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Spring News Roundup: RCs of Spring Boot, Data, Security, Auth, Session, Integration, Web Services
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of April 21st, 2025, highlighting first release candidates of Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith and Spring Web Services.
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Addressing Kubernetes Authorization with Cedar
Cedar is a human-readable and machine-analyzable policy language designed for modern authorization needs. It addresses the challenge with Kubernetes authorization with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and provides condition operators that allow fine-grained permissions on specific resources.
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AWS Promotes Responsible AI in the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
AWS announced the availability of the new Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, focused on providing best practices for designing and operating generative AI workloads. The lens is aimed at organizations delivering robust and cost-effective generative AI solutions on AWS. The document offers cloud-agnostic best practices, implementation guidance and links to additional resources.
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DeepMind Researchers Propose Defense against LLM Prompt Injection
To prevent prompt injection attacks when working with untrusted sources, Google DeepMind researchers have proposed CaMeL, a defense layer around LLMs that blocks malicious inputs by extracting the control and data flows from the query. According to their results, CaMeL can neutralize 67% of attacks in the AgentDojo security benchmark.
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Google Cloud Announces Firestore with MongoDB Compatibility
During the recent Google Cloud Next 2025, the cloud provider announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility. This new option provides MongoDB API and query language to store and query semi-structured JSON data in Google Cloud’s real-time document database.
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Activision Reduces Build Time of Call of Duty by 50% with MSVC Build Insights
Activision has cut build times for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (COD) in half by profiling and optimizing their C++ build system with MSVC Build Insights to uncover bottlenecks in their compilation pipeline. The effort unblocked developers, accelerated delivery, and reduced idle time.
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Microsoft Extends SLNX Solution File Support in .NET CLI
Microsoft has announced experimental support for .slnx files in the .NET CLI v9.0.200, unifying the developer experience among the .NET tooling. This new feature aims to remove clutter in the solution file and to reduce friction when working with large solutions.
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Azure MCP Server Enters Public Preview: Expanding AI Agent Capabilities
Microsoft's Azure MCP Server, now in Public Preview, enhances AI capabilities by enabling seamless interaction with Azure resources. This open-source tool standardizes AI agent access to services like Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Storage, empowering developers to create context-aware applications. Expect rich functionality and support for custom MCP clients to optimize cloud resource management.
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QCon London 2025 Day 2: the Form of AI, Securing AI Assistants, WASM Components in FaaS
The 19th annual QCon London conference took place at the The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day Two, scheduled on April 8th, 2025, included a keynote address by Savannah Kunovsky and presentations from five conference tracks.
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Edera Protect 1.0 Now Generally Available
Edera has announced the general availability of Edera Protect 1.0, a Kubernetes security solution designed to enhance container isolation and address longstanding security challenges in cloud-native environments.
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Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity for Improving Productivity and Operational Excellence
As companies grow, investing in custom developer tools may become necessary. Initially, standard tools suffice, but as companies scale in engineers, maturity, and complexity, industry tools may no longer meet needs. Inflection points, such as a crisis, hyper-growth, or reaching a new market, often trigger investments, providing opportunities for improving productivity and operational excellence.
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Gemini to Arrive On-Premises with Google Distributed Cloud
Google's Gemini models are set to revolutionize on-premises AI with their upcoming launch on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) in Q3 2025. Partnering with NVIDIA, organizations can harness advanced AI while maintaining strict compliance and data residency. With flexible infrastructure and secure environments, Gemini enables real-time insights for data-driven decision-making across industries.
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LittleHorse, a Java Workflow Engine for Distributed Systems Orchestration
LittleHorse is a Java open-source platform designed to orchestrate distributed systems, addressing the challenges related to state management and the coordination of microservices, external APIs, and human tasks. It allows developers to define workflows programmatically using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C#/.NET, eliminating the need for specialized DSLs.
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Microsoft Native 1-Bit LLM Could Bring Efficient genAI to Everyday CPUs
In a recent paper, Microsoft researchers described BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the first LLM to be natively trained using "1-bit" (technically, 1-trit) weights, rather than being quantized from a model trained with floating point weights. According to Microsoft, the model delivers performance comparable to full-precision LLMs of similar size at a fraction of the computation cost and hardware requirements.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Innovative cloud solutions expert Somtochi Onyekwere recently presented at QCon London 2025, unveiling Corrosion—Fly.io's advanced open-source distributed system. By leveraging CRDTs and Rust, Corrosion enhances scalability and data synchronization, addressing latency challenges and ensuring rapid, consistent application deployment across a global network of 40+ regions.