of cost-awareness of cloud architecture as a proxy for sustainability . Vogels laid out seven simple laws based on his and AWS’ experience building and evolving cloud platform services .

Domain-driven agility is a blend of the agile mindset and the domain-driven design strategy . It approaches transformation as an agile project, treating it with the same flexibility and adaptability . The solution involves aligning language, defining organizational boundaries, forming change teams, building a backlog, and executing change iteratively, incorporating empiricism .

Phi-2 is a 2.7 billion-parameter Transformer-based language model . It outperforms larger models on a variety of benchmarks . The new model is trained on 1.4T tokens of synthetic data generated by GPT-3.5 . The key innovation with the Phi series of models is a synthetic dataset of textbook-like data .

Cloudflare's products, including WAF attack scoring, bot management, and global threat identification, rely on constantly evolving Machine Learning (ML) models . The company has achieved unparalleled scale in delivering ML across its network, underscoring the significance of robust ML training methodologies . Jupyter Notebooks provides scalable and collaborative environments for data exploration and model experimentation .

Oracle has introduced the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code for building, running and debug Java applications using JDK 11 or newer . The extension searches for a JDK in the following locations: the jdk.jdkhome and java.home properties, the JDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables, and the system path . New projects may be created via View | Command Palette | Java and existing Maven and Gradle projects can be imported .

In his talk at QCon San Francisco 2023, I discussed the challenges of good documentation, as well as a few solutions .Improving documentation practices can help build organizational resilience by making information more transparent and accessible . DoiT provides technology and expertise to reduce cloud costs and boost productivity .

Bellsoft has released versions 17 and 21 Liberica JDK, their downstream distribution of OpenJDK, with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) CRaC allows developers to create a snapshot of a running application at any point in time (checkpoint) This snapshot is then used to start the application in milliseconds by restoring the state of the application .

InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024 . The event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges . The agenda is curated by senior developers with the goal of focusing the content on the critical technical challenges that are encountered by today's software development teams .

Amazon Braket is a fully-managed quantum computing service from Amazon Web Services . With Braket Direct program, users get dedicated, private access to the full capacity of various quantum processing units . Users can connect directly with quantum computing specialists to receive expert guidance from quantum hardware providers such as IonQ, Oxford Quantum Circuits, QuEra, Rigetti .

Expedia created a solution to support querying the clickstream data from their platform in near-real time to enable their product and engineering teams to explore live data . The team used a combination of WebSockets, Apache Kafka, and Postgres to allow streaming query results continuously to users’ browsers .

People who are not building the architecture should not make decisions about it . Knowledge about how it is built is essential to making the important technical trade-offs that shape the architecture . Quality attribute requirements (QARs) drive architectural designs . The only way to evaluate an architecture is to build and test it. Delaying this to perfect the design is a sure path to failure .

API allows developers to check their AWS Free Tier usage and monitor progress toward the free tier limits . API can be accessed directly through the AWS CLI or integrated into applications using the SDKs . API also provides forecasted usage, with the option to filter for offers for which the forecast is greater than the limit .

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the last release concluding development efforts for 2023 . This update builds upon the foundation provided by Preview 1 in November . Preview 2 brings improvements and new features regarding C++, .NET MAUI, Remote Linux Unit Testing, Teams Toolkit and many more .

AWS recently added support for detecting unused access granted to IAM roles and users . The new IAM Access Analyzer unused access findings can identify unused roles, user access keys and passwords, and unused permissions within a defined usage window . This analysis can be done across accounts within the organization and be controlled from a delegated administrator account .

DoorDash recently published how it proactively embeds privacy into its products . It explains the importance of Privacy Engineering, an often overlooked software architecture practice, and provides an example of geomasking users' address data to better protect their privacy . Instead of completely removing address data, DoorDash employs Gaussian perturbation to displace users' locations .

Quarkus 3.7, planned for release in January 2024, will require Java 17 as the minimal JDK version to build and run applications . The OpenJDK community ceased actively supporting Java 11 in September 2023 . The increased Java baseline means developers should now support and test their code against Java 17 and can make use of the new Java 17 features .

JDK 23 early access builds were made available this past week featuring updates from Build 1 that include fixes for various issues . Infinispan 15.0.0-Dev06, JHipster 8.1.0, Piranha 23.12.0 and Apache Tomcat 11.0 .

JEP 461, Stream Gatherers (Preview), has been Completed for JDK 22 . This JEP proposes to enhance the Stream API to support custom intermediate operations . This will allow stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are not easily achievable with the existing built-in intermediate operations, says Viktor Klang .

People cannot achieve their best and most creative work when their energy goes into avoiding shame and blame, says Diana Larsen . To lead without blame requires a shift toward learning and curiosity, she argues . Larsen gave a keynote about leading without blame at ScanAgile 2023 .

Copilot for Azure is an AI-based tool designed to enhance the management and operation of cloud infrastructure and services . It leverages the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with Azure's Resource Model to provide a comprehensive understanding and handling of Azure's functionalities, spanning from cloud services to edge technology . Copilot is integrated within the Azure portal and will be accessible through the Azure mobile app and CLI .

JEP 423 proposes to reduce GC latency by implementing region pinning for the G1 garbage collector . This will extend G1 so that arbitrary regions may be pinned during major and minor collection operations . This ensures that critical objects are not moved, eliminating the need to disable GC and reducing latency significantly .

The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023 . Project Loom's virtual threads are lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications . Other features include SSL-bundle reloading, support for RestClient and JdbcClient interfaces, and observability improvements .

Amazon RDS now offers support for IBM Db2, including both the Standard Edition and Advanced Edition . The new service is available in all AWS regions except China and GovCloud . Customers running version 11.5.5 can migrate by running backup and restore procedures from a snapshot to a new RDS instance .

ML.NET version 3.0 has been officially released, introducing new features and enhancements . Deep learning capabilities have been significantly expanded with advancements in Object Detection, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and Question Answering (QA) In the future, as reported the team is already planning for .NET 9 and ML .NET 4.0 .

Apple's MLX is a machine learning framework inspired by NumPy and PyTorch that is optimized for Apple Silicon . It supports transformer language model training, large-scale text generation with Mistral, image generation with Stable Diffusion, and speech recognition with Whisper . MLX can be used on any Apple Silicon CPU, including the M1, and can leverage the integrated GPU .

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon EKS on EC2 is a fully managed service that provides visibility into containerized workloads . The service also provides health and performance metrics including per-pod, per-container, and Kube-State metrics . Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector can be used to discover and collect Prometheus metrics without an agent .

The AI Alliance comprises organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, public and academic . The group aims to develop open foundation models, provision of free benchmarks and standards, and advocacy for responsible AI system development . The alliance's objective is to encourage more openness, fostering faster knowledge sharing and innovation .

Patricia Kong, Product Owner, Enterprise Agility and Learning Enablement, at Scrum.org . Patricia Kong: In today’s day and age, where we are so accessible to one another, I want to be considerate in my communication. At my company, we tend to ping each other on Slack first James Stanier: Most of our day-to-day communication happens asynchronously

myApplications in the AWS Management Console can help customers manage and monitor the cost, health, security posture, and performance of their applications on AWS more effectively . The myApplications feature is accessible for users on the Console Home, where they can access an Applications widget that lists the applications in an account . Users can generate applications linking resources in their AWS accounts using the new Create Application wizard .

HashiCorp has released v2 of their Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes . Release adds support for multiple customer resources, setting the watch scope to specific namespaces, improved synchronization, and newly exposed metrics . The Operator can be used to manage Terraform . Cloud Operator is available on GitHub and a migration guide is available for users moving from version 1 to version 2 .

JetBrains promotes its integrated AI Assistant out of preview into general availability for paying customers . The AI chat provides an open-ended, context-aware chat interface that enables asking, for example, what a function does, how to complete a task, or how to debug a problem, and so on .

Microsoft Research releases a fine-tuned version of Llama 2 that performs as well as or better than models that contain 10x the number of parameters . Orca 2 models are trained using a teacher-student scheme, where a larger, more powerful LLM acts as a teacher for a smaller student LLM . Microsoft's training technique teaches the smaller model multiple reasoning techniques and also how to choose the most effective technique for a given task .

Amazon ElastiCache Serverless allows users to quickly create a cache and instant scale capacity based on application traffic patterns . The serverless option is compatible with open-source caching solutions Redis and Memcached . Users can manage the cache using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS SDKs .

Apache Pinot is an open source column-oriented distributed data store written in Java . It is designed to use Online Analytical processing (OLAP) in order to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries with low latency . Pinot provides fast queries, capable of filtering and aggregating petabytes of data with P90 latencies in the tens of milliseconds .

JEP 464, Scoped Values (Second Preview) promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 22 . TornadoVM, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0; JHipster Lite 1.0 and JK 23.0 have been released . Java SE 23 has been formally announced to formally announce the six-member expert group .

The latest release of Android Studio, dubbed Hedgehog, is now stable . It includes IntelliJ 2023.1, new features for improving app performance, boosting developer productivity, and creating UI using Jetpack Compose . Hedgehog includes support for Android Vitals, which lets developers access data about crashes without even instrumenting the apps .

The release of Helidon 4 represents a shift in coding paradigms, transitioning from the complex reactive model to a more straightforward imperative model that uses blocking calls . Java 21 introduces many new features, including virtual threads, stemming from Project Loom, which is well-known to Java developers . It positions itself as a framework that supports a new phase of efficient and lightweight microservice development .

Microsoft announced a suite of services and tools for quantum chemistry and materials science . The new solution allows researchers to explore more materials, speed up chemistry simulations, and experiment with existing quantum hardware . Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed during his keynote that any scientist can now design novel new molecules with unique properties for developing more sustainable chemicals, drugs, and advanced materials .

Google's Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding), one of the most popular methods to test the performance of language models . Gemini can generate code based on different inputs, generate text and images combined, and reason visually across languages . The model is the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2 .

Azure DevOps has extended support for Git Partial Clone to all its users . The feature aims to enhance the capability to manage large repositories . Repositories that employ partial clones have demonstrated an average reduction of 88.6% in cloning time . Unlike traditional clones, partial clones don't retrieve every historical object in the repository during the initial clone .

Microsoft announced that images are now suitable for production across .NET 6, 7, and 8 versions . Chiselled images are the result of a partnership and design collaboration between Canonical and Microsoft . They include only the essential packages needed for .NET, removing everything else .

The new ngrok JavaScript and Python SDKs enable embedding secure ingress into apps with a single line of code . Developers need not concern themselves with low-level, non-functional details such as network primitives, IPs, NATs, certificates, load balancers, or ports . The SDKs can be used for example to provide ingress to customer's developer environments, to APIs in customer networks .

Amazon Aurora Limitless Database has a two-layer architecture consisting of multiple database nodes, either transaction routers or shards . Shards are Aurora Postgres DB instances that each store a subset of the data for your database, allowing for parallel processing to achieve higher write throughput . The transaction routers manage the distributed nature of the database and present a single database image to database clients .

Microsoft has made real-time OS ThreadX available under the MIT license . It is deployed on over 10 billion devices, including Raspberry Pi, Qualcomm-based modems, and others, making it a mature RTOS . The open-sourcing of ThreadX could even bring a cascading effect on other closed-source, proprietary codebases .

Marijn Huizendveld spoke about taming technical debt at OOP 2023 Digital . Teams can use a disciplined approach for managing and repaying technical debt, for instance by using the wall of technical debt . Good technical debt is intentional, enables benefits for the organisation, and is controlled .

