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Austrian DPA Ruling against Google Analytics Paves the Way to EU-based Cloud Services
In a recent ruling, the Austrian data regulator declared the use of Google Analytics unlawful based on EU GDPR regulation. While the ruling is very specifically argued and worded, its implications go well beyond this particular case.
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How AI Supports IT Operators to Resolve Issues Faster and Keep Systems Running
AIOps is all about equipping IT teams with algorithms that can help in quicker evaluation, remediation or actionable insights based on their historical data without the need to solicit feedback from users directly. AI can help IT operators to work smart, resolve issues faster and keep the systems up and running to deliver great end-user experience.
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What's New in MicroProfile 5.0
Delivered under the auspices of the MicroProfile Working Group and five months after the release of MicroProfile 4.1, the anticipated release of MicroProfile 5.0 was made available to the Java community. This new release features alignment with Jakarta EE 9.1 and updates to all eight community-developed core APIs and one standalone API.
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Google and GitHub Announce OpenSSF Scorecards v4 with New GitHub Actions Workflow
GitHub and Google have announced the version 4 release of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)'s Scorecards project. Scorecards is an automated security tool that identifies risky supply chain practices in open source projects. This release includes a new Scorecards GitHub Action, new security checks, and a large increase in the repositories included in the foundations weekly scans.
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OpenAI Announces Question-Answering AI WebGPT
OpenAI has developed WebGPT, an AI model for long-form question-answering based on GPT-3. WebGPT can use web search queries to collect supporting references for its response, and on Reddit questions its answers were preferred by human judges over the highest-voted answer 69% of the time.
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Microsoft Releases YARP - Yet Another Reverse Proxy
Last year, in November, Microsoft released YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), a reverse-proxy project developed during the last years by Microsoft as an open-source project.
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GraalVM 22.0 Released with Native Image Improvements
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages, has released version 22.0 with many native image improvements. The native image builder utility comes with significant improvements to speed up build times, reduce image sizes, utilize less memory to build & run images, and provide deep insights into image generation process.
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Aqua Security Reports Large Increase in Supply Chain Attacks
Aqua Security's recent report highlights the increasing threat of supply chain attacks. According to the report, supply chain attacks grew by 300% from 2020 to 2021 while the level of security across software development environments remained low. Google and the CNCF have recently released papers detailing approaches to improving the security of the supply chain.
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Scaling Software Architecture via Conversations: the Advice Process
Andrew Harmel-Law recently published an article describing a decentralised, scalable software architecture process based on the "Advice Process". The Advice Process promotes software architecture by encouraging a series of conversations driven by an empowering, almost anarchistic, decision-making technique. It comprises one rule - anyone can make an architectural decision.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 in RD2, Spring Boot Updates, GraalVM 22, WildFly 2022 Release Plan
This week's Java roundup for January 17th, 2022, features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, JDK 19, multiple Spring releases, Payara Platform, Open Liberty 22.0.0.1 and 22.0.0.2-beta, Quarkus 2.6.3.Final, WildFly 26.0.1 and 2022 release plan, Micronaut 3.2.7 and 3.3.0-M1, Hibernate ORM 5.6.4.Final and Hibernate Search 6.1.0-CR1, Liberica JDK 17.0.2, GraalVM 22 and JReleaser 0.10.0 and 1.0.0-M1.
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Amazon GuardDuty Adds Detection of EC2 Credential Usage from Other AWS Accounts
Amazon GuardDuty recently added the detection of EC2 instance credentials being used by other AWS accounts. This improves upon the previous state where only credentials being used by IP addresses outside of the AWS network were reported on. This new detection is available within all regions.
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Google Updates its Eventarc Service with New UI, Event Destination, and Storage Trigger
Recently, Google announced several new features for its eventing platform Eventarc. The new features are a new UI, Cloud Run for Anthos services as an event destination, and a generally available (GA) Storage Cloud trigger.
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Knative Announces v1.1 and Applies to Become a CNCF Incubating Project
The Knative community released version 1.1 of the Knative project across multiple components. The core components serving and eventing have notable changes and introduce experimental features, such as global min-scale configuration, capability to handle Retry-After headers in 429 / 503 responses.
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How GitHub Does DevOps for its iOS and Android Apps
GitHub relies heavily on GitHub Actions to manage the release process for their iOS and Android apps. Using the right tools to automate the process allows the mobile team to ship a new release every week, GitHub engineer Taehun Kim explains.
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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript
Amazon recently announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging and custom metrics.