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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Quarkus LTS, Micronaut, Foojay Board, DevBCN, JCrete
This week's Java roundup for July 3rd, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, Jakarta EE 11 updates, Micronaut 4.0.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.2.0 and 2.16.8, Helidon 3.2.2, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate Search 6.2.0, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.2, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev02, JDKMon 17.0.69, JBang 0.109.0, Kotlin 1.9.0, Foojay.io updates, and DevBCN and JCrete conferences.
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Descaling for Delivery and Using AI to Enhance Software Development: Learnings from QCon New York
The track Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow - Surviving in the Post-agile Aftermath at QCon New York 2023 comprised two talks in the morning that went into replacing an agile process with engineering and conversational software delivery using AI.
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JetBrains Launches the Kotlin Notebook Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Using the experimental Kotlin Notebook plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, developers will be able to combine code, visualizations, and text, as well as to run code snippets and view their results, all in a single document.
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Enhancing AI Capabilities: Google Cloud Integrates Vector Search in Managed Databases
Google Cloud recently added support for the pgvector on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. The extension brings vector search operations to the managed databases, allowing developers to store vector embeddings generated by large language models (LLMs) and perform similarity searches.
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Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases.
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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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OpenAI Introduces Superalignment to Address Rogue Superintelligent AI
OpenAI announced the formation of a specialized Superalignment team with the objective of preventing the emergence of rogue Superintelligent AI. OpenAI highlighted the need to align AI systems with human values and emphasized the importance of proactive measures to prevent potential harm.
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Cloudflare Introduces Smart Hints to Automate Web Performance Optimisation
Cloudflare has introduced Smart Hints to eliminate the need for manual configuration of Early Hints and Fetch Priorities, By leveraging Cloudflare's network, Smart Hints streamline the optimization process and aim to provide performance improvements without requiring manual configuration.
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Being an Agent of Change for Others and Yourself
Everyone can be an agent of change, even with small contributions. You can also be an agent of change for yourself by focusing on what you can control. Knowing why to change matters, and exploring it you may find out that it’s not the time yet to make a change.
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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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Java Enhances Z Garbage Collector with Generational Capabilities
JEP 439, Generational ZGC, has been promoted from Targeted to Completed for JDK 21. This JEP proposes to improve application performance by extending the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) to maintain separate generations for young and old objects. This will allow ZGC to collect young objects, which tend to die young, more frequently.
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Manifest Confusion Paves the Way to New npm Supply Chain Threats
A recent report by former npm engineering manager Darcy Clarke found that the npm registry does not validate manifest information against the contents of its corresponding package tarball. This creates a double source of truth that attackers can exploit to hide scripts or dependencies, says Clarke.
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Sysdig Announces Cloud Native Application Protection Platform
Sysdig recently unveiled the industry's first Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with end-to-end detection and response capabilities. This platform combines cloud detection and response (CDR) with CNAPP, integrating the power of open-source Falco for both agent and agentless deployment models.
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AWS AppFabric Launched with Goal to Make SaaS Apps and Security Tooling Integration Easier
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS AppFabric. This no-code service enhances companies’ existing investment in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with improved security, management, and productivity.
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Google Announces General Availability of New Features for Cloud Firewall
Google announced the expansion of the offer for Google Cloud Firewall. Cloud Firewall is the GCP firewall service that is cloud native and distributed. The new features now in general availability are threat intelligence for Cloud Firewall, geo-location objects, address groups and local IP ranges.