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Data Teams Survey: Lag in DataOps and Value Delivered
We report on Jesse Anderson's 2024 Data Teams Survey which showed a lag in DataOps capabilities, slow LLM adoption, and a concerning decline in perceived value creation by data teams. It called out the importance of teams spread with data science, engineering, and operations capabilities. We also cover Petr Janda's recent podcast on the need for more engineering rigour for parity with other teams.
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UNO Platform 5.4 Improves App Performance
The Uno Platform has unveiled its latest update, version 5.4, packed with over 290 new features and enhancements. As part of this update, the team has prioritised addressing concerns raised by enterprise clients, alongside improving the overall performance of applications built on the Uno Platform.
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MongoDB 8.0 Now Available with Performance Gains and Enhanced Sharding
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.
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Breaking Down Python 3.13’s Latest Features
Python 3.13 introduces a revamped interactive interpreter with streamlined features like multi-line editing, experimental free-threaded mode, alongside the introduction of a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler. Lastly, the update removes several outdated modules and introduces random function for the CLI
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PayPal Adds GenAI Support with LLMs to Its Cosmos.AI MLOps Platform
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.
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Open-Sources Multimodal LLM LLaMA-Omni
Researchers at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) recently open-sourced LLaMA-Omni, a LLM that can operate on both speech and text data. 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.
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Meta Unveils Movie Gen, a New AI Model for Video Generation
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.
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Rspack 1.0 Released, 23X Faster than Webpack, Compatible with Top 50 Webpack Plugins
Rspack, a new JavaScript bundler that strives to be fully compatible with Webpack, is now production-ready. Rspack 1.0 is compatible with 40+ of the top 50 Webpack plugins. Rspack credits Rust for its performance and touts a 23x build time improvement over Webpack. ByteDance, the company behind it, uses Rspack in applications like TikTok, Douyin, Lark, and Coze.
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ASP.NET Core OData 9 Improves Performance, Drops .NET Framework
Microsoft announced the availability of the ASP.NET Core OData 9 package on August 30th 2024. The new package brings ASP.NET Core in line with .NET 8 OData libraries, changing the internal details of how the data is encoded in the OData format.
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Meta Releases Llama 3.2 with Vision, Voice, and Open Customizable Models
Meta recently announced Llama 3.2, the latest version of Meta's open-source language model, which includes vision, voice, and open customizable models. This is the first multimodal version of the model, which will allow users to interact with visual data in ways like identifying objects in photos or editing images with natural language commands among other use cases.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Plans for Spring 7.0, JobRunr 7.3, Keycloak 26.0, Debezium 3.0
This week's Java roundup for September 30th, 2024, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs and those targeted for JDK 24; plans for Spring Framework 7.0; JobRunr 7.3.0, Keycloak 26.0.0 and Debezium 3.0.0.
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Safe C++ is a new Proposal to Make C++ Memory-Safe
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 similarly to code written in Rust. The key to its approach is introducing a new safe context where only a rigorously safe subset of C++ is allowed.
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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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OpenAI Releases Stable Version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support and API Enhancements
OpenAI has released the stable version of its official .NET library, following June's beta launch. Available as a NuGet package, it supports the latest models like GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, and the full OpenAI REST API. The release includes both sync and async APIs, streaming chat completions, and key-breaking changes for improved API consistency.
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Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements
Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing some upgrades, including full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. Alongside the HTTP/3 advancements, this release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features, and better handling of modern web protocols.