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Figma's $300,000 Daily AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks
Figma's IPO filing reveals a staggering $300,000 daily spend on AWS, totaling $100 million annually, or 12% of its $821 million revenue. The company's deep reliance on AWS exposes it to significant risks, including potential outages and policy changes. This highlights the critical dilemma for tech firms: balancing the benefits of cloud agility with rising costs and vendor lock-in challenges.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service Gains Model Context Protocol Support in Preview
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Service now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), revolutionizing AI agent integration. This streamlined approach eliminates cumbersome custom coding, allowing seamless connection to data sources and workflows. With enterprise-grade security, developers can effortlessly enhance agent capabilities, ushering in a new era of interoperability and efficiency in AI.
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Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Micronaut, JReleaser, Tomcat, Quarkus Legacy Config Classes
This week's Java roundup for June 30th, 2025, features news highlighting: point and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Micronaut, JReleaser, Quarkus and Apache Tomcat; the beta release of Open Liberty 25.0.0.7; and sunsetting of the Quarkus legacy configuration classes.
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DevSummit Boston: Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products beyond the Hype
Phil Calçado, CEO of Outropy, shared key insights at the InfoQ Dev Summit on scaling generative AI products. He highlighted the need for effective workflows and agents in AI development, advocating for iterative approaches that leverage proven software engineering principles. His insights promise to guide teams in building resilient AI systems without reinventing the wheel.
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Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK
Although a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 was originally planned for July 2024, only the Core Profile and the Web Profile were delivered in December 2024 and April 2025, respectively. And now, the Jakarta EE 11 Platform has been delivered featuring one new specification and a new TCK. Ed Burns, release coordinator for Jakarta EE 11, spoke to InfoQ about the release of Jakarta EE 11.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven
This week's Java roundup for June 23rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Jakarta EE 11; the new Agent2Agent Java SDK introduced by Red Hat; the release of Kotlin 2.2.0; the first beta release of WildFly 37; the first release candidate of JobRunr 8.0.0; and the fourth release candidate of Maven 4.0.
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Google Previews Gemini's Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal
Google has announced the integration of Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode into the latest canary release of Android Studio, Android Studio Narwhal preview. According to Google, the new Agent Mode is designed to handle multi-step development tasks that span across several files.
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.NET 10 Preview 5 Brings Blazor Observability, XAML Simplification and More
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 Preview 5, delivering updates across multiple components, including ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Entity Framework Core, and more. As reported, this preview introduces new features and improvements to enhance developer productivity, application observability, and customization.
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C++26 Draft Finalized with Static Reflection, Contracts, and Sender/Receiver Types
The next major release of C++ reached an important milestone earlier this month, when the ISO C++ committee froze the feature set that will go into C++26. Notable additions include compile-time reflection, contracts, asynchronous execution, and many others.
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AWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
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MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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JSON Modules Can Now Be Imported in JavaScript in All Modern Browsers, CSS Modules to Follow
Thomas Steiner, developer relations engineer at Google, recently published a blog post announcing that JSON module scripts were now available in all modern browsers. Developers using the latest version of modern browsers can now directly import JSON modules into their JavaScript code. The feature builds on the Import Attributes proposal. Native CSS modules import may soon follow.
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LinkedIn Announces Northguard and Xinfra: Scaling beyond Kafka for Log Storage and Pub/Sub
LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard.
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SwiftUI for iOS 26 Embraces Liquid Glass, Introduces WebView and Rich Text Editing
At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its declarative UI framework, SwiftUI, featuring two major additions: a new SwiftUI-native WebView type and support for rich-text editing within TextView controls. The update also brings a plethora of additional improvements and new performance tools.
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AWS Introduces Exportable Public SSL/TLS Certificates
AWS has recently announced exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, addressing a long-standing community request and allowing users to export certificates with their private keys for use beyond managed services on AWS.