While the DevOps era has spawned tremendous innovation ranging from CI/CD, automated testing, and agile planning, the struggle to connect the innovations built through application development to the ways that customers experience those applications remains a challenge.

“The DevOps movement created years ago created an entirely new way to build software, yet there are still holes when it comes to the way customers interact with and experience applications today. With the Galaxy Product Release, LaunchDarkly hopes to provide engineering teams with a North Star that will solve for these gaps”, said Dan Rogers, CEO at LaunchDarkly.

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of your engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

“LaunchDarkly has helped JupiterOne’s software development teams unlock the power to release our software both faster and safer. We’re looking forward to diving into LaunchDarkly’s newly launched core capabilities into areas like product experimentation, release targeting, and measurement to see how they can continue to be such a successful component of our software delivery practices”, said DJ Spatoulas, Principal Architect at JupiterOne.

With this release, LaunchDarkly is continuing toward its vision of providing not just better developer experiences, but better customer experiences. The Galaxy Product Release includes:

• New capabilities to release stable features faster, including Release Assistant, to build pre-defined, repeatable paths for progressive rollouts, alongside Release Guardian, which allows teams to quickly identify and remediate operational regressions.
• Migration Assistant to reduce the risk of a migration such as an outage, data loss, or latency, while maintaining data consistency between data stores.
• Segment Builder to easily target customer groups with specific experiences through functionality that will sync and manage segments from existing data sources.
• Enhancements to LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation product, a new Funnel Experiments capability to measure and optimize customer behavior across full customer journeys. Mobile Release
• Optimization to liberate your mobile releases from app store processes and easily manage the full lifecycle of your apps.
• Engineering Insights Hub to help engineering leaders track velocity and quality metrics that show the measurable progress toward engineering transformation.

The latest version of NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is now supported in a number of games and franchises and integrates into the Unreal Engine. The company is also publicly releasing the DLSS Frame Generation plug-in to further facilitate developer adoption of the technology.

“PC gaming super-franchises such as Diablo and Forza Horizon and Bethesda’s new Redfall are raising the bar for image quality with stunning graphics while using DLSS to keep gameplay smooth as silk”,

said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA.

Neural graphics intertwines artificial intelligence and graphics to create an accelerated rendering pipeline that is constantly learning and improving. Instead of rendering every pixel in the frame initially, DLSS allows the game to render 1/8th of the pixels, then uses AI and GeForce RTX™ Tensor Cores to render the remaining pixels, dramatically increasing frame rates while delivering crisp, high-quality images.

Some of the highly anticipated games being added to the DLSS roster in the next few months are Forza Horizon 5, Redfall and Diablo IV.

“We’re excited by the high frame rate of Diablo IV running on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series hardware and DLSS 3”,

said Michael Bukowski, Diablo IV technical director at Blizzard Entertainment.

NVIDIA will make DLSS Frame Generation plug-ins publicly available during GDC, allowing even more developers to integrate the framerate boosting technology into their games and applications.

DLSS Frame Generation will be available to access via NVIDIA Streamline, an open-source, cross-vendor framework that simplifies the integration of super-resolution technologies in 3D games and apps.

DLSS technology is always improving through ongoing training on NVIDIA’s AI supercomputer. The public release will incorporate the latest DLSS enhancements made earlier this year.

The EcoBall blockchain is a next-generation blockchain that solves the scalability trilemma. It has minimal processing costs and focuses on giving users as many engagement options as possible.

EcoBall will manage several networks, each responsible for its layer of specialized enterprises.

It is a verticalized blockchain technology that attempts to increase transaction security by eliminating the need for true bifurcation of chains in the event of a defective data block.

The platform is also Ethereum-compatible. It enables Solidity for smart contract development, and can easily move EVM-compliant DEFI apps to the EcoBall public chain.