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No JCP for Java EE
Oracle does not support or recommend the use of the JCP (Java Community Process) for future Java EE enhancements. "Oracle recommends and supports the use of EE4J-driven processes for functional enhancements to Java EE 8 specifications, and does not recommend or support use the JCP process for any future Java EE 8 functional enhancements."
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DigitalOcean Revamps Compute Plans and Pricing Structure
After spending 2017 adding ancillary services to their virtual machine-centric cloud, DigitalOcean kicked off 2018 with some product and pricing changes. Last year, DigitalOcean added support for firewalls, monitoring, load balancers, and object storage. Today's announcement highlights three new classes of servers, some with upgraded CPU, memory and storage.
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The Brief Lifespan of a JavaScript Framework
The lifecycle of a JavaScript framework is extraordinarily limited, according to a new analysis by Stack Overflow. But the data may also show how the lifespan of a major framework differs from those that satisfy a specific niche.
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Microservices Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Using Istio and Kubernetes
Animesh Singh and Tommy Li from IBM spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about the microservices resiliency and fault tolerance leveraging Istio framework. They also showed how to configure and use circuit breakers and other resiliency features using Istio.
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Last Npm Incident Uncovers Security Vulnerability
Last week, the npm registry had an operations incident that caused a number of highly depended on packages, such as require-from-string, to become unavailable. While the incident was relatively straightforward to solve, it uncovered a major security vulnerability that could have been exploited to inject malicious code in projects using npm.
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PCF 2.0 Expands Platform to Include Containers and Serverless
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) version 2.0 sees a significant expansion of the platform. As well as the original Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, PCF 2.0 now also includes a Kubernetes-based container service and an upcoming Function/Serverless service alongside a marketplace of add-on services that extend the capabilities of the platform.
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Handy Improvements in JPA 2.2
Oracle has released version 2.2 of the Java Persistence standard (JPA). This release updates Java EE 8 to use all the benefits of Java 8.
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Intel Joins the Race for Quantum Supremacy with a 49-Qubit Chip
At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Intel successfully built a 49-qubit chip, which aims to allow researchers to improve error correction techniques and simulate computational problems.
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Q&A with Max Kanat-Alexander, Author of "Understanding Software"
Last October Max-Kanat Alexander released his book "Understanding software". The book provides insights into how to keep your software simple, and how you can avoid complex unmaintainable software. You can find our review of the book on this website. InfoQ reached out to Kanat-Alexander to ask him several questions about his book.
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DevOps Workbench Launched by ZeroStack
Private cloud provider, ZeroStack, has announced a self-service capability from which developers can create their own workbenches. Forty developer tools from a mix of open source and commercial providers are available to users of the DevOps Workbench through Zerostack’s Intelligent Cloud Platform.
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Intel Found That Spectre and Meltdown Fix Has a Performance Hit of 0-21%
Microsoft, Red Hat and Intel have published their performance evaluation of the impact Meltdown and Spectre mitigation has on various systems.
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Redpoint Games Launch NPM Package Signing Tool
Redpoint has launched pkgsign, a package signing and verification tool for NPM. It aims to improve security by helping ensure the authenticity of packages which are uploaded and downloaded from the NPM registry.
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restQL, a Microservices Query Language, Released on GitHub
restQL, a query language for microservices, is now available as an open-source project on GitHub. The restQL language is intended to simplify common scenarios for client-side access to RESTful microservices, including multiple parallel calls and chained calls. restQL was created to avoid some limitations of the more well-known data querying and management frameworks Falcor and GraphQL.
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Parcel.js Launch Brings a Zero-Configuration Option to JavaScript Module Bundling
Parcel.js is a new open source JavaScript Module Bundler that launched on December 5th. Parcel’s launch announcement touted speed and zero configuration as differentiators from existing module bundlers like webpack, browserify, and rollup, and claiming up to a 10X speedup over webpack when using its built-in caching.
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Hazelcast Joins the Eclipse Foundation
Hazelcast, a provider in open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG), recently joined the Eclipse Foundation to work with the other members of the Eclipse community to mainly focus on JCache, Eclipse MicroProfile, and EE4J. Greg Luck, CEO at Hazelcast, spoke to InfoQ about Hazelcast joining the Eclipse Foundation.