5 great new features in Django 5
Django, the Python web framework with all batteries included, is on the verge of its fifth major release. Here’s a rundown of five big new Django 5 features to take advantage of, in both existing and new Django projects. Top 5 new features in Django 5 Form fields are simpler to render Model fields for […]
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Here's what AWS revealed about its generative AI strategy at re:Invent 2023
At AWS’ annual re:Invent conference this week, CEO Adam Selipsky and other top executives announced new services and updates to attract burgeoning enterprise interest in generative AI systems and take on rivals including Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and IBM. AWS, the largest cloud service provider in terms of market share, is looking to capitalize on growing […]
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Amazon Q: AWS' answer to Microsoft’s GPT-driven Copilot
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on Tuesday premiered the star of the cloud giant’s ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference: Amazon Q, the company’s answer to Microsoft’s GPT-driven Copilot generative AI assistant. Selipsky’s announcement of Q was reminiscent of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote at Ignite and Build, where he announced several integrations and flavors of Copilot […]
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JDK 22: The new features in Java 22
Java Development Kit 22, due in March 2024 as the next version of Java Standard Edition, has grown to include 12 features, with a second preview of scoped values and a preview of stream gatherers being the latest additions. Oracle said the feature set for JDK 22 will be frozen by December 7. Scoped values […]
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Get started with Java's new structured concurrency model
Structured concurrency is a new way to use multithreading in Java. It allows developers to think about work in logical groups while taking advantage of both traditional and virtual threads. Available in preview in Java 21, structured concurrency is a key aspect of Java’s future, so now is a good time to start working with it. Why […]
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Implement authorization for Swagger in ASP.NET Core
When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your API. You can test the API methods within the Swagger UI once the API documentation is available. If you could use an […]
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AWS updates Bedrock, SageMaker to boost generative AI offerings
At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, AWS unveiled several updates to its SageMaker, Bedrock and database services in order to boost its generative AI offerings. Taking to the stage on Wednesday, AWS vice president of data and AI, Swami Sivasubramanian, unveiled updates to existing foundation models inside its generative AI application-building service, Amazon Bedrock. The […]
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How to implement JWT authentication in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. Minimal APIs are ideal for building microservices and fast HTTP APIs. Naturally, you will often need to secure the endpoints of such APIs in your applications. The goal of this post is to give you […]
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Simplifying AI development with Azure AI Studio
Microsoft Azure has been at the heart of Microsoft’s AI ambitions for many years now. It began with making the deep learning products of Microsoft Research available as Azure Cognitive Services. Then Microsoft added tools to roll your own cloud-hosted machine learning, using Azure to train models and host the resulting services. Now Azure is […]
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Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use
Anthropic has upped the ante for how much information a large language model (LLM) can consume at once, announcing on Tuesday that its just-released Claude 2.1 has a context window of 200,000 tokens. That’s roughly the equivalent of 500,000 words or more than 500 printed pages of information, Anthropic said. The latest Claude version also […]
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