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Microsoft Releases Azure Payment HSM in Public Preview for the Payment Card Industry
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview of a bare-metal infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Azure Payment HSM that provides cryptographic key operations for real-time payment transactions in Azure. It uses the Thales payShield 10K payment HSMs, which delivers a suite of payment security functionality proven in critical environments.
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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 423, Quarkus 2.7.0, Micronaut Serialization, JReleaser Early-Access
This week's Java roundup for January 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK (JEP 423), JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+3-89, Spring Framework updates, Quarkus 2.7.0.Final, a new Micronaut Serialization module, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.7.0, Apache Camel 3.15.0, a second JReleaser early-access build, JobRunr versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.8, and Failsafe 3.2.
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Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA
Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls
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Ephemeral Containers Ease Debuggability in Kubernetes 1.23
Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes 1.23 provide a way to attach temporary containers to a running pod’s process namespace and run debugging utilities.
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MicroVM Virtualization Solution Firecracker Reaches 1.0
Originally developed at AWS to power AWS Lambda, Firecracker enables creating and managing secure microVMs for serverless computing.
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OpenSSF Announces the Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) in partnership with Google and Microsoft have announced the Alpha-Omega Project to improve supply chain security across open source software (OSS) projects. The project will focus on improving the security posture of the most widely deployed and critical OSS projects.
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HashiCorp Consul API Gateway Adds TCPRoute Support and Installation via Helm Chart
HashiCorp has moved their Consul API Gateway into beta release. The release adds a number of new features to their Consul Service Mesh ingress solution including support for TCPRoute, installation via Helm Chart, and TLS settings per listener.
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Solo.io Open Sources BumbleBee to Make eBPF Development Easier
Solo.io recently announced an open-source project called BumbleBee, which aims to simplify eBPF application development through auto-generated templates and boilerplate files.
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Java News Roundup: Loom and Panama Updates, Groovy 4.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Jakarta EE RPC
This week's Java roundup for January 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Projects Loom and Panama, Jakarta EE, Groovy 4.0, Spring Framework updates, Micronaut 3.3.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Liberica NIK, MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators 3.0-RC1, Hibernate updates, JHipster 7.6, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.2, JReleaser early-access, Apache Camel and Camel K, and Foojay.io at FOSDEM.
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CNCF Publishes State of Cloud Native Development Report
CNCF has published the latest edition of the State of Cloud Native Development Report. An important finding from the report indicates that the cloud native developer population has grown by 0.3 million during the period from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021. Edge computing has the highest usage rates of containers and Kubernetes, with 63% of edge developers adopting Kubernetes and 76% adopting containers.
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Q&A with Matthew Farina of SUSE Regarding Kubernetes Rancher Desktop
InfoQ caught up with Matthew Farina, software architect at SUSE, regarding Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, talking about the challenges of Kubernetes and container management on the desktop and how it influenced the design and evolution of the Rancher Desktop.
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Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs
Cloud Bigtable is a fully-managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). And recently, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of Bigtable Autoscaling, which automatically adds or removes capacity in response to the changing demand for applications allowing cost optimizations.
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Elastic Releases Terraform Providers for the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud
Elastic has released their official Terraform provider for configuring the Elastic Stack. The provider enables configuring ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fleet, and other Elastic Stack components. This follows closely on their release of the Elastic Cloud Terraform provider.
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Apple Open Sources GCGC: a Tool to Analyze Java GC Logs
Apple has open-sourced GCGC, a tool for Java Garbage Collector (GC) logs visualization based on Python 3 and pandas. GCGC uses a Jupyter notebook to analyze and visualize GC log files.