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Google Launches Relay to Transform and Accelerate Android UI Creation
Recently launched in alpha, Relay is a design-to-code solution aiming to radically transform the way UI designers and UI developers collaborate to create Android UI components by removing the need for UI specs.
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Hybrid Working Matters to All Generations
A number of recent surveys explore the current state of hybrid and remote working. The results reinforced the preference for hybrid working, identified the importance of finding ways to stay connected when not in-person and showed how the driving factors for work have evolved. The in-person workforce is feeling under-appreciated and many are at risk of leaving.
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Spring Modulith Structures Spring Boot 3 Applications with Modules and Events
VMware shipped the experimental Spring Modulith project to better structure Spring Boot 3 applications with modules and events. The project introduces new classes and annotations but doesn't generate code. Modules map to Java packages and are encouraged to use Spring events which can be automatically stored in an event log. Spring Modulith also eases the testing of modules and events.
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Salesforce Open-Sources Language-Vision AI Toolkit LAVIS
Salesforce Research recently open-sourced LAnguage-VISion (LAVIS), a unified library for deep-learning language-vision research. LAVIS supports more than 10 language-vision tasks on 20 public datasets and includes pre-trained model weights for over 30 fine-tuned models.
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.NET 7 for Azure Functions Isolated Worker Process Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the .NET 7 for Azure Functions isolated worker process. Azure Functions will support .NET 7 serverless apps hosted on all Windows and Linux SKUs, including Consumption plan, Elastic Premium plan, and App Service plans.
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AWS App Runner Adds Support for Private Services
Amazon announced App Runner private services, allowing for AWS App Runner services to be privately accessible within an Amazon VPC. This release builds upon the previously released App Runner VPC support which allows for communication between App Runner services and applications running within a VPC.
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HashiCorp's Boundary Now Generally Available on HCP
Following a successful beta trial, HashiCorp has announced the general availability of Boundary on their cloud platform HCP. This adds a key new aspect to HashiCorp's managed solution for zero-trust security.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF
Sam Spencer, Microsoft’s .NET Core team program manager, announced on November 4th, 2022, that the Upgrade Assistant .NET tool now includes a preview of an extension that migrates WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) service code from .NET Framework to .NET Standard targeting .NET 6 and later versions. The WCF code is migrated to the CoreWCF library, an open-source port of WCF for .NET Core.
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Omni Faces 4.0 Changes Minimal Dependency to Java 11, While Removing Deprecated Classes
Five years after its previous major release, OmniFaces 4.0 has been released after a long series of milestones that included a "Jakartified version of 3.14 with a couple of breaking changes" following the release of Jakarta EE 10. Besides the minimum requirements and breaking changes, new utility methods have been added and omnifaces.js is now sourced by Typescript rather than vanilla JavaScript.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 27, Spring Release Candidates, JEPs for JDK 20, Project Reactor
This week's Java roundup for November 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, OpenSSL CVEs, Build 20-loom+20-40, Spring Framework 6.0-RC4, Spring Boot 3.0-RC2, Spring Security 6.0-RC2, Spring Cloud 2021.0.5, WildFly 27, WildFly Bootable JAR 8.1, Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.4, Project Reactor 2022.0, Micrometer Metrics 1.10 and Tracing 1.0, JHipster Lite 0.22.0 and Camel Quarkus 2.14 and 2.13.1.
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Porting Million Lines of Code from Java to Kotlin at Meta
Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains Meta engineer Omer Strulovich.
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Kubecost Open Sources OpenCost: an Open Source Standard for Kubernetes Cost Monitoring
Kubecost recently open sourced OpenCost, an open source cost standard for Kubernetes workloads. OpenCost enables teams to operate with a single model for real-time monitoring, measuring, and managing Kubernetes costs across different environments. OpenCost introduces a new specification and an implementation to monitor and manage the costs in Kubernetes environments above 1.8.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
AWS recently introduced Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a new capability from Amazon EventBridge that allows organizations to create, run, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.
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Momento Announces Serverless Cache Service
The startup Momento recently emerged from stealth mode launching a serverless cache. The new service is generally available and offers a highly available cache with an on-demand pricing model based on data transferred in/out.
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Docker Desktop 4.14 Adds Resource Usage Monitor and Vulnerability Discovery
The latest version of Docker Desktop introduces a number of new features, including resource usage monitor and vulnerability discovery. Additionally, Docker Desktop 4.14 adopts the latest Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Containerd releases.