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Microservices: Kong Gateway 2.3 gives the gorilla a sandpit

The company Kong has released version 2.3 of the microservices gateway of the same name. The current release changes the default settings for running Lua scripts in favor of security. It also brings some additions to the plug-ins for logging and authentication, among other things. With a view to global use, Route and service names… Read more

Java Virtual Machine: GraalVM 21 starts the truffle search for Java

Oracle has released version 21. 0 of GraallVM. The release of the virtual machine mainly brings news for native images and the Truffle Language Implementation Framework. For the latter there is now an experimental implementation for Java, and the native images can now be serialized. The GraalVM relies on the Hotspot JVM ( Java Virtual… Read more

Embarcadero mother Idera buys Austrian API provider apilayer

The Texan company Idera has taken over the Austrian start-up apilayer, which offers API services for access to real-time data such as weather, geographic position and currency conversion. The Vienna-based company apilayer lists various reference customers on its website, including Airbnb, Amazon, Apple and Slack. According to the press release on the takeover, apilayer has… Read more

heise offer: Minds Mastering Machines 2021: Call for Proposals extended by one week

heise offer by 24. From January 1st, experts can now submit their presentations on developer topics related to machine learning. Of Rainald quantity-solar day The Minds Mastering Machines will take place on 27. and 28. April as an online event. In addition to the two conference days, additional workshops are planned. With its technical focus,… Read more

Windows API replica: Wine 6.0 with Vulkan renderer for Direct 3D

One year after Wine 5.0, version 6.0 of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux, macOS, ReactOS and Android has now been released. The release brings a Vulkan backend for WineD3D and extends the implementation of the console and the integration of the Media Foundation framework. It also continues the conversion of the libraries to the… Read more

Internet of Things: HiveMQ 4.5 rewrites Kafka

The German company HiveMQ has released version 4.5 of the MQTT broker of the same name. A major focus for the release is on performance optimization. On the technical side, a Kafka-to-MQTT transformer and the expandable REST API are worth mentioning. The current version is an LTS release that will receive guaranteed support until January… Read more

Relocation complete: The Eclipse Foundation is now officially European

As announced, the Eclipse Foundation has moved its legal headquarters to Europe. To this end, it founded the Eclipse Foundation AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif), which is known in German as an international non-profit association (IVoG), a legal form used in Belgium for non-profit organizations. Now the foundation has completed all the formalities for… Read more

Graphic interface: Vulkan officially available for Apple platforms

The Khronos Group has released an update to the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Vulkan, which officially covers Apple’s platforms. It is based on Vulkan Portability and also covers Apple Silicon. This allows developers to write cross-platform applications on Vulkan instead of implementing them natively for Apple’s own Metal graphic architecture. Vulkan applications also run… Read more

Programming language: TypeScript 4.2 flexibly distributes the tuple remainder

Microsoft has released the first beta of TypeScript 4.2. The most obvious change concerns tuples, which can now have remainder elements not only at the end, but also at the beginning or in the middle. In addition, the programming language maintains type aliases more consistently and performs more stringent checks on the in operator. The… Read more

heise offer: building IoT 2021: Call for Proposals extended by one week

heise offer by 18. From January 1st, experts can now submit their presentations on developer topics related to the Internet of Things. Of Rainald quantity-solar day The building IoT will take place on 24. and 25. March for the sixth time. The organizers heise Developer , iX and dpunkt .verlag are hosting the developer conference… Read more

Machine learning: TensorFlow project manages metadata for model training

The team behind TensorFlow Extended (TFX) has published a project for storing metadata for training machine learning models. ML Metadata (MLMD) is intended to help with versioning of the training and with analyzing contexts. The project comes with an API for storing and retrieving the metadata and can work with different databases. TensorFlow Extended is… Read more

heise offer: Minds Mastering Machines: Submit your presentation for the online conference now

heise offer by 17. January 2020 the organizers are looking for lectures and workshops on developer topics related to machine learning. Of Rainald quantity-solar day This year the Minds Mastering Machines takes place on 27. to 28. April as an online event. In addition to the two conference days, additional workshops are planned. With a… Read more

Web framework: Ember 3.24 is glowing for the next LTS release

The Ember team has released version 3. 24 of the Javascript web framework. The focus for the release is mainly on some stabilizations, as it is a candidate for an LTS (long-term support) release. A helper for the page title should improve the barrier-free use, and the string functions have to be cleaned up. A… Read more

heise offer: building IoT 2021: Submit your presentation for the online conference now

heise offer by 11. January 2021 the organizers are looking for lectures and workshops on developer topics related to the Internet of Things. Of Rainald quantity-solar day This year the building IoT takes place on 24. and 25. March for the sixth time. However, the organizers heise Developer , iX and dpunkt.verlag will host the… Read more

Machine learning: KI GPT-3 creates images under the artist name DALL-E

OpenAI has introduced a special version of GPT-3 that can create images based on descriptions. DALL-E uses a data set of text-image pairs and should be able to correctly interpret more or a few arbitrary combinations. The system can create images from scratch or modify existing images. The project name is a suitcase word from… Read more