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Struts Flaw behind Equifax Breach Disclosed and Patched in March
Reports have appeared in the press and online that the hackers who breached the Equifax credit report company systems exploited a security flaw in the Apache Struts framework. The Apache Software foundation, who act as custodians of the framework, have released a statement responding to the claims.
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Java Community Process Reacts to Release Cycle Announcement
The overall reaction of the Java Community Process to Oracle's Java release cycle announcement seems to be relatively positive. Some leading members provide their view of the announcement.
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NGINX Releases Microservices Platform, OpenShift Ingress Controller, and Service Mesh Preview
NGINX Inc has released the NGINX Application Platform which aims to be a “one stop shop” for microservice developers; a Kubernetes Ingress Controller solution for load balancing on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform; and an implementation of NGINX as a service proxy for the Istio service mesh control plane.
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Migrating GitHub's Web and API to Kubernetes Running on Bare Metal
Over the last year GitHub has evolved their internal infrastructure that runs the Ruby on Rails application responsible for github.com and api.github.com to run on Kubernetes. The migration began with web and API applications running on Unicorn processes, and ended with all web and API requests being served by containers running in Kubernetes clusters deployed onto the metal cloud.
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NERSC Scales Scientific Deep Learning to 15 Petaflops
Intel, Stanford and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) recently announced the first super computing cluster achieving 15 Petaflops of computing calculations power. This was achieved by a cluster of 9,622 Intel Xeon Phi processors at 1.4Ghz for a combined 2,629,696 threads of computation. In this article we will explore the hybrid approach behind achieving strong scaling.
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The Ceylon Language Is Now Eclipse Ceylon
The Ceylon Language, the JVM and JavaScript language created by Red Hat, joined the Eclipse Foundation to become Eclipse Ceylon on 21st August. The rationale behind this move is to distance the project from the Red Hat brand and ensure an image of vendor-neutrality, in the hope to attract more collaborators to it.
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Node.js Forks over TSC Disagreements
The Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and Board have weighed in on the results of a vote to remove a member from the TSC based on a pattern of behavior. This has resulted in several resignations from the TSC, a plethora of commentary, and new recommendations by the Board of Directors.
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Java EE Security API (JSR-375) Approved
The Java EE Security API, JSR 375, was approved in early August. All members of the JCP Executive Committee voted “Yes”, with zero “No” votes. Intel Corp. did not vote on the JSR.
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Java to Move to 6-Monthly Release Cadence
Oracle is proposing that Java switch to a 6-month cadence for releases, rather than the current two-year model. They are also announcing a move to make OpenJDK the primary JDK for developers and make OracleJDK a support-only offering.
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Event Architectures and Event Streaming
When moving from a monolithic system to a distributed or microservices system, you commonly also move from a single source of truth in one database to many databases and thus many sources of truth. Using an event architecture and persisting all events as a stream can give back the single source of truth, Ben Stopford claims in one of a series of blog posts about events, event streams and Kafka.
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QCon New York 2017: Migrating Speedment to Java 9
Dan Lawesson, CSO at Speedment, presented “Migrating Speedment to Java 9” at this year’s QCon New York. Lawesson spoke to InfoQ about Speedment and how they are addressing the challenges of migrating Speedment to Java 9.
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Spring Boot 2.0 Will Feature Improved Actuator Endpoints
The upcoming release of Spring Boot 2.0.0 M4 will feature an improved actuator endpoint infrastructure featuring new mapping, easier creation of user-defined endpoints, and improved security. Stéphane Nicoll, principal software engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about these actuator endpoints.
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Initial Metropolis Ethereum Hardfork Expected in September
The Ethereum Foundation released additional details about the upcoming update to the Ethereum network called Metropolis. The Metropolis hard fork is set to be divided into two core releases: Byzantium and Constantinople. Byzantium will be the first of the two releases, and is targeting a late September release and includes updates on transaction anonymity and predictable gas charges.
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Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance Released
Four application architecture guides are available from Microsoft's Developer Division and the Visual Studio product teams. This guidance covers four areas: Microservices, Docker, Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Azure, and Enterprise Applications Using Xamarin Forms. Each guidance is contained in an eBook. There are two end-to-end reference applications that the guides use as examples.
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Apache OpenWebBeans Releases Meecrowave Server Version 1.0 for Java EE-Based Microservices
Apache OpenWebBeans recently released version 1.0.0 of their Meecrowave project, a microservices server built on top of existing Apache projects utilizing servlets, CDI, JSON-P and JSON-B, and JAX-RS. Meecrowave may be used for microservices and standalone applications.