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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, Spring Cloud AWS 3.0, OptaPlanner to Timefold
This week's Java roundup for May 1st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.6, Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services 3.0.0, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.3, Spring Tools 4.18.2, Infinispan 14.0.9.Final, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4, Quarkus 3.0.2 and 2.16.7, Helidon 3.2.1, Apache Camel 4.0.0-M3, Arquillian 1.7.0 and OptaPlanner transitions to Timefold.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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From Extinct Computers to Statistical Nightmares: Adventures in Performance
Thomas Dullien, distinguished software engineer at Elastic, shared at QCon London some lessons learned from analyzing the performance of large-scale compute systems.
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Open Liberty 23.0.0.3 Unveiled: Embracing Cloud-Native Java Microservices, Jakarta EE 10 and beyond
IBM unveiled Open Liberty 23.0.0.3, boasting support for Java SE 20, Jakarta EE 10, and MicroProfile 6.0. This significant release introduces the Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile, Web Profile, and Platform and enhancements to various features that comprise the profiles. Additionally, the release includes MicroProfile Telemetry 1.0 and updates to Metrics, OpenAPI, and JWT Authentication specifications.
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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs
Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs as a result.
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AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion
AWS recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a capability of Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a serverless, auto-scaled, managed data collector that receives, transforms, and delivers data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.
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Java News Roundup: Quarkus 3.0, MicroStream 8.0, JEP 442, GraalVM, Infinispan
This week's Java roundup for April 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.4, GraalVM 22.3.2, Microsoft OpenJDK, Spring releases. Quarkus 3.0.0, MicroStream 8.0.0, Micronaut 3.9.1, Hibernate ORM 6.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01, Apache Camel 3.20.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13.3, JUnit 5.9.3, JReleaser 1.6.0, JobRunr 6.1.4, JDKMon 17.0.49 and Foojay.io.
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Google Cloud Announces GA of Cloud Run Jobs
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Cloud Run jobs, a serverless option to execute scripts and jobs that do not respond to HTTP requests. A new execution environment provides increased CPU, network performance, and support for network file systems.
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How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavily Regulated Organization
Ana Sirvent, AWS practice lead at KPMG UK, shared her experience at QCon London on how to work with public cloud on heavily regulated organizations. Sirvent explained how to build trust with security, compliance, and client risk teams while delivering quickly and leveraging cloud services.
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Momento Topics: A Serverless Event Messaging System for Pub-Sub
Momento now offers Momento Topics, a serverless event messaging system that supports publish-subscribe communication patterns. This service is designed to provide a messaging pipeline for event architectures, and subsequent feature releases will allow direct AWS Lambda invocations and change data capture events triggered from Momento Cache.
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Google Announces Machine Learning Powered API Abuse Detection
Google recently announced an API abuse detection dashboard powered by machine learning algorithms.
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Java Gets a Boost with String Templates: Simplifying Code and Improving Security
JEP 430, String Templates (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 21, a feature JEP type that proposes to enhance the Java programming language with string templates, which are similar to string literals but contain embedded expressions incorporated into the string template at run time.
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Late Architecture with Functional Programming
Many approaches to software architecture assume that the architecture is planned at the beginning. Unfortunately, architecture planned in this way is hard to change later. Functional programming can help achieve loose coupling to the point that advance planning can be kept to a minimum, and architectural decisions can be changed later.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 8 Preview 3: Native AOT Support and More
Recently Microsoft released .NET 8 Preview 3. This new release contains many new improvements to ASP.NET Core such as support for native AOT, server-side rendering with Blazor, rendering Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core, sections support in Blazor or monitoring Blazor Server circuit activity.