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By Joydip Kanjilal Refit is an open-source library for .NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin that makes consuming REST APIs simpler and easier by enabling you to define the API endpoints as C# interfaces, thereby eliminating the need to create HTTP requests and parse HTTP responses manually. In this article we will delve into the Refit library for .NET and see first-hand how it simplifies the development of APIs. To use the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2022 installed in your system. If you don’t already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2022 here. In s...
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By Paul Krill The latest update of Visual Studio Code is previewing an alternative visualization of incoming and outgoing changes. The update also includes a new tool that enhances environment discovery for Python installations. Introduced July 3, Visual Studio Code 1.91, also known as the June 2024 release of the editor, can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS at code.visualstudio.com. The experimental incoming/outgoing changes graph provides a graph view of the current branch, the current branch’s upstream branch, and an optional base branch. The root of the graph is the common ances...
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By Simon Bisson One of the key components of Microsoft’s Copilot Runtime edge AI development platform for Windows is a new vector search technology, DiskANN (Disk Accelerated Nearest Neighbors). Building on a long-running Microsoft Research project, DiskANN is a way of building and managing vector indexes inside your applications. It uses a mix of in-memory and disk storage to map an in-memory quantized vector graph to a high-precision graph help on disk. What is DiskANN?Although it’s not an exact match, you can think of DiskANN as the vector index equivalent of tools like SQLite. Added to you...
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By Paul Krill ECMAScript 2024, the latest version of ECMA International’s standard for JavaScript, has been officially approved, with features including transferring ArrayBuffers and advanced capabilities for working with string sets. The ECMAScript 2024 specification, also generally known as ECMA-262, was approved on June 26. Among the features are added facilities for resizing and transferring ArrayBuffers and SharedArrayBuffers. ArrayBuffers have previously enabled in-memory handling of binary data. The new feature extends ArrayBuffer constructors to take an additional maximum length that a...
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By Paul Krill JetBrains has released an on-premises edition of Qodana, the company’s code quality platform based on the static code analysis engine of JetBrains IDEs. With Qodana Self-Hosted, users can manage and maintain the platform on their own infrastructure. With Qodana Self-Hosted, announced July 3, developers gain complete control over analysis reports, user accounts, and other sensitive data, as well as Qodana maintenance and upgrades, JetBrains said. Qodana Self-Hosted offers a suite of features of the company’s advanced cloud plan, Qodana Ultimate Plus, that make static code analysis...
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By Matthew Tyson The JavaScript language is one of the wonders of the software world. It is incredibly powerful, flexible, and versatile. One limitation of its fundamental design, however, is its single-threaded nature. Traditional JavaScript appears to handle parallel tasks, but that is a trick of syntax. To achieve true parallelism, you need to use modern multithreading approaches like web workers and worker threads. Parallelism vs. concurrencyThe most basic way to understand the difference between parallelism and concurrency is that concurrency is semantic whereas parallelism is implementat...
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By Serdar Yegulalp Developed by Facebook and released as an open standard for all to use, GraphQL is intended as an alternative to REST APIs. Like REST, GraphQL provides a way to create and consume web-based APIs, but queries and returned data use formal schemas and a type system to guarantee consistency. In this article, we’ll walk through the basics of designing and implementing a GraphQL API and discuss many of the key considerations and decisions you’ll make during the process. GraphQL languages and frameworksIf you’re planning to use GraphQL as your web application API, there is a very go...
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By Paul Krill The Rust types team has made significant progress on the next-generation trait solver, according to a June 26 blog post. Work done to stabilize the use of the next-generation trait solver in coherence checking surfaced small behavior regressions and hangs, which caused delays. But the team is close to compiling the standard library and the compiler with the new solver enabled everywhere. They expect a long tail of minor issues and behavioral differences from the existing implementation. There also are open design questions that will need to be resolved prior to stabilizing the ne...
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By Paul Krill Open-source vector database provider Qdrant has launched BM42, a vector-based hybrid search algorithm intended to provide more accurate and efficient retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. BM42 combines the best of traditional text-based search and vector-based search to lower the costs for RAG and AI applications, Qdrant said. Qdrant’s BM42 was announced July 2. Traditional keyword search engines, using algorithms such as BM25, have been around for more than 50 years and are not optimized for the precise retrieval needed in modern applications, accordin...
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By Ram Movva and Aviral Verma While their business and tech colleagues are busy experimenting and developing new applications, cybersecurity leaders are looking for ways to anticipate and counter new, AI-driven threats. It’s always been clear that AI impacts cybersecurity, but it’s a two-way street. Where AI is increasingly being used to predict and mitigate attacks, these applications are themselves vulnerable. The same automation, scale, and speed everyone’s excited about are also available to cybercriminals and threat actors. Although far from mainstream yet, malicious use of AI has been gr...
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