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Observability and Microservices: The Need for Effective Tracing and Metrics
Zach Jory has written an article discussing how microservices and service mesh implementations need observability to ensure that developers can build cloud-native applications which scale and can be more easily managed. This ties into a number of articles and interviews we have spoken about over recent months too.
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GDPR Changes Highlight the Impact of User Tracking
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25th, 2018, with the most obvious impact being a flurry of emails notifying users of changes in privacy policies. As websites determined how to comply with the wide-reaching data privacy regulation, developers quickly observed significant benefits in page load performance.
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AppDynamics Launches New European Software-as-a-Service Offering
Application intelligence vendor, AppDynamics, has launched a new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region.
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An Early Look at .NET 4.8
While most of the attention is on .NET Core, work continues on the classic .NET Framework. An “early access” preview of .NET 4.8 shows the areas that Microsoft is most concerned about including high DIP, accessibility, and concurrency.
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Microsoft Announces Support for CloudEvents through Its Azure Event Grid Service
Microsoft announced it would provide support for CloudEvents, a new open specification, and standard for consistently describing event data. This open standard was created by the Serverless Working Group of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF), who partners with many cloud services and cloud providers.
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How Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari Works
The latest release of Apple’s web browser, Safari 12, will provide “Intelligent Tracking Prevention” (ITP) 2.0, which aims to reduce the ability of third-parties to track web users via cookies and other methods.
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Oracle Proposes Deprecating Java's JavaScript Engine Nashorn
Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid pace at which ECMAScript language constructs have changed, Oracle found the Nashorn JavaScript Engine challenging to maintain.
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AWS Releases Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
In 2017 at re:Invent, AWS previewed a Kubernetes-based container service. Now six months later, the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is generally available. It joins a crowded space of managed Kubernetes cloud services, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
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Privacy and Security a Top Priority in macOS Mojave and Safari 12
At their annual Developer Conference WWDC Apple previewed macOS Mojave, the latest version of the company’s desktop operating system, and Safari 12, the updated web browser. Apple has stated that enhanced privacy and security are a top priority with these releases.
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Building Observable Distributed Systems
Today's systems are more and more complex; microservices distributed over the network and scaling dynamically, resulting in many more ways of failure, ways we can't always predict. Investing in observability gives us the ability to ask questions to systems, things we never thought about before. Some of the tools that can be used for this are metrics, tracing, structured and correlated logging.
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MIT Researchers Test Oracles and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Lightning Network
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed the results of their tests running smart contracts on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Running smart contracts on the Bitcoin network isn’t necessarily new, however, the approach of using trusted entities called oracles with smart contracts is what makes their approach unique on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Amazon Neptune, a New Cloud Graph Database, Is Now Generally Available
A new cloud graph database, Amazon Neptune, is publically available after its limited preview launch last year. With Amazon Neptune, customers can manage their bits of data in a graph model – a semantic structure in nodes, edges, and properties.
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Microsoft Announces JavaScript Support for Excel Custom Functions
Microsoft recently announced a developer preview release supporting JavaScript to create custom functions directly in Excel. This addition moves beyond the existing Microsoft Office JavaScript API, which is limited to building add-ins or web applications that interact with the object models in Office host applications.
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Zip Slip Directory Traversal Vulnerability Impacts Multiple Java Projects
Security monitoring company Snyk has disclosed Zip Slip, an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability exploited using a specially crafted ZIP archive that holds path traversal filenames. The vulnerability affects thousands of projects including AWS CodePipeline, Spring Integration, LinkedIn's Pinot, Apache/Twitter Heron, Alibaba JStorm, Jenkins, Gradle, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Q&A with Martijn Verburg on AdoptOpenJDK and Nestmates
InfoQ recently sat down again with Martijn Verburg, leader of the London Java Community, co-founder of AdoptOpenJDK and CEO of jClarity, and discussed the overall aim of the AdoptOpenJDK build farm, his thoughts on Nestmates and Java 11, 2018 plans for AdoptOpenJDK, and how developers can get involved.