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Java News Roundup: Gradle 8.0, Maven, Payara Platform, Piranha, Spring Framework, MyFaces, Piranha
This week's Java roundup for February 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Native Build Tools 0.9.20, Spring 6.0.5, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.1, Quarkus 2.16.3, Payara Platform, Micronaut 3.8.5, Helidon 3.1.2, Vert.x 3.9.15, Hibernate Search 6.2.Alpha2, MyFaces 4.0-RC5, Grails 5.3.2, Reactor 2022.0.3, Metrics 1.11-M1 and Tracing 1.1-M1, Maven 3.9, Gradle 8.0 and Piranha 22.3.
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GitLab Improves Merge Requests, GitOps Functionality and More
GitLab has released further point versions of their DevOps software package. Versions 15.3 through 15.9 been released on a monthly cadence. GitLab's first machine-learning powered feature improves merge request approvals, with other significant improvements and fixes ranging from GitOps enhancements, through improvements to IdP, to new functionality for DAST.
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Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard
Google Cloud introduced Config Management Dashboard that allows the Platform Administrator or Operator to have a real-time picture of configuration syncs and failures across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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Amazon ECS Adds Automated Rollbacks
Amazon has released native support for automated rollbacks within their Amazon ECS service. This feature leverages Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms to monitor and, if necessary, reverts the in-progress deployment. This feature supports using any system metrics that CloudWatch Container Insights collects for Amazon ECS as well as custom metrics.
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Learnings from Spotify Mobile Engineering’s Recent Platform Migration
Recently, Spotify Mobile Engineering Team elaborated on their experience with a recent platform migration. Working on an initiative under the Mobile Engineering Strategy program, the team migrated their Android and iOS codebases to build with Bazel, Google’s open-source build system.
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GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
GitLab has released a new product - GitLab Dedicated - for customers in industries with strict security and compliance requirements wishing to move their DevOps software solutions from on-premise to the cloud.
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GitLab Adopts CLI Project to Bring GitLab to the Terminal
Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab has announced their adoption of glab - a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab's reach into all stages of the code writing process.
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AWS Enters Remote Development and Collaboration Space with CodeCatalyst
At its recent re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon previewed CodeCatalyst, a service aimed to ease developer collaboration by integrating remote workspaces, project templates, issue management, continuous integration and delivery, and more.
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AWS Introduces CloudFront Continuous Deployment for Blue-Green and Canary Strategies
AWS announced that CloudFront now supports continuous deployment to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic. The new feature of the AWS content delivery network simplifies blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Maven Central Search Retrieves Dependency Coordinates from Maven Central
Maven Central Search (mcs) is a command line tool to retrieve dependency coordinates from Maven Central. The tool uses Picocli for the command line interface and GraalVM to compile executable native images for macOS, Linux and Windows.
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Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tom Wanielista, a staff engineer on infrastructure at Lyft, presented on Adopting Continuous Deployment at his company. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Architecting Change at Scale."
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Safe Mode is Lyft's Approach to Handling Feature Flags Incidents
Feature flags are a useful tool to conduct A/B experiments and to roll out changes in a controlled way. To make sure that their use does not end up disappointing users when a change causes a crash or degrades the user experience, Lyft created Safe Mode, specifically aimed to prevent crash loops on launch.
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Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx
Almost a year after the world was shelled by log4, Sonatype’s Steve Poole - a long-time secure code promoter, sounded the alarm regarding the advancement of cyber attacks during his Devoxx talk. Cyberwarfare is a reality, and countries use cyberattacks to fight other countries. More than awareness, the talk gives us hope by revealing the tools each developer has at hand to fight this evil.