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Supreme Court Rules Google's Use of Java API Was Fair Use
The Supreme Court in the United States of America has ruled that Google's use of the Java API was fair use, and that the objections raised by Oracle are rejected. InfoQ looks back at the history and what this means for the future of APIs.
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Google Announces the Public Preview of Network Connectivity Center
Recently Google announced the preview of Network Connectivity Center, a new service for network connectivity management in Google Cloud. With the network service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enterprises can create, connect, and manage heterogeneous on-prem and cloud networks from a single place.
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Rendering Large Logs in the Browser for GitHub Actions
Rendering large logs in a browser can be a complex task if you want a rich UI including coloring, grouping, search, and permalinks, says GitHub engineer Alberto Gimeno. This is why after testing with both a React and plain JS library, they opted to build their own.
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Patterns and Antipatterns of Business Agility
At a recent WellyBam event the authors of the book Sooner, Safer, Happier shared the key ideas and explained the patterns and antipatterns of business agility adoption they have found through working on transformation in a wide range of organisations.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Hosting of AsyncAPI
The Linux Foundation announced today that it would host the AsyncAPI Initiative. It will provide a forum where individuals and organizations can advance AsyncAPI and nurture collaboration in a neutral platform that can support the growth that AsyncAPI is experiencing.
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Convert Spring Boot Apps to GraalVM with Spring Native Beta
Spring has released Spring Native Beta, a new tool to convert existing Spring Boot applications, written in Java or Kotlin, to GraalVM native images. The goal is to support Spring Boot applications on Spring Native. GraalVM native images are small, optimized and boot quickly. The tradeoffs, however, are longer build times and fewer runtime optimizations compared to the JVM.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021, featuring the release of Java 16, JEPs advancing from Draft to Candidate status, and news from Hibernate, Red Hat and Spring.
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Component Explorer Storybook for Svelte Auto-Generates Playground and Documentation
Storybook for Svelte, the Svelte version of the Storybook component explorer, recently announced major upgrades that strive to improve the developer experience around authoring, maintaining, and documenting components’ stories. The new beta release auto-generates controls and documentation from a new Svelte-native story format that captures component states.
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Hazelcast Jet 4.4 Released - the Four-Year Anniversary Release as Seen by Scott McMahon
Hazelcast Jet recently celebrated its four-year anniversary with the release of version 4.4. Besides the normal bug fixes and performance enhancements, this new version ships with new features such as the unified file connector and the first beta version of the SQL interface. InfoQ spoke to Scott McMahon, technical director of field engineering at Hazelcast, about this new release.
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Google Cloud Releases Its Healthcare Consent Management API to General Availability
Google Cloud recently announced it would release its Healthcare Consent Management API to general availability to provide healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals' consent over health data use. The Healthcare Consent Management API is part of the Cloud Healthcare API offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Vamp Announces Results of State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021
Vamp.io, a company providing a release automation platform, recently published the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 survey results. Results show that Kubernetes and microservices are popular, and high-risk release strategies are still being used.
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Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain
Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support.
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform
In a recent blog post, Dropbox revealed Atlas, a platform whose aim is to provide various benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture while minimizing the operational cost of owning a service. Atlas' goal is to support small, self-contained functionality, saving product teams the overhead of managing a full-blown service, including capacity planning, alert setup, etc.