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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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Java News Roundup: GlassFish 7.0, Payara Platform, Apache NetBeans 16
This week's Java roundup for December 12th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0, Spring Framework 6.0.3, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10 Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1, Payara Platform, Quarkus 2.15, WildFly 27.0.1, Helidon 2.5.5, Piranha Cloud 22.12, NetBeans 16, Apache Camel, 3.14.7, JobRunr 5.3.2, JDKMon 17.0.43, Reactor 2022.0.1, JHipster Lite 0.24 and Ktor 2023 roadmap.
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AWS Key Management Service Now Supports External Key Stores
AWS recently announced the availability of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) External Key Store (XKS), allowing organizations to store and manage their encryption keys outside the AWS KMS service.
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NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plug-in Brings Temporal GPU Concurrency
Starting from the v12 release, the Nvidia GPU device plug-in framework started supporting time-sliced sharing between CUDA workloads on Kubernetes. This feature aims to prevent under-utilization of GPU units and make it easier to scale applications by leveraging concurrently-executing CUDA contexts.
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OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
OpenJDK has proposed a new OpenJDK Project, codenamed Galahad, to merge some of the GraalVM Native Compilation technologies into the OpenJDK codebase.
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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.
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AWS Previews VPC Lattice for Service-to-Service Communication
To simplify networking for service-to-service communication, AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon VPC Lattice. The new capability of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) abstracts network complexity and creates a logical application layer network that connects clients and services across different VPCs and accounts.
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Vite 4 Released, Replaces Babel with Faster Rust-Based SWC
The team behind the Vite frontend build tool recently released Vite 4.0, 5 months after Vite 3.0. The new version is motivated by the breaking upgrade from Rollup 2.0 to 3.0. Vite 4.0 also adds support for SWC, a Rust-based bundler that claims order-or-magnitude speed improvement over Babel.
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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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GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
GitLab has released a new product - GitLab Dedicated - for customers in industries with strict security and compliance requirements wishing to move their DevOps software solutions from on-premise to the cloud.
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GitLab Adopts CLI Project to Bring GitLab to the Terminal
Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab has announced their adoption of glab - a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab's reach into all stages of the code writing process.
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Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework
The Swift team has started to work on a new open-source implementation of the Foundation framework. To be written entirely in Swift, the new Foundation aims to improve performance by getting rid of conversion costs between Objective-C and Swift as well as to provide the opportunity for modularizing and clean it up.