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Improving Developer Experience in Non-Technical Organisations with BMK
BMK has recently written about the challenges and DevEx compromises faced by engineers within traditionally non-technical enterprises. McKinsey Digital also recently published a report which asserts that every company is a software company. We report on BMK and McKinsey's recommendations for non-technical firms to improve their delivery by adopting safer software cultures.
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AWS Releases New Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Amazon Linux 2023
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a third-generation distribution with a high-security standard, predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates.
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HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, adding new features that improve interacting with Envoy and troubleshooting issues within the service mesh platform. The release introduces improvements to Envoy access logging as well as adding in Consul Envoy extensions. To improve the troubleshooting experience, a new service-to-service troubleshooting tool has been added.
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Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama
Oracle has released version 20 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven (7) JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with new rounds of preview and incubation.
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Microsoft Adds Support for Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service
Microsoft has released, in preview, support for pod sandboxing in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Available within all Azure regions for a subset of Azure VM sizes, pod sandboxing provides an isolation boundary between the container application and the shared kernel and compute resources of the container host.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, GraalVM 23 Early-Access, Infinispan, Mojarra, Micrometer Metrics
This week's Java roundup for March 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 23.0 early-access, Spring Tools 4.18, Quarkus 3.0-Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2 CR4, Micrometer Metrics 1.11, Micrometer Tracing 1.1, Infinispan 14.0.7, Piranha 23.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.5, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.2, Apache Groovy 4.0.10 and 3.0.16, JHipster Lite 0.29.0, JReleaser 1.5.1 and JobRunr 6.1.2.
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Kwok, a Tool to Spin up Kubernetes Nodes in a Second
Kubernetes community announces the availability of Kwok, a toolkit to set up a Kubernetes cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds. All the nodes are simulated, in this way, the fake cluster has a low resource footprint and can be up and running on a laptop. This tool is developed to test Kubernetes controllers at scale without spinning up any portion of the infrastructure.
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Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to the Edge with AKS Edge Essentials
Microsoft recently announced the general availability release of AKS Edge Essentials, a new Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offering designed to simplify edge computing for developers and IT professionals.
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AWS Application Composer to Visualize and Create Serverless Workloads Now Generally Available
AWS Application Composer, a visual builder that enables users to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC), is now generally available (GA).
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ChatGPT Now Available in Preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service
ChatGPT is now available in preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service allowing developers to integrate ChatGPT directly into a host of different enterprise and end-user applications using a token-based pricing system.
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Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions
GitHub’s CICD service offering, GitHub Actions, now supports the use of Open Identity Connect credentials to authenticate against cloud providers such as Hashicorp Vault, AWS, Azure and GCP without the use of long-lived credentials or passwords.
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Integrating Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure- making it easier to develop solutions for analyzing data, automating processes, and building apps. These new integrations include PowerBI, Logic Apps, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
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Zero-Copy In-Memory Sharing of Large Distributed Data: V6d
Zero-copy and in-memory data manager Vineyard (v6d) is maintained as a CNCF sandbox project and provides distributed operators that can be utilized to share immutable data within or across cluster nodes. V6d is of interest particularly for deep network training on big (sharded) datasets such as large language and graph models.
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Road to Quarkus 3: Improved Dev UI, Steps towards Diataxis Documentation and Performance Bumps
Our previous conversation with the Quarkus team focused on the technical changes to deliver on their mission. More than speed and cloud nativeness, Developer Experience (DX) and the focus on productivity were also an important part of each of the previous major releases. To find out whether version 3.0 will follow this tradition, InfoQ continued the conversation with Andersen.
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Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections for JDK 21, Vector API for JDK 20, Gen ZGC, Hilla 2.0
This week's Java roundup for March 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.2, Spring Modulith 0.5, Quarkus 2.16.14 and 3.0.0.Alpha5, Open Liberty 23.0.0.2, Micronaut 3.8.7, Helidon 2.6.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M4, Apache Camel-4.0.0-M2, JobRunr 6.1.1, Jarviz 0.3.0 and Hilla 2.0.