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Uber's Engineering Manages to Cut 70k CPUs by Tuning Go GC
In an effort to help the company become profitable, Uber’s engineering department has focused their efforts on making their infrastructure more efficient. As an outcome of this effort, they managed to develop a semi-automated GO Garbage Collection tuning mechanism which in turn saved 70K CPU cores across 30 mission critical services.
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SQLite 3.38 Improves JSON Queries, Error Messages, and More
SQLite 3.38.0 is the latest release of SQLite, bringing improved syntax for JSON queries, a new diagnostic interface, CLI enhancements, and more.
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Site Reliability Engineers and the Specialist Mindset
A site reliability engineer (SRE) can be a generalist or specialist. Recently, the team at Blameless elaborated on the advantages of a specialized SRE team. The specialist nature of the SRE role can be highlighted from the recruitment process. Depending on the individual skillset, organizations can engage an SRE in a number of specialist roles.
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Dynatrace Application Security Gates Catalyze Secure Automated Releases
Dynatrace recently announced the availability of “security gates” on its software intelligence platform. Organizations can now use Dynatrace Application Security gates to check security vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle and trigger required remediation actions.
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Netflix’s RENO Keeps Experience Consistent across Devices
Netflix has developed the Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to create a consistent user experience across various platforms and devices. RENO reacts more quickly and consistently than the traditional request/response model to user-generated actions ranging from watching a title to changing profile information.
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Allen Institute Launches Updated Embodied AI Challenge
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has announced the 2022 version of their AI2-THOR Rearrangement Challenge. The challenge requires competitors to design an autonomous agent that can move objects in a virtual room and includes several improvements including a new dataset and faster training using the latest release of the AI2-THOR simulation platform.
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Gradle 7.4 Introduces Aggregated Test Reports
Gradle has released version 7.4 of their open-source build automation tool that allows developers to create aggregated test and Jacoco coverage HTML reports. The versions catalog feature allows the centralized declaration of dependencies for usage in build scripts. Shared build services allow caching of state or resources across multiple tasks.
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AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3, a managed option to centralize data protection for applications storing data on S3. The new feature automates the backup and restore of application data on S3 and combines it with the backup of other services, including instances and databases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Updates, Ansynch and Buffered Logging by Amazon Corretto
This week's Java roundup for March 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, updates to Spring Cloud subprojects, Amazon Corretto providing asynchronous and buffered logging for OpenJDK 17, Quarkus 2.7.4.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0.CR2, Apache Groovy 3.0.10 and 2.5.16, Apache Camel 3.14.2, JReleaser early-access, JobRunr 4.0.10, JDKMon 17.0.23 and FailSafe 3.2.3.
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HashiCorp Moves HCP Packer into GA with New Security Workflows
HashiCorp has moved HCP Packer into full general availability. HCP Packer is their cloud hosted offering of Packer, a machine-image building tool. The release adds a number of new features including improved security workflows, custom metadata, and integration of compliance checks with Terraform Cloud workflows.
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Amazon S3 Supports New Checksum Algorithms for Integrity Checking
Amazon S3 recently introduced support of four checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on upload and download requests. Amazon claims that the enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API accelerates integrity checking of the S3 requests by up to 90%.
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Securing the Open-Source Software Supply Chain
Recent findings by security researchers at SonarSource showed multiple security vulnerabilities in popular package managers, including Pip, Yarn, Composer, and others. Package managers, though, are not the only weak link in the open source security chain. InfoQ has spoken with Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Google Java App Engine Standard is Now Open Source
Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine was designed to make it easy for developers to deploy and scale their web applications easily, without worrying about infrastructure management.
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Reduce the Environmental Impact of AWS Workloads with the New Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
AWS recently released a new customer carbon footprint tool to allow its customers to calculate the environmental impact of their workloads.