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Structured Concurrency in JDK 21: A Leap Forward in Concurrent Programming
JEP 453, Structured Concurrency (Preview), has been Integrated from the Targeted status for JDK 21. Formerly an incubating API, this initial preview incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous two rounds of incubation: JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; and JEP 437, Structured Concurrency (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 20.
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Grafana Adds Service Accounts and Improves Debugging Experience
Grafana Labs has released version 9.5 of Grafana including improvements to Grafana Alerting, service accounts, and improvements to the dashboards. Support bundles were also released providing a simpler way to gather and share debugging information about the Grafana stack. AWS has announced support for Grafana 9.4 within their Amazon Managed Grafana service.
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The Guardian Optimizes Mobile Push-Notification Delivery Architecture
The technology team at the Guardian has taken on making mobile push notifications faster to improve readers' experience. The original architecture, optimized for concurrency, has been suffering from delays in notification delivery. The engineers used improved observability to make significant gains through experimentation.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, MicroStream to Eclipse, Helidon, Piranha, Gradle 8.1
This week's Java roundup for April 10th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Framework and Spring Data updates, GraalVM Build Tools 0.9.21, MicroStream becomes an Eclipse Project, Micronaut 3.8.9, Helidon 4.0.0.Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2.1, Micrometer Metrics 1.11.0-RC1, 1.10.6 and 1.9.10, Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-RC1 and 1.0.4, Piranha 23.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.6 and Gradle 8.1.
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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco, principal engineer at Skyscanner, shared his experiences at QCon London on a large-scale observability initiative at his company, based on adopting OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services and the motivation and value gained from adopting open standards across the entire organization.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, GraalVM 23 Early-Access, Infinispan, Mojarra, Micrometer Metrics
This week's Java roundup for March 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 23.0 early-access, Spring Tools 4.18, Quarkus 3.0-Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2 CR4, Micrometer Metrics 1.11, Micrometer Tracing 1.1, Infinispan 14.0.7, Piranha 23.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.5, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.2, Apache Groovy 4.0.10 and 3.0.16, JHipster Lite 0.29.0, JReleaser 1.5.1 and JobRunr 6.1.2.
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AWS Lambda Supports Powertools for .NET to Simplify Observability
AWS recently announced that the open-source library Lambda Powertools now supports .NET. The developer library helps implement observability when running Lambda functions based on .NET 6 or above, reducing the amount of custom code.
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SapMachine Vitals Provides Operating System and JVM Statistics
SapMachine Vitals provides a monitoring tool that keeps a condensed history of operating system and JVM statistics. The feature is always on and may be used to retrieve information such as heap usage, Metaspace size, container memory statistics and limits, the number of classes loaded and the amount of threads spawned.
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Java News Roundup: Gradle 8.0, Maven, Payara Platform, Piranha, Spring Framework, MyFaces, Piranha
This week's Java roundup for February 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Native Build Tools 0.9.20, Spring 6.0.5, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.1, Quarkus 2.16.3, Payara Platform, Micronaut 3.8.5, Helidon 3.1.2, Vert.x 3.9.15, Hibernate Search 6.2.Alpha2, MyFaces 4.0-RC5, Grails 5.3.2, Reactor 2022.0.3, Metrics 1.11-M1 and Tracing 1.1-M1, Maven 3.9, Gradle 8.0 and Piranha 22.3.
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New CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Asynchronous Invocations
AWS recently added three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda: AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge, and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing.
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InfluxData Releases Its New Database Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxData releases into general availability the new version of its database engine called Influx IOx. It is now available to be used in InfluxDB Cloud.
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Service Mesh Kuma Improves Policy Handling and Debugging Experience
Kuma, a service mesh technology, released version 2.1 with improved policies and an updated UI. The improved policies build upon the 2.0 release and move the remaining policies over to the new targetRef system. The targetRef system provides an improved matching system for defining policies.
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Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability
Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs.
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Grafana Tempo Introduces New Query Language and Support for Apache Parquet
Grafana has released Grafana Tempo 2.0 which introduces the new TraceQL query language and support for the Apache Parquet format. Grafana Tempo is an open-source tracing backend that works with object storage. The new TraceQL query language works with the Apache Parquet format to provide improved search times and queries aligned to traces.