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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Spring Updates and CVEs, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 16th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK for JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, Spring milestone and point releases and CVEs, May 2022 Payara Platform release, Quarkus 2.9.1.Final, Micronaut 3.4.4, WildFly 16.1.1, Hibernate ORM 5.6.9.Final, Hibernate Reactive 11.5.Final, JDKMon 17.0.25, JobRunr 5.1.2, JReleaser early-access, Apache Tomcat point releases and Apache Camel 3.17.0.
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Kalix: Build Serverless Cloud-Native Business-Critical Applications with No Databases
Lightbend recently launched Kalix, a new PaaS offering for building cloud-native, business-critical applications using any programming language with no databases. Kalix is a unified application layer that pulls together the necessary pieces for writing software and abstracts their implementation details. Lighbend intends for it to provide developers with an innovative NoOps developer experience.
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Microsoft Releases Azure DNS Private Resolver in Public Preview
Azure DNS Private Resolver is a new service that enables customers to query Azure DNS private zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without deploying VM-based DNS servers. This new service is fully-managed in Azure and in public preview.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 16 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 16 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Effectively Monitoring Your Monitoring - Miedwar Meshbesher on Using Vigilance Controls
With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things?
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 19, Project Lilliput Milestone, Spring Framework, Quarkus 2.9.0
This week's Java roundup for May 9th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, Project Lilliput milestone release, Spring Framework 5.3.20 and 5.2.22, Open Liberty 22.0.0.5 and 22.0.0.6-beta, Quarkus 2.9.0.Final, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.9.0, WildFly Preview 27 Alpha1, Hibernate Search 6.1.5, JobRunr 5.1.1, Piranha 22.5.0, Failsafe 3.2.4, Micronaut survey results and Devoxx UK.
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The Future of Java as Seen by Mark Little at Devoxx UK 22: Native Java, Adoptium and Faster Pace
Java is seeing a Renaissance period after it seemed to lose the cloud native stage to younger platforms. The Java ecosystem seems to be an express lane towards innovation, with many ongoing projects aiming to make it cloud friendlier, provide support at the language level and improve its runtime. Mark Little, VP of engineering at RedHat, zoomed in on these efforts in his Devoxx UK talk.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Green Software Development: Terminology and Climate Commitments Explained by Microsoft at Devoxx UK
As a side effect of the accelerated move towards the cloud, the software industry is contributing more and more to global warming. Companies have taken on different commitments: Net-Zero, Carbon Neutral, etc. Asim Hussain, Green Cloud Advocacy Lead @ Microsoft deciphers them during the Devoxx UK keynote. Understanding them will help developers move the needle for each type of commitment.
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Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux
At DockerCon 2022, Docker announced a way for developers to tap into Docker Desktop and extend its functionality using a new Extension SDK. Additionally, Docker Desktop is finally landing on Linux, providing the same experience available on macOS and Windows.
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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Managed Grafana in preview, including new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. With Azure Managed Grafana, customers can now view their Azure monitoring data in Grafana dashboards and have new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
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AWS Releases Their New Low-Code Development Tool Amplify Studio to General Availability
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Amplify Studio, a visual interface that simplifies front- and backend development for web and mobile applications. It extends the existing AWS Amplify service, a set of tools and features to help developers get started faster with configuring various AWS services to support their backend use cases such as user authentication.