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Lessons Learned: Emotion Library Maintainer Explains Why Company No Longer Uses Runtime CSS-in-JS
Sam Magura, staff software engineer at Spot and active maintainer of the CSS-in-JS Emotion library, recently detailed why Spot abandoned the runtime CSS-in-JS library Emotion in favor of Sass modules: Runtime overhead, payload overhead, and server rendering issues contributed to a lesser user experience.
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Google Announces New Infrastructure Offerings with C3 Virtual Machines and Hyperdisk
At the latest Cloud Next’22 conference, Google announced two new infrastructure platform offerings with the Compute Engine C3 machine series optimized for high-performance computing and next-generation block storage called Hyperdisk optimized for data-intensive workloads such as Hadoop and DBMS.
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AWS Lambda Supports Event Filtering for Amazon MSK, Kafka and Amazon MQ
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources. The new options extend the filtering to data store and broker services and reduce traffic to Lambda functions, simplifying application logic and reducing costs.
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Tapabrata Pal on DevOps at Fidelity: Investing in Inner Source and Engineering Excellence -DOES 2022
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit Vegas 2022, Tapabrata Pal presented the state of DevOps at Fidelity and their investment in DevOps and inner source. They were facing challenges with their tools sprawl, security, audit and compliance, and their metrics. They focused on a unified developer experience, their tools standardization, continuous compliance and contextual metrics.
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Comprehensive Kubernetes Telemetry with AWS Observability Accelerator
AWS recently created a new template within the AWS Observability Accelerator project that provides an integrated telemetry solution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.
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Azure Adds Sustainability Guidance to Well-Architected Framework
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced new technical guidance within the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to help customers and partners achieve their sustainability goals.
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Microsoft Releases Stream Analytics No-Code Editor into General Availability
During the Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor, a drag-and-drop canvas for developing jobs for stream processing scenarios such as streaming ETL, ingestion, and materializing data to data into general availability. The no-code editor is hosted in the company’s big-data streaming platform and event ingestion service, Azure Event Hubs.
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New Qwik JavaScript Framework Seeks Faster Web Apps with Unique Approach: Resumability
Misko Hevery, creator of AngularJS, recently announced the beta availability of Qwik, his new web framework. Qwik claims to build applications that feel fast regardless of application size. In most cases, Qwik first downloads only 1 KB of JavaScript. Event handlers and application code are lazy-loaded and prefetched as needed.
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Two New Git Vulnerabilities Affecting Local Clones and Git Shell Patched
Two Git vulnerabilities affecting local clones and git shell interactive mode in version 2.38 and older have been recently patched.
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BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
BellSoft has released Alpaquita Linux, an operating system based upon Alpine Linux, optimized for containerized Java applications. A plain Docker image is available, as well as Docker images with Liberica JDK or JRE or a Native Image Kit based upon GraalVM. Alternatively, Alpaquita Linux can be installed via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux repositories or an ISO file.
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Quarkus Defends REST APIs against Attack
Quarkus has released a new release that integrates RESTEasy APIs with an integrated control against CSRF attacks, making web applications more resilient against certain types of fraud.
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OpenSilver 1.1 Promises 99% of Code Compatibility with Silverlight Applications
OpenSilver, a "plugin-free" replacement for retired Silverlight browser technology, has released an update that claims to be able to reuse 99% of existing Silverlight application code and run it in a modern browser with WebAssembly and HTML5.
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Error Prone Support Introduces New Bug Checks and Refaster Templates
Picnic, the “supermarket on wheels” company, has released Error Prone Support, an open source project that extends Google's Error Prone, that contains thirty new bug checks to detect, and optionally resolve, possible mistakes during compilation of a Java project. More than fifty new Refaster rule collections are available to improve code uniformity by automatically rewriting the codebase.
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State of Value Stream Management Report Shows Platform Adoption Increased 4X in a Year
The Value Stream Management Consortium has produced their 2022 report, which most notably shows a 4x increase in the number of respondents implementing a Value Stream Management platform. Organisations implementing VSM are using value streams to break down silos, and rather than setting a vision and goals up-front, many are just starting with a VSM mapping exercise treated as an experiment.
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Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections, Spring 6.0-RC1, Apache Tomcat, Reactor 2022.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for October 10th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring Framework 6.0-RC1, Spring Batch 5.0-M8, Quarkus 2.13.2, Helidon 3.0.2 and 2.5.4, Project Reactor 2022.0-RC1, Piranha 22.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.18.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.83 and 10.1.1 Apache James 3.7.2 and Devoxx Belgium.