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Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released with Support for GraphQL, Podman and Cache2k
VMware has released Spring Boot 2.7.0, the latest and final branch of the 2.x series. This latest version of Spring Boot includes support for Spring for GraphQL 1.0; support for the Podman container engine; dependency management and auto-configuration for Cache2k; and new test annotations for ElasticSearch and CouchBase.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 in Rampdown, JDK 20 Expert Group, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0
This week's Java roundup for June 6th, 2022, features news from JDK 19 in Rampdown Phase One, the formation of the JDK 20 expert group, Spring Shell 2.1.0-M5, Open Liberty 22.0.0.6 and 22.0.0.7-beta, Quarkus 2.10.0.CR1, Apache Groovy 4.0.3, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0, Helidon 2.5.1, and the JNation conference.
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GitHub Extends Its Supply Chain Security to Rust
GitHub has brought Rust support to its supply chain security feature. Aimed to ensure your project and its dependencies are free of vulnerabilities, GitHub supply chain security includes a database of advisories, a dependency graph analyzer, and Dependabot alerts and security updates.
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CNCF Accepts KubeVirt as an Incubating Project
Recently, the CNCF promoted KubeVirt from the sandbox to incubating project level. KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way.
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AWS Introduces IP-Based Routing on Route 53
AWS recently announced support for IP-based routing on Amazon Route 53. The new option of the DNS service allows customers to route resources of a domain based on the client subnet to optimize network transit costs and performance.
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Apple Extends macOS Virtualization Capabilities and Introduces Rosetta for Linux Binaries
At WWDC 2022, Apple showcased its latest advancement in virtualization support on macOS. Apple Virtualization Framework enables configuring and creating virtual machines on Apple Silicon to run macOS or Linux. New in the upcoming macOS Ventura, Linux VMs can leverage the GPU and use Rosetta to run unmodified x86-64 Linux binaries.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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Transitioning to Modern Testing: How Testers Can Stop Being the Training Wheels for Teams
Traditional testing, where testers act as safety nets and testing is separated from implementation, can have a detrimental impact on quality. Testers can instead act as coaches, collaborate in teams, and foster change, to stop becoming the training wheels for teams. Culture is key, particularly in that the environment provides psychological safety.
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A New Microsoft Platform in Town: the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
Recently Microsoft introduced a new platform called the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform that fully integrates their database, analytics, and governance offerings. The new platform encompasses everything already available in the Azure Data space (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer, etc.) to the Synapse Analytics products, Power BI, and the newly rebranded Purview data governance service.
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Heighliner: an App Development Platform to Bring Stack-as-Code Experience
Helium3 Tech recently launched Heighliner, an open-source and cloud-native application development platform that enables you to deliver your application stack as code. Developers can abstract complicated infrastructure details into human-readable configuration files that you can implement version control, reuse, and share.
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Spring for GraphQL Version 1.0 Released
Less than two years after its inception, Spring for GraphQL 1.0 has been released. The project integrates Spring and GraphQL Java and was developed in collaboration between both teams.
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SwiftUI Brings Charts, Data-Driven Navigation, and More
At WWDC 2022 Apple has announced a new iteration of SwiftUI, its declarative framework to build UIs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Among the most significant highlights are SwiftUI new charting capabilities, refined navigation, new controls, and more.
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Meta Open-Sources 175 Billion Parameter AI Language Model OPT
Meta AI Research released Open Pre-trained Transformer (OPT-175B), a 175B parameter AI language model. The model was trained on a dataset containing 180B tokens and exhibits performance comparable with GPT-3, while only requiring 1/7th GPT-3's training carbon footprint.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Generally Available as a Serverless Offering
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Serverless is generally available (GA). The offering is a serverless deployment option for customers to run big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
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Angular 14 - Typed Forms and Standalone Components
Angular 14 was released earlier this month with the most significant update since Ivy. It includes two long-awaited features, Typed Reactive Forms and Standalone Components, as well as several minor improvements.