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DataStax Announces Astra Serverless Database-as-a-Service
DataStax , the company behind the Cassandra database, announced last week the general availability of Astra serverless, the open, multi-cloud serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS).
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The Benefits of Nostalgia: Q&A with Linda Rising
Remembering the past can bring about benefits; nostalgic reflection can make us more optimistic. Looking back leads us to feel there is meaning and purpose in our lives which enables us to better navigate the future and help us move forward.
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Unlocking Market Data, Amazon Introduces AWS Data Exchange
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new market data publisher/subscriber service called AWS Data Exchange. This service is an add-on to the existing AWS Marketplace and contains more than 1000 licensable data products from more than 80 data providers. These data feeds include both free and paid offerings that span industries such as financial services, health care, weather and mapping.
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Introducing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
Continuing the effort to decouple Microsoft products from .NET Core itself, Microsoft is spinning off their SQL Server drivers into a separate deployment stream. This new package will be called Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and is intended to be a drop-in replacement for System.Data.SqlClient.
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Paypal's Hera Supports MySQL and Oracle DB Connection Multiplexing, Read-Write Split and Sharding
Paypal's Hera framework supports database connection multiplexing, read-write split, sharding, and automatic SQL eviction capabilities. Petrica Voicu and Kenneth Kang from PayPal's development team spoke at QCon New York's 2019 Conference on Tuesday about the data access gateway. Hera, recently open sourced, is used to scale several PayPal applications.
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Experimental Reactive Relational Database Connectivity Driver, R2DBC, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, R2DBC is an experimental API designed from the ground up for Reactive programming against relational databases. The end goal is try to influence the ADBA specification.
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AppDynamics Launches New European Software-as-a-Service Offering
Application intelligence vendor, AppDynamics, has launched a new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region.
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PayPal's Gimel Analytics Platform Provides Unified Data API and GSQL
Romit Mehta and Deepak Chandramouli from PayPal spoke at the recent QCon.ai Conference about Gimel data analytics platform and how it can be used to commoditize data access. InfoQ spoke with Mehta and Chandramouli about the data platform and its support in the areas of security,
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ORMs for .NET Core
With EF Core struggling to accommodate basic database features such as views and stored procedures, developers are looking elsewhere for their data access needs. Here are some of the more popular options.
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Apache OpenWebBeans Releases Meecrowave Server Version 1.0 for Java EE-Based Microservices
Apache OpenWebBeans recently released version 1.0.0 of their Meecrowave project, a microservices server built on top of existing Apache projects utilizing servlets, CDI, JSON-P and JSON-B, and JAX-RS. Meecrowave may be used for microservices and standalone applications.
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Managing Data in Microservices
Randy Shoup from Stitch Fix team spoke at QCon New York 2017 Conference about managing the data and isolated persistence in Microservices based applications. He also talked about events as a first class construct for microservices.
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Data Preparation Pipelines: Strategy, Options and Tools
Data preparation is an important aspect of data processing and analytics use cases. Business analysts and data scientists spend about 80% of their time gathering and preparing the data rather than analyzing it or developing machine learning models. Kelly Stirman spoke last week at Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference about the data preparation best practices.
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Vulnerability in Java Reflection Library Fixed after 30 Months
In July 2013 Security Explorations discovered a vulnerability in Java by which attackers could elevate their access privileges. Oracle released a patch, but a simple modification was discovered that still makes the attack effective. Once known, Oracle released a patch as part of 8u77. In this article we investigate the little understood class loading process at the heart of the problem.
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Simplifying Database Queries with Jinq
Jinq, a library to provide a DSL for database queries, has been made available for Java and Scala. The work is inspired by .NET's LINQ, and aims at enabling easy-to-write queries with support for type safety. As commented by Ming-Yee Iu, creator of the tool, work on Jinq started in 2006 under project name Queryll; however, the adoption of lambdas in Java 8 is what has realised its full potential.
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LinkedIn Open Sources PalDB, a Read-only Key-value Store
LinkedIn has open sourced PalDB, an embeddable read-only key value store, 8 times faster than LevelDB and taking several times less memory than a hashset.