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.NET 6 Preview 3 Is Out

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Recently, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 6 Preview 3.  According to Microsoft Preview 3 is dedicated almost entirely to low-level performance features. Low-level performance feature improvements are not necessarily always fully appreciated by many users, but they help a lot for many apps. The majority of these improvements apply to the CLR type system directly, either making it function faster or better interplay with modern CPUs.  In recent past years, there have been a few important performance trends with .NET, including using structs more liberally in libraries, and moving runtime code to C#. Both trends are visible in these changes. The release also demonstrates continued efforts on a focused set of performance strategies. For EF Core, this release includes a bunch of bug fixes and ongoing enhancements to infrastructure to support upcoming features including compiled models and temporal tables. The company recommended Visual Studio 16.10 Preview 1 and Visual...
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Amazon Announces GA Of Location Service

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Recently, AWS announced that it is making Amazon Location generally available along with two new features: routing and satellite imagery. Amazon Location enables developers to build location-based applications with a native integration with AWS services. It makes use of trusted location providers like Esri and HERE and customers remain in control of their data. Amazon Location includes: Maps that helps in visualizing location information. Places that allows your application to offer point-of-interest search functionality, and convert addresses into geographic coordinates in latitude and longitude. You can also convert a coordinate into a street address. Routes feature helps in driving distance, directions, and estimated arrival time in your application. Trackers feature enables you to retrieve the current and historical location of the devices running your tracking-enabled application. Geofences is a feature that give the application the ability to detect and act when a tracke...
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New Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances – Graviton2 Power for Memory-Intensive Workloads

AWS launched the first Graviton-powered EC2 instances in   late 2018   and announced the follow-on   Graviton2   processor just a   year later . The dual SIMD units, support for int8 and fp16 instructions, and other architectural improvements between generations combine to make the Graviton2 a highly cost-effective workhorse processor. Today, you can choose between General Purpose ( M6g  and  M6gd ), Compute-Optimized ( C6g ,  C6gn , and  C6gd ), Memory-Optimized ( R6g  and  R6gd ), and Burstable ( T4g ) instances, all powered by fast, efficient Graviton2 processors. Our customers use these instances to run application servers, gaming servers, HPC workloads, video encoding, ad servers, and more. Multiple benchmarks (including  this one  and  this one ) have shown that these Graviton2-based instances deliver better price-performance than existing EC2 instances. New X2gd Instances I’m happy to announce the latest in our...
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