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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Milestone Releases for Spring Projects and Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for February 12th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP candidates, JEP 465 and JEP 466, milestone and point releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data, Micrometer and Project Reactor, Hibernate Search 7.1.0-RC1 and Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01.
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Instacart Creates Real-Time Item Availability Architecture with ML and Event Processing
Instacart combined machine learning with event-based processing to create an architecture that provides customers with an indication of item availability in near real-time. The new solution helped to improve user satisfaction and retention by reducing order cancellations due to out-of-stock items. The team also created a multi-model experimentation framework to help enhance model quality.
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GitHub Upgrades its MySQL Infrastructure from v5.7 to 8.0
GitHub recently upgraded its MySQL infrastructure from version 5.7 to 8.0. The motivation behind this upgrade was 5.7 reaching the end of life, and a need to leverage the latest security patches, bug fixes, and performance enhancements offered by MySQL 8.0.
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Pinecone Introduces its Serverless Vector Database
Pinecone recently announced the public preview of its new serverless vector database, designed to reduce infrastructure management costs while improving the accuracy of generative AI applications.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 31, Eclipse Store 1.1, Liberica NIK, Quarkus, JHipster Lite
This week's Java roundup for January 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: WildFly 31.0.0, Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, multiple releases of Quarkus and JHipster Lite, and Jakarta EE 11 updates.
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How RevenueCat Manages Caching for Handling over 1.2 Billion Daily API Requests
RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. The team at RevenueCat created an open-source memcache client that provides several advanced features.
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Async Ops and Scalable Keyspaces Make Threads Go Viral
Meta's Engineering team has published a post explaining how they built the infrastructure for Threads, their new online social media and networking service. The decision to launch was abrupt, with the infrastructure teams having just two days' notice. However, the teams were confident in Meta's infrastructure's maturity and past performance to effectively support the app's rapid growth.
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Spotify's Approach to Leverage Recursive Embedding and Clustering to Enhanced Data Explainability
One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable insight from their data for decision-making. Spotify shares its methodology and experience to solve this problem by clustering diverse data sets through a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning.
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Netflix Creates Incremental Processing Solution Using Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform. The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets. The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities.
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Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
This week's Java roundup for January 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods; the Payara Platform 2024 roadmap; and a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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Amazon OpenSearch Zero ETL with S3 and New OR1 Instances
Amazon has announced the preview of the Amazon OpenSearch Service's zero-extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) integration with Amazon S3, offering a novel method to analyze operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without the need to switch between services. Amazon also announced the new OR1 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
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lastminute.com Improves Search Scalability Using Microservices with RabbitMQ and Redis
The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration. Developers used RabbitMQ for messaging and Redis for storing results from data suppliers. The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization.
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AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero
Recently, AWS notified existing customers running Amazon Aurora that Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year. The absence of scaling to zero in the newer Aurora Serverless v2 has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a "true" serverless relational database on AWS.
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Microsoft and Oracle Launch Oracle Database@Azure for Azure Customers
Microsoft and Oracle recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database@Azure, allowing Azure customers to procure, deploy, and use Oracle Database@Azure with the Azure portal and APIs.
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MySQL Introduces Javascript Support in Preview
Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave.