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Rust 1.65 Brings Generic Associated Types in a Step towards Higher-Kinded Types
The latest release of Rust introduces a powerful new language feature, called generic associated types, that allows developers to specify generics on associated types in traits. Other notable new features include the let-else statement, and support for breaking out of labeled blocks.
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Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool
Debezium, an open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC), converts records from existing databases into event streams, enabling applications to detect and respond to database row-level changes. This release of version 2.0 introduces many changes: Java 11 is now required; incremental snapshots are improved [...]
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Google Introduces Cloud Workstations in Public Preview
Google introduced the public preview of Cloud Workstations during its Cloud Next event, which provides fully-managed and integrated development environments on the Google Cloud Platform.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 6, Spring Updates and CVEs, Asynchronous Stack Trace VM API
This week's Java roundup for October 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JavaFX 20, GZC 20, Spring Framework milestone, point and release candidates, Payara Platform 6, Micronaut 3.7.3, MicroProfile 6.0-RC2, Hibernate ORM point releases, Apache TomEE 9.0-RC1, Apache Camel 3.18.3, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.17, JReleaser 1.3.1, JobRunr 5.3.1, JDKMon 17.0.39 and J-Fall 2022.
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Kubernetes 1.24 Released with Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and Subresource Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.24 in May by the name Stargazer. The release has new features such as Network Policy Status, Contextual Logging, and signing release artifacts, generally available for stable features such as PodOverhead, CSI volume expansion, and CSR duration.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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Microsoft Introduces New UI Experience for Trying out Computer Vision with Vision Studio
Microsoft recently introduced a new User Interface (UI) for developers called Vision Studio to try its Computer Vision API.
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SFTP for Azure Blob Storage Now Generally Available
Azure Blob Storage now supports the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), allowing customers to use SFTP for file access, transfer, and management on the object storage service. The new option is generally available and simplifies the migration to the cloud of legacy applications and enterprise workloads.
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New Features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
New features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are in preview. These new features include encryption of data at rest with customer-managed keys, database authentication with Azure Active Directory, geo-redundant backups and fast restores of data, and a migration tool for moving workloads from the product’s older Single Server deployment option.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Developer Tooling for Cloud-Native Wasm Is Going Mainstream
The focus of Cloud Native Wasm Day at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit is developer tooling for server-side WebAssembly.
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Microsoft Releases Final Release Candidate for ASP.NET Core 7
Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 7 Release Candidate 2, the final release candidate for .NET 7 on October 11th. This release includes improvements to output caching, to the dynamic authentication in Blazor feature introduced in RC1 and experimental WebAssembly multithreading support using Web Workers. It introduces a new vary-by option and improves the OutputCachePolicyBuilder API.
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Amazon DynamoDB - Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service: Akshat Vig at QCon SF 2022
Akshat Vig, a principal engineer in NoSQL databases at Amazon, spoke at QCon San Francisco about Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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OpenSSL Hit by Two High Severity Vulnerabilities, Recently Patched
Introduced in OpenSSL 3.0 in September 2021 and affecting all successive versions up to and including OpenSSL 3.0.6, the two recently patched vulnerabilities are caused by buffer overruns in X.509 certificate verification.
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum: Charity Majors at QCon SF
Charity Majors, founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, gave a talk at QCon San Francisco about the pendulum of being a senior engineer and manager. She discussed the need for managers in technical teams to have engineering credibility and the value that comes from deliberately embracing both senior technologist and manager roles, but not both at the same time.