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| Hey Insiders! Today's newsletter covers New Relic's 2023 State of the Java Ecosystem report, GitLab and Google Cloud expanding their partnership, and Microsoft releasingCopilot Chat. Also, Vercel released serverless storage solutions. Sudarshan
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| 1 | New Relic’s 2023 State of the Java Ecosystem revealed that Java 17's adoption surged 430% in the past year. Java 17 is the latest Long Term Support version of Java. Amazon is the most popular JDK vendor, overtaking Oracle, which dropped from 34% in 2022 to 29% this year. 
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| 2 | Microsoft introduced Copilot Chat, built on Semantic Kernel, to allow developers to build their own chatbots with features such as NLP, speech recognition, and file uploading. According to Microsoft, the benefits of the open-source project include improved user experience, increased efficiency, personalized recommendations, improved accessibility, and scalability. | |
| A message from our sponsor, TRUERA. |  | | LLM Testing and Monitoring – Join the Hands-On Workshop How can you ensure that your large language model is honest, harmless, and helpful? Join TruEra on May 11th and 18th as their President and Chief Scientist, Anupam Datta, provides a hands-on overview of how to analyze and improve the performance of your LLMs. During the two 60-minute online sessions, he will cover the following: - Quick introduction to LLMs - what are they and their history?
- Risks and challenges of LLMs: is your LLM honest, harmless, and helpful?
- Defining feedback functions to model LLM quality and performance
- How should you test and monitor LLMs?
- Live walk-throughs of how to identify, diagnose, and debug model issues in development and production
- Q&A with Professor Datta
Dates: 2-session series on May 11th and 18th Where: Virtual Event - Join from Anywhere Who should attend: Data scientists, machine learning engineers, MLOps managers, data analysts, statisticians, data and analytics managers Join for free | |
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| 3 | GitLab and Google Cloud announced the expansion of their partnership to provide developers with AI-assisted features directly within the enterprise DevSecOps platform. GitLab will leverage Google’s Vertex AI to provide AI-based offerings that protect user privacy and security and improve customer efficiency 10x. | |
| 4 | Vercel introduced a suite of serverless storage solutions: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. The new solutions integrate with databases such as Supabase, PlanetScale, and MongoDB, and Vercel claims they are open, easy to use, and scale efficiently as frontends. | |
| 5 | Observability platform New Relic launched Grok, a generative AI assistant for observability, which enables engineers to set up instrumentation and monitoring, isolate the root cause, debug code-level issues, generate reports and dashboards, and manage admin tasks. The new offering leverages OpenAI's LLMs to allow engineers to use natural language prompts to perform the tasks. | |
| 6 | New features in Deno 1.33 include a built-in KV database, flatter deno.json configuration, fewer permission checks for dynamic imports, improvements to npm and Node compatibility, and other performance improvements. According to the development team, the updates are a step toward Deno 2 launch, expected in the coming months, which promises effortless coding, best-in-class performance, and uncompromising security. | |
| 7 | Education non-profit Code.org partnered with ETS, ISTE, Khan Academy, and World Economic Forum to launch Teach AI. The initiative will develop a practical framework to assist government and education authorities with integrating AI into primary and secondary curricula worldwide in a safe and ethical manner. | |
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11 | | Testing and monitoring large language models (LLMs) with TruEra | | | | | | | MAY
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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