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HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of HCP Vault on AWS
Recently, HashiCorp announced the general availability of their fully-managed Vault service for AWS environments on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a SaaS service with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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Catchpoint Announces General Availability of Enhanced WebPageTest Performance Testing API
Catchpoint recently released an enhanced version of the WebPageTest (WPT) performance testing API. The now generally available API provides programmatic access to the WebPageTest data and test infrastructure, and offers in-depth front-end performance metrics and side-by-side video comparisons of user experience.
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Quarkus 1.11 Introduces State Preserving Reload in Development Mode
Quarkus’ development mode, a hot redeploy mechanism through which code changes in an application will be recompiled and reloaded when refreshed in the browser, was improved with a new ability: state preserving reload. InfoQ reached out to Stuart Douglas, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, for a deeper understanding of Quarkus’ development mode.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 5th, 2021
A roundup of stories in the Java ecosystem for the week of April 5th.
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Announcing Refinery by Honeycomb: a Trace-Aware Sampling Proxy
Honeycomb, the company providing observability tools, recently announced Refinery. Supporting multiple sampling methods by default, Refinery runs on the customer's infrastructure to provide critical debugging data.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which provides a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. The service offers a fully-managed OpenShift service with joint support from AWS and Red Hat.
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Microsoft Introduces Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Microsoft has introduced a preview release of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new open-source downstream distribution of OpenJDK. Microsoft Build of OpenJDK supports x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java Engineering Group at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.
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Cheryl Hung on Trends in Cloud Native and DevOps for 2021
In a recent keynote for The DEVOPS Conference, Cheryl Hung, VP ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shared her top 10 predictions for cloud native in the upcoming year. This includes improvements in cross cloud support, growth in GitOps and chaos engineering practices, and an increase in the adoption of FinOps.
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AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues
AWS has recently introduced the EC2 Serial Console, a tool to establish a serial connection to EC2 instances and troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues.
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AWS and Cloudflare Add Bot Management Features to Their Firewalls
Both AWS and Cloudflare have released new bot mitigation features into their respective firewall products. Both releases provide additional features for filtering out unwanted bot traffic from reaching the application.
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Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines
Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. According to the company, the A2 VMs will allow customers to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads efficiently at a lower cost.
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Google Bolsters Cloud Spanner with Point-in-Time Recovery
Google recently released a point-in-time-recovery feature for its Cloud Spanner database that aims to help protect against accidental data loss and corruption. The new point-in-time recovery (PITR) features seek to provide users more granular control over data recovery processes.
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GitHub Scales Its Rate Limiter Using Redis
Yesterday GitHub engineer Robert Mosolgo posted a detailed account of how GitHub scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis. GitHub migrated from an older Memcached-based rate limiter to a Redis-based one. According to Mosolgo, the new implementation has improved reliability, fixed issues for clients, and reduced GitHub's support load.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 29th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news on: the proposed JDK 17 proposed release schedule; Confluent providing early access to KIP-500, an internal metadata store for Apache Kafka that will ultimately remove its dependency on Apache ZooKeeper; Red Hat and AWS announcing the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS; and point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut and Spring Data.
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JetBrains Releases Projector, a Technology to Remotely Run Swing Applications
JetBrains recently released the first major iteration of Projector, a technology that allows developers to run and operate Swing GUI applications remotely. Resource-hungry applications like Android Studio may run on a powerful server while developers need only a web browser on a thin client.