Amazon unveiled Titan Image Generator, currently in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock, Amazon's AI development platform . The model allows for customization by incorporating proprietary data, ensuring the generated images align with specific brand guidelines or adopt a particular style . Every picture created by Amazon Titan has an indiscernible watermark to further improve accountability .

OCI Database with Postgres is the first managed Postgres service available on Oracle Cloud . The new service uses a purpose-built shared-storage architecture in which all the database nodes share the same underlying storage layer that automatically replicates data across a region . The equivalent service on AWS, Amazon Aurora Postgres, is 2.5x more expensive than on OCI .

Amazon announced Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore, a secure global low-latency key-value datastore that allows read access from within CloudFront Functions . Developers can update data associated with a function and the function code independently, simplifying function code and making it easier to update data without the need to deploy code changes . A Key-Value store has a maximum size of 5 MB, allowing developers to link it to a single Cloud Function .

JEP proposes to provide an API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files . This will initially serve as an internal replacement for ASM, the Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework, in the JDK . The API adopts a tree-structured representation to mirror the hierarchical nature of class files, enabling user-driven navigation for efficient parsing .

AWS announced the general availability of S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-AZ storage class that provides single-digit millisecond data access . The new storage class is designed for processing data in AI/ML training and financial modeling . It can scale to process millions of requests per minute, relying on existing APIs .

Finch is an open-source tool that aims to simplify container development on macOS . Finch allows users to build, run, and publish Linux containers on their MacOS . Finch 1.0 release focuses on feature completeness, stability, performance, and ease of debugging . Finch can be installed from GitHub or Homebrew using brew install Finch .

Stable Video Diffusion is based on Stability AI's Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model . When given an input image as context, the model can generate 25 video frames at a resolution of 576x1024 pixels . Stability AI claims it can be adapted for multiple video generation tasks . The model license allows use for research purposes only .

Netflix Titus is a container management platform developed by Netflix and open-sourced in 2018 . It is designed to run containers at scale in the cloud and is specifically tailored to meet the unique requirements and challenges of Netflix's massive, dynamic, and high-traffic streaming service . Titus employs a custom controller to maintain a history of Pod and Node objects .

Exponential backoff is a network algorithm that gradually increases the time between successive retries when a request to a server fails . The goal is to prevent overwhelming the server with repeated requests and to allow the system to recover from transient failures . In cases of server outages or high load, repeated retries can contribute to server overload .

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service . SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems . The main purpose of SRE is to encourage the deployment and proper maintenance of large-scale systems .

Work relationships are, first and foremost, relationships and should be treated as such explicitly and intentionally . Building a culture of consent (for example, by making space for people to agree to and negotiate expectations of their work) enables engagement, collaboration, and psychological safety . Each individual influences what is successful .

Software product engineering projects can encounter numerous technical challenges that may lead to failure if not effectively managed . From inadequate requirements gathering to poor testing practices and lack of skilled resources, these technical issues can hinder progress, cause delays, and compromise the quality of the final product . Inadequate Testing and Quality Assurance is another critical factor in project failures .

This guide delves into the meticulous steps of deploying a Spring MVC application on a local Tomcat server . This hands-on tutorial is designed to equip you with the skills essential for seamless deployment within your development environment . The emphasis on local deployment sets the stage for a seamless transition, ensuring that the application aligns effortlessly with the intricacies of the production environment .

Any workload deployment and architecture contains the key components that are depicted in the architecture diagram . All the layers of the architecture provide opportunities for cost optimization . In this post, we will look at cost optimization techniques for infrastructure . We will break down infrastructure into three main components to focus on: Compute, Storage and Network .

Image Generation AI technologies like DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Imagen have revolutionized creative industries by enabling the generation of realistic images from text descriptions, thus broadening the scope of creativity and innovation. These tools have applications in visual storytelling, personalized content creation, and democratizing image creation, allowing those without artistic skills to express their ideas visually. However, the technology also brings ethical considerations, such as the potential for creating deepfakes, spreading misinformation, and copyright issues. Companies are starting to implement measures like watermarking to address these concerns, but there is an ongoing need for responsible AI practices and policies, particularly to protect children from inappropriate content and to manage the risks of AI models trained on personal data, which include privacy violations and algorithmic bias. Developers can adopt responsible practices such as curating training data, implementing bias-mitigation techniques, and deploying models with built-in safeguards. Regulations are recommended to mandate watermarks, develop databases for detecting manipulated media, require consent for the use of personal data, and institute age verification mechanisms. The broader public needs AI literacy to understand the benefits and risks associated with AI, and to make informed decisions about personal data usage. With ethical governance and public education, AI image generation holds the potential to enhance creativity and visual communication while ensuring safety and transparency in data practices.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard). The new feature allows developers to extend their low-code solutions with custom code and provides more flexibility with code deployment. It also offers local debug experience and supports local logging and Application Insights. However, the company advises that this should not be used for compute-heavy scenarios. The feature can be accessed through VS Code and the company plans to build in support for .NET 6 in the future. The documentation pages provide guidance on how to use the .NET Framework Custom Code in Logic Apps Standard.

Anthropic has released an updated version of its AI model, Claude 2.1, which has a 200,000-token context window, a significant improvement on OpenAI's GPT-4 model. The new model has reduced rates of model hallucination and a tendency to avoid incorrect answers. It also introduces tool use and system prompts, allowing it to interact with APIs and enabling users to set specific contexts for their requests. Pricing has been reduced to improve cost efficiency, and reviews of Claude 2.1 have been mixed, with some users praising its capabilities while others criticize its perceived censorship and limitations. Despite internal issues at OpenAI, GPT-4 is still considered the gold standard for code generation.

OpenTelemetry (OTel), an open-source observability framework, has marked its logging component as stable. The logging feature offers improvements such as sharing a common agent for observability data, extending correlation across telemetry signals, and reducing logging computation overhead. Unlike other OTel components, OpenTelemetry Logging aims to work well with existing logging frameworks and libraries. OpenTelemetry now allows a single agent to collect core observability data, including logs, metrics, and traces, as well as context propagation. The addition of OTel Logging means the OpenTelemetry Collector can gather each of these sources, enhancing interoperability. The new logging collection approach is less CPU-intensive and aims to address the issue of logs being formatted in different ways.

