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First Amazon EC2 Instances with Graviton3E Processors Now GA
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7gn and the Hpc7g instances, both using the new Graviton3E processors. The C7gn instances are designed for network-intensive workloads while the Hpc7g instances are tailored for high-performance computing ones.
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Azure Brings Vertical Scaling, Monitor Alerts and More for Apache Cassandra Managed Instance
Microsoft has recently released some new features for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, such as upgrading the Apache Cassandra version to 4.0 GA, Azure Monitor alerts and insights, deallocating cluster resources to improve costs, vertical scaling and more.
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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 6: Blazor Updates and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 6 brings significant additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the debugging experience, testing metrics, API authoring, servers, middleware and many more.
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AWS Introduces New Clickstream Analytics on AWS Solution for Mobile and Web Applications
AWS recently announced a new service called Clickstream Analytics on AWS, an end-to-end solution to collect, ingest, analyze, and visualize clickstream data inside organizations’ web and mobile applications.
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New AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB in Preview
Recently AWS announced the preview release of the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB. This library enables Amazon DynamoDB to be used as the storage for ASP.NET Core’s distributed cache framework.
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New Migration Capabilities in Application Migration Service: Global View, Import/Export and More
AWS recently announced three significant updates with Global View, Import and Export from local disk, and additional post-launch actions in the Application Migration Service (MGN) to enhance migration capabilities.
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Vaadin 24.1.0: Enhancing Web Application Development with New Features and Optimizations
Vaadin, the open-source platform for building business-oriented single-page web applications, has announced the release of Vaadin 24.1.0. This latest version brings a host of new features and improvements, further enhancing the platform's capabilities and providing developers with more tools to create robust, high-performing web applications.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Modern Cryptography in OpenJDK: Introduction of Key Encapsulation Mechanisms API
JEP 452, Key Encapsulation Mechanism API, has been marked as completed for JDK 21. This JEP introduces a modern encryption technique for securing symmetric keys using public key cryptography. The API supports various KEM algorithms, including RSA-KEM, ECIES, and those under NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization.
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AWS Introduces Remote Invoke Feature in AWS SAM CLI, Enabling Seamless Testing of Lambda Functions
AWS recently announced the launch of the remote invoke feature in AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) for AWS Lambda, allowing developers to quickly invoke their AWS Lambda functions deployed to the AWS cloud.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Quarkus LTS, Micronaut, Foojay Board, DevBCN, JCrete
This week's Java roundup for July 3rd, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Jakarta EE 11 updates, Micronaut 4.0.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.2.0 and 2.16.8, Helidon 3.2.2, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate Search 6.2.0, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.2, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev02, JDKMon 17.0.69, JBang 0.109.0, Kotlin 1.9.0, Foojay.io updates, and DevBCN and JCrete conferences.
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Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases.
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Enhanced Testcontainers and Development-Time Containers Support in Spring Boot 3.1
Spring Boot 3.1, the latest version of the popular Java-based framework for building stand-alone, production-grade applications, introduces enhanced support for development-time containers. This new feature was the focus of a recent livestream by Josh Long, a Spring developer advocate, on his YouTube channel "Coffee + Software with Josh Long."
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.
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Java Enhances Z Garbage Collector with Generational Capabilities
JEP 439, Generational ZGC, has been promoted from Targeted to Completed for JDK 21. This JEP proposes to improve application performance by extending the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) to maintain separate generations for young and old objects. This will allow ZGC to collect young objects, which tend to die young, more frequently.