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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Microsoft .NET 8 arrives with cloud-native stack preview
.NET 8, the latest version of Microsoft’s open-source, cross-platform, application development platform, has arrived, bringing with it thousands of performance, security, and stability improvements. Like .NET 7 before it, .NET 8 puts an emphasis on cloud-native development, the company said. Generative AI also is a focus. Announced November 14 and available at dotnet.microsoft.com for Windows, Linux, […]
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Cloud security and devops have work to do
If there is anything that keeps cloud development leaders up at night, it’s the fact that the risk of an impending security breach is scarily high. If I go around the room at any enterprise development meeting, devops engineers, cloud developers, and cloud architects all see a company-debilitating breach as inevitable. Enterprise Strategy Group recently […]
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