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Microsoft Warns Customers about a Critical Vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally-distributed and fully-managed NoSQL database service. Recently, Microsoft warned thousands of its Cosmos DB customers of a vulnerability that exposes their data. A flaw in the service could grant a malicious actor access keys to steal, edit or delete sensitive data.
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Gitpod Announces General Availability for Public and Private Repositories
Gitpod recently announced that their cloud-based developer environments are open to every engineer. With a GitLab, GitHub, and/or Bitbucket account, an engineer can have access to coding remotely on their public and private repositories for 50 hours per month for free.
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ReScript, a Fully-Typed Javascript Alternative
ReScript is one of several emerging programming languages that helps web developers build complex web applications that can be transpiled into JavaScript and run in the browser.
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Java News Roundup: Generational ZGC, Kotlin 1.5.30, Jakarta EE 10 Release Plan, SpringOne Conference
It was relatively quiet in this week's Java roundup for August 23rd, 2021. Featured news includes JEP 413 having been promoted to Proposed to Target status, the Jakarta EE 10 release plan, work on generational ZGC, Kotlin 1.5.30, MicroProfile Rest Client 3.0-RC1, Hibernate ORM 5.3.22.Final, and the SpringOne conference.
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AWS Introduces Security Analytics Bootstrap to Perform Security Investigations
AWS recently announced Security Analytics Bootstrap, an open source framework to perform security investigations on AWS service logs using an Amazon Athena analysis environment.
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Google Announces Enterprise API to Fix "Product-Killing" Reputation
Last month Google announced the Google Enterprise APIs that will be governed by a stricter policy when they change or are deprecated. The company will apply the Enterprise API label to most APIs across Google Cloud, Google Workspace, and Google Maps Platform.
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GitHub CLI 2.0 Brings Support for Extensions
With its new major version, GitHub CLI enables extending its basic feature set by installing and running extensions. A GitHub CLI extension is just a repository prefixed with gh- and providing an executable file with the same name as the repository.
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Uncover What's Next for Software Engineering at QCon Plus Online Software Conference (Nov 1-12)
QCon Plus gives you access to a curated learning experience that covers the topics that matter right now in software development and technical leadership. Learn from the laser-focus sharing experiences of 64+ software practitioners from early adopter companies to help you adopt the right patterns and practices.
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Email Classification at Slack: Designing an Eventually Consistent Custom Classifier
Slack recently published the details of how it built an email address classification engine that can determine if an email address is internal or external. Slack engineers utilized an eventually consistent near real-time representation of the data in its system and implemented a drift detection mechanism to fix erroneous data, keeping the engine's operation in order.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database. The new database service is intended for applications that require microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write performance with data durability and high availability.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 3.0, Open Liberty Starter, Spring Boot, GraalVM, and JEP 400
This week's Java roundup for August 16th, 2021, features news from Micronaut 3.0, OpenJDK, JDK 18, updates to Spring Boot and Spring Tools, a new Open Liberty starter tool, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.3, Payara Platform updates, Quarkus 2.1.3, Eclipse OpenMQ 6.2 and the July update of Java in Visual Studio Code.
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Is CVE the Solution for Cloud Vulnerabilities?
At the recent Black Hat USA 2021, security experts from cloud infrastructure company Wiz argued that a CVE database for cloud vulnerabilities is needed, starting a debate in the cloud and cybersecurity communities.
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Cloudera Announces the General Availability of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud
The enterprise data cloud company Cloudera recently announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud, a cloud-native service for data flows to process hybrid streaming workloads on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
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Google Cloud Private Service Connect Now Generally Available
Google Cloud has recently announced the general availability of Private Service Connect, a service to keep all customer’s traffic private and secure over Google's global network while abstracting the underlying network infrastructure.
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The eBPF Foundation Aims to Further Advance eBPF Features and Adoption
eBPF, a technology used to extend the Linux kernel capabilities without requiring to change its code or reload kernel modules, now has its own foundation hosted within the Linux Foundation, announce Facebook, Google, Isovalent, and other founding members.