Planet Ingres

 AWS Lambda functions can now use all the new and useful language features as well as performance improvements introduced in Java 21 as part of the Amazon Corretto JDK implementation.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/16783-aws-lambda-adopts-java-21.html

 Videos of the lectures taught in Fall 2023 at the University of Tennessee are now available as a YouTube playlist. They provide a complete overview of the concepts of GeoSpatial science using Google Earth Engine, PostgresSQL GIS , DuckDB, Python and SQL.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/145-mapping-a-gis/16772-spatial-data-management-for-gis-and-data-scientists.html

 PeerDB is an ETL/ELT tool built for PostgreSQL. It makes all tasks that require streaming data from PostgreSQL to third party counterparts as effortless as it gets.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/16779-peerdb-brings-real-time-streaming-to-postgresql.html

 A free, self-paced online course about Generative AI is on offer from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates. It's a 12-lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices to LLMs.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16774-microsofts-generative-ai-for-beginners-.html

 Shortly after version 16 of PostgreSQL was released,

 Helidon, the open source microservices framework by Oracle, has been updated to version 4, just a month after the release of Java 21. With this release Helidon becomes the world’s first virtual threads-based microservices framework. 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/16760-helidon-microservices-framework-version-4-general-availability-.html

 Leporello.js is an interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript with debugging superpowers. Let's look at what makes it different from traditional IDEs.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/16754-leporellojs-the-next-gen-javascript-ide.html

 Hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. Version 1.0 is generally available.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/16750-hydra-turns-postgresql-into-a-column-store.html

 Power up your API testing inside your CI workflow with Step CI, a free open-source tool that has also introduced a paid Support Plan.Step CI is another tool to have in your developer's toolbelt.We had a look at a few others recently. These were OpenAPI Diff, AWS Smithy and Redocly CLI, each one having its own purpose:

OpenAPI Diff, or Oasdiff for short, is an open source utility
that takes comparing OpenAPI specs to identify breaking changes to a whole new level.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/16743-step-ci-the-api-quality-assurance-framework.html

 Despite the project going back to 2009, the just announced release is 1.0.0. Let's look at this milestone release, adopting a retrospective attitude. Of course, we are talking about Dancer2 , the new generation of Dancer as a complete rewrite of Dancer1 based on Moo.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/16734-perl-dancer2-web-framework-updated.html