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Kubernetes 1.33 “Octarine” Released: Native Sidecars and In-Place Pod Resizing
Kubernetes v1.33, codenamed “Octarine” in homage to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, was released on April 23, 2025. This milestone introduces 64 enhancements (18 stable, 20 beta, and 24 alpha) reflecting the project's ongoing commitment to scalability, security, and developer experience.
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Cloudflare Launches Public Beta of Secrets Store for Secure Credential Management
During the recent Developer Week 2025, Cloudflare announced the public beta of Cloudflare Secrets Store, a secure way to store API tokens, keys, and credentials. While the long-term goal is to integrate Secrets Store with various Cloudflare products, it currently supports only Cloudflare Workers.
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Mezzalira at QCon London: Micro-Frontends from Design to Organisational Benefits and Deployments
During his QCon London presentation, Luca Mezzalira, principal architect at AWS, shared his experience in building the ideal micro frontend platform. He disclosed the recipe for determining if micro frontends are right for your company, as well as the core principles of creating the perfect architecture for your use case, and also provided deployment strategies for distributed architectures.
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Docker Bridges Agents and Containers with New MCP Catalog and Toolkit
Docker has announced two new AI-focused tools—the Docker MCP Catalog and the Docker MCP Toolkit—to bring container-grade security and developer-friendly workflows to agentic applications, helping build a developer-centric ecosystem for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.
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Google's Gemma 3 QAT Language Models Can Run Locally on Consumer-Grade GPUs
Google released the Gemma 3 QAT family, quantized versions of their open-weight Gemma 3 language models. The models use Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) to maintain high accuracy when the weights are quantized from 16 to 4 bits.
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GitHub Announces Public Preview of GitHub MCP Server
GitHub recently announced the official release of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which is in public preview as of April 4th, 2025. Engineers can integrate with GitHub APIs using this open-source server, enabling automation and AI-powered interactions with the GitHub ecosystem.
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Google DeepMind Shares Approach to AGI Safety and Security
Google DeepMind has released a new paper outlining its approach to safety and security in the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI refers to AI systems that are as capable as humans at most cognitive tasks.
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Scaling API Independence: Akehurst on Mocking, Contract Testing, and Observability
At QCon London 2025, Tom Akehurst spotlighted the path to developer autonomy in microservices through "Scaling API Independence." He emphasized advanced mocking, contract testing, and observability to combat API dependencies. Akehurst showcased how these strategies, enhanced by AI, streamline development, boost productivity, and ensure integration confidence amidst complexity.
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Java News Roundup: Gradle 8.14, JBash Jash, Hibernate, Open Liberty, Spring Cloud Data Flow
This week's Java roundup for April 21st, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Gradle 8.14; JBang introduces Jash, a Java library for shell scripts; the first release candidate of Hibernate ORM 7.0; the April edition of Open Liberty; and the end of open-source support for Spring Cloud Data Flow.
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Docker Desktop 4.40 Introduces Model Runner to Run LLMs Locally, Expanding its AI Capabilities
Docker Desktop 4.40, released on March 31, 2025, introduces a suite of features aimed at enhancing AI development workflows and strengthening enterprise compliance capabilities.
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How Developers Can Eliminate Software Waste and Reduce Climate Impact
High performance and sustainability correlate; making software go faster by improving the efficiency of algorithms can reduce energy requirements, Holly Cummins said at QCon London. She suggested switching systems off when not in use to reduce the environmental footprint. Developers can achieve more by doing less, improving productivity, she said.
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PayPal's New Agent Toolkit Connects AI Frameworks with Payment APIs through MCP
PayPal has released its Agent Toolkit, designed to help developers integrate PayPal's API suite with AI frameworks through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The toolkit provides access to APIs for payments, invoices, disputes, shipment tracking, catalog management, subscriptions, and analytics capabilities.
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Google Releases Last Android 16 Beta before Official Launch
With the release of the last Android 16 beta, developers should ensure their apps or libraries are free of any compatibility issues. Google warns of changes—including JobScheduler quotas, stronger intent security, 16KB page size–that might affect apps even if they do not specifically target Android 16.
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Spring News Roundup: RCs of Spring Boot, Data, Security, Auth, Session, Integration, Web Services
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of April 21st, 2025, highlighting first release candidates of Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith and Spring Web Services.
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Addressing Kubernetes Authorization with Cedar
Cedar is a human-readable and machine-analyzable policy language designed for modern authorization needs. It addresses the challenge with Kubernetes authorization with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and provides condition operators that allow fine-grained permissions on specific resources.