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Java News Roundup: CVE-2022-22968, Vector API, Jakarta EE 10 Update, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0
This week's Java roundup for April 11th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 426, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10 updates, Spring Framework point releases and CVE-2022-22968, Quarkus 2.8.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.4 and 22.0.0.5-beta, Micronaut 3.4.2, WildFly 26.1, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0-M4, Piranha 22.4.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.8.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0, and the Devnexus 2022 Conference.
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AWS Firewall Manager Supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls
AWS recently announced that Firewall Manager supports Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW). Palo Alto Networks partnered with the cloud provider to offer a managed firewall service designed to simplify securing AWS deployments.
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BBC New Serverless Platform Improves Scalability and Performance
One year into the transition to their new WebCore serverless platform, the BBC has started to reap the benefits of an architecture that removes the burden on engineers to solve performance and operational challenges and allows them to focus on the value they deliver to customers.
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React 18, Introducing the Concurrent Renderer
React 18 is out and includes the long-awaited concurrent renderer, which enables React to offer several improvements, including the ability to interrupt the rendering process.
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Amazon EKS Announces Support for Kubernetes 1.22
The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team announced support for Kubernetes 1.22. This Kubernetes version - released in August 2021 - comes with stable credential plugins, server-side apply, Windows related enhancements and security features in the Kubernetes control plane.
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How Software Affects Climate Change, and What Software Engineers Can Do about It
There are huge amounts of software running everywhere on the planet - and this software consumes energy when it is running. Unfortunately most of the energy world-wide is still being produced by burning fossil fuels. Software engineers can improve the software so that it uses less energy to do its job, then less energy needs to be produced by burning fossil fuels, which is better for the climate.
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AWS Increases the Availability and Reliability of Amazon EventBridge with Global Endpoints
Recently, AWS introduced a new capability called global endpoints for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge to improve availability and reliability.
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Stanford University Publishes AI Index 2022 Annual Report
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has published its 2022 AI Index annual report. The report identifies top trends in AI, including advances in technical achievements, a sharp increase in private investment, and increasing attention on ethical issues.
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Microsoft Introduces Open Data for Social Impact Framework
Microsoft recently introduced the Open Data for Social Impact Framework, a guide to help organizations put data to work to get new insights, make better decisions, and improve efficiency while tackling pressing social issues. The framework includes a five-step roadmap that organizations can use to get started.
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Becoming a Staff Plus Engineer: Leadership and Communication Training Matters
The poor industry support for engineers who want to pursue a technical career affects them; many outstanding technical individuals find themselves forced to seek a management position. The path to a staff plus engineer role is not straightforward. Training on leadership and communication for staff plus engineers can help them to become a better tech leader.
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CircleCI Report Finds Successful Software Teams are Larger and Test Extensively
CircleCI - a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform - has released the findings from their 2022 State of Software Delivery Report. The report reveals that the most successful software delivery teams are larger, use extensive testing, and prioritise being ready to deploy.
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How to Build an In-App Messaging Platform: Lyft's Case
If you have ever thought about building an in-app messaging platform for your mobile app, Lyft's experience may help you get it right. Lyft engineers applied a three-staged approach: MVP, scaling, and optimization.
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Java News Roundup: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell
This week's Java roundup for April 4th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEP 425, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+5-429, Jakarta EE Starter utility, Spring milestone and point releases, Payara and JetBrains statements on Spring4Shell, JReleaser 1.0, Helidon 2.5.0, JHipster 7.8.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.4, Kotlin 1.6.20, and JDKMon 17.0.24.
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JReleaser 1.0 Releases Itself
Exactly one year after its initial release, Jreleaser rolls out version 1.0. In the meantime, other projects started using the tool and its capabilities increased. To review how JReleaser evolved over the last year and may be envisioned for the next year, InfoQ spoke to Andres Almiray, author and main contributor of JReleaser.
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Rust 1.60 Released with LLVM-Native Code Coverage Along with Rust 2024 Roadmap
Rust 1.60 stabilizes source-based code coverage using LLVM native instrumentation, re-enables incremental compilation by default, and enforces Instant monotonicity guarantees. Additionally, the Rust team has formalized its roadmap for Rust evolution until 2024.