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Open Source SkyPilot Targets Cloud Cost Optimization for ML and Data Science
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley recently released Skypilot, an open-source framework for running machine learning workloads on the major cloud providers through a unified interface. The project focuses on cost optimization automatically finding the cheapest availability zone, region, and provider for the requested resources.
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OmniFish on Providing Support for Jakarta EE 10 and GlassFish 7
OmniFish, the Estonia-based Jakarta EE consulting company, launched support for Jakarta EE in September 2022. This includes JakartaEE 10, GlassFish 7, and Piranha Cloud and its components like Mojarra. OmniFish recently also joined the Jakarta EE Working Group as a participant member. InfoQ spoke to Arjan Tijms, David Matějček, and Ondro Mihályi about OmniFish.
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AWS Lambda SnapStart Accelerates Java Functions
At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.
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Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Java News Roundup: Major Spring Releases, Resilience4j, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Kotlin 1.8-Beta
This week's Java roundup for November 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 20, major, point and patch releases for Spring (namely Boot, Web Services, Security, Batch, Authorization Server, REST Docs, Framework, Modulith, GraphQL, Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ), Open Liberty 22.0.0.12, GlassFish 7.0-M10, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.18, Resilience4j 2.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.84 and Kotlin 1.8-Beta.
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Uber Reduces Logging Costs by 169x Using Compressed Log Processor (CLP)
Uber recently published how it dramatically reduced its logging costs using Compressed Log Processor (CLP). CLP is a tool capable of losslessly compressing text logs and searching them without decompression. It achieved a 169x compression ratio on Uber's log data, saving storage, memory, and disk/network bandwidth.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 18 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Developing Applications in Space with Azure Orbital Space SDK
Microsoft recently announced the preview release of the Azure Orbital Space SDK to provide developers with a secure hosting platform and application toolkit designed to enable them to create, deploy, and operate applications on-orbit.
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Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions to build event-driven applications. The new functionality is currently available only for C# functions and can be triggered by changes to an Azure SQL table.
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Cloudflare Releases Cache Reserve in Open Beta
Recently, Cloudflare announced the open beta of Cache Reserve, which provides a way to serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache persistently. It is a large, persistent data store implemented on top of R2.
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Cloudflare Introduces Super Slurper Feature for Its R2 Object Storage in Private Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the R2 Super Sluper feature, which enables developers to move all their data to R2 in one giant slurp or sip by sip through an intuitive UI and API. The feature is in private beta by signing up.
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AWS Opens New Region in Spain
AWS recently opened a new region in Spain to offer cloud services in the Iberian Peninsula and address in-country data residency and compliance requirements. The new eu-south-2 region is based in Aragón and has three availability zones.
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AWS Announces Redis 7 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 7 compatibility with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features, such as Redis Functions, ACL improvements, and Sharded Pub/Sub.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6, JCP Election, Project Valhalla, OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 14th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Project Valhalla, JavaFX 20, JCP election results, Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Data 2022.0, Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.1-RC1, Quarkus 2.14.1 and 3.0.Alpha1, Micronaut 3.7.4, Piranha 22.11.0, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.5, Apache Tomcat 10.1.2 and 9.0.69, Apache Beam 2.43.0 and PrimeFaces 12.0.2.
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Upgrade to Apache Commons Text 1.10 to Avoid New Exploit
A new vulnerability in the Apache Commons Text, AKA Text4Shell, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host machine. Originally reported by Alvaro Munoz, principal security researcher at GitHub, CVE-2022-42889 is similar to Spring4Shell and Log4Shell, allowing remote code execution (RCE).