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Amazon Connect Offers General Availability of Outbound Campaigns for Calls, Texts, and Emails
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the high-volume outbound communication capability called Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns in the Amazon Connect service - an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center.
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Spring for GraphQL Version 1.0 Released
Less than two years after its inception, Spring for GraphQL 1.0 has been released. The project integrates Spring and GraphQL Java and was developed in collaboration between both teams.
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QCon San Francisco: Tracks Announced Including Green Tech, Microservices, API, MLOps and More
QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28), powered by InfoQ, brings together the world's most innovative senior software engineers, architects and team leads across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices.
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Wave: a Case Study for Low Architectural Complexity
Dan Luu published an article presenting Wave as a case study for a business model where a simple and boring architecture fits best. Instead of a state-of-the-art service-based asynchronous architecture, they employ a synchronous monolith backed by a database and serving a unified API.
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Quarkus 2.8.0 Introduces Fine-Grained Transaction API
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.8.0 that delivers integration with the RESTEasy Reactive REST layer and GraalVM 22.0 by default. A fine-grained programmatic transaction API offers more control over transactions.
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GraphQL Syntax Used for a Novel Approach to Schema Validation and Code Generation
Nav Technologies has created an open-source schema definition and code generator that uses GraphQL syntax to define events and message formats. GraphQL was chosen for its expressiveness and familiarity among developers, but it is only used for its syntax; the Nav Schema Architecture (NSA) does not use the GraphQL runtime.
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SoundCloud Chronicles the End of the Public API Strangler
SoundCloud has successfully completed their migration journey using the Strangler pattern from a monolith application to a fully-fledged BFF.
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Netflix Studio Search: Using Elasticsearch and Apache Flink to Index Federated GraphQL Data
Netflix engineers recently published how they built Studio Search, using Apache Kafka streams, an Apache Flink-based Data Mesh process, and Elasticsearch to manage the index. They designed the platform to take a portion of Netflix's federated GraphQL graph and make it searchable. Today, Studio Search powers a significant portion of the user experience for many applications within the organisation.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
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ImageSharp 2.0.0: the Feature-Packed Release
ImageSharp, one of the most popular .NET image-processing libraries, released version 2 of their library. The release includes major features such as supporting WebP, TIFF and PBM as well adding XMP support with various performance improvements and enhancements for JPEG and PNG formats. This release drops support for .NET Standard 1.3. The update replaces version 1.0.4.
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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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Netlify Graph Aims to Simplify External API Integration in Web Apps
Netlify Graph provides a new GraphQL-based approach to integrating distinct APIs to build a Web app that strives to reduce the inherent complexities in mixing different data models, response formats, authentication schemes, and so on. InfoQ has spoken with Netlify head of ecosystem Den Delimarsky.
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Minimal APIs, Blazor Improvements, and Tools Updates in ASP.NET Core 6
Recently, Microsoft has released .NET 6, which includes a broad set of new features and improvements related to the ASP.NET Core framework, including minimal APIs, Blazor improvements, and tools updates. This release focuses on making ASP.NET a complete framework to build modern and highly scalable web applications.
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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.
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API Architecture Track Recap from QCon Plus
The API Architecture track at QCon Plus featured six speakers and panelists discussing topics relevant to software engineers and architects who design, build, and maintain APIs. The track covered broad concepts such as extensibility and API lifecycles, and featured a showdown between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC to determine the best technology to use when building an API.
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