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Datawire Announces the Ambassador Edge Stack Early Access Program
Datawire last week announced the release of the Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0. The Ambassador Edge Stack is an integrated edge solution that empowers developer teams to rapidly configure the edge services required to build, deliver, and scale their applications running in Kubernetes.
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Microsoft Rebrands Flow Service to Power Automate, Adds Robotic Process Automation Capabilities
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced changes to its cloud-based automation service, Microsoft Flow. The service has been re-branded to Power Automate, which better aligns to other Power Platform services. Microsoft has also expanded on the capabilities of the Microsoft Flow service by providing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities, in preview.
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Java 14 Is in Feature-Freeze and Release Rampdown
JDK 14 is now in Rampdown Phase One - meaning that the overall feature set is frozen and no further features will be targeted to this release.
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Experience Running Spotify’s Event Delivery System in the Cloud
Event delivery is a key component at Spotify; the events contain important data about users, actions they take, and operational logs. After running the event delivery system in the cloud for 2 ½ years, Bartosz Janota and Robert Stephenson have written a blog post discussing what they have achieved and how they have been able to evolve and simplify the system by moving up the stack in the cloud.
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Ionic React Released
The Ionic team recently announced the first production release of Ionic React, a version of Ionic that leverages React to build applications for iOS, Android, Desktop, and Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
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James Ward and Ray Tsang on Knative Serverless Platform
At this year's QCon San Francisco 2019 Conference, James Ward and Ryan Knight hosted a workshop on Serverless technologies using the Knative framework. InfoQ caught up with speakers to discuss the role of serverless in developing cloud native applications.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Event Grid on IoT Edge
Microsoft have announced the public preview of Event Grid on IoT Edge, which enables the adoption of event-driven architectures on systems created for disconnected or remote environments. This means that implementing event-driven scenarios using a publish/subscribe model with routing capabilities are now available on Internet of Things devices running anywhere.
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Solo.io Release WebAssembly Hub for Envoy-based Wasm Extensions
Solo.io released WebAssembly Hub, a service for building deploying, sharing, and discovering Web Assembly extensions for Envoy. The goal of WebAssembly Hub is to enable users to configure and extend their Envoy-based service mesh.
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Pull Queries and Connector Management Added to ksqlDB (KSQL) Event Streaming Database for Kafka
The new release of KSQL, an event streaming database for Kafka, includes pull queries to allow for data to be read at a specific point in time using a SQL syntax, and connector management that enables direct control and execution of connectors built to work with Kafka Connect. The Confluent team behind KSQL believes it's a significant release, and has decided to rename the tool to ksqlDB.
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Amazon Announces the Open Preview of a Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) on AWS
At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a new way of managing Cassandra databases on AWS. With Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), the public cloud vendor can offer Cassandra directly to customers instead of through third-party vendors.
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Red Hat Releases WildFly 18 Featuring Support for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
Red Hat has released version 18 of their WildFly application server featuring support for Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile 3.0. Other features include alignment with the Jakarta EE APIs, support for JDK 13, and enhancements to security, clustering and EE subsystems, especially in the areas of EJB and RESTEasy.
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Atlassian Introduces Forge, a New Way to Build Serverless Cloud Apps
In a recent blog post, Atlassian announced a new serverless cloud platform called Forge that allows developers to build Functions-as-a Service (FaaS)-based applications that are hosted and operated by Atlassian. Forge UI, a flexible and declarative UIL language, will be used by developers to build interactive experiences across web and mobile devices using a low-code approach.
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Mind Your State for Your State of Mind: Pat Helland at QCon SF
The features of different types of data storage should be considered when selecting how data is stored in a system. Is always reading correct data, or low latency, most important? In his keynote at this year’s QCon San Francisco, Pat Helland described trends in storage and computing, durable and session state semantics, and other aspects of storage like transactions, identity and immutability.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Supreme Court to Have Final Say in Oracle v. Google Java API Battle
Following our story that Oracle was seeking $8.8 billion in damages from Google, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to hear Google’s petition appealing that its use of open-source Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build the Android platform violated Oracle’s copyrights.