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Azure Static Web Apps Introduces API Backend Options
Azure recently announced the preview of new API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps. Developers can now create an end-to-end authenticated application calling APIs hosted on Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, or Azure API Management.
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AWS Enhances its Step Functions Experience with Workflow Collections
AWS Step Functions is a serverless function orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and multiple AWS services into business-critical applications. AWS recently introduced a new experience to its Step Functions with Function Workflow Collections allowing users to create Step Functions workflows easier.
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Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee
Recently Google announced the public preview of Advanced API Security, a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on Apigee, their API management platform. With the new capability, customers can detect security threats more efficiently.
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Java News Roundup: Eclipse Soteria 3.0, Log4j, Hibernate ORM, IntelliJ IDEA
This week's Java roundup for July 4th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring projects updates, Open Liberty 22.0.0.7 and 22.0.0.8-beta, Quarkus 2.10.2, Hibernate ORM 5.6.10, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.7, Eclipse Foundation projects updates, Apache Software Foundation projects updates, JDKMon 17.0.31 and 17.0.29 and JetBrains product updates.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption.
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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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Trust-Driven Development: Accelerate Delivery and Increase Creativity
By building trust you can break silos, foster collaboration, increase focus, and enable people to come up with creative solutions for products and for improving their processes. The DevOps movement was created to break the silos in the organisations; trust can be built by organising pair programming across various functions and various teams.
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PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner. The new interface increases the portability of workloads to and from Spanner and provides a globally distributed option to developers already familiar with PostgreSQL.
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LinkedIn Open-Sourced Its Feature Store to Evangelize Productive Machine Learning
LinkedIn Engineering recently open-sourced its feature store Feathr, which helps engineers to develop machine Learning products by simplifying feature management and usage in production. It defines features, computes them for training and inference purposes, and makes them discoverable by other machine learning developers.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, JReleaser, Quarkus, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Apache Beam
It was relatively quiet in the Java community during the week of June 27th, 2022, which features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Cloud 2020.0.6, Quarkus 2.10.1, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.40.0, JReleaser 1.1.0, Hibernate ORM 6.1.1, Apache Beam 2.40.0 and Apache Camel 3.14.4.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.
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Trivago’s Journey from PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript
Trivago’s platform was built using PHP and their Melody framework. A small number of engineers at Trivago maintained Melody, which was a continuity risk. Melody’s documentation and examples could not be as rich as desired due to a lack of capacity, making engineer onboarding and support much more difficult. Trivago then decided to rewrite its platform on Typescript using Next.js.
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Uber Introduces a Universal Signup and Login Stack
Uber recently introduced Unified Signup and Login (USL), an effort to consolidate signup and login experiences across all Uber apps and services. USL lowers the engineering complexity and maintenance overhead and allows faster rollout of security policies and fixes. Over the last two years, Uber rolled out USL and currently, more than 78% of Uber's traffic has adopted USL.
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Java News Roundup: Classfile API Draft, Spring Boot, GlassFish, Project Reactor, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for June 20th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point releases, GlassFish 7.0.0-M6, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.12, Micronaut 3.5.2, Quarkus 2.10.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M3, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.10.0, and Apache Tika versions 2.4.1 and 1.28.4.
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Microsoft Limits Public Access to AI-Powered Facial Analysis Features
Microsoft recently announced phasing out public access to AI-powered Facial Analysis features in several Azure services.