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Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of February 15th, 2021.
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Amazon Introduces CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
AWS has recently introduced Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle, a pricing plan that gives a 30% discount on CloudFront in exchange for a one-year commitment. The savings bundle also includes free AWS Web Application Firewall requests up to 10% of the committed amount.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Modules for Linux on Windows in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.0 Announced
The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) team announced today that Dapr v1.0 is now available and is considered production-ready. Dapr is an open-source runtime that allows developers to build resilient, microservices-based applications that run on the cloud and edge. With the v1.0 release, developers can deploy Dapr applications to Kubernetes clusters in production scenarios.
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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.