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Microsoft Quietly Updates .NET Language Strategy
On February 6th 2023, Kathleen Dollard, principal program manager on .NET team at Microsoft, posted an update of the .NET language strategy. The new document is a continuation of the same ideas from the previous one, written in 2017, where C# and F# are the evolving languages and VB.NET is a niche language.
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Faster Startup Time and Lower Memory Usage: New CRT HTTP Client in AWS SDK for Java
AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller memory footprint improving Lambda serverless workloads.
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Google Adds New Pricing Model to Its Security Command Center
Google recently announced several new updates to its Security Command Center (SCC) with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and two capabilities: deployments at the project level and self-service activation.
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InfluxData Releases Its New Database Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxData releases into general availability the new version of its database engine called Influx IOx. It is now available to be used in InfluxDB Cloud.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 RC1, Open Liberty, Micronaut, Helidon, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails
This week's Java roundup for February 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Open Liberty 23.0.0.1 and 23.0.0.2-beta, Helidon 3.1.1, Quarkus 2.16.2 and 3.0.0.Alpha4, Micronaut 3.8.4, Hibernate ORM 6.2, 6.1.7 and 5.6.15, Grails 5.3.0, Apache Groovy 4.0.9 and 3.0.15, Apache Camel 3.20.2, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.8, Gradle 8.0.0-RC5, Jarviz 0.2.0, Kotlin K2 compiler and Jfokus conference.
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CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: Identifying Suspicious Behaviors with eBPF
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Jeremy Cowan and Wasiq Muhammad, both engineers at AWS, presented on identifying suspicious behaviors with eBPP, its use cases, and how AWS is using it for threat detection and protection.
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Adding Video in .NET MAUI Apps with the New MediaElement
Microsoft recently released another control for the .NET MAUI platform: MediaElement. This is one of the components of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit that allows audio and video playback within .NET MAUI applications.
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Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability
Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs.
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Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Load Testing, a fully-managed load-testing service allowing customers to test the resiliency of their applications regardless of where they are hosted.
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Azure Durable Functions Now Supports Storage Backends Microsoft Netherite and MSSQL
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is generally available.
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Microsoft OpenJDK Introduces Experimental Feature for Improving Escape Analysis
Microsoft announced an experimental feature, still under development, which improves the performance of escape analysis by increasing the opportunities for scalar replacement. Currently the feature is only available for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, but might become part of OpenJDK in the future.
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JobRunr, the Java Scheduler Library, Releases Version 6.0
JobRunr, a Java library designed to handle background tasks in a reliable manner within a JVM instance, released the new version 6.0 after a year of development since the release of version 5.0 in March 2022.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0-Alpha4, Spring, GlassFish, Quarkus, Ktor, (Re)Introducing RIFE2
This week's Java roundup for January 30th, 2023, features news from JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Tools 4.17.2, GlassFish 7.0.1, Quarkus 2.16.1, Helidon 4.0.0.-ALPHA4, Hibernate Search 6.1.8 and 5.11.12, PrimeFaces 11.0.10 and 12.0.3, Apache Commons CSV 1.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.27.0, Ktor 2.2.3 and (re)introducing RIFE2 1.0.
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Azure Now Supports Database as a Service Couchbase Capella
A cloud database platform company Couchbase recently announced that its Capella database as a Service (DBaaS) offering as a fully-managed service is available on Azure.
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AWS Patches Undocumented APIs Bypassing CloudTrail Event Logging
AWS recently patched undocumented IAM APIs that bypassed CloudTrail logging. The vulnerability allowed a malicious user to perform reconnaissance activities on IAM without recording events in CloudTrail or being detected by Amazon GuardDuty.