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CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on DevSecOps
CNCF published the sixth edition of the end-user Technology Radar. The theme for this edition was DevSecOps, the integration of security at every step of the software development lifecycle. The radar highlighted there are many DevSecOps tools today and the space is growing and changing rapidly.
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Google Document Translation Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced that allows formatting of documents to be retained throughout the translation process.
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Static Analyzer Rudra Found over 200 Memory Safety Issues in Rust Crates
Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rudra is a static analyzer able to report potential memory safety bugs in Rust programs. Rudra has been used to scan the entire Rust package registry and identified 264 new memory safety bugs.
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JetBrains Debuts New Kotlin Compiler K2, Kotlin for WebAssembly, and More
At its recent Kotlin 2021 Premier event, JetBrains made a number of major announcements, including K2, the new, faster Kotlin compiler, support for WebAssembly, the Kotlin Symbol Processor, a new code coverage plugin, and improved static analysis.
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PlanetScale Introduces Managed Cloud to Scale MySQL Databases
The company behind the open-source Vitess database clustering system recently announced PlanetScale Managed Cloud, an option to run PlanetScale’s databases and management functionalities from existing public cloud accounts.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Chaos Studio in Public Preview
At the recent Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Chaos Studio, a fully-managed experimentation service to help customers track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering to improve the resilience of their cloud applications.
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Hibernate Releases Version 1.0 of Reactive API
Hibernate Reactive 1.0 is the first stable version of the reactive API for the popular Hibernate ORM, supporting non-blocking database drivers and a reactive style of interaction with the database.
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Microsoft Introduces a New Cloud-Native Offering with Azure Container Apps Service
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a new cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers. This serverless Kubernetes-based service is in public preview.
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Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins JCP, Helidon 2.4.0, OpenJDK and JDK 18 Updates
This week's Java roundup for November 1st, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Helidon 2.4.0, Open Liberty 21.0.0.12-beta, point releases for Spring Cloud and its related subprojects, Quarkus 2.4.1.Final, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.1, WildFly 25.0.1 and JReleaser 0.8.0.
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Google Embraces Large-Screen Android Devices at DevSummit 21
At its recent AndroidDevSummit'21, Google announced a number of new technologies aimed to help developers build better apps across different devices and device factors. Those include Material You for Jetpack Compose, support for large screen with Android 12L, extended Jetpack library, and more.
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Red Hat Releases Language Support for Java Plugin 1.0 for VSCode
Red Hat has released version 1.0 of Language support for Java on VSCode that supports Java 17, displaying type hierarchies and improved performance. The source lookup feature has been improved and now supports unmanaged projects and is able to display sources of any library available on Maven central. This release also contains new code actions and support for Gradle files written in Kotlin.
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GraalVM 21.3 Supports Java 17
Oracle Labs released GraalVM 21.3, featuring support for Java 17 and JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) for low-overhead production profiling of native Java executables. Compared to version 21.1 from April 2021, this release creates 14% smaller native executables for Spring PetClinic JDBC with 20% less build time. The release runs applications faster and begins to support the Java Platform Module System.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models
At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform.
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Swift Experimentally Introduces Support for Distributed Actors
The new Swift Distributed Actors package provides a glimpse into what the future distributed actor language feature could look like in Swift.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.