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Privacy Engineering at Scale: DoorDash’s Journey in Geomasking and Data Protection
DoorDash recently published how it proactively embeds privacy into its products. It explains the importance of Privacy Engineering, an often overlooked software architecture practice, and provides an example of geomasking users' address data to protect their privacy better.
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Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
This week's Java roundup for December 11th, 2023, features news highlighting: OpenJDK early access releases, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Infinispan 15.0.0-Dev06, JHipster 8.1.0, Piranha 23.12.0, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M15, 10.1.17, 9.0.84 and 8.5.97 and the debut of the Payara Virtual Conference.
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Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient
The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023. This latest release is packed with features, the most noteworthy of which is the support for Virtual Threads and Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Other features include SSL Bundle reloading, Rest Client and JDBC Client interface support, observability improvements, and many others.
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Apache Pinot 1.0 Provides a Realtime Distributed OLAP Datastore
Apache Pinot is an open source column-oriented distributed data store written in Java. Pinot is designed to use Online Analytical processing (OLAP) in order to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries with low latency.
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Ngrok JavaScript and Python SDKs Aim to Turn Ingress into a High-Level Abstraction
The new ngrok JavaScript and Python SDKs enable embedding secure ingress into apps with a single line of code. It includes out-of-the-box support for capabilities such as high performance, resilience, security and observability, allowing developers to focus on their functional requirements.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22, Spring CVEs, Liberica JDK, JDKMon 21, Jupyter for Java, Gradle 8.5
This week's Java roundup for November 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M2, JNoSQL 1.0.3, LibericaJDK, Spring CVEs, Spring Shell 3.2.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.6, Open Liberty 23.0.12-beta, Helidon 4.0.1, Hibernate Reactive 2.2, Hibernate Search 7.1-A1, Grails 5.3.4, Groovy 5.0.0-A3, Camel Quarkus 3.6, Maven 3.9.6, JDKMon 21, PrimeFaces 12.0.7, Jupyter for Java and Gradle 8.5.
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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%
LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.
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ClickHouse Keeper: Efficient Apache ZooKeeper Alternative Created with C++ and Raft
ClickHouse project team created an in-house replacement for Apache Zookeeper as it needed a more efficient implementation that would also address some of Zookeeper's shortcomings. Now, ClickHouse Keeper is an essential part of the ClickHouse project and a cornerstone of this open-source analytical database, but can also be used independently for many distributed coordination use cases.
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Chaos Engineering Service Azure Chaos Studio Now Generally Available
Two years after entering public preview, reliability experimentation service Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available. Among its most recent features are experiment templates, dynamic targets, load testing faults, and more.
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Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Tech Decisions
The analytic hierarchy process uses pairwise comparisons and scoring for criteria between the alternatives to give insights into what the best option is and why. John Riviello spoke about applying the analytic hierarchy process to decide what JavaScript framework to use at QCon New York 2023.
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How HubSpot Uses Apache Kafka Swimlanes for Timely Processing of Workflow Actions
HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic. Using a combination of automatic and manual detection of traffic spikes, the company ensures the majority of customers’ workflows execute without delays.
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Partitioned Namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium Are Now Generally Available
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier.
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Revolutionizing Digital Identity: How Verifiable Credentials Offer a New Era of Privacy and Control
Auth0 recently published an in-depth explanation of Verifiable Credentials (VCs). The article emphasizes the potential of VCs to transform how identities are managed online. It highlights the limitations of current identity systems and how VCs can address these gaps, particularly in allowing identity claims to be disclosed without issuers knowing, thereby enhancing privacy and control for users.
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Microsoft Brings AI to Logic Apps (Standard) with Workflow Assistant in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced a workflow assistant for Logic Apps (standard), the company’s integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering in public preview. With the assistant, developers have a chat interface that provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring them to navigate documentation or search online forums.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Boot 3.2, Spring Pulsar 1.0, Hibernate 6.4, JEP 447 Targeted to JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for November 20th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JCON World 2023, and point, milestone and GA releases for: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Session, Spring Vault, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster, JBang, OpenXava, Testcontainers and Gradle.