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Google Willow Sets New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
Published: December 21, 2024 19:00
Google has announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, code-named Willow, which solved a quantum supremacy experiment that would take at least 300 million years to simulate on a classical computer. More importantly, the chip shows how quantum…
Recap of OpenAI Highlights Key Updates in 12-Day "Shipmas"
Published: December 21, 2024 10:35
OpenAI's "12 Days of Shipmas" event, featured daily announcements of new AI features and tools. Below is a summary of the key developments. By Daniel Dominguez
Redis Creator 'antirez' Returns: Can He Shift Momentum Away from Valkey?
Published: December 21, 2024 06:45
After over four years away, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo recently announced his return to Redis. In what has been a challenging year for the company behind the source-available in-memory NoSQL database, the announcement has sparked enthusiasm and…
GitHub Launches Free Copilot Plan for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Users
Published: December 20, 2024 15:30
GitHub has introduced a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, offering 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month without requiring a subscription or payment. The update integrates Copilot as a core feature in the editor, with…
NVIDIA Unveils Jetson Orin Nano Generative AI Supercomputer
Published: December 20, 2024 10:05
NVIDIA has released the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a compact generative AI supercomputer. The device, which measures small enough to fit in one's hand, provides increased performance for generative AI capabilities. By Daniel Dominguez
Podcast: Building Effective Engineering Teams and Avoiding Cargo Cult Practices
Published: December 20, 2024 09:00
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to David Guttman about building effective engineering teams, avoiding common pitfalls, critiques of cargo cult practices, building great engineering culture and the importance of…
Hugging Face and Entalpic Unveil LeMaterial: Transforming Materials Science Through AI
Published: December 19, 2024 19:59
Entalpic, in collaboration with Hugging Face, has launched LeMaterial, an open-source initiative to tackle key challenges in materials science. By unifying data from major resources into LeMat-Bulk, a harmonized dataset with 6.7 million entries, LeMaterial…
Presentation: Unleashing the Kernel With eBPF
Published: December 19, 2024 12:45
Liz Rice uses demos and examples to explain how eBPF works, and why the ability to customize the kernel’s behavior leads to powerful and efficient capabilities. By Liz Rice
How to Use Property-Based Testing as Fuzzy Unit Testing
Published: December 19, 2024 11:08
According to Eivind Jahren, property-based testing is an invaluable tool for its ease of use and effectiveness. It is flexible in what requirements one can formulate and is simple and lightweight enough to put in the hands of software developers to perform…
Azure AI Agent Service in Public Preview: Automation of Routine Tasks
Published: December 19, 2024 10:00
Unveiling at Ignite, Microsoft's Azure AI Agent Service empowers developers to build and scale AI agents seamlessly. With secure integration, flexible use cases, and support for multiple frameworks, it automates workflows across platforms like Teams and…
New MSSQL Extension for VS Code Promises Enhanced Developer Productivity
Published: December 19, 2024 08:45
Microsoft enhances Visual Studio Code's MSSQL extension with comprehensive updates, introducing improved database connection, object exploration, and query analysis tools. The new version offers advanced UI features, streamlined table design, enhanced…
PydanticAI: A New Python Framework for Streamlined Generative AI Development
Published: December 18, 2024 21:15
The team behind Pydantic, widely used for data validation in Python, has announced the release of PydanticAI, a Python-based agent framework designed to ease the development of production-ready Generative AI applications. Positioned as a potential…
Key Takeaways from QCon & InfoQ Dev Summits with a Look Ahead to 2025 Conferences
Published: December 18, 2024 15:30
As we reflect on 2024, one thing is clear: senior developers, architects, and team leaders face challenges that benefit from real-world insights shared by other senior practitioners. This year, the InfoQ Dev Summits in Boston and Munich, and the QCon…
Presentation: Empirical Observations on the The Future of Scalable UI Architecture
Published: December 18, 2024 14:10
Willian Martins discusses a concise course of action regarding the patterns to introduce into a UI system and how to build UI architectures for scale. By Willian Martins
