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GitHub Release Improved Developer Flow at Universe Event
At their annual industry event, GitHub released new functionality with a focus on flow, better developer experience, and security. GitHub Universe is an annual conference -- which ran virtually this year -- bringing a raft of announcements relating to new functionality in GitHub - Microsoft’s developer source code repo and software integration tool.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 in Rampdown, JDK 19 Expert Group, Log4j2 Vulnerability, MicroProfile 5.0
This week's Java roundup for December 6th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18 having moved into Rampdown Phase One, the creation of JDK 19 expert group, the discovery of a remote code execution vulnerability in Log4J, MicroProfile 5.0, and various Spring, Hibernate and Quarkus point releases.
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Google's Network-Based Threat Detection Service Cloud IDS is Now Generally Available
Recently, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud IDS for network-based threat detection. This core network security offering helps detect network-based threats and helps organizations meet compliance standards that call for an intrusion detection system.
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AWS Cloud WAN, a New Managed Wide-Area Networking Service, is Now in Preview
Recently, Invent 2021 AWS announced the preview release of a new networking service, AWS Cloud WAN. With this managed wide-area networking (WAN) service, customers can build, manage, and monitor a global network that connects resources running across your cloud and on-premises environments.
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Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Log4j Versions Permits RCE Exploit
On December 9th, it was made public on Twitter that a zero-day exploit had been discovered in log4j, a popular Java logging library. All the library’s versions between 2.0 and 2.14.1 included are affected. Log4j 2.15.0 has been released, which no longer has this vulnerability. As the POC published on GitHub points out, when log4j logs an attacker-controlled string value it can result in an RCE.
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AWS Announces Construct Hub and New Version of AWS Cloud Development Kit at re:Invent 2021
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of version 2.0 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and AWS Construct Hub during its annual re:Invent conference.
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AWS Releases Preview of a New Low-Code Development Tool with Amplify Studio at re:Invent
At the recent re:Invent AWS announced Amplify Studio, a new Figma-connected low-code service meant to help developers quickly build cloud-connected apps. The new tool is an extension of the existing AWS Amplify service, which focuses on building web and mobile apps but lacks the easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface of Amplify.
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Leading a DevOps Transformation - a Collaborative Engineering Approach
When leading a DevOps transformation, transparency and visibility can help to get teams engaged in chance. Once involved, developers can act as knowledge multipliers and contribute to change initiatives. A mixture of solving frequently-occurring problems, addressing complex problems, and showing progress of the transformation can help to keep stakeholders involved.
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Get Consistent Access to Third-Party APIs with AWS Data Exchange for APIs
During the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the AWS Data Exchange for APIs. This new capability enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products from providers on AWS Data Exchange.
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Java News Roundup: IntelliJ IDEA, JEP 421, Groovy, Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Collections
This week's Java roundup for November 29th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+7-288, multiple Spring project point releases, Quarkus 2.5.1.Final, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0-Beta2, Eclipse Mojarra 2.3.17, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.8, Groovy 4.0.0-RC1, Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3, and JReleaser 0.9.0.
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AWS Launches Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully-managed, serverless service on AWS for real-time processing of streamed data at a massive scale. Recently, the company released a new capacity mode On-demand for the service, which eliminates capacity provisioning and management for streaming workloads.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Recently, AWS announced the release of a managed file storage service Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, the newest addition to the Amazon FSx family. It is one of the four new storage services the company announced at AWS re:Invent aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs, and helping customers better protect their data.
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Microsoft Introduces a Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Load Testing. With this fully-managed load testing service, users can generate high-scale load with custom Apache JMeter scripts and gain actionable insights to catch and fix performance bottlenecks.
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AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge
During the annual re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon S3 Event Notifications for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge. With S3 notifications, developers can leverage a more reliable and faster “directly wired” model.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2021 Will Highlight Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0
The third annual JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference will go live on December 7th, 2021, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST preceded by a welcome reception by Tanja Obradovic and Ivar Grimstad at 5:45am EST. Focused primarily on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions include keynotes and 15-minute theme slots delivered by a host of Java luminaries.