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AWS Previews Application Composer to Visualize and Create Serverless Workloads
At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the preview of Application Composer, a visual designer to build serverless applications from multiple AWS services. The new option helps create the architecture by dragging, grouping, and connecting services in a visual canvas.
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HashiCorp Consul Introduces New Sidecar Model for Kubernetes Deployments
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.14, adding new features that simplify deployments and improve the resiliency of their service mesh platform. The release includes Consul Dataplane, an improved architecture for deploying onto Kubernetes. The cluster peering model that was introduced as beta in 1.13 has been moved into full general availability.
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Testing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced driver assistance systems can have a huge number of test cases. Cutting the elephant into smaller pieces can ensure every bit and piece is tested. A good test environment is essential to be efficient, fast and flexible to cover all required tests to ensure quality. Testers should be involved in the project right from the beginning to avoid task-forces, quality- or delivery problems.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown, JDK 21 Expert Group, Apache Tomcat, JakartaOne
This week's Java roundup for December 5th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase One, formation of the JDK 21 expert group, point and milestone releases of: Spring Shell, Spring Tools, Quarkus, Open Liberty, GraalVM Native Build Tools, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate ORM, Eclipse Vert.x, Resilience4j, JDKMon and Ktor; and JakartaOne Livestream 2022.
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Triggermesh Introduces an Open-Source AWS Eventbridge Alternative with Project Shaker
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud-native integration platform provider, announced Shaker, a new open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project that captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources in a unified manner.
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Amazon EventBridge Pipes Support Point-to-Point Integrations between Event Producers and Consumers
At re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon EventBridge Pipes, a new feature in Amazon EventBridge providing developers a more straightforward way to connect events from multiple services.
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Mythical Man Month Author and Father of the 8-Bit Byte, Fred Brooks, Dies at 91
Dr Frederick P Brooks Jr, originator of the term "architecture in computing", author of one of the first books to examine the nature of computer programming from a sociotechnical perspective, architect of the IBM 360 series of computers, university professor and person responsible for the 8-bit byte, died on 17 November at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr Brooks was 91 years old.
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Resilience4j 2.0.0 Delivers Support for JDK 17
Resilience4j, a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for functional programming, has released version 2.0 featuring support for Java 17 and dependency upgrades to Kotlin, Spring Boot and Micronaut. This new version also removes the dependency on Vavr, a functional library for Java, in order to become a more lightweight library.
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Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Akka 22.10 Introduces Projections over gRPC
Akka 22.10 is the first release using the new Business License (BSL) 1.1 release. The Projections over gRPC module is introduced and Java 17 and Scala 3.1 are now supported.
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Java News Roundup: Major Spring Releases, Resilience4j, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Kotlin 1.8-Beta
This week's Java roundup for November 21st, 2022, features news from JDK 20, major, point and patch releases for Spring (namely Boot, Web Services, Security, Batch, Authorization Server, REST Docs, Framework, Modulith, GraphQL, Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ), Open Liberty 22.0.0.12, GlassFish 7.0-M10, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.18, Resilience4j 2.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.84 and Kotlin 1.8-Beta.
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Uber Reduces Logging Costs by 169x Using Compressed Log Processor (CLP)
Uber recently published how it dramatically reduced its logging costs using Compressed Log Processor (CLP). CLP is a tool capable of losslessly compressing text logs and searching them without decompression. It achieved a 169x compression ratio on Uber's log data, saving storage, memory, and disk/network bandwidth.
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Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions to build event-driven applications. The new functionality is currently available only for C# functions and can be triggered by changes to an Azure SQL table.
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Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 Use Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9, Support Native Java with GraalVM
VMware released Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, a new generation for the Spring ecosystem. Spring Framework 6 requires Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9. It also embeds observability through Micrometer with tracing and metrics. Spring Boot 3 requires Spring Framework 6. It has built-in support for creating native executables through static Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation with GraalVM Native Image.
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CNCF Accepts Istio as an Incubating Project
The CNCF recently announced that it has voted to accept Istio as an incubating project. Initially developed by Google and IBM alongside the Lyft team, Istio is the most widely adopted service mesh. The Istio steering committee shared the announcement in a blog post, reflecting on Istio’s journey from 2016.