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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.
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What's New in MicroProfile 5.0
Delivered under the auspices of the MicroProfile Working Group and five months after the release of MicroProfile 4.1, the anticipated release of MicroProfile 5.0 was made available to the Java community. This new release features alignment with Jakarta EE 9.1 and updates to all eight community-developed core APIs and one standalone API.
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Google and GitHub Announce OpenSSF Scorecards v4 with New GitHub Actions Workflow
GitHub and Google have announced the version 4 release of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)'s Scorecards project. Scorecards is an automated security tool that identifies risky supply chain practices in open source projects. This release includes a new Scorecards GitHub Action, new security checks, and a large increase in the repositories included in the foundations weekly scans.
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Microsoft Releases YARP - Yet Another Reverse Proxy
Last year, in November, Microsoft released YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), a reverse-proxy project developed during the last years by Microsoft as an open-source project.
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Aqua Security Reports Large Increase in Supply Chain Attacks
Aqua Security's recent report highlights the increasing threat of supply chain attacks. According to the report, supply chain attacks grew by 300% from 2020 to 2021 while the level of security across software development environments remained low. Google and the CNCF have recently released papers detailing approaches to improving the security of the supply chain.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 in RD2, Spring Boot Updates, GraalVM 22, WildFly 2022 Release Plan
This week's Java roundup for January 17th, 2022, features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, JDK 19, multiple Spring releases, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 22.0.0.1 and 22.0.0.2-beta, Quarkus 2.6.3.Final, WildFly 26.0.1 and 2022 release plan, Micronaut 3.2.7 and 3.3.0-M1, Hibernate ORM 5.6.4.Final and Hibernate Search 6.1.0-CR1, Liberica JDK 17.0.2, GraalVM 22 and JReleaser 0.10.0 and 1.0.0-M1.
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Amazon GuardDuty Adds Detection of EC2 Credential Usage from Other AWS Accounts
Amazon GuardDuty recently added the detection of EC2 instance credentials being used by other AWS accounts. This improves upon the previous state where only credentials being used by IP addresses outside of the AWS network were reported on. This new detection is available within all regions.
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Google Updates its Eventarc Service with New UI, Event Destination, and Storage Trigger
Recently, Google announced several new features for its eventing platform Eventarc. The new features are a new UI, Cloud Run for Anthos services as an event destination, and a generally available (GA) Storage Cloud trigger.
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Knative Announces v1.1 and Applies to Become a CNCF Incubating Project
The Knative community released version 1.1 of the Knative project across multiple components. The core components serving and eventing have notable changes and introduce experimental features, such as global min-scale configuration, capability to handle Retry-After headers in 429 / 503 responses.
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Cloudflare Introduces Support for Relational Database Connections Through Workers
Cloudflare recently announced they are introducing support for relational database connections through Workers, their serverless application platform. The initial support is for Postgres and MySQL. There are still a number of challenges that the Cloudflare team are working through and there are opportunities for community contributions.