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PayPal Adopts GraphQL: Gains Increased Developer Productivity
PayPal recently published a blog post describing PayPal's adoption of GraphQL over the recent years. It started with a single Checkout application in 2018 and amounted to creating a unified federated API with GraphQL federation. The adoption of GraphQL across the organisation promoted increased developer productivity and faster application shipment.
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Eclipse Foundation’s Adoptium Releases First Temurin JDK Builds
AdoptOpenJDK moved to the Eclipse Foundation as the Adoptium Working Group. Adoptium provides TCK-certified runtimes, based upon OpenJDK, called Eclipse Temurin. Adoptium provides Temurin binaries every six months and maintenance/security updates every three months. Long Term Support (LTS) releases are produced for at least four years.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.0, Changes Coming to WildFly, Scene Builder 17, Hibernate ORM
This week's Java roundup for September 27th, 2021, features news from JDK 18, Hazelcast 5.0, point and release candidates of Hibernate ORM, Spring Initilizr 0.11.0, significant changes planned for WildFly, Open Liberty 21.0.0.10, Scene Builder 17, JReleaser 0.7.0, JDKMon 17.0.5, RefactorFirst 0.3.0, TornadoVM 0.11 and Sonatype dropping TLSv1.1 from their publishing servers.
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Facebook Mariana Trench Helps Developers to Find Vulnerabilities in Android and Java Apps
Recently open-sourced by Facebook, Mariana Trench (MT) aims to help developers identify and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications.
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Amazon QuickSight Q: Answers to Business Intelligence Questions
Amazon recently announced the general availability of QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the enterprise edition of the managed business intelligence service QuickSight.
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How GitHub Partitioned Its Relational Database to Improve Reliability at Scale
GitHub has been working for the last couple of years on partitioning their relational database and moving the data to multiple independent clusters. This effort led to a 50% load reduction and a significant reduction of database-related incidents, explains GitHub engineer Thomas Maurer.
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Armo Releases Kubescape K8s Security Testing Tool: Q&A with VP Jonathan Kaftzan
Armo announced the release of Kubescape last month, a tool for testing if a Kubernetes environment is secure according to the Kubernetes hardening guidance published by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA).
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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview release of Azure Functions 4.0 – its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering. The release of this new runtime includes support for .NET 6.0.
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JobRunr 4.0 Delivers Improved Integration with Spring Starter, Quarkus and Micronaut
JobRunr, a relatively new JVM job scheduling tool, has released version 4.0 which brings updated Spring Boot Starter support, new integrations with Quarkus and Micronaut and a new jobs analysis performance mode that checks if a job can be cached to speed up the subsequent calls. InfoQ spoke with Ronald Dehuysser about the development of JobRunr.
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Swift 5.5 Extends Concurrency Support, Enums, Property Wrappers, and More
The latest release of Apple's language, Swift 5.5, introduces new features aimed at making it easier for developers to write asynchronous code as well as several extensions to the language and compiler, not the least CGFloat and Double interchangeability.
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Qwik, a Resumable Javascript Framework
Qwik is a DOM-centric JavaScript framework that aims to provide the quickest TTI (or time to interactive) by focusing on resumability for server-side rendering of HTML and optimized lazy loading of code.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). With this new feature for VMs, customers can reserve more compute capacity.
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms
With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot Updates, Eclipse Temurin JDK 17, Apache Camel Ends Support for JDK 8
It was relatively quiet during the week of September 20th, 2021, with most news coming from point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring Cloud. Other news includes the release of Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 binaries, Build 16 of the JDK 18 early-access builds, Hibernate ORM 5.6.0.Beta2, WildFly 25 Beta 1, Apache Camel dropping support for JDK 8 and JDKMon 17.0.0.
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Google Cloud Announces Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has recently announced the preview of Backup for GKE, a cloud-native way to protect, manage, and restore containerized applications and data running on Kubernetes.