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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.
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Orchestrate Operations, Validations, and Approvals on Data Entities with Azure Purview Workflows
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Purview Workflows, allowing customers to orchestrate then create, update and delete operations, validation, and approval of data entities using repeatable business processes. These workflows are currently in preview.
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Go 1.18 Stabilizes Generics, Fuzzing, Multi-Module Support, and Improves Performance
The Go team has announced the release of Go 1.18, which brings support for generics, fuzzing, workspaces, and performance improvements.
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Google Cloud Introduces Community Security Analytics
Google Cloud recently released Community Security Analytics (CSA), a set of open-sourced queries and rules for security analytics designed to help detect common cloud-based threats.
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Cloud Spanner Introduces Committed Use Discounts
Google Cloud recently announced the launch of Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for Cloud Spanner. The option triggers a 20% to 40% discount on the on-demand price of the managed relational database in exchange for a commitment of one or three years.
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Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac Boosts Sharing Performance
Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac introduces a number of changes that speed up file syncing between the macOS host and Docker VM. According to Docker, the new version may reduce the time taken by file syncing by up to 98%.
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Google Previews the Exactly-Once Delivery Feature for Its Pub/Sub Service
Recently, Google announced the preview of the exactly-once delivery feature for its Pub/Sub Service. Pub/Sub guarantees that subscriptions do not receive duplicate deliveries of messages when enabling the feature.
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JRebel Java Development Trends and Analysis 2022
JRebel has published the 2022 Java Developer Productivity Report, and this year marks the 10th anniversary of this annual publication. The survey investigates Java trends about architectures, frameworks and productivity tools.
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Uber's Engineering Manages to Cut 70k CPUs by Tuning Go GC
In an effort to help the company become profitable, Uber’s engineering department has focused their efforts on making their infrastructure more efficient. As an outcome of this effort, they managed to develop a semi-automated GO Garbage Collection tuning mechanism which in turn saved 70K CPU cores across 30 mission critical services.
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SQLite 3.38 Improves JSON Queries, Error Messages, and More
SQLite 3.38.0 is the latest release of SQLite, bringing improved syntax for JSON queries, a new diagnostic interface, CLI enhancements, and more.
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Netflix’s RENO Keeps Experience Consistent across Devices
Netflix has developed the Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to create a consistent user experience across various platforms and devices. RENO reacts more quickly and consistently than the traditional request/response model to user-generated actions ranging from watching a title to changing profile information.