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Google Cloud Spanner Adds PostgreSQL Interface: Is PostgreSQL Now Standard for Cloud Databases?
At the recent Next '21 conference, Google announced a PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner, the distributed SQL database management and storage service on Google Cloud. The new interface in preview combines the scalability and reliability of Spanner with the familiarity among developers and portability of PostgreSQL.
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Grails 5.0 Updates Underlying Frameworks and Consolidates Features
Grails 5.0 has been released, featuring deprecation of the "dot"-Based Navigation to configuration, default autowire by type in Data Services, the decoupling of Grails Gradle Plugin from the grails-core and the Grails Gradle Publish plugin was removed from the Grails plugin applications. Also, this release includes Apache Groovy 3, Micronaut 3, Gradle 7, Spring Boot 2.5, Spring 5.3 and Spock 2.0.
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AWS Announces the Public Preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
Recently AWS announced the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift. This new feature enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse.
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How Pinterest Scaled up Its Ad-Serving Architecture
On the Pinterest Engineering Blog, Nishant Roy wrote about their strategy to overcome a scaling problem with their ad corpus. Their existing solution had hit its scaling limit, but further growth was necessary. Its redesign offloaded the ad index to a key-value store and optimised garbage collection in their Go applications to increase their ad corpus size by a factor of 60.
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Java News Roundup: Updates on OpenJDK, Spring, Quarkus, Payara, Hibernate, Quarkus and JakartaOne
This week's Java roundup for October 18th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, Oracle’s Releases Critical Patch Update for October 2021, JDK 18, numerous Spring Projects updates, Quakus 2.3.1, Payara Platform, Hibernate Search 6.0.7, GraalVM 21.3, Java for VS Code 1.0 and Apache Camel for VS Code 0.1.0. The program for the JakartaOne Livestream 2021 conference has been finalized.
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Google Is Aiming to Train 40 Million People with Google Cloud Skills Boost
Recently Google announced Google Cloud Skills Boost, a new learning initiative for online learning, skills development, and certifications, managed and delivered directly.
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Google Announces Distributed Cloud
At the recent Next ’21 conference, Google announced Google Distributed Cloud, a set of hardware and software solutions to extend Google infrastructure to the edge and into customer data centers.
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Google Announces the Preview of Anthos for VMs
During the Google Cloud Next'21 virtual event, Google announced the preview of Anthos for Virtual Machines(VMs). Furthermore, the company introduced a new Anthos Multi-Cloud API, which will become generally available in Q4.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Now GA: Alerting, PromQL Support, and More
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container infrastructure and application metrics for containers.
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Microsoft Translator Now Supports over 100 Languages and Dialects
Microsoft Translator is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered text translation service on Azure and part of the cognitive services offering. Recently, the company announced that 12 new languages and dialects have been added to the service, meaning that it can now translate between more than 100 languages and dialects.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless
Cockroach Labs announced today the public beta of CockroachDB Serverless. CockroachDB Serverless delivers a fully elastic cloud data infrastructure that enables building applications with less planning for capacity, performance, or availability. It's based on CockroachDB, a NewSQL database that seeks to combine the scalability of NoSQL systems with ACID guarantees of a traditional database system.
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Domain-Driven Design with Value-Added Services and Domain Gateways at SoundCloud
Two articles were recently published to describe SoundCloud’s service architecture evolution towards implementing Domain Gateways, with a stop at Value-Added Services on the way. The authors describe how these Domain-Driven Design-based patterns helped reduce duplications and homogenise business and authorisation logic.
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Java News Roundup: Grails 5.0, Spring Framework, Hibernate, WildFly and the Kotlin Multik Library
This week's Java roundup for October 11th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, Spring Framework, Grails 5.0, Micronaut 3.1, Helidon 2.3.4, point and GA releases of Hibernate ORM and Reactive, updates related to the recent GA release of WildFly 25, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.6, Apache Camel 3.11.3, Piranha 21.10.0 and JetBrains introducing the Multik multidimensional array library.
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TriggerMesh Cloud Native Integration Platform Released as Open Source
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud native integration platform provider, announced that their Cloud Native Integration Platform is now open source and available under the Apache Software License 2.0. It allows cloud operators and DevOps practitioners to freely deploy integrations as code.
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.NET MAUI Preview 9: Borders, Corners, Shadows and Performance Improvements
This month's release of the .NET MAUI Preview edition introduces the support for borders, corners, and shadows for the controls and layouts. Besides, the focus of Preview 9 was also on finalizing more than fifty controls and layouts. Preview 9 now ships with a .NET MAUI startup tracing profile which will improve the performance of Android applications startup time.