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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing
Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis, frontend and backend electronic design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, AI inference, and financial risk analysis.
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AWS Introduces Resource Explorer to Simplify Search and Discovery of Resources
AWS recently announced the general availability of Resource Explorer, a managed capability to search and discover resources inside an AWS account. The new option is available at no additional charge and can query multiple regions but not multiple accounts.
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Google Releases a Guide to Android App Modularization
Google has recently released a guide to Android app modularization. This guide is designed to bring best practices and recommended patterns for developers to build multi-module Android apps, focusing on mitigating problems that arise when the codebase grows, such as scalability, readability, stability and testability.
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New Metrics Capabilities for OpenTelemetry on Azure Monitor
Microsoft released for preview a series of updates to its Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter packages for .NET, Node.js and Python applications.
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First Open Source Copyright Lawsuit Challenges GitHub Copilot
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in a US federal court challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot and the related OpenAI Codex. The suit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims violation of open-source licenses and could have a wide impact in the world of artificial intelligence.
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.NET 7 Adds Generic Math
Along with Static Abstract Methods in interfaces comes support for generic math in .NET 7 via interfaces such as INumber<TSelf>.
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AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland
AWS recently announced the availability of the 28th region in Zurich, Switzerland, also known by its API name eu-central-2.
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C# 11 and .NET 7 Bring Generic Parsing
Using the new Static Abstract Methods feature, .NET 7 eliminates the need to use reflection when parsing strings into generic objects.
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Google Launches Relay to Transform and Accelerate Android UI Creation
Recently launched in alpha, Relay is a design-to-code solution aiming to radically transform the way UI designers and UI developers collaborate to create Android UI components by removing the need for UI specs.
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Spring Modulith Structures Spring Boot 3 Applications with Modules and Events
VMware shipped the experimental Spring Modulith project to better structure Spring Boot 3 applications with modules and events. The project introduces new classes and annotations but doesn't generate code. Modules map to Java packages and are encouraged to use Spring events which can be automatically stored in an event log. Spring Modulith also eases the testing of modules and events.
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.NET 7 for Azure Functions Isolated Worker Process Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the .NET 7 for Azure Functions isolated worker process. Azure Functions will support .NET 7 serverless apps hosted on all Windows and Linux SKUs, including Consumption plan, Elastic Premium plan, and App Service plans.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF
Sam Spencer, Microsoft’s .NET Core team program manager, announced on November 4th, 2022, that the Upgrade Assistant .NET tool now includes a preview of an extension that migrates WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) service code from .NET Framework to .NET Standard targeting .NET 6 and later versions. The WCF code is migrated to the CoreWCF library, an open-source port of WCF for .NET Core.
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Omni Faces 4.0 Changes Minimal Dependency to Java 11, While Removing Deprecated Classes
Five years after its previous major release, OmniFaces 4.0 has been released after a long series of milestones that included a "Jakartified version of 3.14 with a couple of breaking changes" following the release of Jakarta EE 10. Besides the minimum requirements and breaking changes, new utility methods have been added and omnifaces.js is now sourced by Typescript rather than vanilla JavaScript.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 27, Spring Release Candidates, JEPs for JDK 20, Project Reactor
This week's Java roundup for November 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, OpenSSL CVEs, Build 20-loom+20-40, Spring Framework 6.0-RC4, Spring Boot 3.0-RC2, Spring Security 6.0-RC2, Spring Cloud 2021.0.5, WildFly 27, WildFly Bootable JAR 8.1, Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.4, Project Reactor 2022.0, Micrometer Metrics 1.10 and Tracing 1.0, JHipster Lite 0.22.0 and Camel Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.1.