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Google Launches a New Cross-Platform Data Storage Engine BigLake in Preview
At the recent Cloud Data Summit, Google recently announced the preview of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes.
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Java News Roundup: CVE-2022-22968, Vector API, Jakarta EE 10 Update, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0
This week's Java roundup for April 11th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 426, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10 updates, Spring Framework point releases and CVE-2022-22968, Quarkus 2.8.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.4 and 22.0.0.5-beta, Micronaut 3.4.2, WildFly 26.1, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0-M4, Piranha 22.4.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.8.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0, and the Devnexus 2022 Conference.
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AWS Firewall Manager Supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls
AWS recently announced that Firewall Manager supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW). Palo Alto Networks partnered with the cloud provider to offer a managed firewall service designed to simplify securing AWS deployments.
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BBC New Serverless Platform Improves Scalability and Performance
One year into the transition to their new WebCore serverless platform, the BBC has started to reap the benefits of an architecture that removes the burden on engineers to solve performance and operational challenges and allows them to focus on the value they deliver to customers.
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AWS Increases the Availability and Reliability of Amazon EventBridge with Global Endpoints
Recently, AWS introduced a new capability called global endpoints for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge to improve availability and reliability.
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Java News Roundup: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell
This week's Java roundup for April 4th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 425, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+5-429, Jakarta EE Starter utility, Spring milestone and point releases, Payara and JetBrains statements on Spring4Shell, JReleaser 1.0, Helidon 2.5.0, JHipster 7.8.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.4, Kotlin 1.6.20, and JDKMon 17.0.24.
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JReleaser 1.0 Releases Itself
Exactly one year after its initial release, Jreleaser rolls out version 1.0. In the meantime, other projects started using the tool and its capabilities increased. To review how JReleaser evolved over the last year and may be envisioned for the next year, InfoQ spoke to Andres Almiray, author and main contributor of JReleaser.
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AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments
AWS recently announced the general availability of Lambda Function URLs, a feature that lets developers directly configure a HTTPS endpoint and CORS headers for a Lambda function without provisioning other services.
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Java News Roundup: Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, JHipster 7.8.0, Spring CVEs, JReleaser 1.0-RC2
This week's Java roundup for March 28th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, Spring Boot, Spring CVEs, Apache Tomcat point releases, Quarkus Tools for Visual Studio Code, Micronaut 3.4.1, JetBrains joining the Micronaut Foundation, Open Liberty Paketo Liberty Buildpack, Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, WildFly 26.1 Beta S2I images, JReleaser 1.0-RC2, MicroStream 7.0-M2, JHipster 7.8.0, and JMH 1.35.
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Apache NetBeans 13 Delivers Improved Developer Experience
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache NetBeans 13, their integrated development environment (IDE), claiming a simpler and smoother startup experience along with the partial upgrade of Maven, Gradle, and PHP. Written in Java and originally designed for the Java community, NetBeans is a cross-platform, polyglot IDE that includes language support for HTML5, PHP, and C/C++.
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Fauna Transactional Database Introduces Event Streaming
Fauna, the company behind the Fauna transactional database, recently announced the general availability of event streaming, a push-based stream that sends changes at both the document and collection levels to subscribed clients.
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Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft
Lyft used cloud-based isolated environments for several purposes, including end-to-end testing. As the number of microservices increased, tests using these environments became harder to scale and lost value. Recent articles describe how Lyft shifted to testing using request isolation in a shared staging environment and used acceptance tests to gate production deployments.
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Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
Kestra, a new open-source orchestration and scheduling platform, helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines. The concept of a workflow, called Flow in Kestra, is at the heart of the platform. It is a list of tasks defined with a descriptive language based on yaml.
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AWS Lambda Supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage for Data-Intensive Applications
AWS recently announced that Lambda functions now support up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage that is preserved for the lifetime of the execution environment. The feature will help customers that run data workloads such as media processing, machine learning inference or financial analysis.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.