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Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
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Open-Source APM and Observability Tool Coroot Now GA
The open-source application performance monitoring system Coroot is now generally available. Announced as an alternative to DataDog and NewRelic, the observability tool leverages eBPF for insights into system performance and supports monitoring heterogeneous infrastructures.
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Terraform 1.8 Adds Provider-Defined Functions, Improves AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes Providers
HashiCorp has released version 1.8 of Terraform, their infrastructure-as-code language. The release introduces provider-defined functions. This enables the creation of custom functions within a given provider that handle computational-style tasks. Several providers have introduced new provider-defined functions. Version 1.8 also introduces improvements to refactoring across resource types.
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Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure.
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Uno Platform 5.2 Brings .NET Single Project Targeting 9 Platforms
Last week, Uno Platform released its latest update, 5.2, with a flagship feature regarding the Single Project solution. This solution, as reported, empowers developers with a unified approach across 9 platform targets, mobile, web, desktop, and embedded applications.
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Google Text Embedding Model Gecko Distills Large Language Models for Improved Performance
Gecko is a text embedding model that Google created by distilling knowledge from large language models into a general-purpose model. Gecko is trained using a novel approach on a variety of tasks including document retrieval, semantic similarity, and classification, and aims to be as general-purpose as it goes as well as highly performant.
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New MSTest SDK: Usage of MSTest Runner Extensions, Support Running Tests in Native AOT
Microsoft announced the new MSTest SDK built on top of the MSBuild Project SDK system. This SDK improves the experience of testing with MSTest. There are features such as easier usage of MSTest Runner extensions, support running tests in Native AOT mode, and better default suggestions.
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Microsoft and IBM Release MS-DOS 4.0’s Source Code under the MIT License
Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced on git the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. In addition to the source code for MS-DOS 4, the public git repository contains unreleased beta Multitasking DOS binaries, the ibmbio.com source, and the scanned PDFs of the Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 (MT-DOS) documentation.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 32, JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 23, Hibernate 6.5, JobRunr 7.1
This week's Java roundup for April 22nd, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of WildFly 32; JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, and JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, proposed to target for JDK 23; Hibernate ORM 6.5; and JobRunr 7.1.
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Netflix Uses Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to Implement Reverse Searches Efficiently
Netflix engineers recently published how they use Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to "reverse search" entities in a connected graph. Reverse search means that instead of searching for documents that match a query, they search for queries that match a document, powering dynamic subscription scenarios where there is no direct association between the subscriber and the subscribed entities.
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Reliable Web App Pattern Now Optimizes Azure Migration with Enhanced Infrastructure and Security
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Reliable Web App (RWA) Pattern for .NET. This update focuses on improving production infrastructure and network security in response to user feedback, making Azure migration easier for .NET web apps.
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What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements
RedHat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that allows developers and DevOps to build, and deploy applications.
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JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools
JetBrains IDE Services aims to help enterprises manage their JetBrains tool ecosystem more efficiently and boost developer productivity at the enterprise scale through the integration of AI, remote collaboration, and more.
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.NET Aspire Preview 6: Enhanced Security and Testing, New Features, and More
This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions, like changes related to templates, components, dashboard, testing and more.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.