The passage discusses the importance of choosing the right approach for a task by drawing an analogy with selecting the correct path in a forest based on the situation, such as the type of vehicle one is using or the person's ability to swim. It then transitions into the technical challenge of integrating HubSpot CMS content with WordPress CMS, highlighting that no direct module exists for this purpose, but it can be achieved using APIs. Three methods are outlined for this integration: 1. Node.js Standalone Server: This involves setting up a Node.js proxy server to handle API requests and fetch data from the HubSpot API. 2. Axios on the Client Side: The recommended method by HubSpot documentation, which uses Axios in a JavaScript file to make API calls and handle responses. CORS issues might arise but can be mitigated by adding certain headers. 3. Creating a HubSpot Module that Acts as a Server Proxy: This method involves creating a WordPress module that functions as a proxy server to make API requests and fetch data, which can then be displayed using PHP or JavaScript. The passage provides code snippets and examples of how to set up these methods, handle responses, and deal with potential CORS issues. A bonus tip suggests a local development environment tool for making API calls for proof of concept or testing purposes. The summary concludes with a hopeful note that the blog will help readers address CORS issues and choose the best approach based on their application's needs, directing them to further references in HubSpot's documentation for more information.

This week's Java roundup includes updates from OpenJDK, the release of JDK 22 build 22, GlassFish 7.0.10, Spring Boot 3.2-RC2, Spring Cloud 2023.0-RC1, Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0, Spring Statemachine 4.0-M1, Spring Tools 4.20.1, Open Liberty 23.0.11-beta, Micronaut 4.1.6, Grails 6.1.0, TomEE 8.0.16, Infinispan 14.0.20.Final, JHipster 8.0.0, JHipster Lite 0.47.0, JReleaser 1.9.0, and Kotlin 1.9.20. Notably, OpenJDK's JEP 463 aims to simplify Java for beginners, while JDK 22 continues to receive bug fixes. GlassFish's update brings improvements and deprecates a method for XML processing. Spring Boot's release candidate adds new SSL features and Spring Cloud's release candidate provides updates to sub-projects. Spring Cloud Stream Applications introduces a new JsonBytesToMap class, and Spring Statemachine supports the Spring Boot 3.1 release train. Spring Tools enhances performance and completion for Spring Boot properties, while Open Liberty introduces new metrics and MicroProfile capabilities. Micronaut and Grails provide module updates and dependency upgrades. TomEE addresses several CVEs and improves JMX console functionality. Infinispan also upgrades to support JDK 21. JHipster releases a major update after two and a half years, and JHipster Lite adds features like YAML support for Spring configuration. JReleaser streamlines release note generation and fixes script creation issues. Lastly, Kotlin's update brings the K2 compiler to Beta, stabilizes Kotlin Multiplatform, and improves performance. The roundup was provided by Michael Redlich, highlighting significant developments in the Java ecosystem.

The 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous DDoS attacks. The attack can generate almost 400 million requests per second (rps) Cloudflare, Google, and AWS have implemented additional mitigations for their CDN and WAF that support HTTP/1. The vulnerability does not affect HTTP/3, while F5 has released a patch for the NGINX HTTP/ 2 module that increases system stability. The attackers can also be used to improve the efficiency of DDoS. The attacks are just a new type of HTTP request flood.

AWS has announced the availability of two new models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Code Llama and Mistral 7B are available for customers through Amazon Sage Maker JumpStart to deploy with one click. Code and Mistrals models can perform code generation and infilling. AWS has not announced the regions where Mistral is available in Europe or Australia. The models are available in the US East (N. Virginia), West Virginia, Oregon (Oregon) and Virginia (Oregon and Virginia) regions. The Instruct variants support a special prompt format similar to that of Mistral's. model. The instructors version of Code Llamas is designed for chat-like interaction.

Authenticating users and devices is wildly different based on capabilities and use cases. OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect (OIDC) are both JWT-based. OIDC is a cornerstone in modern API-driven ecosystems, OAuth is crucial for maintaining security. OIdC is an identity layer atop the OAuth2.0 protocol. Mutual TLS (mTLS) works by having two entities at opposite ends of the network. In other use cases, the user is acting as the user, acting as a user. This is common when a user grants access to another app to read and update their account.

Spotify's Ruvy is a toolchain capable to translate Ruby code into Wasm modules. Based on ruby.wasm, Ruvy uses wasi-vfs (WASI virtual file system) to package Ruby source files into a single module. Ruvy pre-initializes Ruby VM when module is built, as opposite to when it is loaded into memory for execution. This improves performance by 20%. Ruvio is only available as a source distribution, which means you need to build it before using it. It can only run simple Ruby programs at the moment. In future, they plan to enable loading code from the standard library as well as non-native third-party gems.

This article covers pointers on how to effectively use the widely known STAR format to answer behavioral questions. It addresses common pitfalls and provides examples to help candidates understand how to use the STAR format. This is the framework that has helped me successfully clear Engineering leadership interviews at Databricks, Twitter, Airbnb, Plaid, Notion, Uber, and other companies. The STAR format is a widely known method for effectively answering behavioral interview questions. The article covers some best practices and common mistakes for effectively using the STAR. It's important to provide context and explicitly state your intention to do so before describing a situation.

Google Cloud service accounts can pose a security risk for your Google Cloud project if not managed properly. Anyone who is able to authenticate as a service account can likely take sensitive actions in your environment. We’ll be able to discover unused service accounts and keys and understand what API actions your service accounts are being used to take. If data access audit logs are enabled on your project, you’ve also been able to understand which users are authenticating via impersonation, the IPs that service account keys are being using to authentiate from and determine which users originally created service account key.

Kesha Williams spoke about ethical machine learning at NDC Oslo 2023. Explainable AI can provide checks and balances for fairness and explainability. Engineers must analyze the systems’ impact on people’s lives and mental health. Williams: We all have a duty as engineers to look at the AI/ML systems we’re developing from a moral and ethical standpoint. Bias can show up in your model (once it’m deployed to production) because of drift. Bios can also show up by the ML algorithm itself. Bio is a problem in traditional software development in that we give the machine the data first.

This tutorial uses Lua to create a simple MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) tool to publish images from an ESP32-CAM board to multiple browser clients using MQtt. The core of the image publishing mechanism is the timer callback function, publishImage. This function captures an image using the camera object and publishes it via MQT. The following tutorial includes the following tutorials: Your First Xedge32 Project, Your First MQ TT Lua Program and Your First Lua Program. The tutorial is based on the following tutorial: Your Xedge 32 project and the following module: Your first Xedge

JBang is a tool for scripting with Java. It is a launcher script that can discover or download a JVM and then (download the Java script given in an argument) JBang can run jsh or java files; the latter is a standard Java class. The Yelp Fusion API was one that required a header on the request. The code was created using the JBang script to import data from an API. The script was created by JBang using the Java API. It was then downloaded to the JVM, and set up on the classpath. The JBang tool is available in Maven Central Central Central and IntelliJ.

The CQRS pattern was introduced to address the scaling challenges of CRUD (CRUD) patterns. The pattern is called Command Query Responsibility Segregation. The CqRS pattern is a way to separate command and query operations. The patterns are designed to allow each operation to be tuned, scaled, and maintained independently of the other. The approach is similar to CRUD, but it is often more complex than CRUD. The result is that the CQrs pattern is designed to be more flexible and flexible. The system is designed for e-commerce applications with millions of users. The idea is that both operations should be read-heavy and write-heavy.

The Kong solution is based on a distributed database built on Postgres. The solution is designed to use the same database as the API and service meshes. The database is the only database that is available for the API layer of Kong and Mesh. The guide shows how to use this database to run Kong on a database built by YugabyteDB. The majority of applications should operate with Postgres, the majority of drivers and libraries for Postgres are designed for the distributed database. The data center is designed for global API layers and multi-region service meshes, but the database is a bottleneck. The only solution is to use a database that can scale across multiple locations and multiple availability zones.

The Cortex Framework is a tool that connects Salesforce with Google BigQuery. The framework is used to extract data from your Salesforce instance to BigQuery data. The DAGs will be used to get the data from Salesforce to BigQuiz. The code is required to use the framework to connect the DAG to the DGs. The following steps are the steps to deploy the DOGs and the DAFs to the Salesforce app. The next step is to create a Connected App, which will be set up with the DPGs. This will be done with the profile and user ID you created in Step #1.

The team created a voice-driven animation that could seamlessly integrate into Android and Android Automotive OS. The project was created to help voice assistant functionality in the voice-activated system. The team used a combination of animation tools and libraries to create the animation. The tool was created using Lottie, PaintCode and Android Canvas. The animation was created with the help of Bezier curves and Fibonacci sequences. The task was a result of combining these with audio data to create a voice assistant. We’ll do a comparative analysis of modern animation libraries and tools, plus juxtapose them with existing GitHub libraries and custom views in the Android Canva framework.

Dyte has adopted Terraform to set up alerts for services using New Relic. The company is using Terraform's New Relic providers to set alerts for their respective services. The team has also been able to better manage their alerts with greater control and flexibility. This has led to a more efficient and streamlined process, allowing teams to focus on other tasks. The alerting system is tailored to each service's specific needs, improving our systems' overall performance and stability. The author of this article also discusses the benefits of Terraform. For more information, visit Dyte's blog: http://www.doyte.com/doyle-news/news/techtech.

DevOps represents a paradigm shift in the capacity of development and software teams to deliver output effectively. DataOps and DevOps share a common foundation in agile project management. DevOps and DataOps are all about teamwork and collaboration. Data Ops is all about creating a seamless flow of data and ensuring valuable information reaches the hands of end users. Devops and Data Ops share a similar foundation in the Agile Methodology. Data ops is about optimizing and refining intelligent systems and analytical models through the expertise of data analysts and data engineers. Dev Ops focuses on making things run smoothly and continuously improving. Dataops is about creating and ensuring that valuable information is delivered to the hands.

Uno Platform released version 5.0 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. With this version developers can now develop the.NET application using only one language with C# Markup and entirely using C# programming language as an approach. The release also brings C#. Markup to the Figma extension,.nbsp;Hot Reload and MVUX improvements. The team stated that C# was a massive community request for building the apps. The Uno platform team stated. that C.# Markups were a massive. community request. Developers can build the UI layer using C. only.

Gartner's software development experts have made some predictions regarding the landscape for the year 2024. The key focus seems to have shifted to strike the right balance between efficiency and security. The future of software development demands businesses to be gearing up for a delicate dance between innovation and reliability. The next generation of software developing emphasizes the need for trustworthiness in software development. Gartners: AI/ML tools like Python will continue to be favored in the global software development landscape. React Native will continue as preferred framework for cross-platform app development. Kubernetes will continue its leadership in container orchestration.

AI-augmented software engineering combines AI with traditional software engineering methods. This blog will explore the benefits of AI-a-professionality in software development. The blog will go through the process of AI augmentation in depth. The process is also made faster with the use of AI technology. The article also explains how to use AI to improve software development and design. The post also explains the benefits and the benefits it provides to developers. The following article also provides a look at the benefits to the development process. The section will go into the process and procedures to use the AI technology in software engineering.

