Alibaba AI M6, JetBrains' Projector, Starting Java Fast, NativeScript 8, GitHub Microservices

In this issue, April 13, 2021 [View it in your browser.]( [Alibaba AI M6](#Alibaba), [Cloud Native Trends](#Cloud), [Bot Management](#Bot), [JetBrains' Projector](#Jet), [Supreme Court Ruling](#Supreme), [Starting Java Fast](#Java), [NativeScript 8](#NativeScript), [Rust and Android](#Rust), [GitHub Microservices](#GitHub), [Cynefin](#Cynefin) [Join Zhamak Dehghani, Ben Sigelman, Tammy Bryant Butow and 80 other experts at QCon Plus this May 17-28.]( Accelerate your learning with [focused technical talks]( from software leaders driving innovation and change. Get implementable ideas you can focus on after the conference. Join the 1,600 senior software engineers who have already booked their spot. [Register]( and save $50 before May 1st.  SPONSOR AD [Outsystems]( [How to Integrate Everything and Connect to Anything]( Setting up integrations with any external system of record, regardless of the communication protocol, shouldn’t cause application delays. [Join us]( to see how to build, accelerate, and complete the integrations needed for the most complex, feature-rich applications. [Register now](. [( [] [Anurag Gupta on Day 2 Operations, DevOps, and Automated Remediation]( In this podcast Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the role of DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE), day 2 operations, and the importance of building observability into applications and platforms. (Podcast) [( [] [Dimitar Karaivanov of Kanbanize on Implementing a Kanban System Effectively]( In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Dimitar Karaivanov of Kanbanize about the six core practices of Kanban and the importance of metrics for improving the flow of work. (Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES [] [Alibaba Announces 10 Billion Parameter Multi-Modal AI M6]( Alibaba has created an AI model called Multi-Modality to Multi-Modality Multitask Mega-transformer (M6). The model contains 10 billion parameters and is pretrained on a dataset consisting of 1.9TB of images and 292GB of Chinese-language text. M6 can be fine-tuned for several downstream tasks, including text-guided image generation, visual question answering, and image-text matching. (News) SPONSOR AD [Tigergraph]( [Graph + AI Summit on April 21]( Join us for case studies, tech sessions, and live hands-on workshops for analytics and machine learning. Speakers include JPMorgan Chase, NewDay, Intuit, Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover, Pinterest, Accenture, Capgemini, KPMG, Intel, Dell, and Xilinx. [Free Registration](. [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues]( - [] [Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines]( - [] [Google Bolsters Cloud Spanner with Point-in-Time Recovery]( - [] [Cheryl Hung on Trends in Cloud Native and DevOps for 2021]( - [] [AWS and Cloudflare Add Bot Management Features to Their Firewalls]( [] [Why AWS Lambda Pricing Has to Change for the Enterprise]( AWS Lambda users pay only when their code is run. This can result in massive cost savings over long-running workloads. The advantages start to disappear quickly when AWS Lambda is employed for batch processing. Enterprises can gain significantly from the scalability of FaaS - yet a price comparison between EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, the AWS-managed container service reveals an ugly truth. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Container Solutions]( [Changing? Innovating?]( If your product is meant to last more than a few months, you need SRE. It helps to keep your system running without burning your team out. Michael Mueller from Container Solutions explores more in his ebook. [Download now](. [Development Latest Content]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Swift Collections Brings New Data Structures to Swift]( - [] [C++ Interpreter Cling Embraces Python Interoperability and Jupyter Notebooks]( - [] [JetBrains Releases Projector, a Technology to Remotely Run Swing Applications]( - [] [Supreme Court Rules Google's Use of Java API Was Fair Use]( [] [Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification]( Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though. (News) SPONSOR AD [Cockroach Labs]( [Free Courses: Learn how to build cloud-native apps with a Distributed SQL database]( Get free swag & learn to build applications that scale easily and deliver great user experiences because of the underlying architecture. [Sign up](! [Java Latest Content]( TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Java News Roundup - Week of March 29th, 2021]( - [] [Google Pushes for Better Android App Quality]( [] [Starting Fast: Investigating Java's Static Compilation Landscape]( Dan Heidinga discusses how to start a Java application faster, and how Graal Substrate VM, Quarkus, Project Leyden, and others can help with that. (Presentation with transcript included) Level-up on the practices, patterns, and skills most in-demand in software right now. Attend [QCon Plus (May 17 - 28, 2021)](. SPONSOR AD [Teleport]( [Securing Your PostgreSQL Database]( Databases are the Holy Grail for hackers, and as such, must be protected with utmost care. In this article we cover best practices for securing PostgreSQL. [Read more](. [.NET Latest Content]( [] [.NET News Roundup - Week of April 5th, 2021]( The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with multiple releases from Microsoft - including the third preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 5th, 2021. (News) [Web Development Latest Content]( TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [NativeScript 8 Released with Apple M1, Webpack 5, and Dynamic View Support]( [] [10 Years after Inception, WebRTC Becomes an Official Web Standard]( Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) recently became a web standard. This is a major milestone on a long journey for WebRTC that started in 2011 with Google open-sourcing key necessary technologies. The new standard will continue to evolve as the WebRTC Working Group strives to integrate new use cases — live processing of audio and video feeds, Internet of Things use cases, and more. (News) [Mobile and IoT Latest Content]( [] [Rust to Provide New Foundations for Android OS Security]( Google will use Rust to prevent memory bugs in the Android OS, one of the most frequent causes of security vulnerabilities. As a first step in this direction, the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust as an OS development language. (News) [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [GitHub Scales Its Rate Limiter Using Redis]( [] [From Monolith to Microservices]( Sha Ma discusses how GitHub migrates from a monolith architecture to microservices, detailing some best practices. 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