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Rider 2024.1: New Monitoring Tool Window, Collection Vizualizer, .NET Aspire, AI Assistant Plugin
JetBrains has released Rider 2024.1. This release contains a new monitoring tool window and a collection visualizer. There also appeared the plugins: .Net Aspire, AI Assistant and features regarding debugging.
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Cloudflare Adapts to Let's Encrypt's Certificate Chain Expiration, Minimizing Disruption for Users
In response to the upcoming expiration of Let's Encrypt's cross-signed certificate chain with IdenTrust on September 30, 2024, Cloudflare recently discussed a change in its certificate issuance strategy. For those managing client connections to their applications, Cloudflare has recommended updating the trust store to include the ISRG Root X1 certificate.
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Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack has recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock”, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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Grafana Frees up Engineers to Fix Problems with Improved Incident Management
Grafana Labs, a leading provider of observability solutions, has unveiled significant enhancements to its Incident Response and Management (IRM) platform. These changes help teams manage and respond to incidents more effectively by streamlining incident management processes and reducing response times.
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Beyond Passwords: Elastic's Proactive Move to Phishing-Resistant MFA
Recently, Elastic, a platform for search-powered solutions, discussed the advantages of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA). This secure authentication method goes beyond traditional MFA, which uses passwords, SMS codes, or biometrics, by employing multiple layers of protection and a cryptographic registration process.
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Technical Preview of Github Copilot Workspace: Copilot-Native Developer Environment
Recently, GitHub released a technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace, a developer environment built on GPT-4 Turbo explicitly designed for Copilot. This workspace lets developers quickly brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code using natural language.
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Spotify Supercharges Backstage IDPs with New Products
Audio streaming and media service provider Spotify has unveiled a suite of new products and services tailored to enhance IDPs with Backstage. In a release announcement about Supercharged Developer Portals, Spotify's Senior Director of Engineering for Platform Developer Experience Pia Nilsson introduces three new products to enhance developer portals through the Backstage framework.
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GitLab and Google Cloud Join Forces to Streamline Development and Enhance Security
At Google Cloud Next ‘24, GitLab announced a series of integrations aimed at enhancing the developer experience and streamlining cloud-based development workflows. These integrations, now in public beta, combine GitLab's DevOps platform with Google Cloud's infrastructure and services.
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AWS Adds Auto-Instrumentation of Python Applications to CloudWatch Application Signals
AWS announced the support of auto-instrumentation of Python applications to the Amazon Cloudwatch Application Signals feature. Application Signals enables the use of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to instrument Python applications without code changes. Application Signals allows for the monitoring of service-level objectives (SLOs) and works with several AWS observability and monitoring tooling.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Payara Platform, Spring Boot 10th Anniversary Podcast
This week's Java roundup for May 6th, 2024, features news highlighting: the May edition of the Payara Platform; and new JEP candidates, namely: JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview), JEP 479, Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port, and JEP 478, Key Derivation API (Preview).
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QCon London: Modernizing in Healthcare – from On-Prem to the Cloud
At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, senior engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud, including the challenges he faced and the thinking behind the choices he made throughout the journey. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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QCon London: Curating a Developer Experience
In a talk at QCon London 2024 titled "Curating the Developer Experience," Andy Burgin discussed embracing Developer Experience (DevEx) as an operational philosophy at the betting company Flutter. Recognising the potential of DevEx to enhance productivity and foster collaboration and empathy between teams, Burgin explained how Flutter implemented and evolved their Developer Experience.
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GitHub Enables Dependabot via GitHub Actions, Improves Supply Chain Security
GitHub has released two features to improve the security and resilience of repositories. The first feature allows Dependabot to run as a GitHub Actions workflow using hosted and self-hosted runners. The second release introduces the public beta of Artifact Attestations, simplifying how repository maintainers can generate provenance for their build artifacts.