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OpenJDK News Roundup: Key Derivation, Scoped Values, Compact Headers, JFR Method Timing & Tracing
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 12th, 2025, highlighting: two JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and four JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25; and one JEP elevated from its JEP Draft to Candidate status. Two of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.
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Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Now Available on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of Meta's latest foundation models, Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, in Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker JumpStart. Both models provide multimodal capabilities and follow the mixture-of-experts architecture.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Tiered Pricing for CloudWatch Logs and Expands Logging Destinations
AWS enhances Lambda logging with tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch Logs, effective May 1, 2025, reducing costs for high-volume deployments. New destinations like Amazon S3 and Firehose simplify integration and enable advanced analytics. These changes promise significant savings and flexibility for AWS users while emphasizing the need for optimized logging strategies.
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Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio Released with Major Performance and Tooling Enhancements
The Uno Platform team has announced the general availability of Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio, introducing a broad set of enhancements aimed at improving developer productivity and cross-platform performance.
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Amazon to Raise AWS Lambda Costs by Charging for Cold Starts
Starting next August, Amazon will begin charging for the AWS Lambda initialization phase for managed runtimes. While the company frames this change as a billing standardization to align with existing behavior, and many in the community view it as a step toward more predictable and unified billing, others see it as a price increase by AWS.
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Neon Serverless Postgres Now Generally Available as an Azure Native Integration
Microsoft and Neon launch Neon Serverless Postgres, now generally available as a native Azure integration, offering developers an innovative, scalable, and cost-effective database solution. With automatic scaling, instant provisioning, and seamless integration, it's designed for enterprises and AI startups alike, enhancing workflows and enabling efficient database management within Azure.
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JEP 505 Delivers Fifth Preview of Java's Structured Concurrency with Key API Refinements
JEP 505, Structured Concurrency, has reached Targeted status in JDK 25. This refined API enhances parallel task management through static factory methods like StructuredTaskScope.open(). It improves cancellation, observability, and subtask lifetime handling, ensuring clearer, safer code. Developers are encouraged to explore and provide feedback on this innovative iteration.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hibernate Reactive, Infinispan, JHipster, Gatherers4j
This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0.
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QCon London 2025: How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton, staff engineer at Man Group, presented “How to Build a Database Without a Server” at QCon London 2025. Seaton demonstrated how they migrated an older hedge fund trading system application using a cluster farm that was difficult to maintain to an application using a serverless database and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
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Android Studio Meerkat Update Enhances Gemini Integration and More
The latest feature drop for Android Studio Meerkat brings a range of updates aimed at boosting developer productivity, including extended Gemini integration for crash analysis and unit testing, enhanced Jetpack Compose previews, better Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) integration, and more.
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Google Cloud Announces Rapid Storage for Millisecond-Latency Workloads
At the recent Google Cloud Next 2025, the cloud provider announced Rapid Storage, a new Cloud Storage zonal bucket designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. The new storage class provides under 1ms random read and write latency, 20x faster data access, and 6 TB/s of throughput.
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JBang Jash Brings Streamlined Process Execution to Java
The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the common complexities and boilerplate developers face when using standard Java APIs like java.lang.ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec for these tasks.
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Temporal on AWS Aims to Ease Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Temporal Technologies, the company that created Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration platform focused on durable execution, has made Temporal Cloud available on the AWS marketplace. By offering their services via AWS, the company aims to simplify the development of resilient distributed systems for large-scale applications.
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Microsoft Pledges Deeper European Tech Ties amidst Sovereignty Debate
Microsoft's five digital commitments aim to bolster Europe's tech landscape and sovereignty through a 40% cloud and AI infrastructure expansion, enhanced cybersecurity, and a robust data privacy framework. By establishing a "European cloud for Europe," Microsoft reinforces its dedication to digital resilience while fostering economic competitiveness and supporting the open-source community.