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AWS Outposts Now Supports Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots
Recently AWS announced that its Outposts service now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (ESB) local snapshots. With Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts, customers can store snapshots of their Amazon EBS volumes locally on Amazon S3 on Outposts to meet their data residency and local data processing needs.
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Serverless React Applications with AWS Lambda
Roman Boiko, solutions architect at AWS, recently published three scenarios to deploy a React application in the cloud or at the edge making use of Amazon Web Services. The scenarios use Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Lambda@Edge for a fully serverless implementation.
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Amazon Announces New Bare Metal EC2 Instances
AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 8th, 2021
A roundup of the week's smaller stories in the Java ecosystem.
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Microsoft Announces Limited Access to Its Neural Text-to-Speech AI
Recently, Microsoft announced limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI called Custom Neural Voice. The service allows developers to create custom synthetic voices.
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Google Cloud Supports Ruby on Cloud Functions
Google Cloud recently announced the public preview of Ruby on Cloud Functions. The open-source Functions Framework for Ruby supports HTTP functions and CloudEvent functions.
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QCon Plus (May 17-28) Program Committee and Conference Chair Announced
This May at QCon Plus over 1500 senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will discuss emerging software trends and practices, develop their technical and non-technical skills and get valuable insights they can take home to their team to implement right away.
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Google Cloud Announces a New Major Release of Its Management API Platform: Apigee X
Google Cloud recently announced a major new release of its API Management Platform Apigee. The release marks the tenth birthday of the service and is named Apigee X.
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Complimentary InfoQ Live Feb 16 Roundtables. Discover Valuable Insights to Implement Immediately
InfoQ Live, the one-day event for developers and engineers, is only a week away (Feb 16). Grab your ticket and deep-dive into practical ways you can use and integrate observability into your distributed system architecture.
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PayPal Standardizes on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for Its Next-Gen Data Movement Platform
PayPal recently described how it standardized on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for implementing its next-gen data movement platform. In a recent blog post, PayPal engineers detail how the existing data movement platform evolved into many tools & platforms in a complex and unmanageable ecosystem and their shift towards a new implementation.
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AWS Announces Node.js 14 Support for Its Function as a Service, Lambda
Recently AWS announced Node.js version 14 support for its Function as a Service (FaaS), Lambda. Developers can now author AWS Lambda functions using Node.js' new features, such as top-level-await, enhanced diagnostics, modifications of the streams APIs, and a revised JavaScript engine for better performance.
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AWS Releases Privatelink for Amazon S3 into General Availability
AWS has recently announced that PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available (GA). With PrivateLink for Amazon S3, customers can securely connect Amazon S3 to on-premise resources.
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Pinterest Describes an Architecture for Efficient Retrieval of Hierarchical Documents
In a recent blog post, Pinterest engineers describe how they implemented an efficient two-stage retrieval architecture to retrieve hierarchical documents in a home-grown search engine. They accomplished it by combining index flattening, index normalization, and index denormalization.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2020: Conference Summary
The second annual JakartaOne Livestream conference went live on December 8th, 2020, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions included keynotes, 45-minute technical sessions, 15-minute theme sessions, and panel discussions delivered by a host of Java luminaries. There was also a special tribute to Bill Shannon.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.