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AceQL Releases Open-Source JDBC-over-HTTP Driver
AceQL has released a JDBC driver that operates over HTTP. The core of the project is open-source and an enterprise version is also available.
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Uber Reveals Its API Gateway's Architecture
Uber recently detailed the architecture of its internally built API gateway. It described how independent layered components handle each request in the gateway, with each layer being responsible for a different facet of the request lifecycle. A combination of YAML and Apache Thrift defines the gateway configuration, and a code-generated artifact in Go makes up the gateway implementation.
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Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain.
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.NET MAUI Preview 4 Is Here
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4 is here and brings a lot of interesting stuff. Preview 4 adds a few more features which can be used to build functional apps for all the currently supported platforms, preview also brings the support for running Blazor on the desktop, and progress to support .NET MAUI even more in the Visual Studio IDE.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Lambda Extensions
Recently AWS announced Lambda extensions' general availability (GA), which allows its users to integrate Lambda functions with their preferred tooling for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. The GA release includes performance improvements and an expanded set of partners.
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OpenJDK Discusses Post-SecurityManager Practices
Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in early-release builds of Java 17 (a Long-Term Support release). In particular, Oracle has published a technical paper, "Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager."
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Amazon SNS Gains Message Archiving and Analytics via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Amazon SNS supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions to send messages to "data lakes, data stores, and analytics services [...] without writing custom code". The new event destination also simplifies the integration of third-party service providers.
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.NET News Roundup: Microsoft Build, .NET 6, MAUI, Visual Studio 2019, Project Reunion
It's been a busy week for the .NET community with this year's edition of Microsoft Build. During the event, Microsoft released new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks, along with a new version of Visual Studio, TypeScript 4.3, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 24th, 2021.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 24th, 2021
This week's roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, GA releases of Jakarta EE 9.1 and Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, milestone and candidate releases for Micronaut and Hibernate Reactive, respectively, Spring releasing a vulnerability report to address a local privilege escalation attack with Spring WebFlux, and birthday celebrations for Hibernate and Java.
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Microsoft and Elastic Partner to Offer Elastic Stack on Azure
Microsoft and Elastic have recently announced Elastic on Azure, a preview service that offers managed Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana to search, analyze, and visualize data in real time on Azure.
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The Road to Quarkus 2.0: Continuous Testing
Quarkus continues its effort to make Java enterprise applications as efficient as possible, both from the perspective of its run time, resources, start and terminate time and now also from the development of applications. Quarkus 2.0 will enrich its dev mode with the continuous testing capability. Stuart Douglas, the senior principal engineer working on it, provides us with an overview.
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AWS Announces General Availability of New Application Migration Service
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a new service that enables organizations to move applications to AWS without making changes to the applications, their architecture, or the migrated servers. The public cloud provider announced the general availability of this service.
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Jolie - a Service-Oriented Programming Language for Distributed Applications
The Jolie programming language recently attracted the attention of developers on Hacker News. Jolie is a service-oriented language that encourages developers to model distributed software as composable services whose orchestration is described separately from communication protocols (SOAP, HTTP, XML-RPC) and deployment architecture. Jolie adopts services as a first-class concept.
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AWS Launches EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools
AWS recently released Warm Pools for EC2 Auto Scaling, which reduces the time and cost to scale out (aka horizontal scaling) applications by maintaining a pool of pre-initialized instances.
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Confluent Announces Confluent for Kubernetes into General Availability
Recently, Confluent announced the general availability (GA) of Confluent for Kubernetes, a complete, declarative API-driven experience for deploying and self-managing Confluent Platform as a cloud-native system. With Confluent for Kubernetes, the company packages its event-streaming platform into Kubernetes and provides a Cloud-Native offering.