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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.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 17th, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, point releases for Helidon, Quarkus, Open Liberty and Hibernate, and a flurry of activity with the various Spring projects.
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eBay Adopts AsyncAPI for Asynchronous API Contracts
eBay recently announced that it adopted AsyncAPI for its external asynchronous API contracts. In March 2021, eBay launched its first AsyncAPI-based contracts for its new business event notification capabilities.
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IBM Introduces Watson Orchestrate for Task Automation
At the recent Think conference, IBM introduces an AI-powered automation tool called Watson Orchestrate. It is currently in preview in IBM Cloud Paks for Automation and expected to be generally available later in 2021 as an SaaS offering.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, updates on MicroProfile APIs, a 1.0 release of Grolifant, a library created by Schalk Cronjé supporting Gradle plugin development, and point releases for Hibernate, Piranha, Quarkus and Spring.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: JetBrains .NET Days Online, TypeScript 4.3 RC, Visual Studio 2019, .NET vulnerability patches, Steeltoe, Telerik, and Akka.NET
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CoreWCF Reached Its First GA Release
CoreWCF is a port of Windows Communication Framework (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF projects to move to .NET Core. After 21 months of public development, CoreWCF has reached its first GA release.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.