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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Save up to 60% with Our Special Memorial Day Sale
InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) is running a special Memorial Day Sale with significant discounts of up to 60% off. This is your chance to learn actionable insights from 20+ senior software practitioners on today's critical development priorities. Get clarity on Generative AI, security, modern web apps, and more from senior software practitioners with two days of technical talks.
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Amazon EC2 C7i-flex Instances: Price-Performance Benefits for Compute-Intensive Workloads
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, which, according to the company, deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances.
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UniSuper’s Entire Infrastructure Deleted by Internal Google Cloud Error
An Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when the entire infrastructure subscription was deleted.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, Piranha Cloud, Spring Data 2024.0.0, GlassFish, Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for May 13th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), proposed to target for JDK 23; the May 2024 edition of Piranha Cloud; Spring Data 2024.0.0; and point and milestone releases of Spring Framework, GlassFish and Micrometer.
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
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Rider 2024.1: New Monitoring Tool Window, Collection Vizualizer, .NET Aspire, AI Assistant Plugin
JetBrains has released Rider 2024.1. This release contains a new monitoring tool window and a collection visualizer. There also appeared the plugins: .Net Aspire, AI Assistant and features regarding debugging.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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TypeSpec: a Practical TypeScript-Inspired API Definition Language
Recently, Microsoft engineers officially unveiled TypeSpec, a new language tailored for API-centric development that addresses the complex needs of modern API design. TypeSpec is an open-source, extensible language inspired by TypeScript and C#. It supports various protocols and serialization formats, enabling developers to use a single tool to manage multiple API specifications.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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Technical Preview of Github Copilot Workspace: Copilot-Native Developer Environment
Recently, GitHub released a technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace, a developer environment built on GPT-4 Turbo explicitly designed for Copilot. This workspace lets developers quickly brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code using natural language.
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Fortran on Cloudflare Workers Leveraging WebAssembly
Cloudflare has recently showcased how to run Fortran on Cloudflare Workers by compiling to WebAssembly. The project leveraged recent advancements in LLVM Flang, enabling Fortran to compile to Wasm.
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Microsoft Dev Proxy v0.17 Now Integrates with Azure API Center
Microsoft has recently released Dev Proxy v0.17.0, which brings a range of enhancements. Users can now easily verify API registration with Azure API Center, ensuring compliance, and confirm the use of production APIs. Improved mocking requests enhance testing, while simplified acquisition and setup on Windows and macOS boost accessibility
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Payara Platform, Spring Boot 10th Anniversary Podcast
This week's Java roundup for May 6th, 2024, features news highlighting: the May edition of the Payara Platform; and new JEP candidates, namely: JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), JEP 480, Structured Concurrency (Third Preview), JEP 479, Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port, and JEP 478, Key Derivation API (Preview).
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QCon London: Modernizing in Healthcare – from On-Prem to the Cloud
At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, senior engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud, including the challenges he faced and the thinking behind the choices he made throughout the journey. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Modern Data Architecture, ML, and Resilience Topics Announced for QCon San Francisco 2024
QCon San Francisco returns November 18-22, focusing on innovations and emerging trends you should pay attention to in 2024. With technical talks from international software practitioners, QCon will provide actionable insights and skills you can take back to your teams.