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AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3, a managed option to centralize data protection for applications storing data on S3. The new feature automates the backup and restore of application data on S3 and combines it with the backup of other services, including instances and databases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Updates, Ansynch and Buffered Logging by Amazon Corretto
This week's Java roundup for March 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, updates to Spring Cloud subprojects, Amazon Corretto providing asynchronous and buffered logging for OpenJDK 17, Quarkus 2.7.4.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0.CR2, Apache Groovy 3.0.10 and 2.5.16, Apache Camel 3.14.2, JReleaser early-access, JobRunr 4.0.10, JDKMon 17.0.23 and FailSafe 3.2.3.
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HashiCorp Moves HCP Packer into GA with New Security Workflows
HashiCorp has moved HCP Packer into full general availability. HCP Packer is their cloud hosted offering of Packer, a machine-image building tool. The release adds a number of new features including improved security workflows, custom metadata, and integration of compliance checks with Terraform Cloud workflows.
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Amazon S3 Supports New Checksum Algorithms for Integrity Checking
Amazon S3 recently introduced support of four checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on upload and download requests. Amazon claims that the enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API accelerates integrity checking of the S3 requests by up to 90%.
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Securing the Open-Source Software Supply Chain
Recent findings by security researchers at SonarSource showed multiple security vulnerabilities in popular package managers, including Pip, Yarn, Composer, and others. Package managers, though, are not the only weak link in the open source security chain. InfoQ has spoken with Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Google Java App Engine Standard is Now Open Source
Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine was designed to make it easy for developers to deploy and scale their web applications easily, without worrying about infrastructure management.
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Reduce the Environmental Impact of AWS Workloads with the New Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
AWS recently released a new customer carbon footprint tool to allow its customers to calculate the environmental impact of their workloads.
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Making On-Call Less Painful for Developers by Using High-Quality Alerts
On-call is an increasing reality for developers. Improving alerts to reduce noise, automation, and removing warnings can help to make on-call work more humane. A driving force behind automation is Infrastructure as Code. Over time you can abstract that code so that it fits other use cases, which helps propagate best practices.
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Deep Learning Toolkit Intel OpenVINO Extends API, Improves Performance, and More
The latest release of Intel OpenVINO offers a cleaner API, expands support for natural language processing, and improves performance and portability thanks to its new AUTO plugin. InfoQ has spoken with senior director AI Intel OpenVINO Matthew Formica to learn more.
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QCon Software Development Conferences: Seven Tracks Not to Miss
Why are micro-frontends important? How should you optimise your organisational architecture for speed and flow? How to make microservices successful? Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions? Looking for new processes and best software practices?
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AWS Delivers a New Unified Service Health Dashboard
Recently, AWS updated its Service Health Dashboard with an improved Interface, better responsiveness, and integration with Personal Health Dashboard – all combined in a new Health Dashboard.
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HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync Adds Task Creation API and New Integrations
HashiCorp has released version 0.5 of Consul-Terraform-Sync. CTS enables automating common networking tasks by creating Terraform modules that can be run as services are added or removed from Consul. This release adds new secure API endpoints to facilitate modifying existing tasks, new ecosystem integrations, and support for triggering Terraform workflows on Consul key-value changes.
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NubesGen Brings Git Push to Azure Infrastructure
With a new command-line interface (CLI) available in its v0.8.0 release, NubesGen can now automatically find its configuration, and set up a GitOps workflow for deploying Infrastructure as Code into Azure, allowing developers to easily get up and running with cloud infrastructure for their projects. InfoQ interviewed Julien Dubois, project leader of NubesGen, on the product and where it’s headed.
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University Researchers Investigate Machine Learning Compute Trends
A team of researchers from University of Aberdeen, MIT, and several other institutions have released a dataset of historical compute demands for machine learning (ML) models. The dataset contains the compute required for training 123 important models, and an analysis shows that since the year 2010 the trend has significantly increased.