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SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
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CNCF Incubates Strimzi to Simplify Kafka on Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Strimzi provides a Kubernetes-native way to interact with Kafka through a set of operators that extend the Kubernetes API making it easier to configure, deploy, and operate Kafka on Kubernetes.
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Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Native 1.8, Supports ARM and Kubernetes 1.28
The Oracle Linux team recently announced the release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8, a scalable Kubernetes distribution designed for deploying containerized applications in both public cloud environments and on-premise setups. This release includes Kubernetes 1.28 and introduces support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
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Actionforge is a VS Code Extension to Build GitHub Workflows Visually
Actionforge provides a visual, node-based interface to create and maintain GitHub Action workflows masking their underlying YAML textual definition. Packaged as an extension for Visual Studio Code, the tool does not require any external services and is now available in beta.
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Transitioning Discord’s Engineering Team to Cloud Development Environments
Recently, the Internal Developer Experience team at Discord talked about how they migrated all backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment. Through collaboration with Coder, developers were shifted from using MacBooks to working on machines in a remote development environment.
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Development Environment Manager Daytona Now Open Source
Daytona has recently announced that its Development Environment Management (DEM) is now open-source. Currently in its alpha release, Daytona is designed to start a fully configured development environment with a single command.
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Google Cloud Launches Security Command Center Enterprise
Google Cloud has launched Security Command Center (SSC) Enterprise, a cloud risk management solution that offers proactive cloud security with enterprise security operations. The solution helps customers manage and mitigate risk across multi-cloud environments and is enhanced by Mandiant expertise.
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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.