Podcast: InfoQ Java Trends Report 2024 - Discussing Insights with Ixchel Ruiz and Gunnar Morling
Published: December 18, 2024 09:00
In this episode, Ixchel Ruiz and Gunnar Morling sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, to discuss the recent publication of the InfoQ Java Trends Report. Topics covered included: the advantages of the Java…
Article: InfoQ Java Trends Report - December 2024
Published: December 18, 2024 08:55
This report summarizes how the InfoQ Java editorial team and several Java Champions currently see the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2024. We focus on Java the language, as well as related languages like Kotlin…
Challenges of Creating iOS App Extensions at Lyft
Published: December 17, 2024 16:00
In a recent article, Lyft engineers Artur Stepaniuk and Max Husar described how Lyft handles the complexity of creating an app extension for their iOS app without breaking the tight RAM and binary size constraints set by Apple nor impair user experience.…
Presentation: From Anti-patterns to Best Practices: A Practical Guide to DevSecOps Automation and Security
Published: December 17, 2024 13:37
Spyros Gasteratos discusses security patternsand provides alternatives to detrimental practices, along with a compilation of free and open-source tools endorsed by the community. By Spyros Gasteratos
Article: Software Architecture and the Art of Experimentation
Published: December 17, 2024 11:00
Run experiments using a Minimum Viable Architecture approach to determine if your architecture decisions are on the right track. MVAs also test the viability of an MVP, allowing stakeholders to validate the business value. By Pierre Pureur, Kurt Bittner
Amazon Aurora DSQL: Distributed SQL Database with Active-Active High Availability
Published: December 17, 2024 00:07
At the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced the public preview of Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database featuring active-active high availability. This new PostgreSQL-compatible database option has generated…
Google Introduces Veo and Imagen 3 for Advanced Media Generation on Vertex AI
Published: December 16, 2024 19:15
Google Cloud has introduced Veo and Imagen 3, two new generative AI models available on its Vertex AI platform. Veo generates high-definition videos from text or image prompts, while Imagen 3 creates detailed, lifelike images. Both models include…
OpenAI release Sora and full version of o1 reasoning model with fine-tuning
Published: December 16, 2024 12:32
OpenAI has unveiled its advanced o1 reasoning model and the video generation model Sora, enhancing complex reasoning and video creation capabilities. Sora produces high-quality videos using innovative diffusion techniques, while o1 excels in nuanced…
Podcast: Denys Linkov on Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation
Published: December 16, 2024 11:00
Live from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Denys Linkov, Head of Machine Learning at Voiceflow. Linkov shares insights on using micro metrics to refine large language models (LLMs), highlighting the importance of granular evaluation,…
Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java
Published: December 16, 2024 04:00
A pair of new JEPs arriving in Java 24 provide an initial Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capability in Java. By Ben Evans
Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, WildFly, Hibernate, EclipseStore, Piranha Cloud
Published: December 16, 2024 02:30
This week's Java roundup for December 9th, 2024 features news highlighting: point releases for the Spring Framework; the first beta release of WildFly 35; Hibernate ORM 7.0.0.Beta3, Hibernate Reactive 3.0.0.Beta1 and Hibernate Validator 9.0.0.RC1; and the…
Meta Releases Llama 3.3: A Multilingual Model with Enhanced Performance and Efficiency
Published: December 14, 2024 18:30
Meta has released Llama 3.3, a multilingual large language model aimed at supporting a range of AI applications in research and industry. Featuring a 128k-token context window and architectural improvements for efficiency, the model demonstrates strong…
Google AI Agent Jules Aims at Helping Developers With Their GitHub-based Workflows
Published: December 14, 2024 15:00
Part of Gemini 2.0, Google has launched its new AI-based coding assistant in closed preview. Dubbed "Jules", the assistant aims at helping developers to work with Python and JavaScript issues and pull requests, handle bug fixes, and other related tasks. By…
Amazon CloudFront Introduces Support for VPC Origins and Static IPs
Published: December 14, 2024 07:22
Ahead of re:Invent, AWS has announced that Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast static IPs, providing a dedicated set of IP addresses for connecting to all CloudFront edge locations worldwide. Additionally, the new VPC origins feature enables developers…