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AWS Announces Next Generation Graviton3 Processors
Amazon announced the next generation Graviton3 processors and the preview of the EC2 C7g instances. The cloud provider claims that the new instance type running the latest Arm-based processors will provide better compute, higher floating-point and faster cryptographic performances.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2021 Will Highlight Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 5.0
The third annual JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference will go live on December 7th, 2021, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST preceded by a welcome reception by Tanja Obradovic and Ivar Grimstad at 5:45am EST. Focused primarily on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions include keynotes and 15-minute theme slots delivered by a host of Java luminaries.
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AWS Announces Custom Lenses Feature for Its Well-Architected Framework
Recently, AWS announced AWS Well-Architected Custom Lenses, a new feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool. With this new feature, customers can bring their own best practices to complement the existing framework based on their industry, operational plans, and internal processes.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Redshift Serverless
As part of a trend towards serverless analytics options, AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Redshift Serverless. The latest version of the managed data warehouse service targets deployments where it is difficult to manage capacity due to variable workloads or unpredictable spikes.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of NDm A100 v4 Series Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of a brand-new virtual machine (VM) series in Azure, the NDm A100 v4 Series - featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core 80 GB GPUs. This high-performance computing (HPC) VM is designed to deliver high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency for various real-world HPC workloads.
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AWS Step Functions Gains Integrations with over 200 Additional Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports over 200 AWS services via an AWS SDK integration, thereby expanding the number of supported API actions from 46 to over 9,000. The new integration type can support most existing and future services and API actions going forward.
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AWS Announced General Availability of Elastic Disaster Recovery
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). With this new service, organizations can minimize downtime and data loss through the fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications.
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Announcing Cryostat 2.0: JDK Flight Recorder for Containers
Cryostat, a container-native JVM application developed by Red Hat, provides an API for monitoring and profiling Java containers using Java Flight Recorder (JFR). Cryostat brings JFR to container age allowing analysis and profiling of multiple JVMs directly from a central hub.
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Java News Roundup: Micronaut 3.2, Quarkus 2.5, JDK 18, Spring HATEOAS 1.4, JKDMon 17.0.14
It was a relatively quiet news week for the November 22nd, 2021 edition of the Java roundup featuring news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Project Loom Build 18-loom+6-282, Spring HATEOAS 1.4, Micronaut 3.2, Quarkus 2.5.0, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.5.0 and JDKMon 17.0.14.
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Amazon Aurora Supports MySQL 8.0
A few days before re:Invent 2021, AWS announced the general availability of Aurora MySQL 3 with MySQL 8.0 compatibility. The latest major MySQL version adds features such as common table expressions (CTEs), role-based authentication, invisible indexes and instant DDL previously lacking on Aurora.
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D2iQ Releases DKP 2.0 to Run Kubernetes Apps at Scale
D2iQ recently released version 2.0 of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP), a platform to help organizations run Kubernetes workloads at scale. The new release provides a single pane of glass for managing multi-cluster environments and running applications across any infrastructure including private cloud, public cloud, or at the network edge.
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Is SOLID Still Relevant in Modern Software Architecture?
Daniel Orner published a recent article arguing that SOLID principles are still the foundation for modern software architecture. According to Orner, while the practice of software development has changed in the past 20 years, SOLID principles are still the basis of good design. The author explains how they also apply to functional programming and microservices architecture, with examples.
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AWS Announces the Availability of its Cloud Adoption Framework Version 3.0
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is designed to help AWS customers build and execute a comprehensive plan for their digital transformation. And recently, the company announced the availability of version 3.0 of their CAF.
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OutSystems Announces a Cloud-Based Development Platform Project Neo in Preview
Recently, OutSystems announced a new cloud-native application platform, called Project Neo, at their annual NextStep event. It is the first time in company history that OutSystems has launched a second platform, next to OutSystems 11 – a platform for enterprise-grade low-code development.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 18, Spring Updates, Payara Platform, Kotlin 1.6
This week's Java roundup for November 15th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, Project Loom, numerous point releases on Spring projects, MicroProfile 5.0-RC2, Payara Platform, a proposed new Jakarta EE specification, JHipster 7.4.0, TornadoVM 0.12, Apache Camel K 1.7 and Kotlin 1.6.0.