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Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections, Spring 6.0-RC1, Apache Tomcat, Reactor 2022.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for October 10th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring Framework 6.0-RC1, Spring Batch 5.0-M8, Quarkus 2.13.2, Helidon 3.0.2 and 2.5.4, Project Reactor 2022.0-RC1, Piranha 22.10.0, JHipster Lite 0.18.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.83 and 10.1.1 Apache James 3.7.2 and Devoxx Belgium.
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DataDog Publishes AWS Security Report
DataDog has published their State of AWS Security report, an overview of practices based on data analysis from over 600 organizations. The report compares intersection and divergence between actual usage against industry best practices and the cause of breaches/data leaks.
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ArchUnit Verifies Architecture Rules for Java Applications
ArchUnit is an open source extensible library written in Java for verifying the architecture of Java applications. ArchUnit allows developers to enforce architecture rules such as naming conventions, class access to other classes, and the prevention of cycles. The library was originally created in 2017 by Peter Gafert and version 1.0.0 was released in October.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new generally available (GA) service to build cloud-native relational applications. It is a distributed relational database offering with the scale, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB.
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Open Source Skyplane Targets Faster and Cheaper Data Transfers between Clouds
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley has recently released Skyplane, an open source tool to optimize the transfer of large datasets between cloud providers, reducing transfer times and costs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
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Threat Operations and Research Team Cloudforce One Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced that the threat operations and research team Cloudforce One began conducting briefings and is now generally available. Available as an add-on subscription, Cloudforce One includes threat data and briefings, security tools, and the ability to make requests for information (RFIs) to the team.
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Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
The GoF Design Patterns published in 1998 qualifies as a classic still being taught in universities and recommended as best practice in the industry. In his deep dive session from Devoxx, Venkat Subramaniam gave them a contemporary twist, by implementing Iterator, Strategy, Decorator or Factory Method with modern Java. Extras were: call around method or the infamous optional usage.
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Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx
Almost a year after the world was shelled by log4, Sonatype’s Steve Poole - a long-time secure code promoter, sounded the alarm regarding the advancement of cyber attacks during his Devoxx talk. Cyberwarfare is a reality, and countries use cyberattacks to fight other countries. More than awareness, the talk gives us hope by revealing the tools each developer has at hand to fight this evil.
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Apache InLong: Integration Framework for Massive Data
Apache InLong, an integration framework designed for massive data, was originally built at Tencent, where it was used in production for more than eight years, to support massive data reporting services in big data scenarios. The project officially graduated as an Apache top-level project three years after the introduction of the project in the Apache Incubator.
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Netflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Netflix recently published how it built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. They built it using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch. Engineers state that they made Timestone since they could not find an off-the-shelf solution that met all of its requirements.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses
Microsoft recently released the public preview of Azure Firewall Basic for small-medium businesses (SMBs), providing enterprise-grade security at an affordable price. The company offers the Basic SKU as it sees SMBs as particularly vulnerable to budget constraints and gaps in specialized security skills.
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Java News Roundup: Introducing OmniFish, Oracle Joins Micronaut Foundation, OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for October 3rd, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Spring milestone updates, Eclipse Tumerin 19, OmniFaces 4.0, PrimeFaces 12.0, Introducing OmniFish, Quarkus 2.13.1, Oracle joins Micronaut Foundation, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.4, JobRunr 5.3, Apache Tomcat 9.0.68, Apache Camel 3.19, Apache Tika 2.5, ArchUnit 1.0 and conferences Devoxx Morocco and JAX London.
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Content Discovery at Scale with Hexagons and Elasticsearch at DoorDash
DoorDash recently published an article on how it is solving scaling challenges with content discovery using Elasticsearch and H3, a geospatial indexing system that partitions the world into hexagonal cells.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.