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Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase
Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change.
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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from Amazon S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of Sippy, an incremental data migration service that copies data from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 only the first time the data is requested. Sippy is designed to minimize migration-specific egress fees by leveraging requests within existing application flows while simultaneously copying objects to R2.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Sergey Bykov at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, Sergey Bykov, an SDE at Temporal Technologies, presented on Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal. In his talk, Bykov introduced the concept of Durable Execution with a real-world example of how his company uses it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud, including lessons learned.
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GraalVM Replaces the GraalVM Updater with Language Libraries
The GraalVM team announced that Java libraries will replace the GraalVM Updater (gu) starting with JDK 21. The updater enabled the installation and management of GraalVM language runtimes and utilities. Libraries are available for languages such as JavaScript, Node.js, Python, WebAssembly and Ruby.
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Swift 5.9 Brings a Macro System and C++ Interoperability
In addition to an expressive macro system and a limited form of C++ interoperability, Swift 5.9, now officially available, also introduces parameter packs, ownership-based memory management, and more.
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Visual Studio Code: C# Dev Kit Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently made the C# Dev Kit generally available for everyone. Microsoft introduced the C# Dev Kit extension back in June this year, and it should make coding in C# easier on multiple platforms. As reported it brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows. The kit and the C# extension use open-source technology.
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Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.
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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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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Azul, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco, Devoxx Belgium
This week's Java roundup for October 2nd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Azul Code Inventory, Spring Shell 3.1.4, 3.0.8 and 2.1.13, JNoSQL 1.0.2, Quarkus 3.4.2, Micronaut 4.1.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.2, PrimeFaces 12.0.6, 11.0.12, 10.0.19 and 8.0.24, Maven 3.9.5, Camel 3.20.7, Tomcat Native 1.2.39, Testcontainers 1.19.1, JBang 0.111.0, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco and Devoxx Belgium.
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GitHub Advanced Security Generally Available for Azure DevOps
Microsoft announced the general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, allowing users to integrate code, secret, and dependency scanning into their Azure Repos and benefit from the latest updates.
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Cloudflare Turnstile: CAPTCHA Replacement Now GA and Available for Free
Cloudflare recently announced that Turnstile is now generally available and free for everyone. Designed as an alternative to traditional challenge-response tests, Turnstile is a checkbox designed to preserve user privacy, stop bots, and enhance the user experience.
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Eating One's Own Dogfood: GitHub Using Actions and Runners for GitHub.com
To improve how they ship software in a scalable and effective way, GitHub has adopted GitHub Actions for a part of their continuous integration system. In particular, they leveraged the new Actions larger runners to get to run 15,000 CI jobs across 150,000 cores. In the process they also extended larger runners capabilities for all their users.
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Cloudflare Hyperdrive: Access PostgreSQL Databases Globally
During the recent "Birthday Week 2023", Cloudflare announced the open beta of Hyperdrive, a new service that uses Cloudflare global network to speed up queries to existing databases. The service currently supports PostgreSQL-compatible databases, with support for MySQL expected soon.
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QCon SF 2023: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno by Ryan Dahl
Ryan Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO at Deno and Software Engineer best known for creating Node.js, presented “Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno” at QCon San Francisco 2023. Dahl introduced Deno, an open source next-generation JavaScript runtime, and discussed the benefits of using this framework. Dahl also provided numerous demos on how to build and deploy cloud applications with Deno.
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A Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI, ML, & LLM Workloads at QCon SF
Jules Damji, a lead developer advocate at Anyscale Inc., discussed the difficulties data scientists encounter when managing infrastructure for machine learning models. He emphasized the necessity for a framework that supports the latest machine learning libraries, is easily manageable, and can scale to accommodate large datasets and models. Damji introduced Ray as a potential solution.