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Cloudflare Releases 2024 API Security and Management Report
Cloudflare recently released its 2024 API Security and Management Report, providing insights, predictions, and recommendations for safeguarding APIs in the new year. The report analyses the growing risk of shadow APIs, the most common API errors, and global API usage across different industries.
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B2B Data Interchange: Managed Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on AWS
AWS recently introduced B2B Data Interchange, a platform allowing organizations to automate and monitor the transformation of EDI-based business transactions. The service provides a low-code interface for managing trading partners and translating EDI documents into JSON and XML formats.
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ReSharper 2023.3: AI Assistant, C# 12 and C++ Support, Entity Framework Specific Analyses and More
ReSharper 2023.3 is already available. This release contains AI Assistant, extending support for C# 12 and C++, Entity Framework-specific analyses, and JetBrains Grazie as the built-in grammar and spelling checker.
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Real-Time Data Streaming Capabilities with AppSync Integration in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus
AWS recently announced that Amazon EventBridge Event Bus supports AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target, enabling developers to stream real-time updates such as sports scores from their applications to frontend applications, including mobile and desktop.
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Rider 2023.3: AI Asistant, .NET 8 Support, C# 12 and F# 8 Features, Debugging Improvements and More
JetBrains has released Rider 2023.3, the latest version of their cross-platform .NET IDE. This release contains an AI Assistant, support for .NET 8 SDK and an extended list of C# 12 and F# 8 features. There are also improvements regarding debugging, running multiple projects, UI/UX and Unity.
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Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
Slack migrated most of the critical user-facing services from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation. The new architecture allows incrementally draining all the traffic away from the affected availability zone within 5 minutes.
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Amazon ECS Integration with Amazon EBS for Data Processing Workloads and Flexible Storage
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which makes it easier for users to run a broader range of data processing workloads.
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Fluid Framework 2.0 Beta: SharedTree Distributed Data Structure and SharePoint Embedded
Microsoft announced, that Fluid Framework 2.0 has entered its Beta phase. The beta introduces the SharedTree Distributed Data Structure (DDS) for an intuitive programming interface supporting various data types, along with support for SharePoint Embedded, enabling developers to retain collaborative data within a Microsoft 365 tenant.
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Netflix Creates Incremental Processing Solution Using Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform. The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets. The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities.
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Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
This week's Java roundup for January 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods; the Payara Platform 2024 roadmap; and a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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Google Eliminates Exit Fees and Advocates against Restrictive Cloud Licensing
Google recently announced that it will eliminate exit fees for customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises.
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DoorDash Develops New Sessionization Platform with Flink to Improve Notification Delivery Timeliness
DoorDash has significantly enhanced its user engagement by leveraging Apache Flink for real-time session detection and notification delivery. This move marks a substantial advancement in user interaction and cart conversion rates.
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Amazon OpenSearch Zero ETL with S3 and New OR1 Instances
Amazon has announced the preview of the Amazon OpenSearch Service's zero-extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) integration with Amazon S3, offering a novel method to analyze operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without the need to switch between services. Amazon also announced the new OR1 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
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Arc-Enabled Servers Run Command Public Preview Feature: Remote Management for Various Environments
Microsoft has recently announced a significant preview feature related to Arc-enabled servers, introducing the Run Command. This feature allows customers to manage Azure Arc-enabled servers remotely and securely.
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lastminute.com Improves Search Scalability Using Microservices with RabbitMQ and Redis
The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration. Developers used RabbitMQ for messaging and Redis for storing results from data suppliers. The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization.