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SapMachine Vitals Provides Operating System and JVM Statistics
SapMachine Vitals provides a monitoring tool that keeps a condensed history of operating system and JVM statistics. The feature is always on and may be used to retrieve information such as heap usage, Metaspace size, container memory statistics and limits, the number of classes loaded and the amount of threads spawned.
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Jarviz Delivers Inspection and Insights to JAR Files
A new Java JAR inspection and insights tool, called Jarviz, helps developers find different bytecode versions in a JAR, querying it for attributes, services, and more. Sonatype statistics show that there are 517,231 unique artifacts on Maven Central. At the same time, a new version of Java is released by the OpenJDK community every six months. InfoQ spoke to Andres Almiray, creator of Jarviz.
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Falco Project v0.34 Released: OSS Security Tool Adds Downloadable Rules and eBPF Probe
Falco, an open-source runtime security tool, recently announced their latest release version 0.34.0. Highlights of the latest release include support for older RHEL distros, the ability to download and update Falco rules at runtime, and the experimental release of a modern eBPF probe.
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Microsoft Announces the Preview of Serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL Database, which brings together the benefits of serverless and Hyperscale into a single database solution.
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Java News Roundup: Gradle 8.0, Maven, Payara Platform, Piranha, Spring Framework, MyFaces, Piranha
This week's Java roundup for February 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Native Build Tools 0.9.20, Spring 6.0.5, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.1, Quarkus 2.16.3, Payara Platform, Micronaut 3.8.5, Helidon 3.1.2, Vert.x 3.9.15, Hibernate Search 6.2.Alpha2, MyFaces 4.0-RC5, Grails 5.3.2, Reactor 2022.0.3, Metrics 1.11-M1 and Tracing 1.1-M1, Maven 3.9, Gradle 8.0 and Piranha 22.3.
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Ably Terraform Provider Aims to Power Realtime Architectures Using Infrastructure as Code
Developed by Ably in partnership with HashiCorp, the Ably Terraform Provider enables using Terraform, a popular open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, to provision and manage Ably solutions programmatically.
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Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge
Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection.
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How Yahoo Secures Their Software Supply Chain at Scale: CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Hamil Kadakia and Yonghe Zhao, software engineers at Yahoo’s security team, presented on securing Software Supply Chain at Scale, and how to put together policies to safeguard against Supply Chain attacks.
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AWS Releases New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) EC2 Instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the release of new Graviton3-based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 instances, providing customers with enhanced performance and cost savings.
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AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
AWS has created a new language for defining access permissions using policies called Cedar. Cedar is currently used within Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access. Created by the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, Cedar is designed to be agnostic of AWS and simple to understand the effects of policies.
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GitHub Enhances CodeQL, Extends Language Support, Available Queries, and More
After adding support for Ruby at GitHub Universe 2022, CodeQL introduced Kotlin support in beta. Additionally, support for other languages has been extended to include more recent versions. GitHub has also extended available queries to fully cover several industry-wide vulnerability directories, and improved the CodeQL ecosystem.
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HashiCorp Boundary Adds Multi-Hop Sessions and Credential Templating
HashiCorp has released version 0.12 of Boundary, their open-source identity-based access management service for infrastructure. This release introduces support for multi-hop sessions removing the need to expose Boundary workers running on private networks. Additional improvements include support for credential injection via Vault, assigning network addresses on targets, and credential templating.
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Sonatype BOM Doctor Evaluates and Helps Patch Java Software Bills of Materials
BOM Doctor is a free, GitHub-hosted tool created by Sonatype to scan software bills of materials (SBOMs) and identify vulnerabilities and legal issues.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.
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Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member
Microsoft has officially joined the FinOps Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes financial management in cloud technology.