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AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability
During the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS announced the general availability of its IoT TwinMaker service – AWS IoT TwinMaker.
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Apple to Remove Outdated Apps from the App Store
After several iOS developers reported Apple warned them it would remove a number of their apps, Apple has confirmed and clarified its policy about removing outdated apps from the App Store. The policy has been enforced since 2016 and affects apps that have not been updated within the last three years.
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SoundCloud Chronicles the End of the Public API Strangler
SoundCloud has successfully completed their migration journey using the Strangler pattern from a monolith application to a fully-fledged BFF.
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Java News Roundup: JEP Updates for JDK 19, Project Loom, MicroStream 7.0, New Relic Java Survey
This week's Java roundup for April 25th, 2022, features news from JEPs targeted for JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+6-625, Spring Cloud 2021.0.2, Spring Tools 4.14.1, GraalVM 22.1.0, Micronaut 3.4.3, MicroStream 7.0, Quarkus 2.8.2, Apache Camel 1.9.0, and the New Relic State of the Java Ecosystem survey.
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Kotlin Asynchronous Framework, Ktor 2.0, Released with New Plugins Feature
Ktor 2.0, the Kotlin framework to create asynchronous client and server applications, has been released with new features and breaking changes.
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Building an SLO-Driven Culture at Salesforce
Salesforce built a platform to monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The platform provided service owners with deep and actionable insights into how to improve or maintain the health of their services, to find dips in SLIs, to find dependent services that weren’t meeting their own SLOs, and overall provide a better understanding of customers’ experience with their services.
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How Meta Uses Privacy-Friendly Credentials in De-Identified Authentication
Meta uses authentication to protect its service’s endpoints against abusive usage. Post-processing access data to remove personally identifiable information is an approach they found too resource-intensive. An article was published recently explaining how Meta leveraged de-identified authentication to protect their services and their user’s privacy at the same time.
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GitHub Desktop 3.0 Improves Collaboration and Development Workflow
The latest release of GitHub official GUI client app for macOS and Windows, GitHub Desktop 3.0, brings new features that, while not striking on the surface, may improve collaboration and development workflow, including new notifications and improved checks UI.
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Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL is Now Open Source and SaaS
IaSQL, the company behind a service that models AWS infrastructure using SQL, has recently announced that IaSQL is available as open source and software as a service.
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AWS Releases the Second Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless with Independent Scaling
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of the second version of Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. The second version is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL, featuring the independent scaling of compute and storage.
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QCon Plus, May 10th: Learn about the Latest Software Development Trends & Real World Best Practices
The latest QCon Plus virtual event begins online in just over a week (May 10th). The online software development conference and learning path brings together innovative software practitioners who will share case studies and insights about real-world best practices and solutions in software development and tech leadership.
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Android 13 Beta 1 Available along with Privacy Sandbox Preview
Google has introduced Android 13 Beta 1, aiming to improve privacy and security, as well as developer productivity. Alongside it, developers can start exploring the Privacy Sandbox Preview, a collection of technologies that improve user privacy while enabling personalized ads, says Google.
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How to Prepare an Agile Business Game
To make playing games "interesting" from the business owner's perspective, we need to ensure that they are aligned with the business needs. There are four steps in preparing a game: exploring the context, knowing your target group, defining the focus, and deciding how to facilitate it.
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AWS Introduces the .NET Annotations Lambda Framework in Preview
Recently, AWS introduced a new framework for writing .NET 6 Lambda functions called Lambda Annotations. This framework was built alongside the .NET 6 managed runtime for Lambda released last February.
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JobRunr 5.0.0 Delivers Improved Framework Support
JobRunr 5.0.0 delivers improved support for Spring, Quarkus and Micronaut by providing a Spring Native implementation, configuration for the default number of retries, database type selection and transaction support. Now jobs may be scheduled based on an interval and cron expressions support the last day of the week and last day of the month.