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Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background
Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.
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Google Announces the Public Preview of Network Connectivity Center
Recently Google announced the preview of Network Connectivity Center, a new service for network connectivity management in Google Cloud. With the network service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enterprises can create, connect, and manage heterogeneous on-prem and cloud networks from a single place.
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The Road to Kotlin 1.5
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.4.30 with new experimental features that are planned to be stable for Kotlin 1.5. Considered the last incremental version of Kotlin 1.4.x, these new features include a new JVM internal representation (IR) compiler backend, support for Java records and sealed interfaces, and configuration cache support for the Kotlin Gradle Plugin.
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How Rocky Linux Aims to Fill the Gap Left by Red Hat’s CentOS Setback
Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS, started the Rocky Linux project in Dec 2020 to fill the gap created by RedHat when they changed direction for CentOS Linux. This shift, from a stable operating system to a stream for testing pre-release code, left many organizations without a Linux distribution that suits their needs. InfoQ interviewed Kurtzer about the goals for the project going forward.
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GitLab Protocol Fuzzer CE Now Open-Source
GitLab has open-sourced the core protocol fuzz testing engine it has been using since its 13.4 release. Fuzz testing aims to more effectively find security issues and flaws in business logic by passing randomly generated inputs to an app. InfoQ has spoken with GitLab principal product manager Sam Kerr to learn more.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 22nd, 2021
A roundup of last week's news in the OpenJDK and wider Java ecosystem.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 22th, 2021
This past week was marked by the online streaming of Cloud Builders Conf and the release of Unity 2020 LTS. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 22th, 2021.
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AWS Releases Health Aware Providing Automated Health Alerts for Accounts
AWS recently announced the release of AWS Health Aware (AHA), an incident management and communications framework. AHA is an automated notification tool that sends AWS Health Alerts to a variety of endpoints. AHA is able to integrate with AWS Organizations to provide aggregated alerts across all accounts within the organization.
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Eclipse Adoptium Working Group Formally Established
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that the Adoptium Steering Committee has formally approved the Adoptium Working Group Charter. Formerly known as AdoptOpenJDK, the group changed their name to Adoptium after joining the Eclipse Foundation. The Adoptium Working Group will provide the Java community with fully compatible, high-quality distributions of Java binaries based on OpenJDK source code.
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Q&A with William Denniss Regarding Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot Mode
InfoQ caught up with William Denniss, product manager at Google regarding Autopilot -- a hands-off operations mode for Google Kubernetes Engine.
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Improving Deployment Experience at GitHub
The GitHub engineering team recently blogged about how they redesigned their deployment approach due to the rapid growth of the engineering that exposed some problems with existing tooling.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visualization.
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PagerDuty Adds AWS DevOps Guru and Microsoft Teams Integrations
PagerDuty has released a number of new updates and enhancements to their incident response platform. This includes new integrations with Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS Control Tower, and Microsoft Teams. Other improvements include improvements to mapping failures back to changes, automatic triggers, and content-based alert grouping.
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Grafana Adds Enterprise Logs to Its Managed Observability Stack
Grafana Labs recently released a new log aggregation module for Grafana Enterprise Stack, its commercial observability platform.. Grafana Enterprise Logs ingests and stores logs from applications and other components. When using the module with other components of the Grafana Enterprise Stack, users can configure dashboards to display log data alongside metrics.