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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion
AWS recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a capability of Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a serverless, auto-scaled, managed data collector that receives, transforms, and delivers data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.
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Java News Roundup: Quarkus 3.0, MicroStream 8.0, JEP 442, GraalVM, Infinispan
This week's Java roundup for April 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.4, GraalVM 22.3.2, Microsoft OpenJDK, Spring releases. Quarkus 3.0.0, MicroStream 8.0.0, Micronaut 3.9.1, Hibernate ORM 6.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01, Apache Camel 3.20.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13.3, JUnit 5.9.3, JReleaser 1.6.0, JobRunr 6.1.4, JDKMon 17.0.49 and Foojay.io.
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Amazon CodeCatalyst Moves to GA with Amazon CodeWhisperer Support
Amazon moved CodeCatalyst into full general availability with a number of new features. CodeCatalyst provides templates to streamline creating the project's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and issue management system. New features with the GA release include better support for GitHub repos, integration with Amazon CodeWhisperer, and support for AWS Graviton processors.
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Autopilot Became the Default Operation Mode for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google announced that Autopilot is now the default and recommended operation mode for GKE clusters. Autopilot was introduced in 2021 and is a cluster mode of operation that simply manages the Kubernetes clusters. All the management tasks are demanded by Autopilot which creates clusters based on the best practices learned from Google SRE and engineering.
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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Canary and Parallel Deployment Support
Google Cloud has released canary and parallel deployment support for Google Cloud Deploy. Both features work for Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, and Anthos. The features can be combined together for more advanced rollout strategies.
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Google Announces Machine Learning Powered API Abuse Detection
Google recently announced an API abuse detection dashboard powered by machine learning algorithms.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More
Recently Microsoft released .NET 8 Preview 3. This new release contains many new improvements to ASP.NET Core such as support for native AOT, server-side rendering with Blazor, rendering Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core, sections support in Blazor or monitoring Blazor Server circuit activity.
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Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, Payara Platform, Spring and Tomcat Updates, WildFly 28
This week's Java roundup for April 17th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, JMC 8.3.1, BellSoft, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring for GraphQL and Spring Shell, WildFly 28, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4-beta, Micronaut 3.9, Apache Tomcat updates, Ktor 2.3, JHipster Lite 0.32, JBang 0.106.3 and Gradle 8.1.1.
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IDPs with Poor User Experience are Destined to Fail
User Experience design is of paramount importance for implementing an Internal Developer Platform, finds Fernando Villalba. In a comprehensive blog post detailing what great design and UX (user experience) means, Villalba expands on how to best leverage these to build an IDP (internal developer platform) that is user-friendly and hence more likely to be adopted widely.
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Spotify Reveals Metrics for Success of Developer Portal Backstage
Music streaming giant Spotify has recently shared how it measures the return on investment (ROI) of Backstage, its open platform for building developer portals. Hgh-frequency Backstage users deploy software more often and in less time, with higher perceived productivity, and employees using it also stay longer with the company.
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New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new data mapper for Azure Logic Apps available as a Visual Studio Code extension. The mapper capability is currently in public preview.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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QCon New York: Five Tracks to Level-up on the Latest Software Development Practices
The 2023 edition of the QCon New York (June 13-15) software development conference, hosted by InfoQ, is set to bring together over 800 senior software developers. The three-day conference will feature over 80 innovative senior software practitioners from early adopter companies sharing how they are solving current challenges, providing new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
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AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10
AWS recently announced that Lambda supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and container base image, allowing developers to leverage the improvements and features of the runtime.
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