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Apple Introduces SwiftData, a SwiftUI-Ready Core Data Replacement
At WWDC 2023, Apple introduced SwiftData, a new framework that provides a declarative, Swift-first API enabling to work with data persistence in iOS apps. SwiftData can easily make a Swift class into a persistent model and is especially suited to be used with SwiftUI.
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Latest Updates for Azure App Service Presented at Microsoft Build 2023
The Microsoft Build 2023 event showcased the latest updates and additions to the Azure App Service. The event, held in person in Seattle, included some group sessions, demonstrations and Q&A sessions on Azure App Service with such topics as changes within PremiumV3, Automatic Scaling or memory optimisation for ASEv3.
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Ruiz and Almiray at Devoxx UK: Lessons on How to Escape the Maven Dependency Hell
During their Devoxx UK talk Ixchel Ruiz, developer advocate at JFrog, and Andres Almiray, principal product manager at Oracle, presented multiple “maven puzzlers" together with their potential solutions to escaping the Apache Maven dependencies hell. In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible, they spoke about direct, transient and even inherited dependencies from parent POMs.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 in Rampdown, JEP 404, JDK 22 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Updates
This week's Java roundup for June 5th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21 in Rampdown, JDK 22 expert group, Jakarta EE 11 update, Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0, Quarkus 3.1.1, Micronaut 3.9.3, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.3, Apache Commons IO 2.13, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M7 and 9.0.76, Infinispan 14.0.10 and 13.0.17, JHipster Lite 0.34, OpenXava 7.1.1, Yupiik Fusion 1.0.3, Gradle 8.2-RC2 and JNation.
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Automating Platform Upgrades at eBay
eBay recently provided insights into their adoption of a pipeline-driven automation solution, enabling them to achieve continuous updates to their framework and infrastructure. The solution architecture has the potential to become more versatile as it adopts a pluggable and loosely coupled approach, allowing for easier extensibility.
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AWS Open-Sources Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
AWS has open-sourced Cedar, their language for defining access permissions using policies. Cedar is integrated within both Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access. Cedar can also be integrated directly into an application via the provided SDK and language specification.
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Amazon Security Lake for Centralized Security Data Management Now GA
AWS recently announced the general availability of Security Lake, a managed service to automate the sourcing, aggregation, normalization, and data management of security data. The new service centralizes data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises, and cloud sources into a data lake stored in an AWS account.
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JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables Aims to Improve Java Code Readability
JEP 443, Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview), has been Completed from Targeted status for JDK 21. This preview JEP proposes to "enhance the language with unnamed patterns, which match a record component without stating the component's name or type, and unnamed variables, which can be initialized but not used."
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GitHub Announces Code Scanning and Security Advisory Support for Swift
GitHub has launched code scanning support for Swift in beta and announced it will include Swift security advisories in its Advisory Database to extend the capabilities of its Dependabot vulnerability monitor.
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JunoDB: PayPal Open Sources Key-Value Store Powering 350 Billion Daily Requests
PayPal recently open-sourced JunoDB, a distributed key-value store that uses RocksDB as the underlying storage engine. A highly available and security-focused database, JunoDB serves daily 350 billion requests at PayPal.
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Structured Concurrency in JDK 21: A Leap Forward in Concurrent Programming
JEP 453, Structured Concurrency (Preview), has been Integrated from the Targeted status for JDK 21. Formerly an incubating API, this initial preview incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous two rounds of incubation: JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; and JEP 437, Structured Concurrency (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 20.
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Embracing Complexity by Asking Questions, Listening, and Building a Shared Understanding
When dealing with an environment that feels complex, people commonly look for ways to reduce variability and increase control for dealing with complexity. An alternative approach is to embrace complexity by acknowledging that it exists, asking questions and listening, and constructing a shared understanding based on different perspectives. This lets us improve how we adapt on an ongoing basis.
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Uno Platform 4.9: Media Player Element, WebView2 and Native Host Support for Skia
Uno Platform released version 4.9 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings the MediaPlayerElement control and WebView2 support which are two community long awaited features. Also, beyond these additions, the release includes over 100 other improvements and enhancements, including the native host support for Skia.
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Introducing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
At the end of May, Microsoft introduced the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro. Azure Monitor and all Azure SDKs support OpenTelemetry, integrating with APM systems such as Prometheus and Grafana. Microsoft Azure provides the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro, facilitating the deployment of this technology and increasing the observability of applications.
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JBang 0.107.0 Delivers Java 21 Preview, OpenAI Integration, and More
JBang 0.107.0 provides a preview of Java 21, integrating with the OpenAI plugins via the quickstart port from Python and further integration with ChatGPT to generate Java code.