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IBM Introduces the Semeru Runtimes for OpenJ9
IBM introduced the no-cost Semeru Runtimes that use the class libraries from OpenJDK together with the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The runtimes based on OpenJ9 may be used as an alternative for runtimes based on HotSpot. Previously AdoptOpenJDK produced binaries with OpenJ9, however, that’s no longer legally allowed since their move to the Eclipse Foundation under the name Adoptium.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 25, JEP 408, Quarkus 2.3.0, MicroProfile 5.0-RC1, Mockito 4.0, Jelastic
This week's Java roundup for October 4th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Spring Cloud 21.0.0-M2, WildFly 25, Quarkus 2.3.0.Final, MicroProfile 5.0-RC1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.11-beta, Mockito 4.0, Apache Camel 3.12.0 and 3.7.6, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.3.0 and Jelastic PaaS acquired by Virtuozzo.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Purview
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Purview, its data governance solution in the cloud. It provides customers with a unified data governance solution for on-premises, cloud, and app-based systems. The GA release is a follow-up from its public preview release almost a year ago.
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Gitpod Announces OpenVSCode Server Project Enabling Developers to Run Upstream VS Code
Cloud-based developer platform Gitpod recently introduced the open-source project OpenVSCode Server, licensed under MIT. This enables any developer to run upstream and stable VS Code IDE in any modern web browser.
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Learn from 64+ Leading Software Experts at QCon Plus. Discover These Stand-Out Tracks
With QCon Plus only a few weeks away, our Program Committee and track hosts have selected six tracks not to miss this November 1-12, which include From Remote to Hybrid Teams: Return to Office?, API Architecture, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, and Optimizing Your Organization for Speed. Which of these will you be attending?
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AWS Announces the General Availability and Open Sourcing of the Amazon Genomics CLI
Amazon Genomics CLI is a tool that makes it easier to process genomics data at a petabyte-scale on AWS. Earlier this year, the public cloud vendor shared a preview of the tool, and it is now open source and generally available.
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Eclipse Foundation’s Adoptium Releases First Temurin JDK Builds
AdoptOpenJDK moved to the Eclipse Foundation as the Adoptium Working Group. Adoptium provides TCK-certified runtimes, based upon OpenJDK, called Eclipse Temurin. Adoptium provides Temurin binaries every six months and maintenance/security updates every three months. Long Term Support (LTS) releases are produced for at least four years.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.0, Changes Coming to WildFly, Scene Builder 17, Hibernate ORM
This week's Java roundup for September 27th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, Hazelcast 5.0, point and release candidates of Hibernate ORM, Spring Initilizr 0.11.0, significant changes planned for WildFly, Open Liberty 21.0.0.10, Scene Builder 17, JReleaser 0.7.0, JDKMon 17.0.5, RefactorFirst 0.3.0, TornadoVM 0.11 and Sonatype dropping TLSv1.1 from their publishing servers.
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How GitHub Partitioned Its Relational Database to Improve Reliability at Scale
GitHub has been working for the last couple of years on partitioning their relational database and moving the data to multiple independent clusters. This effort led to a 50% load reduction and a significant reduction of database-related incidents, explains GitHub engineer Thomas Maurer.
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Announcing Allstar, a GitHub App to Improve Open Source Security
Google recently announced Allstar, a GitHub app that enables continuous enforcement of security policies for a given organization or project repository. Allstar is Google’s contribution towards improving Open Source Software (OSS) security.
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Armo Releases Kubescape K8s Security Testing Tool: Q&A with VP Jonathan Kaftzan
Armo announced the release of Kubescape last month, a tool for testing if a Kubernetes environment is secure according to the Kubernetes hardening guidance published by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA).
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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview release of Azure Functions 4.0 – its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering. The release of this new runtime includes support for .NET 6.0.
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JobRunr 4.0 Delivers Improved Integration with Spring Starter, Quarkus and Micronaut
JobRunr, a relatively new JVM job scheduling tool, has released version 4.0 which brings updated Spring Boot Starter support, new integrations with Quarkus and Micronaut and a new jobs analysis performance mode that checks if a job can be cached to speed up the subsequent calls. InfoQ spoke with Ronald Dehuysser about the development of JobRunr.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). With this new feature for VMs, customers can reserve more compute capacity.
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms
With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected.