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Cloud Providers Publish Ransomware Mitigation Strategies
In the last few weeks AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have posted articles and documentation with suggestions on ransomware mitigation techniques on the cloud, highlighting the main protections and recovery preparation actions.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile, OpenJDK, Open Liberty, Payara, Groovy and Quarkus
This week's Java roundup for September 6th, 2021, features news from Jakarta EE 10 introducing a new core profile, JEP 417, JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.10-beta, Payara August 2021 Roadmap Update webinar, Quarkus 2.2.2.Final, a new Micronaut Java library, Hibernate Search 6.1.0.Alpha1, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.5, updates to versions of Groovy, and the JakartaOne Livestream 2021 conference.
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Erlang-Inspired Language Gleam Now Compiles to JavaScript
Gleam, which self-describes as a language for building type-safe, scalable systems for the Erlang virtual machine, now also compiles to JavaScript.
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AWS Introduces New Intelligent Tier Options for S3 and EFS
AWS announced a few features and changes to their storage approach for S3 and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) regarding Intelligent Tiering options during the recent AWS Storage Day. The updates and changes will allow customers to leverage S3 and EFS more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Microsoft Releases .NET MAUI Compatibility Packages for the Xamarin Community Toolkit
As previously announced, .NET MAUI Toolkit will replace Xamarin Community Toolkit. In the same way as Xamarin, the Xamarin Community Toolkit is evolving as well, with Xamarin.Forms becoming .NET MAUI. The new Community Toolkit packages for .NET MAUI are available and fully optimized for it. Those packages are CommunityToolkit.Maui and CommunityToolkit.Maui.Markup.
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Deno Improves Support for Web APIs: Cryptography, Messaging, Networking, and More
The recent versions of Deno improved web API support in the cryptography, networking, and messaging areas. Deno 1.11 introduced support for the Web Crypto APIs and BroadcastChannel APIs. Deno 1.12 added support for the MessageChannel and MessagePort portions of the Channel Messaging API. Deno 1.13 implements the navigator.hardwareConcurrency API.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At AWS Storage Day 2021, the cloud provider announced Amazon FSx for ONTAP, a managed file system for ONTAP data management software. Supporting file access and storage functionalities already used by enterprise customers, the service targets the migration to the cloud of applications and workloads that require high-performance ONTAP storage.
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How Quantifying Information Leakage Helps to Protect Systems
Information leakage happens when observable information can be correlated with a secret. Secrets such as passwords, medical diagnosis, locations, or financial data uphold a lot of our world, and there are many types of information, like error messages or electrical consumption patterns, that can give hints to these secrets.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a new managed service tier for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. The new enterprise tier is available in preview.
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PyTorch 1.9 Release Includes Mobile, Scientific Computing, and Distributed Training Updates
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.9 which includes improvements for scientific computing, mobile support, and distributed training. Overall, the new release contains more than 3,400 commits since the 1.8 release.
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Google Introduces Minimum Instances to Reduce Cold Starts
Google’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering Cloud Functions now supports minimum (“min”) instances. With this new feature, Google aims to take away a well-known friction point of FaaS called "cold-starts".
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Docker Now Requiring Paid Subscription for Large Businesses
Docker has introduced a new Subscription Service Agreement which requires organizations with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in revenue to buy a paid subscription, starting at $5 per user per month. Additionally, Docker has launched a new Business subscription plan for larger organizations operating at scale.
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Java News Roundup: Roadmap for Spring 6.0 and Spring Boot 3.0, OpenJDK and Quarkus Updates
This week's Java roundup for August 30th, 2021, features news from SpringOne in which the roadmap of Spring Framework 6.0 and Spring Boot 3.0 was revealed, updates to OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, updates to the Quarkus 2.1 and 2.2 release trains, MicroProfile API release candidates, Open Liberty 21.0.0.9, Hibernate 5.6.0.Beta1, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.4 and a new JHipster project for Helidon.
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New Template DSL Tempura Focuses on Parsing Speed and Size
Luke Edwards recently released Tempura, a lightweight template DSL with fast parsing speeds. Like other static site generators’ templating languages, Tempura also features custom blocks for user-defined template directives. While Tempura’s primary use case is to generate HTML for web applications, it can be used in any context where a template DSL adds value vs. using JavaScript.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 13
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora supports major version 13 of PostgreSQL. The compatibility with the latest major PostgreSQL version adds improvements such higher performing partitioned table queries and deduplication of B-tree index entries.