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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 GA, JMC 8.2, Spring Updates, MicroStream 7.0-Beta1, WildFly 26.1-Beta1
This week's Java roundup for March 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, JDK Mission Control 8.2, Amazon Corretto 18, BellSoft LibericaJDK 18, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Micronaut 3.4.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.11, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.4.Final, MicroStream 7.0-M1, JReleaser 1.0-RC1, and TornadoVM 0.13.
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Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments
Lyft engineering finished their decomposition of a monolith into a collection of microservices back in 2018. Modular development environments using Docker containers eventually moved to the cloud. Recent articles describe how their development tooling struggled to keep up as time passed and the number of microservices exploded. Development environments had to return to the engineer’s machine.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.
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Meta Open-Sources Browser Extension to Establish Web Code Authenticity
Originally created to help WhatsApp users verify the authenticity of the WhatsApp code being served to their browsers, Code Verify is a new open-source extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox enabling to provide the same level of security for other Web services, says Meta.
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JHipster Native Blueprint Supports GraalVM Native Image
The Spring Boot Native blueprint for JHipster generates code and configuration to create a JHipster project which uses Spring Native. Spring Native allows compiling Spring applications to native executables with the GraalVM Native Image compiler.
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Vaadin Introduces Hilla to Unify Frontend/Backend Web Development
Vaadin has introduced Hilla, a new framework for Java developers that combines the backend with Spring Boot and the frontend as a mix of TypeScript and Lit. Hilla offers many capabilities to simplify business application development, such as providing a unified project setup for Java and TypeScript that remains in sync.
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Infer New Deadlock Detector for Android Aims to Be Efficient for Large Codebases
In a joint research, London University College and Facebook researchers created a new deadlock detector for Android Java code now available as part of open-source Infer static analysis tool. The new analyzer is able to process large codebases efficiently thanks to its incremental approach specifically designed for integration in a CI pipeline.
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Growing Concerns among Developers about Google Cloud Price Increases
Google Cloud recently announced changes to their pricing models, with storage and data transfer costs mostly affected. Many experts in the cloud community have been raising concerns about architectural implications and the end of a long term "prices never go up" cloud tenet.
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Dropbox Makes the Android App Faster and More Reliable: Swaps C++ Code for a Native Approach
Dropbox recently published how it made the camera upload process for Android faster and more reliable. Dropbox engineers removed shared Android and iOS C++ code and replaced it with a platform-native Kotlin implementation. The engineers are pleased with the decision to rewrite the process, stating that error rates went down and upload performance greatly improved.
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Java 18 is Now Available
Oracle has released version 18 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes nine JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with some useful new tools.
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Encryption in the Ukrainian War
Encryption is a major part of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where the lack of encryption on Russia's part has led to military setbacks and the death of a general. Ordinary Ukrainians have ramped up usage of end-to-end encrypted messaging.
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Customizable Pricing and Cost Visibility with AWS Billing Conductor
Recently, AWS announced AWS Billing Conductor, allowing enterprises to quickly provide customizable pricing and cost visibility for their end customers or business units. The service does not impact the billing and invoicing relationship between customers and AWS, as it is intended for enterprises that have specific showback and chargeback needs.
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Swift 5.6 Enhances Type Inference, Introduces Existential Any, and More
Swift latest release, Swift 5.6, introduces partial type annotations that work as hints to the type inference engine, disambiguate the syntax for existential types, and improve pointer interaction.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, Spring Framework 6.0-M3, Helidon 3.0-M1, JobRunr 5.0-M1
This week's Java roundup for March 14th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Spring Framework 6.0-M3 and 5.3.17, Spring Tools 4.14.0, Quarkus 2.7.5, Helidon 3.0-M1, March 2022 Payara Platform, Open Liberty 22.0.0.3 and 22.0.0.4-beta, Hibernate ORM 5.6.7, Hibernate Search 6.1.3 and 6.0.9, JobRunr 5.0-RC1, Apache Camel 3.11.6, Piranha 22.3.0, JReleaser update, and reasons why Java makes sense.