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Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins MicroProfile and Jakarta EE, GlassFish, Payara, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for July 11th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Microsoft joins MicroProfile and Jakarta EE working groups, Jakarta EE 10 update, Spring updates, Payara Enterprise 5.41.0, GlassFish 7.0-M7, Micronaut 3.5.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.Alpha1, Native Build Tools 0.9.13, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M4, Piranha 22.7.0, PrimeFaces updates, JobRunr 5.1.5 and Tomcat Native 2.0.1.
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AWS and Microsoft Working Together on PyWhy, the New Home of Causal ML Library DoWhy
AWS in a joint effort with Microsoft have established PyWhy as a fresh GitHub organization to integrate AWS algorithms into DoWhy, a casual ML library from Microsoft, which has moved to PyWhy.
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Microsoft Limits Public Access to AI-Powered Facial Analysis Features
Microsoft recently announced phasing out public access to AI-powered Facial Analysis features in several Azure services.
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SynLapse: Orca Security Publishes Details for Critical Azure Synapse Vulnerability
In a recent article, Orca Security describes the technical details of SynLapse, a critical Synapse Analytics vulnerability in Azure that allowed attackers to bypass tenant separation. The issue has now been addressed, but the timing and the disclosure process have raised concerns in the community.
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Microsoft's New Simulation Framework FLUTE Accelerates Federated Learning Algorithm Development
Microsoft Research has recently released Federated Learning Utilities and Tools for Experimentation (FLUTE), a new simulation framework to accelerate federated learning ML algorithm development. The main goal of federated learning is to train complex machine-learning models over massive amounts of data without the need to share that data in a centralized location.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of NGINX for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced NGINX for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution with advanced traffic management and monitoring. The service is available in preview on the Azure Marketplace.
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Microsoft Introduces "Dev Box" Service as a Cloud-Based IDE for Developers
During the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Dev Box. This new cloud service provides developers with secure, ready-to-code developer workstations for hybrid teams of any size. With the new service, the company aims to make life easier for developers to quickly access a preconfigured environment with all the tools and resources to write code.
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Microsoft Releases a New Power Platform Product with Power Pages in Preview
The latest addition to the Power Platform is Microsoft Power Pages. At the annual Build conference, the company announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages as a stand-alone Software as a Service (SaaS) platform product for anyone, regardless of technical background, to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites.
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Microsoft + Java = ♡: a Story Told by Martijn Verburg at Devoxx UK
Three years after Microsoft acquired jClarity, Martjin Verburg presented at Devoxx UK on how reliant Microsoft is on Java. If the two didn’t seem to fit on the same page, the reality is different: Microsoft runs 2 M JVMs in production for internal purposes, 50+ Android apps, and Azure’s internal systems and Minecraft are built in Java. Moreover, Microsoft is committed to moving Java forward.
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Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Managed Grafana in preview, including new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. With Azure Managed Grafana, customers can now view their Azure monitoring data in Grafana dashboards and have new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
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Microsoft Introduces Open Data for Social Impact Framework
Microsoft recently introduced the Open Data for Social Impact Framework, a guide to help organizations put data to work to get new insights, make better decisions, and improve efficiency while tackling pressing social issues. The framework includes a five-step roadmap that organizations can use to get started.
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Microsoft Introduces NVads A10 V5 Azure VMs in Preview for Graphics-Heavy Workloads
Microsoft recently announced the NVads A10 v5 series in preview. These virtual machines (VMs) are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and an all-core peak frequency of 4.0 GHz.
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.NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview
Last month, Microsoft released the .NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview, part of the company's promise to support .NET Framework. The update targets .NET Framework versions 3.5 and 4.8 and focuses on the Common Language Runtime and Windows Presentation Foundation. The preview release aims to increase reliability and quality of the .NET Framework features for Windows OS.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Payment HSM in Public Preview for the Payment Card Industry
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview of a bare-metal infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Azure Payment HSM that provides cryptographic key operations for real-time payment transactions in Azure. It uses the Thales payShield 10K payment HSMs, which delivers a suite of payment security functionality proven in critical environments.
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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.