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Obituary: Stefan Tilkov
With great sadness, we announce that former InfoQ editor and CEO/co-founder of INNOQ Stefan Tilkov has unexpectedly passed away. Tilkov was a regular presenter on the global software development conference circuit, a well-known technical writer, and a mentor to many.
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Pinterest Revamps Its Asynchronous Computing Platform with Kubernetes and Apache Helix
Pinterest created the next-generation asynchronous computing platform, Pacer, to replace the older solution, Pinlater, which the company outgrew, resulting in scalability and reliability challenges. The new architecture leverages Kubernetes for scheduling job-execution workers and Apache Helix for cluster management.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 with .NET and C++ Development Features, Performance Improvements, and More
Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback. There are new features within .NET and C++ development as well as these ones that improve overall performance. The latest version is available for download.
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System
During the latest AWS Storage Day event, Amazon announced the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The new open-source file client provides through a file interface the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3, supporting data transfer at up to 100 Gb/second between each EC2 instance and the object storage.
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Keeping Go "Boring" in Go 1.21: How Google Grants Backward Compatibility
In a recent article, Google engineer Russ Cox detailed what Google does to make sure each new Go release honors Go's backward-compatibility guarantee. This includes generalizing GODEBUG in Go 1.21 to cover even subtle incompatibility cases.
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Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations
Recently AWS announced the general availability of faster standard retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. According to the company, the retrieval can be up to 85% faster and applies to the Standard retrieval tier when using S3 Batch Operations.
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New Downfall Attack Could Lead to Sensitive Data Leakage on Intel Processors
Security researcher Daniel Moghimi discovered a new side-channel vulnerability affecting Intel processors that could be exploited to steal data from other users or apps running on the same computer. Dubbed Downfall, the vulnerability has been patched by Intel and mitigated by most major OS vendors.
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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 7: Blazor, Native AOT, Antiforgery and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 7 brings significant additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Native AOT, Identity, new SPA Visual Studio templates, Antiforgery middleware additions and many more.
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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License for All Products
HashiCorp, the maker of popular open source infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform and Vault, announced last week that it is changing its source code license from MPL 2.0 to the BSL 1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0. The initial community reaction has primarily been negative.
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Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data
At the recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon announced AWS HealthImaging. The new HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare providers to store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at scale.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Cloud, MicroProfile Telemetry, Foojay.io Calendar, JVM Language Summit
This week's Java roundup for August 7th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.24, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M1, Spring Modulith 1.0-RC1, Payara Cloud, Quarkus 3.2.4, MicroProfile Telemetry 1.1, OpenXava 7.1.4, Foojay.io calendar and JVM Language Summit 2023.
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Oracle Data Provider for .Net: Asynchronous Programming, OpenTelemetry, and More
Oracle prereleased a new version of Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), its ADO.NET data access library for the Oracle database. The new version, 23c, is available as a Developer Release, which means it is still not ready for production use. However, it already brings two of the most highly community-requested features: asynchronous programming and support to OpenTelemetry.
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MySQL Changes Versioning Model, Adds Innovation and LTS Releases
Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes InnoDB cluster read replicas.