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Facebook Superpack Leverages Code Analysis for Android App Compression
In a recent article, Facebook has described its novel technique for Android app compression, Superpack, which combines compiler analysis with data compression. While not yet available for everyone, Facebook is hoping to open source it.
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.NET MAUI: Preview 8 Available, But GA Postponed to Q2 2022
Microsoft postponed the release of .NET MAUI. Release and global availability of .NET MAUI were targeted together with .NET 6 for November 2021. According to the latest news from Microsoft, .NET MAUI will not be ready for production with .NET 6 global availability in November this year. The new planned date is set for Q2 of 2022.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Video Transcoding
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances, the first instances optimized for video transcoding. The new virtual machines feature hardware acceleration and are designed for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding.
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Rookout Launches Live Logger to Dynamically Modify Log Verbosity
Rookout, creators of Live Debugger, have launched Live Logger with the goal of making the wealth of information hidden in production logs more accessible. They intend to achieve that by dynamically switching the logging levels, log pipelining, log throughput tracking, text and context based filtering.
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MicroStream 5.0 is Now Open Source
MicroStream has reached version 5.0 and it is now published as open source. MicroStream is a persistence engine for storing any kind of Java object. It is similar to Java built-in serialization, but much more powerful. Markus Kett, CEO and co-founder of MicroStream, spoke to InfoQ about MicroStream.
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Microsoft Releases Zone-Redundant Storage for Azure Disk Storage into General Availability
Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced the preview of the zone-redundant storage (ZRS) option for Azure managed disks to further improve the reliability of their infrastructure, and now it is released into general availability (GA).
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Azure Firewall Introduces New Security Features
Microsoft recently announced new features for Azure Firewall, the managed network security service to protect Azure Virtual Network resources.
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Asserting JDK Flight Recorder Events with JfrUnit
JfrUnit may be used to verify whether or not events occurred that impact the performance of the application such as garbage collection and memory allocation. JfrUnit makes it possible to assert events emitted from the application such as memory allocation, IO, or database queries. Custom events may be created with the JMC agent for libraries that don’t emit events themselves.
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Build Your Software Roadmap with QCon Plus; Kristen O’Leary Shares Top Topics
During a recent interview, Kristen O'Leary, senior developer relations engineer at Google and QCon Plus November 2021 Committee Member, shared with us the tracks she is most looking forward to at the event this November 1-12.
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AWS Releases Amazon EKS Anywhere into General Availability
Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, with optional support offered by AWS. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EKS Anywhere.
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Travis CI Vulnerability Potentially Leaked Customer Secrets
Popular continuous integration and delivery service Travis CI disclosed a vulnerability that potentially leaked secure environment variables, including signing keys, access credentials, and API tokens. The flaw was quickly fixed on September 10, but the developer community found Travis CI handling of this issue insufficient.
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Parcel 2: Rust-Based 10x Faster JavaScript Compiler, Modular Configuration, Differential Bundling
The team behind the zero-config bundler Parcel recently announced the first Parcel 2 release candidate. Parcel 2 is a ground up rewrite of Parcel that has been two years in the making. Parcel’s new JavaScript compiler is written in Rust and boasts 10x build performance improvement. Parcel 2 is fully extensible, supports automatic differential bundling, and much more.
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AWS Renames Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service
Recently AWS announced that it would rename Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service. With the renaming, the company releases the service with OpenSearch 1.0 support and makes it the successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
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Java 17, the Next Long-Term Support Release, is Now Available
Oracle has released version 17 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first long-term support release since JDK 11 in 2018, the final feature set includes 14 JEPs. Two of these, JEP 403 and JEP 411, generated some concerns within the Java community.
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API Design-First Using the "Align-Define-Design-Refine" Process
The API consultant James Higginbotham wrote recently about the advantages of adopting an API design-first approach using the “Align-Define-Design-Refine” (ADDR) process. ADDR is an iterative process meant to guide its adopters through such API design-first techniques. Designing an API iteratively while ensuring that all stakeholders are actively involved is essential to agility in development.
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