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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Spring Cloud, GlassFish, Helidon, Open Liberty, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for September 25th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.9, Build 21-jextract+1-2, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M2, Helidon 4.0.0-RC1, Open Liberty 23.0.0.10-beta, Apache Camel 4.0.1 and 3.21.1, JHipster Lite 0.43.0, JDKMon 17.0.77 and 17.0.75, JobRunr 6.3.2, Yupiik Fusion 1.0.8 and Gradle 8.4.0-RC3.
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Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly.
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Amazon EBS Volumes Support Storage Fencing Using NVMe Reservations
AWS recently introduced support for NVMe reservations, a set of industry-standard storage fencing protocols, on io2 and io2 Block Express EBS volumes. Controlling and coordinating access from multiple instances to a shared volume, reservations are used by shared storage applications to ensure data consistency.
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Azure API Center Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure API Center - a part of the Azure API Management platform that serves as a central hub where users can keep track of all their APIs company-wide, making them readily discoverable, reusable, and manageable.
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Azure Database Drops Support for MariaDB
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Database will drop support for MariaDB. Over the coming months, users will no longer be able to create new MariaDB databases through the console or CLI, with a scheduled sunset for existing instances in 2025.
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LF Asia & CNCF Kick off KubeCon+CloudNativeCon+Open Source Summit China 2023
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 kicked off this week in Shanghai. It’s the premier event for developers, technologists, and technology leaders in Asia concerning all things Open Source, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native. The event attracted over 2000 attendees and 20 sponsors and included 150 sessions.
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Confluent Announces Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud in Open Preview
Confluent recently announced the open preview of Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud as a fully-managed service for stream processing. The company claims that the managed service will make it easier for companies to filter, join, and enrich data streams with Flink.
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Linkerd 2.14 Improves Support on Flat Networks and Gateway API Conformance
Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes Gateway API conformance, and many other changes.
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GraalVM for JDK 21 Delivers Performance Enhancements and Improved Developer Experience
Oracle has recently announced the release of GraalVM for JDK 21. GraalVM is a JDK that uses an alternative just-in-time (JIT) compiler but it also includes a Native Image module, a technology that allows Java applications to run as native executables, without the need for a JVM. This can improve the performance of Java applications in terms of speed, memory, and size.
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AWS Expands its Cloud Mac Minis Offering with M2 Pro Mac Instances
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances (mac2-m2pro.metal) as a virtual Mac offering on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
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Allegro Uses Control Theory for Workload Balancing in its Apache Kafka PubSub Platform
Allegro, the largest eCommerce platform in Poland, implemented dynamic workload balancing in Hermes, its open-source publish-subscribe message broker, built on top of Apache Kafka. The new workload balancing algorithm achieves more uniform resource utilization and lower infrastructure costs.
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Microsoft Introduces Public Preview of Socket.IO Support on Azure Web PubSub
Microsoft recently added support for Socket.IO on Azure in public preview, allowing developers to leverage a fully-managed cloud solution through Web PubSub for Socket.IO.
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Azure Update Manager as Successor of Update Management Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Update Manager, known previously as Update Management Center - a SaaS solution to manage and govern software updates to Windows and Linux machines across Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21, GraalVM for JDK 21, Apache Pinot 1.0, Eclipse Epicyro 3.0
This week's Java roundup for September 18th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM, Corretto, Liberica, Epicyro 3.0, Pinot 1.0, and releases for: Spring Boot; Spring Integration; Spring Batch; Spring Cloud Dataflow; Spring Security; Spring GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server; Spring Apache Pulsar; Spring Modulith; Quarkus; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Hibernate; OpenXava; Gradle.