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New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions
Like other public cloud vendors, Google has a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering with Cloud Functions – and recently announced the second generation's general availability (GA).
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Java News Roundup: Extent-Local Variables, Payara Platform, Project Reactor, Ktor, Spring Web Flow
This week's Java roundup for August 8th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Jakarta EE 10, Spring WebFlow 3.0.0-M1, Spring Tools 4.15.3, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.42.0, Quarkus 2.11.2, MicroStream 7.0.1-beta, Piranha 22.8.0, JobRunr 5.1.7, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M5, Ktor 2.1.0, Apache Camel 3.18.1 and KCDC Conference.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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Microsoft’s New Azure Fluid Relay Service Now Generally Available
Recently, Microsoft announced its Azure Fluid Relay service's general availability (GA). This managed cloud offering enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications.
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Google Introduces Zero-ETL Approach to Analytics on Bigtable Data Using BigQuery
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Bigtable federated queries, with BigQuery allowing customers to query data residing in Bigtable via BigQuery faster. Moreover, the querying is without moving or copying the data in all Google Cloud regions with increased federated query concurrency limits, closing the longstanding gap between operational data and analytics.
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AWS Announced Tiered Pricing for Its Serverless Offering Lambda
Recently, AWS announced tiered pricing for Lambda, a serverless, event-driven compute service allowing developers to run their code for virtually any application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With tiered pricing, monthly costs for running large workloads on Lambda can be reduced.
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Write Directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery with BigQuery Subscription
Recently Google introduced a new type of Pub/Sub subscription called a “BigQuery subscription,” allowing to write directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery. The company claims that this new extract, load, and transform (ELT) path will be able to simplify event-driven architectures.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Liberica NIK, Open Liberty, Micronaut, JHipster, Apache ShenYu
This week's Java roundup for August 1st, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point and milestone releases, Liberica NIK 22.2.0 and 21.3.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.8 and 22.0.0.9-beta, Micronaut 3.6.0, WildFly 27 Alpha4, Hibernate ORM 6.1.2, Hibernate Validator 6.2.4, 7.0.5 and 8.0.0.CR2, Hibernate Search 6.1.6, JHipster 7.9.2, 7.9.1 and 7.9.0, JBang 0.96.4 and Apache ShenYu.
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GitHub Projects Now Generally Available
Announced in beta at GitHub Universe 2021, GitHub Projects is now generally available, including new features for issue grouping and pivoting, metadata customization, charting, and improved automation.
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QCon Plus (Nov 29): Level-Up on the Engineering Trends You Might Need To Embrace
At the QCon Plus online software development conference this November 29 to December 9, over 1,500 senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will learn about important trends our Program Committee believes will have the most impact on software development.
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Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed everywhere and easily used through VS Code for the Web running in a browser.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 3.0, GraalVM 22.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, Vert.x Virtual Threads
This week's Java roundup for July 25th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring project updates, Helidon 3.0, GraalVM 22.2, Quarkus 2.11.1 and 2.10.4, Micronaut 3.5.4, Eclipse Vert.x virtual threads incubator, Jakarta EE 10 updates, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, JUnit 5.9.0, Apache Software Foundation project updates and Multik 0.2.0.
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CNCF Publishes the Kubernetes Policy Management Whitepaper
The CNCF recently published a new whitepaper about Kubernetes Policy Management. The whitepaper highlights the importance of Kubernetes policy management when it comes to the security and automation of clusters as well as workloads. Also, it goes in-depth into the problems Kubernetes policies solve and the proper implementation of such policies.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage
Recently Microsoft announced the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides, according to the company, the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies .
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.