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Terraform Cloud Adds Dynamic Provider Credentials and OPA Support
Hashicorp has released several new features into Terraform Cloud, their managed service offering for Terraform. The new features include dynamic provider credentials, native OPA support, and the addition of projects as an organization tool.
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Intel oneDAL Available in ML.NET
The first preview release of ML.NET 3.0, available since December, contains the integration with Intel oneAPI Data Analytics Library that leverages SIMD extensions on 64-bit architectures, which are available on Intel and AMD processors.
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Avoid Being an "Ivory Tower" Architect: the Relationship between Architects and Their Organisation
In a recently published episode of Armchair Architects, the speakers discussed the relationship between software architects and the rest of the organisation. They detail how a successful architect can impact others by switching between going into the trenches and zooming into a tree and then being able to zoom out and estimate if that tree still fits into the forest.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Liberica JDK Updates, JobRunr 6.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for January 16th, 2023, features news from JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud Gateway 4.0, Spring Boot 3.0.2 and 2.7.8, Spring Modulith 0.3, Liberica JDK versions 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18 and 8u362, Payara Platform, Micronaut 3.8.2, WildFly 26.1.3, TomEE 8.0.14, first three milestone releases of Job Runr 6.0 and Gradle 8.0-RC2.
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Google Address Validation API Is Generally Available to Improve Address Accuracy
Google recently announced the general availability of the Address Validation API. The new feature of the Google Maps Platform validates an address, standardizes it for mailing, and determines the best-known geocode location for it.
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Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Delivers Updates to Sub-Projects and JDK 17 Baseline
VMware has released Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, codenamed Kilburn, based upon the recently introduced Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3. Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 is based on Spring Framework 6 requiring Java 17 and is compatible with Jakarta EE 9. This release supports Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation and the creation native images with GraalVM.
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Google Storage Transfer Service Now Supports Serverless Real-Time Replication Capability
Recently Google announced the preview support for event-driven transfer capability for its Storage Transfer Service (STS), which allows users to move data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage and copy data between multiple Cloud Storage buckets.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Just, a New CLI for Spring Boot Applications
Just, a command line tool requiring zero configuration, increases the Java development experience while building Spring Boot applications. Just automatically reloads the application when there is a change in source code, build files or Docker compose files. The project also supports the creation of (native) applications and (native) Docker images.
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Using Code Instrumentation for Fault Injection at the Application Level at eBay
eBay engineers have been using fault injections techniques to improve the reliability of the notification platform and explore its weaknesses. While fault injection is a common industry practice, eBay attempted a novel approach leveraging instrumentation to bring fault injection within the application level.
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Cloudflare Servers Share IP Addresses for Egress Traffic
Cloudflare recently detailed how it manages its servers' egress traffic using "soft-unicast ". Soft-unicast allows multiple servers to share a single IPv4 address for their egress traffic while redirecting the response packets to the correct physical server. It provides a scalable, cost-efficient solution for Cloudflare to offer various products that require tagged egress IP addresses.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, Introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just
This week's Java roundup for December 19th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, point releases for other Spring projects, Open Liberty 22.0.0.13, Quarkus 2.15.1, Micronaut 3.7.5, Helidon 3.1.0, Hibernate 6.2.CR1, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.7, point releases for Groovy, Camel 3.20, MicroStream joins Eclipse, Kotlin 1.8-RC2, and introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just.
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Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Provides Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 Implementations
More than two-and-a-half years after being introduced to the Java community, VMWare has released Spring Authorization Server 1.0. Built on top of Spring Security, the Spring Authorization Server project supports the creation of OpenID Connect 1.0 Identity Providers and OAuth 2.1 Authorization Servers. The project supersedes the Spring Security OAuth project which is no longer maintained.
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Spring Batch 5.0 Delivers JDK 17 Baseline and Support for Native Java
VMware released Spring Batch 5.0. Baselined to Java 17 and the latest Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Batch now supports GraalVM native image, a new Observation API, Java Records, and a long list of enhancements and fixes made by more than 50 contributors.
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AirBnb Animation Engine Lottie Improves Performance by Adopting Core Animation
AirBnb has announced the fourth major iteration of its open-source vector-based animation engine Lottie. Thanks to the adoption of Core Animation, Lottie 4.0 provides significant performance improvements and reduces CPU load, says AirBnb iOS engineer Cal Stephens.