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Building an Effective Platform by Focusing on End-to-End Workflows
Platform engineering teams need to focus on building end-to-end workflows versus individual tools according to Naphat Sanguansin, CTO at Prodvana. A focus on workflows will help to abstract away the complexities of running services and allow for application engineers to focus on their product.
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JUnit 5.9 Supports GraalVM Native Image
JUnit 5.9 resolves various bugs and introduces a number of new features such as the ability to keep temporary files after executing a test. New annotations provide the ability to either enable or disable specific tests when running in a GraalVM Native Image. XML reports are now stored in the Open Testing Reporting format.
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Technical Debt is Quantifiable as Financial Debt: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Technical debt can be quantified in various ways, but you cannot precisely quantify the associated financial debt. According to Kevlin Henney, we can quantify things like how many debt items we have, the estimated time to fix each debt item, a variety of metrics associated with our code, such as cyclomatic complexity, degree of duplication, number of lines of code, but not the financial debt.
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CockroachDB Serverless Now Generally Available
Cockroach Labs, a computer software company that develops commercial database management systems, recently announced the general availability of its serverless database. In addition, the company also announced integrations with HashiCorp's Vault and Terraform.
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Helidon 3.0 Introduces Project Starter and Requires Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9.1
Oracle has released Project Helidon 3.0, featuring support for JDK 17, Jakarta EE 9.1, and MicroProfile 5.0. Also included in this release is the new Helidon Starter for generating custom Helidon applications, an updated command-line tool, and a security hardening of Java serialization through JEP 290: Filter Incoming Serialization Data. InfoQ also spoke to Helidon project lead Dmitry Kornilov.
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Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars and Highly Fault-Tolerant Design
Atlassian recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service. Atlassian achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures. Sidecars query multiple services concurrently to accomplish this goal and ensure that requests are entirely isolated internally.
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Introducing Spring Boot Migrator
Spring Boot Migrator (SBM) is an experimental Spring project first released in March 2022. SBM allows developers to convert existing, non Spring Boot applications, which are based on technologies such as JAX-RS, EJB and JMS to Spring Boot or upgrade older Spring Boot applications to the latest version.
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Microsoft Trains Two Billion Parameter Vision-Language AI Model BEiT-3
Researchers from Microsoft's Natural Language Computing (NLC) group announced the latest version of Bidirectional Encoder representation from Image Transformers: BEiT-3, a 1.9B parameter vision-language AI model. BEiT-3 models images as another language and achieves state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of downstream tasks.
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Accelerate Your Growth and Build Better-Connected Teams at QCon San Francisco Oct 24-28, 2022
Teams attend QCon to get together, get answers to technical challenges, and get clarity on software decisions, workflows, and roadmaps. QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28), powered by InfoQ, brings together the world's most innovative senior software engineers, architects, and team leads across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices.
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Jakarta EE 10 Delivers New Core Profile and Updates to Specifications
Jakarta EE 10, released on September 22, 2022, is the third major, and fourth overall, release of Jakarta EE by the Jakarta EE Working Group since Oracle donated Java EE 8 to the Eclipse Foundation in 2017. This release aims to deliver a set of coordinated specifications for building modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud-native Java applications across the spectrum of Jakarta EE.
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Undistro Wolfi Designed to Mitigate Software Supply Chain Risk
Chainguard has announced the general availability of Wolfi, a new Linux distribution designed for container environments and built to ensure a secure software supply chain. Wolfi is designed to be a minimal distribution that provides a build-time SBOM for all included packages.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Released, String Templates, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for September 19th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Amazon Corretto 19, BellSoft Liberica JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, multiple Spring Framework updates, Quarkus 2.12.3, Payara Platform updates, Micronaut 3.7.0, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.14, JobRunr 5.2.0, PrimeFaces point releases, Failsafe 3.3.0, Apache Groovy 3.0.13 and Apache Log4j2 2.19.0.
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Android Studio Dolphin Extends Jetpack Compose, Wear OS, and Test Automation Integration
The latest release of Android Studio, dubbed Dolphin, improves Jetpack Compose screen previews, extends Wear OS support, and introduces Gradle Managed Virtual Devices to simplify test automation.
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Filibuster: Automated Fault Injection Tool to Improve DoorDash's Reliability
DoorDash recently revealed how they are using Filibuster, an automated fault injection tool, to identify resilience issues in microservice applications early on and improve platform reliability.
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Amazon Switched Compression from Gzip to Zstd for Own Service Data
A tweet from Adrian Cockcroft, former VP at Amazon, recently highlighted the benefits of switching from gzip to Zstandard compression at Amazon and triggered discussions in the community about the compression algorithm. Other large corporations, including Twitter and Honeycomb, shared interesting gains using zstd.