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Amazon Adds Global Clusters to DocumentDB
Amazon recently announced support for global clusters on DocumentDB, the document-oriented database compatible with MongoDB.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers to run workflows anywhere.
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Q&A with AWS VP of Compute Services Deepak Singh about AWS App Runner
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding the philosophy and design of App Runner.
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Overcome Cloud & Serverless Security Challenges. Join Security Experts at InfoQ Live - June 22
What is DevSecOps? How does it relate to DevOps? And what does it solve? Learn practical advice from world-class DevSecOps and application security professionals at InfoQ Live on Tuesday, June 22nd, about how you can overcome security challenges in the Cloud, especially in serverless architectures.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 31st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, initial work on JDK 18, Project Skara 1.0, JavaFX, MicroProfile GraphQL, Quarkus 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Hibernate ORM 5.5.0, Payara Platform 5, Eclipse Vert.x 4.1.0, Spring and EclipseCon 2021.
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TypeScript 4.3 Improves Property Write Types
TypeScript 4.3 improves property write types, more explicit overwriting of methods, and several other key additions.
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Microsoft Announces Event Hubs Premium in Preview
Azure Event Hubs is Microsoft’s managed real-time event ingestion service designed to serve demanding big data streaming and event ingestion needs in the Cloud. Microsoft announced the public preview of Event Hubs Premium during the annual Build conference as a new product SKU tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios requiring elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.
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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.