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AWS Introduces Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations
AWS has introduced a new capability for AWS Organizations members, allowing administrators to centrally manage and restrict root-user access across multiple AWS accounts. This update enhances security and governance by providing organizations with greater control over the most privileged access within their cloud environments.
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How Monzo Bank Built a Cost-Effective, Unorthodox Backup System to Ensure Resilient Banking
Monzo Bank recently revealed Stand-in, an independent backup system on GCP that ensures essential banking services remain operational during application and AWS infrastructure outages. Unlike traditional backups, it's a minimal stand-alone system that exclusively supports key operations and features a cost-effective design, resulting in 1% of the operational costs of the primary deployment.
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Java News Roundup: NetBeans 25, Payara Platform, Hibernate Reactive, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for February 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Apache NetBeans 25; the February 2025 release of the Payara Platform; the second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI and AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 17th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP.
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Azure AI Agent Service Now in Public Preview for Developers in AI Foundry SDK and Portal
Introducing the Azure AI Agent Service: a groundbreaking platform that empowers developers to design, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft ecosystem. Automate tasks, access real-time data, and monitor performance, all while benefiting from easy setup and advanced orchestration. Transform your business with AI-driven efficiency and innovation.
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How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work
Software architects and system architects will not be replaced anytime soon by generative artificial intelligence (AI) or large language models (LLMs), Avraham Poupko said. They will be replaced by software architects who know how to leverage generative AI and LLMs, and just as importantly, know how NOT to use generative AI.
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AWS Launches Trust Center: a Centralized Resource for Security and Compliance Information
AWS Trust Center is a comprehensive online resource that enhances cloud security transparency. It details AWS's security practices, compliance protocols, and data protection controls, making it easier for customers to understand and manage their cloud security. This centralized hub provides real-time service status, security bulletins and essential resources, improving client trust & confidence.
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Google Releases Spanner Graph into General Availability
Google Cloud's Spanner Graph is now generally available, featuring enhancements like Graph Notebook, GraphRAG integration, and advanced schema management. This unified database combines graph, relational, and AI capabilities, ensuring high availability and scalability. Ideal for real-time analysis, it transforms use cases like fraud detection and recommendation engines.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24-RC1, JDK Mission Control, Spring, Hibernate, Vert.x, JHipster, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for February 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 24; JDK Mission Control 9.1.0; milestone releases of Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0 and Hibernate 7.0; release candidates of Vert.x 5.0.0 and Gradle 8.13.0; and JHipster 8.9.0.
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Most Companies Experience Weekly Outages: The State of Resilience 2025 Report
According to The State of Resilience 2025 Report, published by Cockroach Labs, outages are commonplace in most organizations, with 55% of companies reporting weekly and 14% reporting daily outages. Staggering 100% of survey participants experienced revenue losses due to outages, with some companies (8%) reporting losses of USD $1 million or higher over the last 12 months.
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ClickHouse Reports 25% Performance Gain after Migrating Cloud Workloads to AWS ARM Instances
ClickHouse recently shared its migration strategy to AWS Graviton over the past six months, reporting a 25% performance improvement for end users. The engineering team outlines the steps taken to establish a performance baseline and transition the managed ClickHouse Cloud service to the new ARM deployment while handling large-scale production workloads.
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JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far
JDK 24, the third non-LTS release since JDK 21, has reached its first release candidate phase with a final set of 24 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, Java Language Specification, Security Library, HotSpot and Java Tools. We examine JDK 24 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 25.
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OpenAI Features New o3-mini Model on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
OpenAI has launched the advanced o3-mini model via Microsoft Azure, enhancing AI applications with improved cost efficiency, faster performance, and adjustable reasoning capabilities. Designed for complex tasks, it supports structured outputs and backward compatibility. With widespread access, the o3-mini empowers developers to drive innovation across various industries.
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Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0-Beta1, JHipster Lite, GlassFish, Spring Cloud Stream Applications
This week's Java roundup for February 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the first beta release of LangChain4j 1.0; versions 1.27.0 and 1.28.0 of JHipster Lite; GlassFish 7.0.22; and versions 2025.0.0 and 2024.0.1 of Spring Cloud Stream Applications.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.