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Java News Roundup: NetBeans 14, End-of-Life for Spring Tool Suite 3, Hibernate 6.1, TornadoVM
This week's Java roundup for June 13th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Framework 5.3.21, Spring CVE-2022-22979 report, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M3, Spring Tools 4.15, end-of-life for Spring Tool Suite 3, Hibernate 6.1.0-Final, Apache NetBeans 14, Apache Tomcat 8.5.81, Piranha 22.6.0, TornadoVM 0.14, JDKMon updates, JobRunr 5.1.4, JReleaser early-access.
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Fitting Presto to Large-Scale Apache Kafka at Uber
The need for ad-hoc real-time data analysis has been growing at Uber. They run a large Apache Kafka deployment and need to analyse data going through the many workflows it supports. Solutions like stream processing and OLAP datastores were deemed unsuitable. An article was published recently detailing why Uber chose Presto for this purpose and what it had to do to make it performant at scale.
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Microsoft Launches New Storage Optimized VMs with Lasv3 and Lsv3
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of new storage-optimized Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs are the Lasv3 and Lsv3 series designed to run workloads requiring high throughput and IOPS, including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and data analytics engines.
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Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report: AMD Outperforms Intel
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report which evaluates the performance of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for common OLTP workloads. Differently from the past, this year’s report does not indicate a best overall provider, but concludes that AMD instances outperform Intel ones. ARM instances were not covered in the tests.
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MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances and Data API Now Generally Available
At the recent MongoDB World 2022 conference, MongoDB announced that serverless instances for Atlas and Data API are now generally available. The new managed serverless option introduces a tiered pricing, with automatic discounts on daily usage.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of Dynatrace for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced Dynatrace for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution from Dynatrace available in preview in the Azure Marketplace.
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Microsoft Introduces a New Learning Resource with Azure Skills Navigator
Recently Microsoft introduced a new learning resource with Azure Skills Navigator designed for those who are new to Azure or would like to learn more. It is a guide intended to help readers develop a strong foundation on cloud technologies when exploring Azure.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 in Rampdown, JDK 20 Expert Group, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0
This week's Java roundup for June 6th, 2022, features news from JDK 19 in Rampdown Phase One, the formation of the JDK 20 expert group, Spring Shell 2.1.0-M5, Open Liberty 22.0.0.6 and 22.0.0.7-beta, Quarkus 2.10.0.CR1, Apache Groovy 4.0.3, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0, Helidon 2.5.1, and the JNation conference.
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AWS Introduces IP-Based Routing on Route 53
AWS recently announced support for IP-based routing on Amazon Route 53. The new option of the DNS service allows customers to route resources of a domain based on the client subnet to optimize network transit costs and performance.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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A New Microsoft Platform in Town: the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
Recently Microsoft introduced a new platform called the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform that fully integrates their database, analytics, and governance offerings. The new platform encompasses everything already available in the Azure Data space (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer, etc.) to the Synapse Analytics products, Power BI, and the newly rebranded Purview data governance service.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Generally Available as a Serverless Offering
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Serverless is generally available (GA). The offering is a serverless deployment option for customers to run big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
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AWS Publishes Guide to Architecture Decision Records
Amazon Web Services has published a guide for using architecture decision records (ADRs). They recommend a process to adopt and review ADRs in software engineering teams. The process results in a collection of approved, rejected, or superseded ADRs in a decision log.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 428, MicroStream Joins Micronaut Foundation, Spring and Apache Groovy Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 30th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Spring Shell 2.1.0-M4, Spring Native 0.12.0, Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.2, end-of-life for Spring Security OAuth, Micronaut 3.5.1, Quarkus 2.7.6.Final, Apache Groovy versions 3.0.11 and 2.5.17, JobRunr 5.1.3 and MicroStream joins the Micronaut Foundation.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of NGINX for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced NGINX for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution with advanced traffic management and monitoring. The service is available in preview on the Azure Marketplace.