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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Modifies Pricing Model for Cloud Deployments
Red Hat has recently announced a revised pricing tied to vCPU count for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployments across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The updated pricing will be effective on April 1st and has sparked concerns among certain users.
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DoorDash Uses CockroachDB to Create Config Management Platform for Microservices
DoorDash created a configuration management platform to help its logistics team maintain the growing number of business preferences and configuration values. The company used CockroachDB for persistence and simplified the architecture compared with the previous solution. The new platform enables experimentation, improves configuration value lifecycle, and provides flexibility and extendibility.
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Apache Pekko: Simplifying Concurrent Development with the Actor Model
Apache Pekko is an open-source framework designed to simplify the development of concurrent, distributed, resilient, and elastic applications. Leveraging the Actor Model, Pekko offers high-level abstractions for concurrency, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than low-level implementation details.
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Enables AI-Driven Conversational Interfaces for Business Applications
Microsoft recently announced the low-code tool Microsoft Copilot Studio at Ignite 2023. Copilot Studio users can both build standalone copilots and customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 — thus using AI-driven conversational capabilities for ad-hoc enterprise use cases.
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Optimizing Java for Modern Hardware: the Continuous Evolution of the Vector API
JEP 460, Vector API (Seventh Incubator), has been delivered for JDK 22, marking the culmination of iterative enhancements from its initial incubation in JDK 16 through to JEP 448 in JDK 21. This latest version, part of Project Panama, introduces significant improvements upon feedback from six previous rounds of incubation.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC1, JBoss EAP 8.0, GlassFish 8.0-M2, LangChain4j 0.27
This week's Java roundup for February 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 22, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0, IBM Semeru Runtimes first quarter 2024 updates, LangChain4j 0.27.0, and multiple point releases for Micronaut, Helidon and Eclipse Vert.x.
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Pinterest Open-Sources a Production-Ready PubSub Java Client for Kafka, Flink, and MemQ
Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half. The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it. Over 90% of Java applications have migrated to PSC with minimal changes.
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InfoQ & QCon Events: Level up on Generative AI, Security, Platform Engineering, and More Upcoming
As we navigate through these transformative times, the upcoming InfoQ events stand as a platform to help you stay ahead, learn valuable insights, and find practical solutions to your development challenges in 2024 and beyond. The events are carefully curated for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders, offering practitioner insights into emerging trends, patterns, and practices.
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Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API for Enhanced Resource Insight Gathering
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API, which makes resource insight gathering more efficient by providing developers with the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call, thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling.
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Instacart Creates Real-Time Item Availability Architecture with ML and Event Processing
Instacart combined machine learning with event-based processing to create an architecture that provides customers with an indication of item availability in near real-time. The new solution helped to improve user satisfaction and retention by reducing order cancellations due to out-of-stock items. The team also created a multi-model experimentation framework to help enhance model quality.
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AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption
AWS announced the general availability (GA) of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK – an open source project), which enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application.
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Microsoft Migrates a Real-Time Service to .NET Core for Performance Gains
Microsoft migrated the real-time co-authoring service in the Microsoft Office suite of applications from .NET Framework 4.7.2 to .NET 7 last year. They achieved 30% CPU reduction, 60% memory reduction, and 50% API latency reduction compared to the original service.
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Uber Improves Resiliency of Microservices with Adaptive Load Shedding
Uber created a new load-shedding library for its microservice platform, serving over 130 million customers and handling aggregated peaks of millions of requests per second (RPSs). The company replaced the solution based on QALM with Cinnamon library, which, in addition to graceful degradation, can dynamically and continuously adjust the capacity of the service and the amount of load shedding.
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Java News Roundup: LibericaJDK with RISC-V, Payara Platform, Gradle 8.6, LangChain4j, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for January 29th, 2024, features news highlighting: LibericaJDK 21 with support for RISC-V, January release of Payara Platform, Gradle 8.6, LangChain4j 0.26, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.10, and multiple releases of Open Liberty and Eclipse Vert.x.