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OpenSilver 2.0 Adds VB.NET, RIA Services and Live XAML Preview
OpenSilver 2.0, a new version of the replacement for the old Silverlight web application framework, brings support for Visual Basic.NET and RIA Services. It also updates the tooling, featuring a live XAML preview designer in Visual Studio.
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JetBrains Rider 2023.3 EAP 2 is out: Debugger Data Flow Analysis, All-in-One Diff Viewer and More
JetBrains released Rider 2023.3 EAP 2. This Early Access Program for Rider contains such features as Debugger Data Flow Analysis, Quick Search feature and All-In-One Diff Viewer. The JetBrains Rider team also presented the Entity Framework Core user interface plugin and added some new inspections within Dynamic Program Analysis.
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Contentsquare Uses Microservices and Apache Kafka for Notification Delivery
Contentsquare needed notification functionality for many use cases within its platform. The company created a generic solution spanning multiple services as part of its microservice architecture. During the implementation, the developers had to improve observability and overcome some scalability challenges.
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Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
Uber moved most of its containerized microservices from µDeploy to a new multi-cloud platform named Up in preparation for migrating a considerable portion of its compute footprint to the cloud. The company spent two years working on making its many microservices portable so that they can be migrated between different compute infrastructure and container management platforms.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.
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Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable End-to-End Testing for Modern Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests at scale through Azure.
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Google Cloud Ops Agent Can Now Monitor Nvidia GPUs
Google Cloud announced that Ops Agent, the agent for collecting telemetry from Compute Engine instances, can now collect and aggregate metrics from NVIDIA GPUs on VMs.
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AWS Application Composer Now Supports All Cloudformation Resources
AWS announced the availability of all AWS CloudFormation resource types within AWS Application Composer. This builds on the GA release which only allowed 13 CloudFormation resource types to be used.
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Java News Roundup: Foreign Function & Memory API, OpenJDK JEPs, Apache Tomcat CVEs
This week's Java roundup for October 9th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Apache Tomcat CVEs, Devoxx Morocco, and milestone, point and release candidates of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Micronaut; Quarkus; Micrometer Metrics; Micrometer Tracing; Apache Kafka; Apache Camel; Eclipse Vert.x; Project Reactor; JHipster Lite; Piranha; and RefactorFirst.
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PlanetScale's Challenge to Oracle: Forking MySQL and Introducing Vector Search
PlanetScale recently announced the intention to fork MySQL adding vector search. While PostgreSQL has been the default open-source choice for vector search, the company behind the Vitess database wants to release a version of MySQL and PlanetScale with vector support.
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Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase
Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change.
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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from Amazon S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of Sippy, an incremental data migration service that copies data from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 only the first time the data is requested. Sippy is designed to minimize migration-specific egress fees by leveraging requests within existing application flows while simultaneously copying objects to R2.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Sergey Bykov at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, Sergey Bykov, an SDE at Temporal Technologies, presented on Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal. In his talk, Bykov introduced the concept of Durable Execution with a real-world example of how his company uses it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud, including lessons learned.
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Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.
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QCon SF 2023: How Netflix Really Uses Java by Paul Bakker
Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and co-author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application, introduced the GraphQL Federation, and described how Java is used at Netflix that includes plans to support JDK 21.