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Gradle 7.4 Introduces Aggregated Test Reports
Gradle has released version 7.4 of their open-source build automation tool that allows developers to create aggregated test and Jacoco coverage HTML reports. The versions catalog feature allows the centralized declaration of dependencies for usage in build scripts. Shared build services allow caching of state or resources across multiple tasks.
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AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3, a managed option to centralize data protection for applications storing data on S3. The new feature automates the backup and restore of application data on S3 and combines it with the backup of other services, including instances and databases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Updates, Ansynch and Buffered Logging by Amazon Corretto
This week's Java roundup for March 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, updates to Spring Cloud subprojects, Amazon Corretto providing asynchronous and buffered logging for OpenJDK 17, Quarkus 2.7.4.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0.CR2, Apache Groovy 3.0.10 and 2.5.16, Apache Camel 3.14.2, JReleaser early-access, JobRunr 4.0.10, JDKMon 17.0.23 and FailSafe 3.2.3.
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Amazon S3 Supports New Checksum Algorithms for Integrity Checking
Amazon S3 recently introduced support of four checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on upload and download requests. Amazon claims that the enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API accelerates integrity checking of the S3 requests by up to 90%.
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Securing the Open-Source Software Supply Chain
Recent findings by security researchers at SonarSource showed multiple security vulnerabilities in popular package managers, including Pip, Yarn, Composer, and others. Package managers, though, are not the only weak link in the open source security chain. InfoQ has spoken with Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Google Java App Engine Standard is Now Open Source
Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine was designed to make it easy for developers to deploy and scale their web applications easily, without worrying about infrastructure management.
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Reduce the Environmental Impact of AWS Workloads with the New Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
AWS recently released a new customer carbon footprint tool to allow its customers to calculate the environmental impact of their workloads.
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Making On-Call Less Painful for Developers by Using High-Quality Alerts
On-call is an increasing reality for developers. Improving alerts to reduce noise, automation, and removing warnings can help to make on-call work more humane. A driving force behind automation is Infrastructure as Code. Over time you can abstract that code so that it fits other use cases, which helps propagate best practices.
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Deep Learning Toolkit Intel OpenVINO Extends API, Improves Performance, and More
The latest release of Intel OpenVINO offers a cleaner API, expands support for natural language processing, and improves performance and portability thanks to its new AUTO plugin. InfoQ has spoken with senior director AI Intel OpenVINO Matthew Formica to learn more.
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QCon Software Development Conferences: Seven Tracks Not to Miss
Why are micro-frontends important? How should you optimise your organisational architecture for speed and flow? How to make microservices successful? Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions? Looking for new processes and best software practices?
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AWS Delivers a New Unified Service Health Dashboard
Recently, AWS updated its Service Health Dashboard with an improved Interface, better responsiveness, and integration with Personal Health Dashboard – all combined in a new Health Dashboard.
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Improve Access Control of Google Cloud SQL with IAM Conditions and Tags
Recently, Google announced the general availability (GA) of IAM Conditions and Tags for Cloud SQL, a fully-managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
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Quine Aims to Simplify Event Processing on Data in Motion
Developed at thatDot, Quine is an open source streaming graph solution aimed at high-volume event processing. Quine combines graph data and streaming technologies to enable the creation of real-time, complex event processing workflows at scale, says thatDot.
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AWS Lambda Supports .NET 6
AWS Lambda recently added support for .NET 6, as both a managed runtime and a container base image. The new runtime introduces new .NET language features and performance optimizations, improves logging and simplifies function definition using top-level statements.