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Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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AWS Introduces CloudFront Continuous Deployment for Blue-Green and Canary Strategies
AWS announced that CloudFront now supports continuous deployment to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic. The new feature of the AWS content delivery network simplifies blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
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Java News Roundup: Major Spring Releases, Resilience4j, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Kotlin 1.8-Beta
This week's Java roundup for November 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 20, major, point and patch releases for Spring (namely Boot, Web Services, Security, Batch, Authorization Server, REST Docs, Framework, Modulith, GraphQL, Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ), Open Liberty 22.0.0.12, GlassFish 7.0-M10, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.18, Resilience4j 2.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.84 and Kotlin 1.8-Beta.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 18 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Critical Vulnerability in VM2 Sandbox Found Affecting Spotify Portal Platform Backstage
Spotify Backstage, an open-source platform used to build developer portals and in use at a number of large companies, has been found vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Confirming that most vulnerabilities are found in indirect dependencies, the Backstage vulnerability is enabled by another vulnerability found in its JavaScript VM2 sandbox dependency.
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Developing Applications in Space with Azure Orbital Space SDK
Microsoft recently announced the preview release of the Azure Orbital Space SDK to provide developers with a secure hosting platform and application toolkit designed to enable them to create, deploy, and operate applications on-orbit.
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Spotify Introduces Kitsune Vulnerability Management Platform
Spotify recently introduced its security vulnerability management platform, Kitsune. Right from vulnerability detection to providing insights based on metrics, Kitsune manages the overall security vulnerability lifecycle. Kitsune’s development started one and a half years ago and it continues to evolve.
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Cloudflare Releases Cache Reserve in Open Beta
Recently, Cloudflare announced the open beta of Cache Reserve, which provides a way to serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache persistently. It is a large, persistent data store implemented on top of R2.
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Google Cloud Adds IAM Deny Policies
Google Cloud has moved IAM Deny policies into full general availability. IAM Deny policies work alongside the IAM Allow policies to provide more options for controlling which principals have access to which resources. IAM Deny policies are available with Google Cloud IAM for most permissions.
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Cloudflare Introduces Super Slurper Feature for Its R2 Object Storage in Private Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the R2 Super Sluper feature, which enables developers to move all their data to R2 in one giant slurp or sip by sip through an intuitive UI and API. The feature is in private beta by signing up.
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Heuristic Static Analysis Tool GuardDog Used to Detect Several Malicious PyPi Packages
GuardDog is new open source tool aimed at identifying malicious Python Packages using Sempreg and package metadata analysis. Thanks to a set of source code heuristics, GuardDog can detect malicious packages never seen before and has been used to identify several malicious PyPi packages in the wild.
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AWS Announces Redis 7 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 7 compatibility with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features, such as Redis Functions, ACL improvements, and Sharded Pub/Sub.
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AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
AWS has released the AWS Lambda Telemetry API, a new way for extensions to receive enhanced function telemetry from the Lambda service. The new API simplifies collecting traces, logs, and custom and enhanced metrics from Lambda functions. Along with several example extensions, there are several extensions available from third parties including Datadog, Dynatrace, Serverless, and Sumo Logic.
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CNCF Accepts Istio as an Incubating Project
The CNCF recently announced that it has voted to accept Istio as an incubating project. Initially developed by Google and IBM alongside the Lyft team, Istio is the most widely adopted service mesh. The Istio steering committee shared the announcement in a blog post, reflecting on Istio’s journey from 2016.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6, JCP Election, Project Valhalla, OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 14th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Project Valhalla, JavaFX 20, JCP election results, Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Data 2022.0, Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.1-RC1, Quarkus 2.14.1 and 3.0.Alpha1, Micronaut 3.7.4, Piranha 22.11.0, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.5, Apache Tomcat 10.1.2 and 9.0.69, Apache Beam 2.43.0 and PrimeFaces 12.0.2.