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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures ...

Jake Zimmerman, Technical Lead of Sorbet at Stripe, and Getty Ritter, Ruby Infrastructure Engineer at Stripe, presented Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases at the 2024 QCon San Francisco conference. Zimmerman and Ritter demonstrated how to fix ...

Kotlin 2.1.0 introduces new syntax, including guard conditions, non-local break and continue, and multi-dollar string interpolation. Additionally, it extends its multiplatform capabilities and improves the K2 compiler.

Large-scale software delivery demands managing complexity across teams and organizations. Similarly to betting strategies in Vegas, embracing probabilistic thinking helps tackle uncertainty, shifting from rigid plans to adaptive systems. By making .. ...

Amazon has announced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models designed for generative AI tasks. The announcement, made during AWS re:Invent, highlights the models' capabilities in tasks such as document and video analysis, chart comprehension, ...

The 2024 edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As anticipated, AI was a key focus of the conference, with Amazon Nova and a new version of Sagemaker among the most significant highlights. However, the announcement that generated the most ...

This week's Java roundup for December 2nd, 2024 features news highlighting: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 25 Expert Group; the release of Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0; and point releases for GlassFish, ...

AWS Transfer Family's new web apps offer a user-friendly, no-code solution for secure access to Amazon S3 data. Designed for non-technical users, these fully managed portals simplify file management and enhance security with AWS IAM integration. ...

Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost. The incident impacted most customers using the service, with a misconfiguration ...

Denys Linkov's QCon San Francisco 2024 talk dissected the complexities of evaluating large language models (LLMs). He advocated for nuanced micro-metrics, robust observability, and alignment with business objectives to enhance model performance. ...