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Java News Roundup: Spring Projects Updates, Value Objects (Preview) JEP, Quarkus 2.7.2
This week's Java roundup for February 21st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Quarkus 2.7.2.Final, JReleaser early-access, and multiple Spring project updates: Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1, 2.6.4, 2.5.10; a new ListCrudRepository interface for Spring Data 3.0-M2; Spring Security 5.7.0-M2, 5.6.2, 5.5.5; Spring Session 2021.1.2, 2021.0.5; Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3; and Spring Batch 4.3.5.
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Grafana Cloud Adds Incident and On-Call Management Solutions
Grafana has announced the addition of incident management and on-call support to their Grafana Cloud offering. Grafana Incident, currently in preview, generates meeting spaces, integrates with Slack, and constructs incident timelines with information pulled from Grafana dashboards. Grafana OnCall provides on-call rotation scheduling and notification from connected monitoring systems.
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New CodeGuru Reviewer Features Detector Library and Security Detectors for Log-Injection Flaws
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages machine learning to detect security defects in code (Java and Python) and offers suggestions for code quality improvement. Recently, AWS introduced two new features for the tool, with a new Detector Library and security detectors for Log-Injection Flaws.
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AWS Details Its Local Zones’ Expansion Disclosing 32 Cities Worldwide
In December last year, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide, however yet not disclosing which cities. The company now announced the completion of its first 16 AWS Local Zones in the U.S. and plans to launch new AWS Local Zones in 32 new metropolitan areas in 26 countries worldwide.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18-RC1, Project Loom, Spring, Payara, Open Liberty and JReleaser Updates
This week's Java roundup for February 14th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom, point releases on Spring projects, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 22.0.0.2 and 22.0.0.3-beta, Micronaut 3.3.3, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.10, JReleaser 1.0.0-M2, Piranha 22.2.0, JobRunr 4.0.9, Micrometer Metrics 2.0.0-M2, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M2, JDKMon 17.0.22 and Failsafe 3.2.2.
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How GitHub Uses Machine Learning to Extend Vulnerability Code Scanning
Applying machine learning techniques to its rule-based security code scanning capabilities, GitHub hopes to be able to extend them to less common vulnerability patterns by automatically inferring new rules from the existing ones.
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Google Cloud Python Logging Library Release Improves Serverless Support
Google has announced version 3.0.0 of their Google Cloud Python logging library. The release brings a number of new features including enhanced support for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions, support for string JSON payloads, and automated metadata attachments.
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AWS Introduces New Compute-Optimized Amazon EC2 C6a Instances Providing Better Price-Performance
Recently, AWS introduced new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances that provide up to 15 percent improvement in price-performance versus C5a instances and 10 percent lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These new instances are ideal for running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, ad serving, HPC, and machine learning.
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ValidKube Aims to Help Enforce Kubernetes YAML Best Practices
ValidKube is a new open-source tool that combines several tools to make it easier to validate, clean, and secure Kubernetes YAML configuration files. InfoQ has spoken with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, creator of ValidKube.
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KubeVela Announces 1.2: Application-Centric Multi-Cluster Control Plane with Extensible Engine
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that makes shipping applications across hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster. The OAM community released version 1.2 of the KubeVela project in Jan 2022, bringing a new GUI framework VelaX, unified multi-cluster management capabilities, and an extensible design with an addon ecosystem.
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AWS Introduces a New Open-Source Solution: AWS Virtual Waiting Room
Recently, AWS introduced a new open-source solution called AWS Virtual Waiting Room, allowing integration with existing web and mobile applications. In addition, the solution protects systems from resource exhaustion by buffering user requests during sudden traffic bursts.
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AWS CloudFormation Hooks Provide Proactive Validation of CloudFormation Operations
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks which allow for custom logic prior to a create, update, or delete CloudFormation stack operation. CloudFormation hooks support versioning, public and private distribution, and can be published into multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities
Sysdig’s latest cloud-native and security-usage report finds that shipping containers with vulnerabilities has become standard practice - with the report finding that 75% of containers have high severity vulnerabilities which could have been patched. The report stresses that many organisations find this to be an acceptable risk, in order to move and release quickly.
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Fast-Track Application Refactoring with the Generally Available AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS first introduced the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub, last November at re:Invent 2021. Now, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of the Migration Hub capability.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 2022 Roadmap, OpenJDK Drafts, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4
This week's Java roundup for February 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, JSR 381 approved by the JCP, Payara Platform 2022 roadmap, Quarkus 2.7.1, Helidon 2.4.2, Micronaut 3.3.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.3.Final, JReleaser Early-Access, Failsafe 3.2.1, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4, Apache Tika 2.3.0 and end-of-life for Apache Tika 1.x release train.