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Cloudflare Report Highlights Staggering Increase in DDoS Attacks in Q4 2021
In keeping with its custom of releasing a quarterly trends report on DDoS attacks, Cloudflare has just published its new findings for Q4 2021, which show a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks.
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eBPF and Wasm: Exploring the Future of the Service Mesh Data Plane
With the advancement of lightweight runtimes, such as eBPF and WebAssembly (WASM), we are now seeing a new generation of service mesh data plane solutions that are lighter, safer, and faster.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18, JDK 19, Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, JHipster, Micronaut Foundation
It was another relatively quiet week for the January 3rd, 2022 edition of the Java news roundup featuring build updates to JDK 18 and JDK 19, VMware publishing CVE-2021-22060 as a follow up to CVE-2021-22096, a new Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, Helidon 2.4.1, Hibernate Search versions 6.0.8 and 6.1.0.Beta2, JHipster 7.5.0, JReleaser 0.10.0 and Gradle having joined the Micronaut Foundation.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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AWS Releases Fully-Managed Data Lake for CloudTrail Logs
AWS announced the release of CloudTrail Lake, a fully-managed data lake for storing and analyzing CloudTrail logs. CloudTrail Lake can aggregate logs across regions and accounts. Once in the lake, the logs can be queried using SQL syntax.
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AWS Offers Two New Outposts SKUs Suitable for Space Constrained Locations
AWS Outposts provides customers with on-premises compute and storage monitored and managed by AWS and controlled by the same, familiar AWS APIs. Last year at re:Invent in Vegas, AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors suitable for locations such as branch offices, retail stores, hospitals, and cell sites that are space-constrained and need access to low-latency compute capacity.
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AWS Releases Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter
AWS recently released Karpenter, their open-source Kubernetes cluster autoscaler. This improves upon their Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler by providing a easily configurable, fully automated scheduler. Karpenter is able to monitor for unscheduled pods and launch new nodes as well as terminate unneeded infrastructure. Karpenter is designed to work with any Kubernetes cluster in any environment.
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Google Cloud Embraces Security Orchestration through Siemplify Acquisition
Google has announced the acquisition of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) provider Siemplify, with the aim of integrating SOAR capabilities into its own Google Chronicle security solution.
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Incorrect IAM Policy Raised Questions about AWS Access to S3 Data
An unexpected change in the policy used by AWS Support raised concerns about access to customers' S3 data. The cloud provider reverted the change, stating that the permissions were not and could not be used and published a security bulletin. Security experts suggest steps to detect and prevent similar issues in the future.
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Java News Roundup: State of Project Valhalla by Brian Goetz, GlassFish 7.0-M1 and Project Loom Lab
It was very quiet for the week of December 27th, 2021, but InfoQ found a few news items of interest that include: the “State of Project Valhalla,” a three-part blog series written by Brian Goetz; GlassFish 7.0.0-M1; Project Loom Lab, a new project created by Nicolai Parlog; an update of the Jakarta EE Tutorial to Jakarta EE 9.1; Apache Camel 3.11.5; and JDKMon 17.0.21.
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Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ Deployments
AWS has recently announced readable standby instances in Amazon RDS multi-AZ deployments. The new database cluster option provides high availability and durability for workloads requiring more read capacity and consistent transaction latency.
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Kubernetes 1.23 Released with Improved Events, gRPC Probes, and Support for Dual-Stack
CNCF released Kubernetes 1.23 recently. The release has new features such as the events subcommand for kubectl, gRPC probes, and expression language validation for custom resources, generally available features such as generic ephemeral volumes, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking, beta features such as PodSecurity, and deprecated features such as FlexVolume.
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AWS Announces Further Worldwide Expansion of Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to a large population and industrial centers. And recently, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide.
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Google Protocol Buffers Support Idiomatic Kotlin Bindings
Google added support for Kotlin to its open source Protocol Buffers project, which is able to translate a proto definition into an idiomatic Domain Specific Language (DSL) leveraging Kotlin advanced syntax features.
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End of Year Learnings from Minecraft’s Migration to JDK 16 and Q&A with the Mojang Team
In an effort to obtain a smoother transition towards JDK 17, Minecraft decided to upgrade to JDK 16 first just months before Java's LTS release in September 2021. The changes point towards possible performance gains just by running JDK 17 out-of-the-box. InfoQ reached out to the Mojang team with further questions on their experience running JDK 16 in production.