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Troubleshooting Java Applications with Eclipse Jifa
Eclipse Jifa is an open-source project for troubleshooting Java applications. Comparable solutions often run on the client, where Jifa provides a scalable, web-based solution to prevent local memory and resource challenges. Currently, Heap Dump Analysis and GC Log Analysis are supported with features such as target heap overview, leak suspects, thread information and GC root analysis.
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Google Cloud Introduces Certificate Manager
Google Cloud recently introduced the public preview of Certificate Manager, a service that integrates with External HTTPS Load Balancing to manage multiple certificates and domains.
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ValidKube Aims to Help Enforce Kubernetes YAML Best Practices
ValidKube is a new open-source tool that combines several tools to make it easier to validate, clean, and secure Kubernetes YAML configuration files. InfoQ has spoken with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, creator of ValidKube.
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KubeVela Announces 1.2: Application-Centric Multi-Cluster Control Plane with Extensible Engine
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that makes shipping applications across hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster. The OAM community released version 1.2 of the KubeVela project in Jan 2022, bringing a new GUI framework VelaX, unified multi-cluster management capabilities, and an extensible design with an addon ecosystem.
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AWS Introduces a New Open-Source Solution: AWS Virtual Waiting Room
Recently, AWS introduced a new open-source solution called AWS Virtual Waiting Room, allowing integration with existing web and mobile applications. In addition, the solution protects systems from resource exhaustion by buffering user requests during sudden traffic bursts.
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How Measuring Defect Mass Helps to Test Critical Product Areas
Introducing a measurement called “defect mass” helped a project to find the most impacted areas by developments and decide how many tests should be run for each impacted area. Using this measurement together with other KPIs helped them focus their testing. They managed to decrease the number of customer incidents.
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Eclipse Collections 11.0.0 Features New APIs and Functionality
The release of Eclipse Collections 11.0.0, a collections library compatible with the Java collection types, provides new methods for new functionalities or improved performance. The ClassComparer class was introduced to compare the methods of two classes and display the similarities and differences.
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Netlify Graph Aims to Simplify External API Integration in Web Apps
Netlify Graph provides a new GraphQL-based approach to integrating distinct APIs to build a Web app that strives to reduce the inherent complexities in mixing different data models, response formats, authentication schemes, and so on. InfoQ has spoken with Netlify head of ecosystem Den Delimarsky.
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AWS CloudFormation Hooks Provide Proactive Validation of CloudFormation Operations
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks which allow for custom logic prior to a create, update, or delete CloudFormation stack operation. CloudFormation hooks support versioning, public and private distribution, and can be published into multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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TypeScript 4.6 Beta Improves Type Inference and Error Checking
The TypeScript team released version 4.6 beta, which introduces improvements to control flow analysis, class constructor definitions, error checks in JavaScript files, and others. TypeScript can now narrow down the signature for a function parameter whose type is a discriminated union.
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Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities
Sysdig’s latest cloud-native and security-usage report finds that shipping containers with vulnerabilities has become standard practice - with the report finding that 75% of containers have high severity vulnerabilities which could have been patched. The report stresses that many organisations find this to be an acceptable risk, in order to move and release quickly.
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DeepMind Open-Sources Quantum Chemistry AI Model DM21
Researchers at Google subsidiary DeepMind have open-sourced DM21, a neural network model for mapping electron density to chemical interaction energy, a key component of quantum mechanical simulation. DM21 outperforms traditional models on several benchmarks and is available as an extension to the PySCF simulation framework.
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PipelineDP Brings Google’s Differential-Privacy Library to Python
Google and OpenMined have released PipelineDP, a new open-source library that allows researchers and developers to apply differentially private aggregations to large datasets using batch-processing systems.
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.NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview
Last month, Microsoft released the .NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview, part of the company's promise to support .NET Framework. The update targets .NET Framework versions 3.5 and 4.8 and focuses on the Common Language Runtime and Windows Presentation Foundation. The preview release aims to increase reliability and quality of the .NET Framework features for Windows OS.
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Fast-Track Application Refactoring with the Generally Available AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS first introduced the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub, last November at re:Invent 2021. Now, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of the Migration Hub capability.