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Dagger Enables Developer Functions for CI/CD and Opens the Daggerverse
The open-source Dagger project, which aims to be "CI/CD as code that runs anywhere," recently released version 0.10. This release introduces custom Dagger Functions, a feature that simplifies CI scripts while expanding possibilities for developers seeking cleaner, more efficient pipelines. Also announced is the Daggerverse - a searchable index for public Dagger Functions.
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Terraform 1.7 Adds Config-Driven Remove and Test Mocking Ahead of OpenTofu
Hashicorp announced the release of Terraform 1.7, a new version of the popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. Terraform now supports config-driven remove capability, a safer way to remove resources from the managed stack’s state data. The new version also comes with mock providers and overrides, as well as several other enhancements in the test framework.
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Researchers Open-Source LLM Jailbreak Defense Algorithm SafeDecoding
Researchers from the University of Washington, the Pennsylvania State University, and Allen Institute for AI have open-sourced SafeDecoding, a technique for protecting large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks. SafeDecoding outperforms baseline jailbreak defenses without incurring significant computational overhead.
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Enhancing Engineering Design and Collaboration with Azure’s New Secure Simulation Workbench
Microsoft recently launched the public preview of Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench (MSWB). This fully-managed engineering environment enables secure user collaboration while protecting data and IP via multi-layered security and access control solutions.
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AI, Orchestration, Native Network and K8sGPT: KubeCon EU Highlights New CNCF Sandbox Projects
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon EU 2024 conference, several new projects joined the CNCF sandbox in December across a range of categories: kube-burner in CI/CD, Kuasar in the container runtime, K8sgpt in the observability, KRKN in chaos engineering, easegress in API Gateway, spider pool in Cloud-native network and kubestellar in Scheduling and Orchestration.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 9 Preview 2: Blazor, OIDC, OAuth and Configuring HTTP.sys
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 2 which contains some updates regarding ASP.NET Core: Blazor component constructor injection, and WebSocket compression for Blazor interactive server components. Furthermore, developers can streamline authentication integration by customising OIDC and OAuth parameters and configuring HTTP.sys extended authentication flags.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22, GraalVM for JDK 22, Proposed Schedule for JDK 23, JMC 9.0
This week's Java roundup for March 18th, 2024 features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 22, GraalVM for JDK 22, the proposed release schedule for JDK 23, JDK Mission Control 9.0, BellSoft Liberica JDK and Azul Zulu for JDK 22.
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Decathlon Adopts Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern to Empower FE Teams
Decathlon established the Backend For Frontend (BFF) architectural pattern as a company-wide recommendation and provided guidelines for its adoption among engineering teams. The four-part series introduces the pattern and explores its benefits and potential pitfalls. The company also shares available alternatives to using the BFF pattern and reviews architectural considerations.
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SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
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CNCF Incubates Strimzi to Simplify Kafka on Kubernetes
The Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has approved Strimzi as an incubating project to streamline the deployment of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Strimzi provides a Kubernetes-native way to interact with Kafka through a set of operators that extend the Kubernetes API making it easier to configure, deploy, and operate Kafka on Kubernetes.
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Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Native 1.8, Supports ARM and Kubernetes 1.28
The Oracle Linux team recently announced the release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8, a scalable Kubernetes distribution designed for deploying containerized applications in both public cloud environments and on-premise setups. This release includes Kubernetes 1.28 and introduces support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
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Actionforge is a VS Code Extension to Build GitHub Workflows Visually
Actionforge provides a visual, node-based interface to create and maintain GitHub Action workflows masking their underlying YAML textual definition. Packaged as an extension for Visual Studio Code, the tool does not require any external services and is now available in beta.
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Amazon RDS Introduces Faster Storage for High-Performance Database Workloads
AWS has recently introduced support for io2 Block Express volumes on Amazon RDS. Priced as the existing Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io1, the new io2 Block Express volumes are compatible with all database engines and are designed for high-performance, high-throughput, and low-latency database workloads.
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Transitioning Discord’s Engineering Team to Cloud Development Environments
Recently, the Internal Developer Experience team at Discord talked about how they migrated all backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment. Through collaboration with Coder, developers were shifted from using MacBooks to working on machines in a remote development environment.
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Development Environment Manager Daytona Now Open Source
Daytona has recently announced that its Development Environment Management (DEM) is now open-source. Currently in its alpha release, Daytona is designed to start a fully configured development environment with a single command.