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Micronaut 1.1 Features Enhanced Support for Building Cloud-Native Applications
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced the release of Micronaut 1.1 featuring support for gRPC, GraphQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), RabbitMQ and Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is also a new Bean Introspection API that replaces the JDK Introspector class and new templates for the Micronaut Test project.
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GitHub Package Registry Integrates Source Code and Packages
GitHub launched a limited beta of its new Package Registry, aiming to simplify publishing public or private packages under the same user interface as source code. GitHub Package Registry supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker images, and support for more package management tools is already on its roadmap.
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Improving the .NET Docker Experience: DockerCon 2019 Overview
During the latest edition of DockerCon, Microsoft shared multiple improvements made in the .NET Core over the past year, all aimed at enhancing the experience of using .NET and Docker together.
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Q&A on New App Hosting Cloud Provider, Render
Render is a new provider of web and app hosting, described by Render’s CEO as the “best of both worlds” between full scale cloud providers, such as AWS, and PaaS providers, such as Heroku.
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Flutter 1.5 Goes Multi-Platform, Includes Web Support
Announced as a technical preview at the latest Google I/O 2019 event, Flutter 1.5 aims to make it possible to create native applications for multiple platforms, including new form-factor devices, the Desktop, and the Web.
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Microservices Framework Lagom 1.5 with Akka Management and Support for Kubernetes and OpenShift
Version 1.5 of the microservices framework Lagom comes with Akka Management, a set of tools for operating Akka powered applications, and support for deployment with Kubernetes or OpenShift. The recently released version 1.5 is built on Play 2.7.0, Alpakka Kafka 1.0 and Akka 2.5.22 and also adds support for Couchbase and for gRPC through Akka gRPC.
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Google Releases Google-Landmarks-V2, a Large-Scale Dataset for Landmark Recognition & Retrieval
Google has released Google-Landmarks-v2, an improved dataset for Landmark Recognition & Retrieval, along with Detect-to-Retrieve, a Tensorflow codebase for large-scale instance-level image recognition. Two companion Kaggle competitions based on Google-Landmarks-v2 were also launched. With over 200,000 landmarks in 5 million images, it is the largest landmark dataset ever published.
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Critical Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability Discovered in Oracle WebLogic Server
Security researchers have discovered a new remotely exploitable vulnerability in Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS). CVE-2019-2725 is remotely exploitable without user authentication and has an overall CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10, making it a critical vulnerability. Oracle released a security alert noting that versions of the server affected by this flaw include 10.3.6.0 and 12.1.3.0.
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Microsoft Announces React Native for Windows, with Focus on Performance
Microsoft recently announced at Microsoft Build 2019 a MIT-licensed, performance-oriented re-implementation of React Native for Windows. The new React Native for Windows will enable React Native developers to build native Windows apps with React. With the Windows 10 SDK support, developers may target a large variety of Windows devices such as PCs, tablets, laplets, Xbox, or Mixed Reality devices.
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Eclipse and Oracle Unable to Agree on Terms for javax Package Namespace and Trademarks
The Eclipse Foundation and Oracle were unable to agree on a path forward for enhancing Java EE's javax namespace, requiring all applications to be ported to a new namespace for Jakarta EE.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Q#, its Language for Quantum Computing
At its Build 2019 conference, Microsoft announced it will open-source parts of its Quantum Developer Kit, including the Q# compiler and quantum simulators, this summer on GitHub.
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Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface
Spring Cloud incubator has introduced a new project called Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker that provides a pluggable circuit-breaker interface. This will help systems to fail fast and prevent cascading failures and system overload.
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Svelte 3 Front-End Framework Moves Reactivity into the JavaScript Language, Q&A with Rich Harris
The recently released front-end framework Svelte 3 introduces a new syntax to express reactivity in JavaScript. InfoQ interviewed Rich Harris, Svelte creator, and discussed what Svelte 3 means and its implications for developers.
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Amazon Updates SageMaker Ground Truth with New Labeling Features, Vendor Support and Availability
Amazon announced that SageMaker Ground Truth now offers simplified labeling workflows, support for additional labeling vendors, and is available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region – bringing the total to six supported AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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Event Streams and Workflow Engines – Kafka and Zeebe
In a recent joint meeting in Amsterdam, Kai Waehner described features of Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, and how it fits in an Event-Driven Architecture. Bernd Rücker described how workflow engines can handle complex business processes, and discussed how Zeebe, a new highly scalable workflow engine, can be used with Kafka.