Traditional surveys have limitations, often causing respondents to drop out due to lengthy forms or slow-loading pages. Async survey tools leverage asynchronous communication to create a more engaging and efficient survey-taking experience. In this blog post, we'll explore the world of asynchronous survey tools, shedding light on what they are and why you should consider building one. This guide is written assuming you have basic HTML, CSS, and JS knowledge, along with React. It's written assuming that you have a basic HTML and JS. You will need an API Key and Organisation ID from dev.dyte.io to perform operations with Dyte's REST APIs.

Gartner: Worldwide spending on security is forecast to grow 11.3% in 2023 to reach more than $188.3 billion. Despite all this spending, there are certain areas where problems are only getting worse. Reports now say over 50% of cyber attackers gained their initial foothold by exploiting compromised credentials. Good security is that with a holistic approach, there can be three core pillars: People, Processes, Tools, and Tools. Good people are trained on the tools and processes to deal with the issues. Good tools require proper and consistent usage for reliable results. The act of running a scan alone does not do much. Executing an action plan once an incident is identified is vital.

The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia. The team uses LlamaIndex and NebulaGraph to build an RAG pipeline for the team. The pipeline will use Knowledge Graph and Nebula Graphs to query information on the team's data. The Pipeline is built using Llama index and Nebula graph. The code is based on the knowledge graph and Cypher queries. The Philadelphia team is using the knowledge Graphs for the pipeline. The guide is detailed in the \Detailed Implementation\ section. The project is based in the following week on the \Phincincense\ blog.

Backend developers work with server side of applications, databases, and DevOps practices. Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Go and C are the most popular programming languages. Frontend development is divided into three categories: web, Android, iOS, and iOS. Learning programming languages is like learning a sport; you need practice. Backend development requires more knowledge of algorithms, a strong base in computer science. Backends require more knowledge and the ability to manage complex logic. Backership development requires a strong background in computer engineering. Backenders require a strong knowledge of the algorithms and complex logic, says author.

Server-side tracking is a data tracking technique that allows you to send data directly from your server to Google Analytics. Server-tracking can be seamlessly integrated with Google Analytics 4 to achieve this task. The shift towards a cookie-less tracking environment has prompted marketers to adapt to these changes. The true benefits of cookie-free tracking lie in the integration of server-side Tracking with GA4. Together, GA4 and server-tracking will lead to refined user-driven strategies and lead to enhanced user-centric strategies. For example, Google Cloud’s Tag Manager 360 offers solutions that work with GTM and handle server-sourced tracking.

SAP unveiled new tools and platforms infused with the power of AI at SAP TechEd 2023. SAP Build Code and AI Foundation are AI-powered solutions optimized for Java and JavaScript developers. SAP's AI assistant, Joule, can help developers by generating code, data models, test scripts. HANA Cloud adds vector database features for managing unstructured data like text and images. SAP also unveiled new learning resources on the SAP Learning site for ABAP Cloud developers. The new materials include self-paced courses on ABAP development for SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA aligned with agile, cloud-based business transformation.

This article is the third of three articles analyzing the 183 anti-patterns from the upcoming Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book. The previous two articles address adhering to legacy systems, processes, practices, and communication and collaboration issues. The “Planning and Process Breakdown at the Scrum Level’s level identifies setbacks and breakdowns in planning, process, collaboration, and alignment within the Scum framework. These issues can lead to chaotic, inefficient work, erode trust, hinder alignment, and undermine the Scrums team’’ ability to deliver value and uphold the principles of Scrum.

Java Persistence Architecture and Jakarta Persistence specification (JPA) have improved support for the Java Persistent Architecture and JPA specification. The EqualsVerifier library may be used in Java unit tests to automatically verify equals() implementations. It provides 100% code coverage on equals() and hashCode() methods. The new version 3.15.1 resolved an error which was thrown when the getter method of an unused mapped field in a JPA entity wasn’t used in the equals() method. The withFieldnameToGetterConverter() method allows a custom derivation of getter names from field names.

Rate limiting is a mechanism used to control consumption over time. It could also be used to shape traffic in various ways. Rate limiting could also help shape traffic. It is increasingly easier to exploit public resources due to the advent of AI and related tools. With rate-limiting, we could achieve the following:. The goal of a rate-Limiting system is to work well when the system is under heavy load. It needs to be built for the worst 1%, not the good 99%. It could help reduce the resiliency of the system by smoothing bursts in traffic. With Rate Limiting, it could also achieve the.

AI hallucinations are the phenomenon where large language models generate nonsensical or inaccurate outputs that don't conform to real patterns or objects. These false AI outputs stem from various factors. Overfitting to limited or skewed training data is a major culprit. Google has connected its models to the internet to ground responses in training data and web information. There are promising approaches, but mitigating hallucinations will remain an active challenge as the technology evolves. Companies and users can take measures to counteract and limit the potential harm from AI hallucinations. The authors say there are promising ways to reduce hallucinations. They say: Use high-quality, relevant datasets is vital to minimizing hallucinations.

Pete Warden is the CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors, a new venture that uses AI in a Box. He was the Technical Lead of the TensorFlow Mobile team, responsible for deep learning on mobile and embedded devices. He also founded the company, which is now working on AI in the box. Warden is sometimes credited as having kickstarted the TinyML sub domain of machine learning. He says the new product is a private, open source LLM for conversations and more. Warden says he is working on the project to be able to run locally and locally with machine learning locally. He is also working on a new product called AI in an AI in

This blog post explores the state of data streaming for the energy and utilities industry in 2023. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale to improve most workloads in the energy sector. The evolution of utility infrastructure, energy distribution, customer services, and new business models requires real-to-end visibility. The use of real-source data in smart grids and smart meters is a key enabler of the smart grid. The increased use of digital tools makes the expected structural changes in the system possible: increased use. The three major topics I see are hybrid data streaming and hybrid data-driven computing.

Domain-driven design (DDD) approach helps to solve this problem by fostering a profound understanding of subject matter. Developers gain a more in-depth understanding of the underlying domain and business rules through constant communication. DDD also includes strategic and tactical design phases. DDS enables the creation of systems that focus not only on technical requirements but also on core concepts of the domain. D.D is based on several key principles that enable the creation. The core domain is the core of the business, its most important and valuable part. The solution space is concerned with creating a model that effectively solves the problems identified in the problem space.

