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Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0
Gleam, an actor-based highly-concurrent functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), has reached version 1.0, which means it is now ready to be used in production systems with a guarantee of backward compatibility based on semantic versioning.
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Swift 5.10 Brings Full Data Isolation Compile-Time Safety to Concurrent Code
The latest Swift release, Swift 5.10, includes just a few new proposals that nevertheless represent an important achievement for the language concurrency model, which is now able to ensure full data isolation at the compiler level, explains Swift team engineer Holly Borla.
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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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Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient
The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023. This latest release is packed with features, the most noteworthy of which is the support for Virtual Threads and Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Other features include SSL Bundle reloading, Rest Client and JDBC Client interface support, observability improvements, and many others.
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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.
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Micronaut 4.0.0 Brings Java Virtual Threads, GraalVM Support and Experimental HTTP/3 Features
The Micronaut Foundation has recently announced the general availability (GA) release of Micronaut Framework 4.0.0. This major release brings a plethora of updates and improvements to the popular JVM-based framework, enhancing its performance, modularity, and compatibility with other technologies.
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QCon New York 2023: Day One Recap
Day One of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 13th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Radia Perlman and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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Structured Concurrency in JDK 21: A Leap Forward in Concurrent Programming
JEP 453, Structured Concurrency (Preview), has been Integrated from the Targeted status for JDK 21. Formerly an incubating API, this initial preview incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous two rounds of incubation: JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; and JEP 437, Structured Concurrency (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 20.
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JEP 444: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
JEP 444, Virtual Threads, was promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target status for JDK 21. This feature offers a lightweight threading model to simplify the creation, management, and monitoring of high-throughput concurrent Java applications, allowing developers to efficiently handle millions of tasks and make better use of system resources.
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Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama
Oracle has released version 20 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven (7) JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with new rounds of preview and incubation.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Concurrency for SQS as Event Source
AWS Lambda now provides a way to control the maximum number of concurrent functions invoked by Amazon SQS as an event source. Setting the Maximum Concurrency, developers can determine the concurrency of the functions processing messages in individual SQS queues, simplifying the scalability of serverless applications.
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HC-tree is a High-Concurrency Backend for SQLite Supporting Replication
HC-tree is a project aimed at building a new backend for SQLite specifically optimized for high-concurrency and lead-follower style replication. While still experimental, HC-tree can be used as an SQLite drop-in replacement, albeit with limitations.
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OCaml 5 Brings Support for Concurrency and Shared Memory Parallelism
Several years in the making, OCaml 5 introduces runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers, which are the basis for exception handling, concurrency, async I/O, and more.
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Java 19 Delivers Features for Projects Loom, Panama and Amber
Oracle has released version 19 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with a new feature that ports the JDK to the Linux/RISC-V instruction set.
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Swift 5.7 Brings New Generics Implementation and Reference Counting Improvements
Announced at WWDC 2022, Swift 5.7 is now officially available. It includes major improvements to the compiler internals, and many syntax and standard library additions, including String regex, concurrency updates, and more.