The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this we discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, how Docker helps crossing this gap, and the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge. By Joe Speed, Florian Sauerbeck, Sebastian Huch The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this we discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, how Docker helps crossing this gap, and the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge. By Joe Speed, Florian Sauerbeck, Sebastian HuchRead More

During the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the AWS Data Exchange for APIs. This new capability enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products from providers on AWS Data Exchange. By Steef-Jan Wiggers During the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the AWS Data Exchange for APIs. This new capability enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products from providers on AWS Data Exchange. By Steef-Jan WiggersRead More

At the recent re:Invent conference Amazon introduced new EC2 instance families running on different processors, including G5g Arm-based instances, M6a AMD-based ones and storage-optimized Im4gn and Is4gen. By Renato Losio At the recent re:Invent conference Amazon introduced new EC2 instance families running on different processors, including G5g Arm-based instances, M6a AMD-based ones and storage-optimized Im4gn and Is4gen. By Renato LosioRead More

This week’s Java roundup for November 29th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+7-288, multiple Spring project point releases, Quarkus 2.5.1.Final, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-Beta2, Eclipse Mojarra 2.3.17, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.8, Groovy 4.0.0-RC1, Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3, and JReleaser 0.9.0 By Michael Redlich This week’s Java roundup for November 29th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+7-288, multiple Spring project point releases, Quarkus 2.5.1.Final, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-Beta2, Eclipse Mojarra 2.3.17, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.8, Groovy 4.0.0-RC1, Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3, and JReleaser 0.9.0 By Michael RedlichRead More