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SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library
When Microsoft Engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releases of Linux distributions like Debian Sid, Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide but was caught before propagating into more highly used stable releases.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content
The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future.
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Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications.
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Gemini Code Assist to Create APIs, Integrations, and Automation Flows in Public Preview
At the Cloud Next Conference, Google unveiled its enterprise-focused AI Code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, which is available in public preview for Apigee API Management and Application Integration.
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QCon London: Spreading Ownership and Delivering Value at Spotify with Backstage Plugins
At QCon London, Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis from Spotify led a session explaining how they have evolved the plugin architecture of Backstage to enable easier extensibility. Going into the background of Backstage's inception, Nilsson explained how Backstage has emerged as a technology being used to change the ways of working for 3000 employees in a meaningful way.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M2, JEPs Targeted for JDK 23, Spring Boot, Hibernate, GlassFish
This week's Java roundup for April 15th, 2024 features news highlighting: the second milestone release of Jakarta EE 11; Stream Gathers (Second Preview) and Vector API (Eighth Incubator) targeted for JDK 23; the first release candidate of Spring Boot 3.3.0; the first alpha release of Hibernate 7.0.0; and the fifth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0.
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JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Requires JDK 17
Marcus Hirt, director of engineering at Datadog, released JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 almost three years after the release of JDK Mission Control 8. The new release requires JDK 17 and contains several bug fixes and new features such as support for Eclipse 4.30.
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Swift Asynchronous Programming Recipes on GitHub
Swift developer Matt Massicotte, formerly at Crashlytics and Apple, has recently launched a GitHub repo collecting a number of useful recipes to make it easier to use Swift concurrency and solve recurrent problems, while being aware of the most common traps you can fall into.
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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites
Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Introduces Event Notifications and Infrequent Access Storage Tier
During the recent Developer Week, Cloudflare announced that the object storage R2 now supports event notifications, which automatically trigger Workers in response to data changes. Additionally, the migration service Super Slurper now extends its support to Google Cloud Storage and a new infrequent access storage tier is available in private beta.
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Android 15 Beta Brings Loudness Control, Improvements for Satellite Connectivity, and More
Google has released Android 15 Beta. This version brings loudness control, screen recording detection, edge-to-edge apps by default, improvements for satellite connectivity and OpenJDK core libraries, new SQLite Apis, and more.
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New Cloud Governance Guidance in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Microsoft recently announced significant updates to the Govern section of its Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, enhancing cloud governance guidance across various domains, including identity, cost management, and AI, to support better organizations, from startups to large enterprises, in their cloud journey.
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Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon
Chronon, Airbnb's platform which creates the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide low-latency streaming.