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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 Released, Spring Releases, Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Open Liberty
This week's Java roundup for March 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Amazon Corretto 20, BellSoft Liberica JDK 20, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Quarkus 3.0.0.Beta1 and 2.16.5, Helidon 3.2.0, Open Liberty 23.0.0.3-beta, Micronaut 4.0.0-M1, Camel Quarkus 3.0.0-M1, JBang 0.105.1, Failsafe 3.3.1, Maven 3.9.1 and Gradle 8.1-RC1.
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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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Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More
Uno Platform released version 4.8 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings over 200 fixes and new features, as well as support for .NET 8 Preview 2. The highlight of the new release is the new startup experience, new App Template Wizard, OpenGL Acceleration, Design System Package Import, updates for Reactive / MVUX, and many more.
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Google Cloud Spanner Introduces Configurable Read-Only Replicas and Zero-Downtime Move Service
Google recently announced new regional and multi-regional capabilities for Cloud Spanner. The distributed SQL database now supports configurable read-only replicas and introduced a "zero-downtime" instance move service.
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Docker+Wasm Reaches Technical Preview 2, Includes Three New Runtime Engines
Docker has announced the second technical preview of Docker+Wasm, aiming to make it easier to run Wasm workloads and extending runtime support by including Fermyon's spin, Deislabs' slight, and Bytecode Alliance's wasmtime runtime engines.
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Google Distributed Cloud Hosted Now Generally Available
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Hosted, an offering for customers with the most stringent requirements, including classified, restricted, and top-secret data. It complements Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Google Distributed Cloud Virtual, which became generally available in 2022.
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Survey on Supply Chain Practices Finds Perceived Usefulness of Practice Correlates with Adoption
A recent survey on supply chain security practices found that some practices are widely adopted but key practices are lagging behind. Key practices, such as generating provenance, were noted for lagging behind in adoption. The survey also found that the perceived usefulness of a practice is highly correlated with the adoption of that practice.
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AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
During the latest Pi Day, AWS announced Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open-source file client to deliver high throughput access on Amazon S3. Currently in alpha, the local mount point provides high single-instance transfer rates and is primarily intended for data lake applications.
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AWS and NVIDIA to Collaborate on Next-Gen EC2 P5 Instances for Accelerating Generative AI
AWS and NVIDIA announced the development of a highly scalable, on-demand AI infrastructure that is specifically designed for training large language models and creating advanced generative AI applications. The collaboration aims to create the most optimized and efficient system of its kind, capable of meeting the demands of increasingly complex AI tasks.
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Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework
Recent updates to the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework, including the ability to convert older .NET Framework-based apps to .NET 6, 7, or 8+ and new features like the Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer. Upgrading to newer frameworks creates opportunities to support modern technologies like EF Core and many more valuable updates.
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AWS Announces Kubernetes 1.25 Support for EKS
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.25. Highlights of this update include support for Pod Security Admission (PSA), general availability of ephemeral containers, and new values for control groups API version 2.
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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.
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Improving Developer Experience in Non-Technical Organisations with BMK
BMK has recently written about the challenges and DevEx compromises faced by engineers within traditionally non-technical enterprises. McKinsey Digital also recently published a report which asserts that every company is a software company. We report on BMK and McKinsey's recommendations for non-technical firms to improve their delivery by adopting safer software cultures.
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AWS Releases New Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Amazon Linux 2023
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a third-generation distribution with a high-security standard, predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates.
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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.