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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 22th, 2021
This past week was marked by the online streaming of Cloud Builders Conf and the release of Unity 2020 LTS. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 22th, 2021.
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Amazon Announces S3 Object Lambda: Run Code Dynamically During Retrieval
Amazon has recently announced S3 Object Lambda, a new serverless feature to add customized code and process data from S3 before returning it to an application. S3 Object Lambda works with S3 GET requests and uses AWS Lambda functions to modify data as it is being retrieved from the object storage.
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Eclipse Adoptium Working Group Formally Established
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that the Adoptium Steering Committee has formally approved the Adoptium Working Group Charter. Formerly known as AdoptOpenJDK, the group changed their name to Adoptium after joining the Eclipse Foundation. The Adoptium Working Group will provide the Java community with fully compatible, high-quality distributions of Java binaries based on OpenJDK source code.
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Q&A with William Denniss Regarding Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot Mode
InfoQ caught up with William Denniss, product manager at Google regarding Autopilot -- a hands-off operations mode for Google Kubernetes Engine.
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Cloudflare Announcement Helps Customers Protect against Online Threats, Such as Digital Skimmers
Cloudflare announces a new service called Page Shield. Page Shield is a client-side security offering that helps websites protect their users' information from supply chain and client-side attacks, such as Magecart. It joins tools like CSP and SRI as ways to protect against these types of attacks.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visualization.
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V8 JavaScript Engine 9.0 Improves JavaScript to WebAssembly Performance
The 9.0 release of the V8 JavaScript engine, powering Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, improves the performance of making WebAssembly calls from JavaScript, adds regular expression match indices, and speeds up super property access.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021, featuring the release of Java 16, JEPs advancing from Draft to Candidate status, and news from Hibernate, Red Hat and Spring.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of the new Azure SDK, multiple Akka.NET plugins, and the streaming of Include 2021, a digital event host by Microsoft focused on diversity and inclusion. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021.
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Amazon Redshift Data Sharing Now Generally Available
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of the Amazon Redshift Data Sharing functionality to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. This allows the use of a single data warehouse cluster for multi-cluster deployments and sharing data instantly without the need to copy or move them.
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Hazelcast Jet 4.4 Released - the Four-Year Anniversary Release as Seen by Scott McMahon
Hazelcast Jet recently celebrated its four-year anniversary with the release of version 4.4. Besides the normal bug fixes and performance enhancements, this new version ships with new features such as the unified file connector and the first beta version of the SQL interface. InfoQ spoke to Scott McMahon, technical director of field engineering at Hazelcast, about this new release.
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Java 16 Released
Oracle has released version 16 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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AWS Announces Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Recently AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes, which deliver the same features and benefits as the existing Amazon EFS storage classes yet reduce storage costs by 47%. With One Zone storage classes, customers can redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).
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Google Cloud Releases Its Healthcare Consent Management API to General Availability
Google Cloud recently announced it would release its Healthcare Consent Management API to general availability to provide healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals' consent over health data use. The Healthcare Consent Management API is part of the Cloud Healthcare API offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).