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Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing
Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis, frontend and backend electronic design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, AI inference, and financial risk analysis.
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AWS Introduces Resource Explorer to Simplify Search and Discovery of Resources
AWS recently announced the general availability of Resource Explorer, a managed capability to search and discover resources inside an AWS account. The new option is available at no additional charge and can query multiple regions but not multiple accounts.
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Google Releases a Guide to Android App Modularization
Google has recently released a guide to Android app modularization. This guide is designed to bring best practices and recommended patterns for developers to build multi-module Android apps, focusing on mitigating problems that arise when the codebase grows, such as scalability, readability, stability and testability.
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New Metrics Capabilities for OpenTelemetry on Azure Monitor
Microsoft released for preview a series of updates to its Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter packages for .NET, Node.js and Python applications.
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AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland
AWS recently announced the availability of the 28th region in Zurich, Switzerland, also known by its API name eu-central-2.
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.NET 7 for Azure Functions Isolated Worker Process Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the .NET 7 for Azure Functions isolated worker process. Azure Functions will support .NET 7 serverless apps hosted on all Windows and Linux SKUs, including Consumption plan, Elastic Premium plan, and App Service plans.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF
Sam Spencer, Microsoft’s .NET Core team program manager, announced on November 4th, 2022, that the Upgrade Assistant .NET tool now includes a preview of an extension that migrates WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) service code from .NET Framework to .NET Standard targeting .NET 6 and later versions. The WCF code is migrated to the CoreWCF library, an open-source port of WCF for .NET Core.
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Omni Faces 4.0 Changes Minimal Dependency to Java 11, While Removing Deprecated Classes
Five years after its previous major release, OmniFaces 4.0 has been released after a long series of milestones that included a "Jakartified version of 3.14 with a couple of breaking changes" following the release of Jakarta EE 10. Besides the minimum requirements and breaking changes, new utility methods have been added and omnifaces.js is now sourced by Typescript rather than vanilla JavaScript.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 27, Spring Release Candidates, JEPs for JDK 20, Project Reactor
This week's Java roundup for November 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, OpenSSL CVEs, Build 20-loom+20-40, Spring Framework 6.0-RC4, Spring Boot 3.0-RC2, Spring Security 6.0-RC2, Spring Cloud 2021.0.5, WildFly 27, WildFly Bootable JAR 8.1, Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.4, Project Reactor 2022.0, Micrometer Metrics 1.10 and Tracing 1.0, JHipster Lite 0.22.0 and Camel Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.1.
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Kubecost Open Sources OpenCost: an Open Source Standard for Kubernetes Cost Monitoring
Kubecost recently open sourced OpenCost, an open source cost standard for Kubernetes workloads. OpenCost enables teams to operate with a single model for real-time monitoring, measuring, and managing Kubernetes costs across different environments. OpenCost introduces a new specification and an implementation to monitor and manage the costs in Kubernetes environments above 1.8.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
AWS recently introduced Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a new capability from Amazon EventBridge that allows organizations to create, run, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.
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Momento Announces Serverless Cache Service
The startup Momento recently emerged from stealth mode launching a serverless cache. The new service is generally available and offers a highly available cache with an on-demand pricing model based on data transferred in/out.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Now Supports XSLT and .NET Framework Maps
Microsoft recently announced the preview of support of .NET Framework assemblies in XSLT maps in Logic Apps (Standard), adding more extensibility options.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Edge-Native Application Principles
Edge computing is an extension to cloud computing. Companies are interested in bringing their cloud-native infrastructure and applications to the edge. Kate Goldenring and Amar Kapadia spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the progress made by the CNCF IoT Edge working group on principles to consider for edge-native applications.
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Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool
Debezium, an open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC), converts records from existing databases into event streams, enabling applications to detect and respond to database row-level changes. This release of version 2.0 introduces many changes: Java 11 is now required; incremental snapshots are improved [...]