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Amazon Launches AWS Secrets Manager to Securely Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials
Amazon announced the launch of the AWS Secrets Manager, which makes it easy for customers to store and retrieve secrets using an API or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Furthermore, customers can rotate their credentials with built-in or custom Lambda functions. The AWS Secrets Manager enables users to centralize the management of secrets of distributed services and applications.
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TSDoc: A TypeScript Source Code Documentation Format
TSDoc proposes a new format for documenting TypeScript source code. Existing TypeScript API documentation parsers accept a syntax based on JSDoc, but the extensions to JSDoc are inconsistent across implementations.
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Proposed Schedule for JDK 11
Mark Reinhold, chief architect at Oracle, recently proposed the schedule for the JDK 11 GA release in September 2018. One of the new features, JEP-320, removes Java EE and CORBA modules that may potentially break existing applications.
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PayPal's Gimel Analytics Platform Provides Unified Data API and GSQL
Romit Mehta and Deepak Chandramouli from PayPal spoke at the recent QCon.ai Conference about Gimel data analytics platform and how it can be used to commoditize data access. InfoQ spoke with Mehta and Chandramouli about the data platform and its support in the areas of security,
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Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Released with Focus on Performance, Flexibility and Consistency
Pivotal has announced the General Availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream 2.0. This release includes a complete revamp of content-type negotiation functionality (allowing user-defined message converters), polling consumers, micrometer metrics support, enhanced Apache Kafka Streams support, and more.
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Jakarta EE Working Group Established
Future versions of the Java EE technology will be branded as Jakarta EE, and it’s currently under active development at the Eclipse Foundation. When Java EE was under Oracle’s stewardship, it used the JCP to make decisions and introduce new features. Since there’s no JCP for Java EE at Eclipse, a new process had to be established. That process is now called the Jakarta EE Working Group.
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Amazon S3 Receives New Updates: New Storage Class and General Availability of S3 Select
Amazon S3 recently received new updates to its service: a new storage class S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (Z-IA) Storage Class and S3 Select capability, now generally available for customers. With S3 Select, customers can get a subset of data faster, while the new storage One Zone IA class is a low-cost option for retrieving infrequent data.
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D3 Announces 5.0 Release of SVG, Canvas, and HTML Library for Manipulating Data
The D3 team has announced their 5.0 release, which embraces several newer asynchronous patterns such as promises and fetch, and updates key visualization APIs.
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Java EE Guardians Moving Forward with Jakarta EE
Shortly after Java EE was rebranded to Jakarta EE, well-known Java EE evangelist Reza Rahman recently closed the change.org petition to declare victory in the original petition filed by the Java EE Guardians almost two years ago, in which they encouraged Oracle to move forward with Java EE 8. Rahman spoke to InfoQ about the future of the Java EE Guardians and Jakarta EE.
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Datical Adds Continuous Delivery Capabilities for the Database
Database release automation provider, Datical, has announced a new version, Datical 5, which provides a central command centre with enhanced database release visibility that allows developers to manage and rework database code changes as they would application code changes without having to go through a manual process. Security for database credentials and auditability has also been enhanced.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Availability Zones in Select Regions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Availability Zones to deliver a high availability option for their customer’s mission-critical applications and data. Last year during Ignite, an annual conference for developers and IT professionals, Microsoft introduced Azure Availability Zones.
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Google’s New Cloud Security Tools Increase DDOS Protection, Transparency and Usability
Recently, Google introduced several new cloud-focused security enhancements for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These enhancements include new services like Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC), Google Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, and a few new features for G Suite administrators. Furthermore, these enhancements are a part of Google’s investment in their cloud platform.
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Hyperledger Adds "Caliper" to Measure Blockchain Performance across Implementations
On March 19th, Hyperledger announced Caliper has been accepted by the Technical Steering Committee as a Hyperledger project. Hyperledger Caliper is a blockchain benchmark tool that allows projects to consistently track performance characteristics across different blockchain implementations.
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TypeScript 2.8 Release Includes Conditional Types
TypeScript 2.8 has been released with several major features and bug fixes. The most significant addition is conditional types, a new construct that allows engineers to choose types based on other types.
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QCon New York 2018 (June 25-29th) Tracks Announced & Registrations Off to a Fast Start
The 7th annual QCon New York (June 27-29), a practitioner-driven conference designed for software architects/tech leads/leaders who influence innovation in their teams, has opened registration. With savings of $620 if you register before April 7th, there won't be a better time to reserve your spot for the 2018 professional software development conference.