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TiDB Serverless is a fully managed cloud DBaaS for auto-scaling workloads built with TiDB, an advanced open-source, distributed database. Connectivity challenges in serverless databases can be overcome by the use of a powerful connection management tool. TiProxy is a powerful tool built into the DBaa-SaaS built into TiDB serverless. It can manage database connectivity and optimizes resource allocation without impacting business. We’ll explore how TiProxy maintains database connectivity with the tool. We also explore how the tool works with the platform. The tool is available in the free beta version of TiDB.

All Things Open conference was hosted at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina. The event is one of the few larger shows that doesn’t sit in a wallet-busting city. It stands out because of its focus on the tools, techniques, and community that make open source a powerful force for good. The topic of community was ever-present during the event. Creating a community is an intentional act and goes far beyond logging issues or providing support. The conference was a great example of the importance of community support. It's hard to imagine any other event supporting over 200 sessions covering a comprehensive range of topics.

The risks of Generative AI are very real and difficult to monitor in production. The problem is how to ensure that the content returned by Gen AI systems are consistent with expectations. The risk of Generatives AI is very low, but it’s possible for it to produce harmful responses with harmful qualities such as accuracy, bias, or toxicity. Mitigation is as simple as ensuring you can return to the previous model to the same results. The risks are very difficult to detect, but there are some ways to mitigate them. The original paper and code are freely available online. The authors of this article have updated their findings.

JAX London was a hybrid conference that streamed to remote participants. The conference was held in October, with 43 sessions and keynotes in four tracks over two days. The 2023 edition featured 43 sessions, keynotes, six full-day workshops and more than 46 sessions from 2022. The JAX conference will return in the first week of October in the Business Center of London's Business Center in October 2024. The keynote was \The Team is The Real Product\ by Jason Gorman. Ted Neward argued soft skills are anything but soft, and developers should want to use internal platforms.

The Circuit Breaker pattern is designed to detect failures and prevent further requests to a service from being made to a failing service. It stops the flow of requests to the service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold. This ensures that a failing services doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers. The Circuit Breakers are composed of three possible states, allowing the system to understand the failure and react appropriately. The circuit breaker is composed of a state composed of. three possible. states, including the closed state, the open state, half-open state, and half-Open state.

Google's MediaPipe diffusion plugin is now available as an experimental tool on Android devices. Named Image Generator, the plugin can generate images entirely on-device in approximately 15 seconds on high end devices. Google says the new MediaPipes Image Generator can be used to generate images based on textual prompts using standard diffusion models. Google has provided a number of plugins that should be used in combination with a foundational model, each tailored to a specific end effect. The plugin can also be customized using LoRA to extend a foundation model by teaching it a new concept. The Canny Edge plugin uses the edges implied by the. condition image, and generates a new image based on the text prompt.

Java roundup features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0.0-M1, GraalVM 21.0, Spring 6.1-RC2, Spring Modulith 1.1, Spring Vault 3.1. Java's OpenJDk has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK. The first milestone release of Jakarta Data is Jakarta Data, the first milestone for Jakarta Data. The review of OpenJDJ is expected to conclude on November 3, 2023. The latest Java roundup is the October 23rd, 20th edition of the Java Platform Group at Oracle.

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. “Update on Close” option, Unreal Engine macro specifier suggestions, structured diagnostics and an upgrade in SQL Server Data Tools. The new version has support for TDS 8.0, support for specifying Server SPN and Failover Server SPn on the connection. The welcome page disappeared and the “Welcome page” was way better than the old “Start window”. The editor has been updated to reflect the changes in the editor.

LangChain is a tool tool for interacting with Large Language Models (LLMs) and extracting test case steps. LangChain's approach to parsing input and handling errors often leads to inconsistent outcomes. Langchain's approach is unpredictable and non-deterministic. The solution is to use the LangChain library to build interaction chains with LLMs. The library uses Python and TypeScript, but the Python version is lagging behind the TypeScript. Lang chain uses the same language as the TypeSyntScript version of LangChain. The issue with LLM output is how a type error can go unnoticed.

Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) presents a risk-based European regulatory approach to AI. The risk of bias in generated content or in predictions made by AI-driven applications poses a significant ethical problem. The integration of AI into corporate strategies also raises environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. The potential societal repercussions of generated content can be biased or misleading. The use of AI technology is still in its early stages, says the author. It requires taking into account a lot of additional factors, such as security, privacy, ethics, and the importance of AI to be taken into account.

Architects, much like mythical creatures of old, harbor a shadowy underside. Like everybody, architects have a dark side, patterns and practices, if not wielded with caution, can spiral into chilling tales of system horrors. In this paper, we shall venture into this enigmatic domain shedding light on the specters that haunt our architectural decisions. We shall venture to shed light on this enigmatic domains and understand how to exorcise the demons that threaten our digital sanctuaries. So, this Halloween, let’s respect the magic and mystery of our trade and watch out for those architectural ghouls and ghosts!

This tutorial walks you through how to use AWS CDK to deploy a Serverless image generation application. The solution is deployed as a static website hosted on Amazon S3 accessible via an Amazon CloudFront domain. Users can enter the image description which will be passed on to a Lambda function (via Amazon API Gateway) which in turn will invoke the Stable Diffusion model on Amazon Bedrock to generate the image. The code is available on GitHub. The entire solution is built using Go - this includes the Lambda. function (using the aws-lambda-go library) as well as the complete solution deployment using AWS CD K.

The official official setup for the Querydsl framework is based on the recommended setup. The correct approach depends on the technologies used. The official setup is based upon the use of the Eclipse Transformer plugin. The querydsl-apt dependency isn't mentioned on the official site, but such dependency is needed for the generation of metadata Q classes. The full working Maven setup based on this recommendation is like this:. The full Maven-Configure-Configured-Configuring-Configurations-Configurable-Configurer-Config is based at the end of Chapter 2.1.1.

