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Payara Foundation Releases Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5
The Payara Foundation recently released version 5 of Payara Server and Payara Micro with a host of new features and upgrades including a fresh new admin console, improvements with clustering, a new database, and support for Java EE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. Michael Croft, Java middleware consultant at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Community OpenJDK Build Farm Goes Live
The AdoptOpenJDK project has recently announced that its build farm is now fully operational and it is producing community binaries as free software.
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Ember 3.0 and beyond, with Co-Creator Tom Dale
Tom Dale, co-creator of Ember and senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, recently talked with InfoQ about the recent Ember 3.0 release, the direction of the Ember project, alignment with modern web standards, and Ember’s initial experiments with Rust and Web Assembly.
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The Future of Microservices as the IT World Changes: Uwe Friedrichsen at microXchg Berlin
You have finally mastered Microservices, including Docker and Kubernetes, and some other new cool trends. But are you prepared for the future, Uwe Friedrichsen asked in his presentation at microXchg 2018 in Berlin where he explored the future of IT and the consequences for microservices.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Both these open-source database engines are now brought in their community version as a managed service, with 99.99% SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry-leading security and compliance to Azure.
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Chile’s Energy Regulator to Adopt Blockchain
PV magazine, a publication focused on reporting photovoltaics (solar power generation), has announced the Chile Energy Regulator is set to adopt blockchain in March 2018. The regulator plans to use blockchain technology to transparently record market prices, marginal costs, fuel prices and compliance documentation.
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Designing Reactive Systems Using DDD, Event Storming and Actors
Domain-driven design (DDD) is often used for finding boundaries (bounded contexts) around microservices. But everything in domain-driven design (DDD) is not good for microservice, Lutz Huehnken claimed in a presentation at microxchg 2018 in Berlin where he discussed how DDD, Event Storming and the Akka-based Lagom framework can be used to build reactive systems.
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The Maturity of Microservices: MicroXchg Berlin Panel Discussion
In the microservices panel at microXchg 2018 in Berlin, Susanne Kaiser, together with the panel, consisting of Stefan Tilkov, Chris Richardson, Elisabeth Engel and Daniel Bryant, discussed the state of microservices as of today and whether the hype is over — is microservices now a mature technique or is serverless the next step?
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Stefan Tilkov at microXchg Berlin: Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns
In his presentation at microXchg 2018 in Berlin, Stefan Tilkov explored patterns and antipatterns in microservice projects from his perspective, including Evolutionary Architecture, Decoupling Illusion, Distributed Monolith and Entity Service. He especially noted that some of the patterns he considers to be patterns, other people may see as antipatterns, and the other way around.
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Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Delivery System
On March 1st, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a patent application by Walmart that describes a “Smart Package” system built upon blockchain technology to aid in the tracking of packages between sellers, couriers and buyers. The patent also has references to autonomous vehicle systems and IoT sensors.
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Kubernetes Founder Craig McLuckie on Going Multi-Cloud and Open Source
InfoQ caught up with Craig McLuckie, one of the original founders of the Kubernetes project and CEO of Heptio.
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#smooshgate and the Challenges of Web Compatibility
The broader JavaScript community responded vocally when Michael Ficarra, the author of the Array.prototype.flatten TC39 proposal, jokingly suggested renaming flatten as smoosh in response to a bug report that the new feature breaks old websites in nightly versions of Firefox.
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Java 10 Released
Oracle has released a new version of Java - Java 10. This comes just six months after the release of Java 9 and is another feature release, with a lifespan of only six months. The next release with long-term support is Java 11, to be released in September.
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Fighting Financial Fraud with Machine Learning at Airbnb
Airbnb, the online marketplace that matches people who rent out their homes with people who are looking for a place to stay, uses machine learning (ML) techniques to fight financial fraud. They use targeted friction to battle the chargebacks while minimizing impact to good guests using their online reservation system.
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GitHub Licensed Aims to Make it Easier to Comply with OSS Licenses
GitHub Licensed is an open-source tool that aims to simplify the chore of ensuring license soundness and documentation for all dependencies of a GitHub project.