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Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.
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OpenLiberty Moves to Four-Week Releases
OpenLiberty, the project behind IBM WebSphere, has released version 19.0.0.1 as its first move into four-week releases.
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JUnit Project Moves to Azure Pipelines for Builds
JUnit, a unit testing framework for Java, is one of the most popular libraries used by Java developers. The JUnit team recently announced they've adopted Azure Pipelines for continuous integration (CI).
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Experimental Trusted Types API to Combat Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
The Google Chrome team announces an experimental Trusted Types API to help combat DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities. Google's Vulnerability Reward Program reports that DOM XSS is the most common XSS security variant.
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Google Expands Cloud BigTable Replication Capabilities Globally in Beta
Google announced the expansion of Cloud BigTable's replication capabilities in Beta - providing customers with the flexibility to make their data available across a region or worldwide. Furthermore, the enhancements will allow customers to create a replicated cluster in any zone at any time.
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Java 12 Released with Experimental Switch Expressions and Shenandoah GC
March 19th marks the release date of Java 12, the latest feature release of Java. With it comes a number of new and noteworthy features and refinements, but this version is not a long-term support release.
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Gloo Gateway Released for Kubernetes Knative
Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative.
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Microsoft Survey to Study the JavaEE to Cloud Migration: A Call to the Java Community to Participate
The Microsoft Azure engineering team is calling on the Java community to participate in a special survey to understand the challenges of migrating Java EE applications to the cloud. The team would appreciate input from developers who either: have already migrated Java EE applications to cloud; are currently going through a migration; or are planning to start a migration.
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Next.js 8 Static Site Framework Adds Serverless Support
The Next.js team recently released version 8 of their static site generation framework, improving reliability and scalability through splitting applications into smaller parts for use with cloud services such as AWS lambda and ZEIT Now lambdas.
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OperatorHub.io, a Public Registry for Kubernetes Operators
Red Hat, in collaboration with Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services, recently launched OperatorHub.io. OperatorHub.io is designed as a public registry for finding services backed by Kubernetes Operators.
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Rancher Labs Release Submariner to Enable Network Connectivity between Kubernetes Clusters
Rancher Labs have released Submariner, a new open-source project to “enable network connectivity between Kubernetes clusters”. This project aims to connect overlay networks of individuals Kubernetes clusters to form a “multicluster”, which in turn facilitates inter-cluster communication and synchronisation between applications and distributed data stores.
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Microsoft Opens Two New Datacenters in Africa with General Availability of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft announced its first data centers in Africa, with the general availability of their cloud service Azure. Moreover, Microsoft becomes the first public cloud provider to deliver cloud services in Africa.
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The 2019 Payara Platform 5 Roadmap
Steve Millidge, CEO at Payara, recently outlined the 2019 Payara Platform 5 roadmap describing the goals for Payara in 2019. A brief review of 2018 accomplishments was highlighted by the introduction of the Payara Platform 5 with the release of Payara 5.181 in March 2018. Payara is once-again planning to deliver quarterly releases (5.191 thru 5.194) of Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5 in 2019.
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Observability in Testing with ElasTest
In a distributed application it is difficult to use debugging techniques common in developing non-distributed applications. Bringing production observability to your testing environment helps to find bugs, argued Francisco Gortázar at the European Testing Conference 2019. He presented ElasTest, a tool for developers to test and validate complex distributed systems using observability.
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SAP Open Sources Java SCA Tool
SAP open sources a tool to detect known vulnerabilities in Java/Python applications through software composition analysis.