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AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments
AWS recently announced the general availability of Lambda Function URLs, a feature that lets developers directly configure a HTTPS endpoint and CORS headers for a Lambda function without provisioning other services.
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Java News Roundup: Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, JHipster 7.8.0, Spring CVEs, JReleaser 1.0-RC2
This week's Java roundup for March 28th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, Spring Boot, Spring CVEs, Apache Tomcat point releases, Quarkus Tools for Visual Studio Code, Micronaut 3.4.1, JetBrains joining the Micronaut Foundation, Open Liberty Paketo Liberty Buildpack, Hibernate 6.0, JobRunr 5.0, WildFly 26.1 Beta S2I images, JReleaser 1.0-RC2, MicroStream 7.0-M2, JHipster 7.8.0, and JMH 1.35.
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Apache NetBeans 13 Delivers Improved Developer Experience
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache NetBeans 13, their integrated development environment (IDE), claiming a simpler and smoother startup experience along with the partial upgrade of Maven, Gradle, and PHP. Written in Java and originally designed for the Java community, NetBeans is a cross-platform, polyglot IDE that includes language support for HTML5, PHP, and C/C++.
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Fauna Transactional Database Introduces Event Streaming
Fauna, the company behind the Fauna transactional database, recently announced the general availability of event streaming, a push-based stream that sends changes at both the document and collection levels to subscribed clients.
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Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft
Lyft used cloud-based isolated environments for several purposes, including end-to-end testing. As the number of microservices increased, tests using these environments became harder to scale and lost value. Recent articles describe how Lyft shifted to testing using request isolation in a shared staging environment and used acceptance tests to gate production deployments.
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Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
Kestra, a new open-source orchestration and scheduling platform, helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines. The concept of a workflow, called Flow in Kestra, is at the heart of the platform. It is a list of tasks defined with a descriptive language based on yaml.
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AWS Lambda Supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage for Data-Intensive Applications
AWS recently announced that Lambda functions now support up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage that is preserved for the lifetime of the execution environment. The feature will help customers that run data workloads such as media processing, machine learning inference or financial analysis.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18 GA, JMC 8.2, Spring Updates, MicroStream 7.0-Beta1, WildFly 26.1-Beta1
This week's Java roundup for March 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, JDK Mission Control 8.2, Amazon Corretto 18, BellSoft LibericaJDK 18, multiple Spring milestone and point releases, Micronaut 3.4.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.11, WildFly 26 Beta 1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.4.Final, MicroStream 7.0-M1, JReleaser 1.0-RC1, and TornadoVM 0.13.
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Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments
Lyft engineering finished their decomposition of a monolith into a collection of microservices back in 2018. Modular development environments using Docker containers eventually moved to the cloud. Recent articles describe how their development tooling struggled to keep up as time passed and the number of microservices exploded. Development environments had to return to the engineer’s machine.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Health Data Services: Protected Health Information on the Cloud
Microsoft recently announced Azure Health Data Services, a Platform-as-a-Service that allows organizations to upload, store, manage and analyze healthcare data in the open standards FHIR and DICOM.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.
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Vaadin Introduces Hilla to Unify Frontend/Backend Web Development
Vaadin has introduced Hilla, a new framework for Java developers that combines the backend with Spring Boot and the frontend as a mix of TypeScript and Lit. Hilla offers many capabilities to simplify business application development, such as providing a unified project setup for Java and TypeScript that remains in sync.
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Growing Concerns among Developers about Google Cloud Price Increases
Google Cloud recently announced changes to their pricing models, with storage and data transfer costs mostly affected. Many experts in the cloud community have been raising concerns about architectural implications and the end of a long term "prices never go up" cloud tenet.