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Cloudflare Open Sources Pingora, a Rust framework for Developing HTTP Proxies
Recently, Cloudflare open-sourced Pingora, their Rust-based framework to create HTTP proxy services. This framework has been open-sourced under the Apache License version 2.0. As a proxy solution, it seamlessly handles HTTP/1, HTTP/2, gRPC, and websocket traffic, featuring adaptable load balancing and failover mechanisms.
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Java 22 Delivers Foreign Memory & Memory API, Unnamed Variables & Patterns, and Return of JavaOne
Oracle has released version 22 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Two of these - Foreign Function & Memory API and Unnamed Variables & Patterns - have completed their respective rounds of previews and are now finalized.
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eBay’s Lessons Learned about Generative AI in Software Development Productivity
Recently eBay disclosed the lessons learned about the application of generative AI in the development process. eBay's AI endeavors have uncovered three pivotal avenues toward enhancing developer productivity: through the integration of commercial offerings, fine-tuning existing Large Language Models (LLMs), and harnessing an internal knowledge network.
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GitHub Announces Upgrade to Action Runners with 4-vCPU, 16 GiB Memory
GitHub recently announced an enhancement to their GitHub Actions-hosted runners. Moving forward, workflows from public repositories on Linux or Windows that utilize GitHub's default labels will be executed on the new 4-vCPU runners.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Drafts, Infinispan 15, Payara Platform, Alpaquita Containers with CRaC
This week's Java roundup for March 11th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP drafts, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) and Hot Code Heap; Infinispan 15; the March 2024 edition of Payara Platform; Alpaquita Containers with CRaC; the first release candidate of JobRunr 7.0; and milestone and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and Micronaut.
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Hubber Codespace Improves Inner-Loop Testing at GitHub
GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team has recently unveiled a new tool aimed at streamlining the inner-loop development process within its distributed service ecosystem. Named "Hubber Codespace" (HCS), the solution addresses some challenges posed by integration testing in a modular team structure where different services are developed and operated independently.
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AWS Makes CloudFormation Stack Creation up to 40% Faster
AWS optimized the stack creation process to make it faster and achieved significant improvements. The company split the resource creation process into two phases (creation and stabilization), which allows for creating other resources in the stack earlier. The change is available in all regions and doesn’t require any user action.
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Microsoft Introduces Static Web Apps' New Feature: Distributed Functions for Enhanced Performance
Microsoft has announced a new Azure Static Web Apps feature called distributed functions. It automatically distributes managed functions to high-demand regions of Static Web Apps.
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Azure OpenAI's “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially made On Your Data generally available in Azure OpenAI Service. This feature enables users to harness the full power of OpenAI models, including GPT-4, and seamlessly integrate the advanced features of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model with their data. According to the company, all this is backed by enterprise-grade security on Azure.
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CloudFormation IaC Generator Scans and Imports Existing AWS Resources
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new tools to simplify infrastructure management for its customers, announcing the "IaC Generator" and "CDK Migrate" tools. "CDK Migrate" has been recently covered at InfoQ, whilst the IaC Generator allows enineers to create CloudFormation templates based on pre-existing resources and their relationships.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.
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McDonald's Streamlines CI with GitHub Actions and Reusable Workflows
Recently McDonald’s talked about how they leveraged GitHub Actions to emphasize readability, maintainability, and reduce code duplication. Their goals included establishing a streamlined CI process, enhancing developer productivity, and implementing pipeline observability and monitoring.
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Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
Recently, a former employee of F5 and main contributor of the Nginx project announced the fork Freenginx of the popular web server. The new project was started to address a security dispute and wants to be a drop-in replacement of Nginx, run by developers rather than corporate entities.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster Blueprints, Jox Channel Library, Infinispan 15.0 Release Candidate
This week's Java roundup for March 4th, 2024, features news highlighting: Version 3.0 releases of Micronaut and Quarkus Blueprints for JHipster, introducing the Jox Channel library, first release candidate of Infinispan 15.0, point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Testcontainers for Java and JetBrains Ktor.