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Java News Roundup: Eclipse GlassFish, Open Liberty, MicroStream, JHipster, WildFly, EclipseLink
This week's Java roundup for August 29th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.0-M8, Quarkus 2.12.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.9 and 22.0.0.10-beta, MicroStream 07.01.00-beta2, WildFly 26.1.2, JHipster 7.9.3, EclipseLink 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate 5.6.11, JDKMon 17.0.35 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.12.0.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Cloud Providers Target Middle East: AWS Adds Region in the United Arab Emirates, Microsoft in Qatar
Amazon recently announced a new region in the United Arab Emirates, its second one in the Middle East. Microsoft just opened its first global datacenter region in Qatar where Google plans to open a new region too.
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Amazon Introduces Encrypted Communication Service AWS Wickr
A year after the acquisition of the company Wickr, Amazon recently announced the preview of the collaboration suite AWS Wickr. Built on a proprietary encryption protocol, the new managed service provides enterprises and government agencies with security and administrative controls to meet security and compliance requirements.
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Android Cross Device SDK Aims to Simplify Task Handoff and Multi-Device Experiences
Google has announced a developer preview of its new Cross device SDK for Android, aimed to help developers build cross-device experiences using high-level, intuitive APIs. The new capabilities can be used to create multiplayer games, to carry through productivity tasks across different devices, or to enable group experiences.
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NTT Announces a Fully-Managed Edge and Private 5G Offering as a Service
During the VMWare Explore Event, the VMWare partner NTT, an IT Infrastructure company, announced a new Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) service as the first globally available, fully-managed edge and private 5G offering.
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Accelerated Multi-Account Auditing and Compliance in AWS with Steampipe, HCL and SQL
AWS recently examined the use of AWS Insights Mod, based on Steampipe, an open-source tool that defines over 650 queries and displays their results on 84 dashboards.
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A Distributed System is Knowable: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this limits how much you can know about how a distributed system will behave. He gave a keynote about Six Impossible Things at QCon London 2022 and at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Amazon Launches What-If Analyses for Machine Learning Forecasting Service Amazon Forecast
Amazon is announcing that now its time-series machine learning based forecasting service Amazon Forecast can run what-if assessments to determine how different business scenarios can affect demand estimates. What-if analysis is an effective business technique for simulating hypothetical scenarios and stress testing on planning assumptions by recording potential outcomes.
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AWS Announced New Feature Fine-Grained Visual Embedding for Amazon QuickSight
Recently, AWS announced a new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding, for its cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service Amazon QuickSight allowing customers to embed individual visualizations from Amazon QuickSight dashboards in high-traffic webpages and applications.
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Owl: Meta's New Hot-Content Distribution System
Meta recently revealed Owl, their new hot-content distribution system that provides high-fanout distribution of large data objects to hosts in Meta's private cloud. Owl consists of a decentralized data plane based on peer-to-peer distribution trees with a centralized control plane - tracker services that keep metadata about the peers, their cache state, and ongoing downloads.
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AWS Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding for Bond Trading Predictions
AWS developed the Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding Library (DGL-KE), a knowledge graph embedding library built on the Deep Graph Library (DGL). DGL is a scalable, high performance Python library for deep learning in graphs. This library is used by the advanced machine learning systems developed with Trumid to build a credit trading platform.
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The Road to Removing JQuery from Gov.uk
When the team that maintains the gov.uk website faced the issue of updating their old and outdated jQuery dependency, they decided instead to get rid of it altogether. Among other benefits, they achieved a not negligible performance improvement and, in the process, created a migration guide for other developers to tap into.
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Adopting Remote Development Environments at Slack
The Slack internal tools team recently talked about utilizing remote development environments in their application development workflow. By January 2022, over 90% of engineers had started using the remote development workflow at Slack, which lead to an increase in developer productivity.
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Meta Open-Sources 175B Parameter Chatbot BlenderBot 3
Meta AI Research open-sourced BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter chatbot that can learn from live interactions with users "in the wild." In evaluations by human judges, BlenderBot 3 achieves a 31% rating increase compared to the previous BlenderBot version.