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Need Help Tracking Cloud Emissions? Microsoft Previews Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
At the recent Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals and take measurable action.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are a key Elastic Compute (EC2) component with several HDD and SSD volumes, each designed for a particular use case. And recently, AWS announced the general availability of its cloud-based storage area network (SAN) offering, Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes – providing 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes.
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GitHub Funds Independent Legal Support for Developers against DMCA
GitHub has launched a program to offer developers free legal support from Stanford Law School against DMCA takedowns requested under Section 1201. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Mike Linksvayer, head of developer policy at GitHub, and Phil Malone, director of Juelsgaard Clinic, Stanford Law.
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AWS Announces Customizable Image Support for Amazon EMR on EKS
Recently, AWS announced customizable image support for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to modify the Docker runtime image that runs their analytics application using Apache Spark on their EKS cluster.
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Is Java 17 a Glass Half Full?
Java 17 has entered feature freeze and will be released on September 14th.
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Q&A with Jeff Hollan of Microsoft Regarding Azure Application Services on Kubernetes
InfoQ caught up with Jeff Hollan, director of product management, Azure Application Platform at Microsoft, about the philosophy behind running Azure App Service on Kubernetes, some of the technical details and the requirement on Azure Arc.
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Making a Case against Kubernetes at Ably
In a recent article in the Ably Engineering series, Ably's engineer Maik Zumstrull explained why real-time messaging platform Ably does not use Kubernetes. InfoQ has taken the change to speak with Zumstrull to learn more.
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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile 4.1, Spring Boot Updates, Kotlin, Scala, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK
This week's Java roundup for July 19th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, OpenJDK, Liberica JDK, GraalVM, MicroProfile 4.1, Quarkus 2.0.3, Hibernate, Spring Framework, JobRunr 3.4.0, ReactorFirst 0.1.0, Apache Tika 2.0.0, Kotlin 1.5.30-M1, Scala 3.0.1 and Scala 3.0.2-M1.
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Google Cloud Introduces Option to Choose Region with Lowest CO2 Footprint
Google has recently introduced the option to choose a Google Cloud region according to the lowest CO2 footprint. The new feature is currently available for Cloud Run and Datastream only, with Google planning to extend the offer to more Google Cloud services in the future.
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PayPal Engineering Teams Implement Premortem Analysis
In a recent blog post, the PayPal engineering team published how it uses premortem analysis as part of its regular software design process. The team adopted a customized version of premortem analysis last year, which highly benefited PayPal engineering. Premortem is a strategy in which a team imagines that a project failed and then works backward to determine what could lead to this failure.
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WhatsApp Adopts the Signal Protocol for Secure Multi-Device Communication
WhatsApp is testing its new architecture aimed to enable true multi-device message synchronization while preserving end-to-end cryptographic security. To this aim, WhatsApp is adopting the Signal protocol.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon HealthLake
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service. With the service, healthcare providers, health insurance-, and pharmaceutical companies can securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Disk Pool for Azure VMware Solution
Microsoft recently announced the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution - a vSAN hyper-converged vSphere cluster. With this persistent storage option, customers have another choice for running VMware workloads on Azure.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast Introduces New Platform, JDK 17, JDK 18 and Spring
This week's Java roundup for July 12th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, Hazelcast introducing a new platform, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8-beta, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.2, Piranha 21.7.0, Quarkus 2.0.2, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Apache Wicket, and the JakartaOne Livestream 2021 conference call for papers.
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QCon Plus November 2021 is Now Hybrid. Attend Online and In-Person (NY & SF)
The QCon Plus software development conference will be back November 1-5, 2021 - online and in-person. Get the chance to engage and network with professionals driving change and innovation inside the world’s most innovative software organizations.