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Java News Roundup: New JEP Drafts, Infinispan 15, Payara Platform, Alpaquita Containers with CRaC
This week's Java roundup for March 11th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP drafts, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) and Hot Code Heap; Infinispan 15; the March 2024 edition of Payara Platform; Alpaquita Containers with CRaC; the first release candidate of JobRunr 7.0; and milestone and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and Micronaut.
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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis
Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.
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How Continuous Discovery Helps Software Teams to Take Product Decisions
Continuous discovery for product development is regular research that involves the entire software product team, and that can actively inform product decisions. Equating continuous discovery to weekly conversations with one or more customers can be misleading. Combining quantitative and qualitative research methods can help software teams gather data and understand what is behind the data.
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Making Software Development Boring to Deliver Business Value
Given there’s a limit to our cognitive abilities and our comprehension of complex systems, Corstian Boerman argues that software development should become boring. He suggests moving infrastructure out of the way so that it does not burden the day-to-day development process, and focusing on delivering business value in a predictable and repeatable way.
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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
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The Guardian Creates a Newsroom Collaboration Tool Using Serverless, React and GraphQL
The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage.
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Booking.com Doubles Delivery Performance Using DORA Metrics and Micro Frontends
The team in Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics. Additionally, the Micro Frontends (MFE) pattern was used to break up the monolithic FE application into multiple decomposed apps that could be deployed separately.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC2, Multiple Releases in the Spring Ecosystem, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for February 19th, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 22 in release candidate 2, the February 2024 edition of the Payara Platform, numerous milestone and point releases in the Spring ecosystem, multiple releases of Apache Tomcat and Log4j and Gradle 8.7-RC1.
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AI and FinOps Predicted to Lead Observability Innovation in 2024
In recently published articles, three large observability companies have made predictions for the trends we will see in the observability area in 2024 and beyond. These contributions suggest that the fields of AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead.
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Google Announces Multi-Modal Gemini 1.5 with Million Token Context Length
One week after announcing Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Google announced additional details about its next generation model, Gemini 1.5. The new iteration comes with an expansion of its context window and the adoption of a "Mixture of Experts" (MoE) architecture, promising to make the AI both faster and more efficient. The new model also includes expanded multimodal capabilities.
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DoorDash Uses CockroachDB to Create Config Management Platform for Microservices
DoorDash created a configuration management platform to help its logistics team maintain the growing number of business preferences and configuration values. The company used CockroachDB for persistence and simplified the architecture compared with the previous solution. The new platform enables experimentation, improves configuration value lifecycle, and provides flexibility and extendibility.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC1, JBoss EAP 8.0, GlassFish 8.0-M2, LangChain4j 0.27
This week's Java roundup for February 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 22, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0, IBM Semeru Runtimes first quarter 2024 updates, LangChain4j 0.27.0, and multiple point releases for Micronaut, Helidon and Eclipse Vert.x.
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Pinterest Open-Sources a Production-Ready PubSub Java Client for Kafka, Flink, and MemQ
Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half. The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it. Over 90% of Java applications have migrated to PSC with minimal changes.
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InfoQ & QCon Events: Level up on Generative AI, Security, Platform Engineering, and More Upcoming
As we navigate through these transformative times, the upcoming InfoQ events stand as a platform to help you stay ahead, learn valuable insights, and find practical solutions to your development challenges in 2024 and beyond. The events are carefully curated for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders, offering practitioner insights into emerging trends, patterns, and practices.