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Cloud Misconfigurations Can Cause Major Data Breaches: Deliveroo at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Sudai, security operations lead at Deliveroo, explored the fundamentals of cloud security posture management, stressing how a single misconfiguration can damage your company's security. She emphasised the importance of bridging the gap between the different layers of the organisation, from governance to technology.
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Planning, Automation and Monorepo: How Monzo Does Code Migrations Across 2800 Microservices
Monzo products are supported by an extensive microservice-based platform of over 2800 services. The company relies on planning and heavy automation to drive code migrations at scale and leverages config service to support gradual roll forwards and quick rollbacks in case of issues. Migrations are managed by a central team rather than service owner teams to avoid delays and inconsistencies.
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Will Quantum Computing Solve Humanity's Biggest Challenges? InfoQ DevSummit Munich Keynote
During her keynote at the inaugural edition of Dev Summit Munich, Teena Idnani, senior vice president at JP Morgan Chase, gave an overview of quantum computing and how we can prepare for its inevitable change in “traditional” computing. Besides decrypting its concepts and stating its benefits, she also pointed to the “quantum-ready” programming languages.
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Swift 6 Officially Available
The Swift team has officially announced the availability of Swift 6, a new major version of Apple open-source language with focus on low-level and embedded programming, concurrent code safety, new cross-platforms APIs, and extended Linux and Windows support.
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RAG-Based Ingestion for Generative AI Applications with Logic Apps Standard in Public Preview
Microsoft's new built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard revolutionizes Generative AI ingestion. Streamline workflows with low-code solutions that transform structured and unstructured data into AI-ready formats. Unlock automation across industries, enhancing searchability and knowledge management effortlessly.
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Feature Gates in Client-Go: Enhancing Control and Simplifying Feature Adoption in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has integrated feature gates into the client-go library, providing developers and administrators with more granular control over feature adoption within their Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes components utilize the client-go library for API interaction. This library is also widely adopted across the Kubernetes ecosystem for building extensions like controllers, tools, and webhooks.
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AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has introduced Graviton4-powered EC2 X8g instances, featuring up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. With 3x improved memory and network bandwidth, plus enhanced security, these instances offer unmatched performance and value. Ideal for databases, big data analytics, and more, X8g sets a new standard in cloud computing.
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Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET
Microsoft launched Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET, streamlining access to generative AI models in the Azure AI Studio model catalog. This catalog includes models from providers like Azure OpenAI Service, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face, organized into three collections: Curated by Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Models, and Open Models from Hugging Face Hub.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-Built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios
Microsoft's Logic Apps (Standard) now features public preview template support, empowering developers with a library of pre-built workflows for diverse integration scenarios. Designed to simplify application management, templates offer detailed workflow insights and customizability. Aiming for GA by year-end, Microsoft encourages community participation to enhance this evolving resource.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
This week's Java roundup for September 16th, 2024, features news highlighting: the release of JDK 23 and GraalVM for JDK 23; an update on Jakarta EE 11 and plans for Jakarta EE 12; introducing Micronaut GraalPy; and Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK 24.08.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 16th, 2024, highlighting point and milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift across Platforms
While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platforms where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.
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Jetpack Compose Embraces Adaptive UIs with Compose Material 3 Adaptive
Compose Material 3 Adaptive, a library meant to create adaptive UIs able to adapt themselves automatically according to the current window size or device orientation, has reached 1.0 and is ready to be used in production apps.
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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Spotify's Dashboard Portal: Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making through Quality and Accessibility
Spotify recently explained their Dashboard Quality Framework, a standardized practice to ensure the accuracy and consistency of dashboards across the organization. The internal Dashboard Portal powered by the Dashboard Quality Framework enables the users to easily search for existing dashboards across the organization.