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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in Rampdown, JDK 26 Expert Group, Hibernate Search, Project Crema
This week's Java roundup for June 2nd, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 26 Expert Group; the release of Hibernate Search 8.0.0.Final; the fourth milestone release of Grails 7.0.0; the beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.6; point releases for Eclipse JNoSQL, Helidon and JBang; and a sneak peek into a new Oracle Labs project, Project Crema.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hibernate Reactive, Infinispan, JHipster, Gatherers4j
This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL
This week's Java roundup for March 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: updates for Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI; the first beta release of WildFly 36.0; the third alpha release of Hibernate Search 8.0; the March 2023 release of Open Liberty; and point releases for Quarkus, Infinispan, JHipster and OpenXava.
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Fauna Shutting Down: Is the Future Open Source?
The team behind the distributed serverless database Fauna has recently announced plans to shut down the service by the end of May. While the managed database will be terminated soon and all customers will have to migrate to other platforms, Fauna is committing to releasing an open source version of the core database technology alongside the existing drivers and CLI tooling.
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Distributed Multi-Modal Database Aerospike 8 Brings Support for Real-Time ACID Transactions
Aerospike has announced version 8.0 of its distributed multi-modal database, bringing support for distributed ACID transactions. This enables large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications like banking, e-commerce, inventory management, health care, order processing, and more, says the company.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Fabric API for GraphQL
Microsoft has launched Fabric API for GraphQL, moving the data access layer from public preview to general availability (GA). This release introduces several enhancements, including support for Azure SQL and Fabric SQL databases, saved credential authentication, detailed monitoring tools, and integration with CI/CD workflows.
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MongoDB 8.0 Now Available with Performance Gains and Enhanced Sharding
MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and new features. Highlights include embedded sharding configuration servers, expanded support for queryable encryption, and the capability to move collections across shards without requiring a shard key.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
This week's Java roundup for September 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of JDK 23 and GraalVM for JDK 23; an update on Jakarta EE 11 and plans for Jakarta EE 12; introducing Micronaut GraalPy; and Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK 24.08.
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Pinterest Shuts down One of the World's Largest HBase Deployments
The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
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Azure Cosmos DB Integration with Vercel Now Generally Available
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration, following the public preview released about one year ago. Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, a product manager at Microsoft, announced upcoming features, including an AI template with integrated vector search capabilities, responding to community feedback.
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
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QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.
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Microsoft Announces Garnet: a New Open-Source Cache-Store and Redis Alternative
Microsoft Research has recently announced Garnet, an open-source cache-store designed to accelerate applications and services. Using the RESP wire protocol, Garnet is a faster alternative to cache-stores and is compatible with existing Redis clients.