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AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.
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Amazon Rekognition Introduces Streaming Video Events
AWS recently announced the general availability of Streaming Video Events, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition to provide real-time alerts on live video streams.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Container Apps at Build 2022
Last year at Ignite, Microsoft announced a cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers in preview. The company now announced the general availability of the service at the yearly Build conference.
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HashiCorp Vault Improves Eventual Consistency with Server-Side Consistent Tokens
HashiCorp has released Vault 1.10, introducing a number of new features to their secrets and identity management platform. Server-side consistent tokens provide greater control over the eventual consistency model when using performance standby nodes. Authentication can now be performed using the new open source login multi-factor authentication integration.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Spring Updates and CVEs, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 16th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK for JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, Spring milestone and point releases and CVEs, May 2022 Payara Platform release, Quarkus 2.9.1.Final, Micronaut 3.4.4, WildFly 16.1.1, Hibernate ORM 5.6.9.Final, Hibernate Reactive 11.5.Final, JDKMon 17.0.25, JobRunr 5.1.2, JReleaser early-access, Apache Tomcat point releases and Apache Camel 3.17.0.
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Kalix: Build Serverless Cloud-Native Business-Critical Applications with No Databases
Lightbend recently launched Kalix, a new PaaS offering for building cloud-native, business-critical applications using any programming language with no databases. Kalix is a unified application layer that pulls together the necessary pieces for writing software and abstracts their implementation details. Lighbend intends for it to provide developers with an innovative NoOps developer experience.
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Microsoft Releases Azure DNS Private Resolver in Public Preview
Azure DNS Private Resolver is a new service that enables customers to query Azure DNS private zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without deploying VM-based DNS servers. This new service is fully-managed in Azure and in public preview.
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Amazon EC2 Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot
AWS recently announced the general availability of the UEFI Secure Boot and of NitroTPM, a virtual TPM module for EC2 instances based on the AWS Nitro System. The new features are designed for boot-process validation, key protection and digital rights management.
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Google Cloud Introduces PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB for Enterprise Database Workloads
Google Cloud recently announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a managed PostgreSQL-compatible service targeting enterprise deployments. AlloyDB is a full-featured cloud database supporting atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID)-compliant transactions.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 16 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 16 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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Dealing with Thundering Herd at Braintree
Braintree engineer Anthony Ross explained in a recent article how introducing some random jitter into retry intervals for failed tasks solved a thundering herd issue which was impacting the efficiency of their payment dispute management API.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.
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State of the Java Ecosystem Report from New Relic
New Relic recently published a new report on the State of Java Ecosystem using data gathered in January 2022 from millions of anonymized applications that provided performance data.
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Microsoft + Java = ♡: a Story Told by Martijn Verburg at Devoxx UK
Three years after Microsoft acquired jClarity, Martjin Verburg presented at Devoxx UK on how reliant Microsoft is on Java. If the two didn’t seem to fit on the same page, the reality is different: Microsoft runs 2 M JVMs in production for internal purposes, 50+ Android apps, and Azure’s internal systems and Minecraft are built in Java. Moreover, Microsoft is committed to moving Java forward.