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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC2, Multiple Releases in the Spring Ecosystem, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for February 19th, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 22 in release candidate 2, the February 2024 edition of the Payara Platform, numerous milestone and point releases in the Spring ecosystem, multiple releases of Apache Tomcat and Log4j and Gradle 8.7-RC1.
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Sudo for Windows - Elevating Command Execution in Windows 11
Microsoft announced that Sudo for Windows will be available in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. This tool transforms how users execute elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. Sudo for Windows provides an intuitive and familiar solution, eliminating the need to open a new elevated console and enhancing the user experience.
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How Airbnb Migrated from Buck to Bazel with Minimal Interference to Developers
Following in the line of other organizations migrating their build pipelines to Bazel, Airbnb provided a detailed walk-through of the process that led them to leave Buck behind and improve both build times as well as project generation and loading times.
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Grab Improves Kafka on Kubernetes Fault Tolerance with Strimzi, AWS AddOns and EBS
Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and completely eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations. To address the shortcomings of the initial design, the team integrated with AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH), used the Load Balancer Controller for target group mapping, and switched to ELB volumes for storage.
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AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps
AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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AI and FinOps Predicted to Lead Observability Innovation in 2024
In recently published articles, three large observability companies have made predictions for the trends we will see in the observability area in 2024 and beyond. These contributions suggest that the fields of AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead.
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Docker Build Cloud: Using Cloud Compute and Cache to Decrease Image Build Times
Docker recently announced the general availability of their cloud-based Container Image builder, Docker Build Cloud. Docker Build Cloud offers a remote shared-cache and native builders for AMD64 and ARM64 CPU architectures.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Milestone Releases for Spring Projects and Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for February 12th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP candidates, JEP 465 and JEP 466, milestone and point releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data, Micrometer and Project Reactor, Hibernate Search 7.1.0-RC1 and Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01.
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Zurich Insurance Group's Journey with Scalable Account Vending and AWS Account Factory for Terraform
AWS recently highlighted Zurich Insurance Group's use of AWS Account Factory for Terraform, which enabled them to attain the desired performance parameters needed to facilitate the provisioning of more than 3000 accounts. Zurich Insurance Group streamlined its Cloud Adoption Strategy by using the Scalable Account Vending solution, automating the process of setting up new AWS environments easily.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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HashiCorp Enhances Proactive Secrets Discovery with HCP Vault Radar
Infrastructure automation software company HashiCorp has announced a limited beta phase for HCP Vault Radar, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based secrets discovery product. HCP Vault Radar is a secret scanning product that focuses on the proactive discovery of unmanaged or leaked secrets, allowing organizations to take swift action if secret information is exposed.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC1, JBoss EAP 8.0, GlassFish 8.0-M2, LangChain4j 0.27
This week's Java roundup for February 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 22, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0, IBM Semeru Runtimes first quarter 2024 updates, LangChain4j 0.27.0, and multiple point releases for Micronaut, Helidon and Eclipse Vert.x.
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Pinterest Open-Sources a Production-Ready PubSub Java Client for Kafka, Flink, and MemQ
Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half. The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it. Over 90% of Java applications have migrated to PSC with minimal changes.
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Grafana v10.3: Visualizations, Alerting, Management and Log Analysis Improvements
Grafana 10.3 introduces a range of enhancements spanning visualization, instance management, alerting, and log analysis. These upgrades include improved tooltips and zoom functionality for data navigation, alongside features for tracking metric changes and visualizing system health. Additionally, improvements in alerting and log analysis are also available.
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Enhancing Observability: Amazon CloudWatch Logs Introduces Account-Level Subscription Filter
The recent update to Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces support for account-level subscription filtering. With this enhancement, developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing.