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Hazelcast Jet 4.4 Released - the Four-Year Anniversary Release as Seen by Scott McMahon
Hazelcast Jet recently celebrated its four-year anniversary with the release of version 4.4. Besides the normal bug fixes and performance enhancements, this new version ships with new features such as the unified file connector and the first beta version of the SQL interface. InfoQ spoke to Scott McMahon, technical director of field engineering at Hazelcast, about this new release.
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Java 16 Released
Oracle has released version 16 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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AWS Announces Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Recently AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes, which deliver the same features and benefits as the existing Amazon EFS storage classes yet reduce storage costs by 47%. With One Zone storage classes, customers can redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).
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Linux Foundation Sigstore Aims to Be the Let's Encrypt of Code Signing
Backed by the Linux Foundation, Sigstore aims to provide a non-profit service to foster the adoption of cryptographic signing by open source projects to make the software supply chain more secure.
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Google Cloud Releases Its Healthcare Consent Management API to General Availability
Google Cloud recently announced it would release its Healthcare Consent Management API to general availability to provide healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals' consent over health data use. The Healthcare Consent Management API is part of the Cloud Healthcare API offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 8th, 2021
A quick roundup of stories from around the Java ecosystem in the week of March 8th.
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How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity
Maria Jernström and Jason Palmer, two product managers at Spotify, shared how the company enables their development teams to operate quickly and in alignment. The Platform Developer Experience tribe builds CI/CD tools, product creation tooling, and paved paths with a focus on automating common processes.
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OpenTelemetry Announces Roadmap for Metrics Specification
The OpenTelemetry project announced its roadmap for its metrics specification. The roadmap includes a stable metrics API/SDK, metrics data model and protocol, and compatibility with Prometheus.
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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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Vamp Announces Results of State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021
Vamp.io, a company providing a release automation platform, recently published the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 survey results. Results show that Kubernetes and microservices are popular, and high-risk release strategies are still being used.
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Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform
In a recent blog post, Dropbox revealed Atlas, a platform whose aim is to provide various benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture while minimizing the operational cost of owning a service. Atlas' goal is to support small, self-contained functionality, saving product teams the overhead of managing a full-blown service, including capacity planning, alert setup, etc.
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Google Releases Memorystore for Memcached into General Availability
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of Memorystore for Memcached, a fully-managed service compatible with open-source Memcached protocol. With the GA release of Memorystore for Memcached, the company now has two generally available managed caching service options for customers looking for a caching capability in the Google Cloud.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021 featuring celebrations related to Oracle and OpenJDK milestones, and other news from IBM, Red Hat and Spring.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates
The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees, as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release, both the tracing API and the tracing SDK are considered stable.