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CircleCI Report Finds Successful Software Teams are Larger and Test Extensively
CircleCI - a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform - has released the findings from their 2022 State of Software Delivery Report. The report reveals that the most successful software delivery teams are larger, use extensive testing, and prioritise being ready to deploy.
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Java News Roundup: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell
This week's Java roundup for April 4th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 425, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+5-429, Jakarta EE Starter utility, Spring milestone and point releases, Payara and JetBrains statements on Spring4Shell, JReleaser 1.0, Helidon 2.5.0, JHipster 7.8.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.4, Kotlin 1.6.20, and JDKMon 17.0.24.
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JReleaser 1.0 Releases Itself
Exactly one year after its initial release, Jreleaser rolls out version 1.0. In the meantime, other projects started using the tool and its capabilities increased. To review how JReleaser evolved over the last year and may be envisioned for the next year, InfoQ spoke to Andres Almiray, author and main contributor of JReleaser.
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Managing Complex Dependencies with Distributed Architecture at eBay
The eBay engineering team recently outlined how they came up with a scalable release system. The release solution leverages distributed architecture to release more than 3,000 dependent libraries in about two hours. The team is using Jenkins to perform the release in combination with Groovy scripts.
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Java News Roundup: Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, JHipster 7.8.0, Spring CVEs, JReleaser 1.0-RC2
This week's Java roundup for March 28th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, Spring Boot, Spring CVEs, Apache Tomcat point releases, Quarkus Tools for Visual Studio Code, Micronaut 3.4.1, JetBrains joining the Micronaut Foundation, Open Liberty Paketo Liberty Buildpack, Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, WildFly 26.1 Beta S2I images, JReleaser 1.0-RC2, MicroStream 7.0-M2, JHipster 7.8.0, and JMH 1.35.
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Apache NetBeans 13 Delivers Improved Developer Experience
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache NetBeans 13, their integrated development environment (IDE), claiming a simpler and smoother startup experience along with the partial upgrade of Maven, Gradle, and PHP. Written in Java and originally designed for the Java community, NetBeans is a cross-platform, polyglot IDE that includes language support for HTML5, PHP, and C/C++.
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Dockerfile Linter Hadolint Brings Fixes and Improvements, and Support for ARM64 Binaries
After a long wait, recent Hadolint releases have brought a number of fixes, improvements, and support for ARM64 binaries.
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Microsoft Introduces NVads A10 V5 Azure VMs in Preview for Graphics-Heavy Workloads
Microsoft recently announced the NVads A10 v5 series in preview. These virtual machines (VMs) are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and an all-core peak frequency of 4.0 GHz.
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Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
Kestra, a new open-source orchestration and scheduling platform, helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines. The concept of a workflow, called Flow in Kestra, is at the heart of the platform. It is a list of tasks defined with a descriptive language based on yaml.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
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AWS Releases Amazon GameSparks into Preview
Recently, Amazon announced the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend of their games. The public cloud provider also provides an SDK for the Unity game engine with the preview release.
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Hardware Mitigation on Intel, Arm, and AMD CPUs Shown Ineffective against Spectre v2
Security researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam showed the hardware mitigations to Spectre v2 attacks implemented in both Intel and Arm processors have fundamental flaws that make them vulnerable to branch history injection.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 GA, JMC 8.2, Spring Updates, MicroStream 7.0-Beta1, WildFly 26.1-Beta1
This week's Java roundup for March 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, JDK Mission Control 8.2, Amazon Corretto 18, BellSoft LibericaJDK 18, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Micronaut 3.4.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.11, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.4.Final, MicroStream 7.0-M1, JReleaser 1.0-RC1, and TornadoVM 0.13.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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New Vulnerability in CRI-O Container Runtime Allows Attackers Host Access
A new vulnerability in the CRI-O container runtime used by many Kubernetes installations allows a malicious user to gain root access to the host. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from CrowdStrike and fixed soon after by the CRI-O project.