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Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx
Almost a year after the world was shelled by log4, Sonatype’s Steve Poole - a long-time secure code promoter, sounded the alarm regarding the advancement of cyber attacks during his Devoxx talk. Cyberwarfare is a reality, and countries use cyberattacks to fight other countries. More than awareness, the talk gives us hope by revealing the tools each developer has at hand to fight this evil.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Apache InLong: Integration Framework for Massive Data
Apache InLong, an integration framework designed for massive data, was originally built at Tencent, where it was used in production for more than eight years, to support massive data reporting services in big data scenarios. The project officially graduated as an Apache top-level project three years after the introduction of the project in the Apache Incubator.
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Netflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Netflix recently published how it built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. They built it using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch. Engineers state that they made Timestone since they could not find an off-the-shelf solution that met all of its requirements.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses
Microsoft recently released the public preview of Azure Firewall Basic for small-medium businesses (SMBs), providing enterprise-grade security at an affordable price. The company offers the Basic SKU as it sees SMBs as particularly vulnerable to budget constraints and gaps in specialized security skills.
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Java News Roundup: Introducing OmniFish, Oracle Joins Micronaut Foundation, OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for October 3rd, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring milestone updates, Eclipse Tumerin 19, OmniFaces 4.0, PrimeFaces 12.0, Introducing OmniFish, Quarkus 2.13.1, Oracle joins Micronaut Foundation, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.4, JobRunr 5.3, Apache Tomcat 9.0.68, Apache Camel 3.19, Apache Tika 2.5, ArchUnit 1.0 and conferences Devoxx Morocco and JAX London.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.
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Android Gradle Plugin 8.0 Improves Build Times, Requires Updating Third-Party Plugins and Libraries
Google has announced the upcoming Android Gradle Plugin (AGP), version 8.0, reduces build times by removing the Transform APIs and replacing them through the Artifacts API and Instrumentation API. All third-party plugins and apps relying on them are required to migrate to the new APIs.
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Error Prone Improves Java Code by Detecting Common Mistakes
Error Prone, a Java compiler plugin open sourced by Google, performs static analysis during compilation to detect bugs or possible improvements. The plugin contains more than 500 pre-defined bug checks and allows third party and custom plugins. After detecting issues, Error Prone can display a warning, or automatically change the code with a predefined solution.
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.NET MAUI Community Kit 1.3 Released
On October 4th 2022, Microsoft released version 1.3 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, a library of valuable additions to the official MAUI application framework. This release includes bug fixes and several enhancements such as gravatar support, a coloured status bar, and fade animation for controls.
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Cloudflare Previews Globally Distributed Queues without Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the private beta of Cloudflare Queues, a message queuing service that allows applications to send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers. The new service provides at-least once message delivery, supports batching of messages, and does not charge bandwidth egress fees.
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Amazon File Cache Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of File Cache, a managed high-speed cache for processing file data stored in disparate locations. The new service can be linked to multiple sources including on premises network file systems and managed AWS services like Amazon FSx or S3.
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Spring Boot 3 Ships November 2022, Delays Java Module Support
At the 2022 JAX London conference, Spring Developer Advocate Oliver Drotbohm shared the projected release dates for Spring Framework 6 & Spring Boot 3: the end of November 2022. He also pointed out that the new Spring Boot Migrator can migrate a Spring Boot 2.7 application to version 3.0. He later confirmed that full Java Module support won’t arrive in Spring Framework 6.0 but may come later.
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MIT Technology Review Insights Survey on Zero Trust in Cybersecurity
MIT Technology Review released their findings from the Zero trust closes the end-user gap in cybersecurity on Sep 19, 2022. This report focused on the approach to cybersecurity and mainly demonstrates how organizations go beyond passwords to embrace a new approach to defending against cyberattacks.
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QCon Plus 2022: Join Us Virtually for Quality Content and Connections
QCon Plus, the online software development conference organized by InfoQ, is returning this November 29-December 9, with an international community of senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders joining. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this event!