Real-time monitoring during deployments has transitioned from being a luxury to an absolute necessity. Real-Time monitoring during deployment can be used to make a decision to pause or initiate a deployment rollback. Real time monitoring can help teams identify problems and prevent them from snowballing into a major outage. With the ability to query metrics, teams can then use Datadog's API to query their monitoring tools programmatically. This allows for tailored monitoring configurations, automated alert-alerts and extraction of pertinent data. By leveraging Datadogs's API, leveraging the tool, we can create a more robust and efficient deployment flow.

Java Records represent immutable data structures that are particularly well-suited to defining data entities. Java Records offer a range of built-in functionality, including automatic generation of constructors, accessors, and other methods. Java records are highly efficient, providing a streamlined definition of data entities, making it easier to manage and maintain. Integration with Spring Data repositories with Spring is quite seamless. We will explore the benefits of using Java records to create robust data entities with Spring. We also provide real-world examples to showcase their potential within Spring Data. We discuss the integration of Java Records in Spring Data applications.

Goldsky created a platform for the real-time processing of blockchain data. The platform allows clients to extract data from blockchains into their databases. Goldsky leverages Apache Flink, Redpanda, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services. The event-driven architecture (EDA) of Goldsky’s platform leverages. The data streaming concepts work extremely well for blockchain data, says Goldsky. The company uses Redpand, a Kafka-compatible message broker written in C++ for direct indexing, with blockchain data serialized using Avro. Goldskink uses RedPandanda, a. Kafka- compatible message broker.

Quality Assurance (QA) testers are indispensable in a software development team. They are like the Sherlock Holmes of the development team, searching for clues to uncover imperfections. QA testers document and report issues proactively, reducing the likelihood of failures, data breaches, and system crashes. They also document and resolve issues pro-actively, allowing the development to address and resolve them effectively. QAs testers are the guardians of software stability and robustness. They bring a systematic and standardized approach to testing that ensures all aspects of the software are thoroughly examined. QAT testers are not just the unsung heroes of the team but also bridge the development process.

In Design Center, you can share an API specification project with other users. Viewers can only view the code of your API specification. An editor can edit the project. An admin can edit as well as share the project with others. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. So, share, collaborate, and succeed! In this video, I will share the experience as other users log in as other user to show their experience. In this article, I'll show how to share the API specification with other people. The API specification is designed to be compatible with the user's preferences.

This article introduces the cJSON, the C-J parsing tool for Melon, a C-C library. It is a very famous open-source project. In this article, we will compare cJ to the cJ version of the cj version of Melon. The cJ is a C/C-C-J tool that uses the c-J to build a CJ-C. It uses the same language as the cC-JS tool that calls the cJS tool. The code is written using the cJs tool. It can be used to build the cajajaj module for C-JS and C-Js.

Python provides the usual containers, e.g., lists, sets, and dictionaries. The magic methods are used to implement containers and numbers. Python defines two methods to implement to return the number of items in a container. The containers are containers that contain objects and contain objects. Python's magic methods can be used to create a simple hash-map-like container. You can use the methods to use the same as the ones used to get the exact size of a container and an approximation. The methods are described in this article: Python's Magic Methods. The next part of the series will focus on containers and collections.

Amazon CloudWatch has introduced 'out-of-the-box' best practice alarm recommendations for Amazon Cloudwatch. The new option is designed to improve observability on the platform. The recommendations are available for 19 managed services, with more expected to be covered soon. The services supporting alarm recommendations include Auto Scaling, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, DynamoDB, EFS, and Kinesis. The alarm recommendations are free to download from the console and use the code to recreate them in CloudFormation, AWS. The alarms are charged at the same rate as any other CloudWatch alarms.

Superclouds are emerging as a new type of cloud, emerging as cloud adoption has exploded. Multi-cloud refers to the use of multiple cloud computing services from different cloud platforms or vendors. Multiclouds offer cost saving, scalability, reliability, security, flexibility, and flexibility. Supercloud is more than just multi-cloud. It's a new world of fundamental cloud computing technologies like infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as -a-saaS). Supercloud or meta cloud are terms used to describe this technological trend. The development of superclouds is being built on top of fundamental.

Free resources for cloud-advocating professionals are available for free on Amazon's free cloud services. The cloud providers each have over 100 services and the cloud platform has grown in size. The free resources listed below help to get a good understanding of the foundations of the cloud. The list includes training and certification events, documentation resources, and hands-on learning. The blog also lists resources for hands-in-the-game-tested hands-out learning. For more information, visit the Amazon Cloud Resources Blog. Read the blog here: Get started with the free resources. For help, visit Amazon's cloud-related resources: Get Started with training and events. For help with AWS training and

Release Candidate 2 released with.NET 8 Release Candidate. Release Candidate 1 focuses on resolving issues encountered during preview stages. Performance enhancements were a key highlight of this release. The.NET MAUI service release 8 (version 7.0.96) was also released as the.NET 7.7 Service Release. This allows developers to build applications that target.NET.NET's 7.5 Service Release, which is available through an upgrade to Visual Studio 17.7.5. Xamarin developers can now utilize Xcode 15 to target the latest iOS and iPadOS versions, alongside targeting Android API 34 for policy compliance.

The field of generative AI has ignited a computing revolution this year. Vector search has become one of the most crucial tools in GenAI. In this three-part series, we'll demonstrate the power of vector search by building a vector store from scratch. We'll build a search engine for finding quotes by famous philosophers and a generator of new philosophical quotes. We will use DataStax Astra DB for the vector-search back-end. The search facility will be the basis to create, in true GenAI style, a tool that can invent new, plausible snippets of philosophical wisdom in the style of your favorite philosopher.