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Meta Switches to MySQL Raft to Improve Reliability and Operational Simplicity
Meta is rolling out MySQL Raft in its data centers to replace its current MySQL semisynchronous databases. The new consensus engine helps operation and allows MySQL servers to take responsibility for promotions and membership.
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Is ChatGPT Fit for Every Purpose: Alan Turing Ethics Fellow Presents Checklist in Devoxx UK Keynote
During her keynote at Devoxx UK, Mhairi Aitken talked about the limitations of AI when grappling with the complexities of human language. Further, she provided checklist developers use to inspect the AI Foundations before building on top of them. She urged us to be guided by ethical and social considerations when building on AI, as a general-purpose AI model may not be fit for every purpose.
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How Airbnb Improved its CI Pipeline for iOS Using AWS and Terraform
AirBnb has historically managed its own fleet of Macs to run its iOS continuous integration pipeline. Thanks to AWS providing support for Macs, AirBnb engineers could migrate their iOS CI infrastructure to AWS to increase flexibility, consistency, and efficiency.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Private Access to the Management Console
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of private access to the AWS management console. Private access is a new security feature that allows customers to limit access to the AWS Management Console from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or connected networks to a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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Holly Cummins at Devoxx UK: How Would the Business Benefit from Your Greener Java Application?
At her Devoxx UK presentation, Holly Cummins, senior software principal engineer at Redhat, presented approaches that could make Java applications more cost and energy efficient. Moreover, the business would benefit too. Showcasing the work done by her team with quarkus she states that choosing wisely between the JVM or native options in your application can save up to two-times costs and carbon.
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Simplify HTTP Request Buffering with Queue-Level Routing Configuration and BufferTask API
Google recently added two new features for Cloud Tasks with queue-level routing configuration and BufferTask API in public preview. The two new features combined enable creating of HTTP tasks and adding to a queue without needing the Tasks client library.
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Huawei Open Sources Kuasar, a Rust-Based Container Runtime
Kuasar, a Rust-based container runtime that supports multiple types of sandboxers, is open-sourced. As a unified container runtime, Kuasar already supports MicroVM sandboxes such as Cloud Hypervisor, StratoVirt, and QEMU, app kernel sandboxes like Quark, and Wasm sandboxes like WasmEdge.
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Upbound Releases Managed Control Plane Service
Upbound, the creators of Crossplane, has released a fully-managed control plane based on Crossplane. Crossplane is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project that provides a low-code experience for building control planes. Upbound Managed Control Planes (MCPs) manage the control plane components and provide access via both a UI and a CLI.
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Kubernetes 1.27 Released with Freeze on Legacy Image Registry and In-Place Update of Pod Resources
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.27 with the name chill vibes. The release has new features, such as In-place Update of Pod Resources, Limit of Parallel Image Pulls, and Multiple Service CIDRs.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, Spring Cloud AWS 3.0, OptaPlanner to Timefold
This week's Java roundup for May 1st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.6, Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services 3.0.0, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.3, Spring Tools 4.18.2, Infinispan 14.0.9.Final, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4, Quarkus 3.0.2 and 2.16.7, Helidon 3.2.1, Apache Camel 4.0.0-M3, Arquillian 1.7.0 and OptaPlanner transitions to Timefold.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion
AWS recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a capability of Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a serverless, auto-scaled, managed data collector that receives, transforms, and delivers data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.
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Java News Roundup: Quarkus 3.0, MicroStream 8.0, JEP 442, GraalVM, Infinispan
This week's Java roundup for April 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.4, GraalVM 22.3.2, Microsoft OpenJDK, Spring releases. Quarkus 3.0.0, MicroStream 8.0.0, Micronaut 3.9.1, Hibernate ORM 6.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01, Apache Camel 3.20.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13.3, JUnit 5.9.3, JReleaser 1.6.0, JobRunr 6.1.4, JDKMon 17.0.49 and Foojay.io.