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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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JEP 425: Java Virtual Threads to Deliver Improved Throughput
JEP 425, Virtual Threads (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 19. This JEP, under the umbrella of Project Loom, introduces virtual threads. These lightweight threads aim to dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications to the Java platform. This is a preview feature.
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Envoy as a Service-to-Service Proxy at Mux
Mux uses Envoy networking proxy within its Kubernetes clusters to solve known load-balancing issues with gRPC requests and long-lived HTTP/2 connections.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for Projects Loom and Panama, JobRunr 5.1.0, Kotlin 1.7.0 Preview
This week's Java roundup for May 2nd, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JEPs targeted for JDK 19, JobRunr 5.1.0, Quarkus 2.8.3.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.1.Final, Kotlin 1.7.0 preview, Apache Camel versions 3.14.3 and 3.11.7, Apache Tika version 2.4.0 and 1.28.2, a Micronaut survey on a minimal JDK version and the 2022 JFokus Conference.
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Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced that SageMaker Serverless Inference is generally available. Designed for workloads with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, the new option provisions and scales compute capacity according to the volume of inference requests the model receives.
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Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced that Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available. The serverless option to manage an Apache Kafka cluster removes the need to monitor capacity and automatically balances partitions within a cluster.
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Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline
Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.
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Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview
Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Purview, a new product branding bringing together the Azure Purview data governance service with various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.
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GraphQL Syntax Used for a Novel Approach to Schema Validation and Code Generation
Nav Technologies has created an open-source schema definition and code generator that uses GraphQL syntax to define events and message formats. GraphQL was chosen for its expressiveness and familiarity among developers, but it is only used for its syntax; the Nav Schema Architecture (NSA) does not use the GraphQL runtime.
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Static Java Current State: Compiled Native Executables for Startup Speed and Small Footprint
Java’s long lasting motto of write once, run everywhere, seems to be adapting to the cloud native era. With the need for faster boot time and lower footprint, Static Java is gaining traction. To better understand the benefits and implications of adopting Static Java, InfoQ reached out to Dan Heidinga, principal software engineer at Red Hat.
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AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability
During the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS announced the general availability of its IoT TwinMaker service – AWS IoT TwinMaker.
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SoundCloud Chronicles the End of the Public API Strangler
SoundCloud has successfully completed their migration journey using the Strangler pattern from a monolith application to a fully-fledged BFF.
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Java News Roundup: JEP Updates for JDK 19, Project Loom, MicroStream 7.0, New Relic Java Survey
This week's Java roundup for April 25th, 2022, features news from JEPs targeted for JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+6-625, Spring Cloud 2021.0.2, Spring Tools 4.14.1, GraalVM 22.1.0, Micronaut 3.4.3, MicroStream 7.0, Quarkus 2.8.2, Apache Camel 1.9.0, and the New Relic State of the Java Ecosystem survey.
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How Meta Uses Privacy-Friendly Credentials in De-Identified Authentication
Meta uses authentication to protect its service’s endpoints against abusive usage. Post-processing access data to remove personally identifiable information is an approach they found too resource-intensive. An article was published recently explaining how Meta leveraged de-identified authentication to protect their services and their user’s privacy at the same time.
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AWS Releases the Second Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless with Independent Scaling
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of the second version of Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. The second version is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL, featuring the independent scaling of compute and storage.