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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Kafka 4.0 has been released, with major changes. This is the first version to operate entirely in KRaft mode by default. It also adds a new consumer group protocol designed to dramatically improve rebalance performance, and includes early access to Queues for Kafka, enabling Kafka to support traditional queue semantics directly.
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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Google has added an Agent Development Kit (ADK) to Vertex AI, along with an agent engine and an Agent2Agent protocol that provides agents with a common, open language for collaboration. The announcement was made at Google's annual Google Cloud Next conference, saying it will make it possible to build an AI agent in under 100 lines of Python code.
Vertex AI is a fully-managed, unified AI development platform for building and using generative AI.
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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank GitHub has released an agent mode and MCP support for VS Code, along with a new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan with premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions and the Copilot code review agent.
Copilot is GitHub's AI-based code helper system.
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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank If you're on social media, you'll probably have seen a lot of 'action figure' posts, where people show off images of themselves, their dog or their cat in the form of an action figure, complete with suitable accessories. The sort of thing you probably wanted to get for your birthday present back when you were seven or eight.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Google has announced the public preview of Application Design Center, a service that combines combines Gemini Cloud Assist chat with a visual, canvas-style interface for app development.
Google says the new service aims to help developers streamline the design, deployment, and evolution of cloud applications, while helping ensure that they are secure, reliable, and aligned with best practices.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank GitHub has announced measures making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets. They include a standalone version of Secret Protection and organization-wide scanning.
The announcements are part of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), GitHub's application security solution. GHAS uses AI and features include remediation, static analysis, secret scanning, and software composition analysis.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Author: Jordan Goldmeier Publisher: Wiley Date: November 2023 Pages: 448 ISBN: 978-1119931386 Print: 111993138X Kindle: B0CJPP7XZM Audience: Excel users Level: Introductory Category: Data Science Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: Kay Ewbank This is an updated edition of a well regarded title which looks at accessible ways to combine statistics and machine learning, along with Excel, to discover insights in your data, It has been revised by Jordan Goldmeier who wasn't the original author and is a...
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Camunda has announced new agentic orchestration capabilities that companies can use to model, deploy, and manage AI agents in their end-to-end processes. Camunda is also introducing AI-powered features for dynamic, intelligent decision making and process generation.
Camunda's process orchestration platform is used to control complex business processes for enterprises.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Django 5.2 has been released with the addition of support for composite primary keys, and the automatic importing of all models in the shell by default.
Django is a high-level Python web framework for creating full stack dynamic websites.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Torsten Hoefler, a professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing The ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, made the award to Hoefler for "fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution." Hoefler developed many of the core capabilities of modern supercomputers and defined key aspects of the algorithms for distributing AI models on...
