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Consul 1.16 Released with Reliability, UX and Security Improvements
Consul 1.16 - the latest version of Hashicorp's service mesh tool - has been released. This release contains many enhancements that improve service mesh reliability, user experience, and security.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 29, JDK 21 in RDP2, Helidon 4.0-M1, Oracle Critical Patch Updates
This week's Java roundup for July 17th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, JDK 20, BellSoft, releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Framework; Spring for GraphQL; Spring Session; Spring Integration and Spring HATEOAS; WildFly 29, Quarkus 3.2.1, Helidon 4.0-M1, Micronaut 4.0.1, Hibernate 6.3-CR1, MicroProfile Config 3.1, Infinispan 14.0.13, PrimeFaces 12.0.5, OpenXava 7.1.3 and Gradle 8.3-RC1.
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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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Enhanced Testcontainers and Development-Time Containers Support in Spring Boot 3.1
Spring Boot 3.1, the latest version of the popular Java-based framework for building stand-alone, production-grade applications, introduces enhanced support for development-time containers. This new feature was the focus of a recent livestream by Josh Long, a Spring developer advocate, on his YouTube channel "Coffee + Software with Josh Long."
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Java News Roundup: JNoSQL 1.0, Liberica NIK 23.0, Micronaut 4.0-RC2, Log4j 3.0-Alpha1, KCDC, JCON
This week's Java roundup for June 19th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, updates to: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Vault; Spring for GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server and Spring Modulith; Liberica NIK 23.0, Semeru 20.0.1, Micronaut 4.0-RC2 and 3.9.4, JNoSQL 1.0, Vert.x 4.4.4, updates to: Apache Tomcat, Camel, Log4j and JMeter; JHipster Lite 0.35, KCDC 2023 and JCON Europe 2023.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 in Rampdown, JEP 404, JDK 22 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Updates
This week's Java roundup for June 5th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21 in Rampdown, JDK 22 expert group, Jakarta EE 11 update, Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0, Quarkus 3.1.1, Micronaut 3.9.3, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.3, Apache Commons IO 2.13, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M7 and 9.0.76, Infinispan 14.0.10 and 13.0.17, JHipster Lite 0.34, OpenXava 7.1.1, Yupiik Fusion 1.0.3, Gradle 8.2-RC2 and JNation.
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Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3
At his Devoxx UK presentation, Josh Long - Spring developer advocate at VMWare - coded his way through the new features coming in Spring Framework 6, and Spring Boot 3, emphasizing the benefits at the Java language level in the latest versions starting with version 17. He showcased the graphql support, the new declarative client, the new tracing, the native support and the new jakarta ee baseline.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, Spring Cloud AWS 3.0, OptaPlanner to Timefold
This week's Java roundup for May 1st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.6, Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services 3.0.0, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.3, Spring Tools 4.18.2, Infinispan 14.0.9.Final, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4, Quarkus 3.0.2 and 2.16.7, Helidon 3.2.1, Apache Camel 4.0.0-M3, Arquillian 1.7.0 and OptaPlanner transitions to Timefold.
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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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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Release Schedule, Payara Platform, JBang, JHipster, WildFly
This week's Java roundup for March 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.3, Spring point and milestone releases, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.CR1, Micronaut 3.8.8, WildFly 28 Beta1, Hibernate ORM 6.2, Groovy 4.0.11, Camel 3.20.3, James 3.7.4, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.1, JHipster Quarkus Blueprint 2.0, JHipster Lite 0.30, JBang 0.106, Gradle 8.1-CR2 and new Foojay.io calendar.
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HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, adding new features that improve interacting with Envoy and troubleshooting issues within the service mesh platform. The release introduces improvements to Envoy access logging as well as adding in Consul Envoy extensions. To improve the troubleshooting experience, a new service-to-service troubleshooting tool has been added.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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Google Service Weaver Enables Coding as a Monolith and Deploying as Microservices
Google has released Service Weaver, an open-source framework for building and deploying distributed applications. The Go-based framework includes a set of programming libraries that enable writing applications as a single modular binary. The other component is a set of deployers that allow for configuring the runtime topology and running the application locally or in the cloud.
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Introducing Hilla 2.0: Reactive Endpoints, Native Image, Simplified Theming, SSO Kit, and More
Hilla, the type-safe web framework for Spring Boot, has announced the release of version 2.0. This release utilizes Spring Boot 3, Java 17, and Jakarta EE 10, providing access to the latest features in the Java ecosystem. It includes an improved TypeScript generator, web socket support for reactive endpoints, support for GraalVM native images, a simplified theming mechanism, and a new SSO kit.