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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company-wide rollout, they reduced the latency by up to 60% and improved resource utilization at the same time.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.
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Microsoft Previews .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard
Microsoft recently introduced .NET Framework Custom Code for Logic Apps Standard in public preview, allowing developers to call compiled .NET Framework code from a built-in action in their workflow.
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Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance in Preview
At the recent annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a part of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.
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What Carbon Neutral Really Means and How Net-Zero Is Different
Carbon neutrality means that the total amount of emissions is either eliminated, neutralized, or compensated. Net-zero is a target that doesn’t include compensation and puts more emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions. Many products, data centers, or companies are already carbon neutral, but few have reached net-zero. The problem with offsetting approaches is that you continue to emit carbon.
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Apache Pulsar 3.0 Delivers a New LTS Version and Efficiency Improvements
The Apache Software Foundation has released version 3.0 of Apache Pulsar, the distributed messaging and streaming platform. Pulsar 3.0 introduces the Long-Term Support release and many performance and scalability improvements.
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GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations, and More
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Momento Topics: A Serverless Event Messaging System for Pub-Sub
Momento now offers Momento Topics, a serverless event messaging system that supports publish-subscribe communication patterns. This service is designed to provide a messaging pipeline for event architectures, and subsequent feature releases will allow direct AWS Lambda invocations and change data capture events triggered from Momento Cache.
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New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new data mapper for Azure Logic Apps available as a Visual Studio Code extension. The mapper capability is currently in public preview.
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Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack
Slack recently described how it sends millions of messages daily in real-time across the globe. The company provides a comprehensive insight into its architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. It highlights the unique challenges posed by delivering real-time messages across different time zones and regions and how Slack's engineers designed the infrastructure to handle them.
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Low-Code API Builder Postman Flows Moves into General Availability
Postman moved Postman Flows, their low-code API building tool, into general availability. Postman Flows provides a collaborative, graphical interface for building API-driven applications and workflows. It integrates with the Postman API Network to access publicly available APIs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure API Management Workspaces
Microsoft recently added a new feature to Azure API Management with Workspaces, designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location, allowing them to easily view and modify all of their API services in one place.
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Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?
Making code more efficient often ends up saving carbon. Storing less information and compressing it can also lower your carbon footprint. There are open-source projects and standards and guides available that can be used to increase sustainability in software development. Measurement standardization is needed to compare the environmental impact of cloud suppliers.