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Patterns of Legacy Displacement - Thoughtworks Summarizes IT Landscape Evolution
Martin Fowler recently published a series of articles called Patterns of Legacy Displacement. It summarises the authors’ collective experience in replacing legacy systems. They argue that chances of success are increased by dividing such projects into three phases and following the patterns listed for each one.
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Google Introduces Unattended Project Recommender to Cut Cloud Costs
Recently Google introduced unattended project recommender, a new feature of Active Assist that provides customers with a one-stop shop for discovering, reclaiming, and shutting down unattended projects. In addition, the feature includes actionable and automatic recommendations to reduce costs or mitigate security risks presented by idle resources.
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Experiences from Measuring the DevOps Four Key Metrics: Identifying Areas for Improvement
Measuring the four key metrics of IT helped a company to assess the performance of their software delivery process. Continuous observation of these metrics supports decisions on where to invest and guides performance improvements.
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ARM Releases PlasticARM, a Plastic-Based Flexible Microchip
ARM takes another step forward towards powering a real IoT revolution: PlasticARM, its newly announced plastic based microchip, brings 18000 logic gates, 12 times more than previous models, and is the most complex flexible microchip to date.
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Android Studio Arctic Fox Improves Compose Preview, Adds Support for Apple Silicon
The latest release of Android Studio focuses on three main areas, says Google: improving UI design, extending device support, and boosting developer productivity. Additionally, Android Studio Arctic Fox introduces preview support for Apple Silicon processors.
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Introducing JDKMon: a New Tool to Detect and Update JDKs
JDKMon, a new tool to monitor and update installed JDKs, provides an alternative to existing tools such as SDKMAN. With the many available JDK distributions nowadays, keeping several of them up-to-date on a user’s machine can be a challenge. JDKMon displays the installed JDK distributions that include buttons to download the latest version for each distribution.
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Uber Re-Architected Its Foundational Fulfilment Service
Uber recently shared how it re-architected its fulfilment service, one of Uber's foundational platform services. Following a two-year-long effort involving 30+ teams and hundreds of developers, Uber engineers "built a strong foundation for modelling various types of physical fulfilment categories in the new platform and migrated all existing transportation use cases."
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Facebook Open-Sources BlenderBot 2.0 Chatbot
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, an AI chatbot that has long-term memory and can use internet searches for supplemental conversational context. The new model outperforms version 1.0, the previous state-of-the-art chatbot, achieving 55% improvement in use of previous conversations, according to human evaluators.
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AWS Releases Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller into General Availability
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, an additional new set of capabilities in Amazon Route 53. With the capabilities, it will be easier for customers to continuously monitor their applications’ ability to recover from failures and control their recovery across AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and on-premises infrastructure.
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.NET 6: Threading Improvements
While numerous libraries exist to abstract away the complexities of asynchronous and concurrent programming, developers still need to drop down to lower thread-handling logic from time to time. Continuing our API changes for .NET 6 series, we look at some new tricks for multi-threading.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 17 Initial RC, OpenJDK, Updates to Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for August 2nd, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 17 initial release candidate, JDK 18, Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-M1, Quarkus 2.1.1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8, WildFly 24.0.1 S2I Docker images, Hibernate ORM 5.5.6, JReleaser 0.6.0, Apache Camel 3.11.1 and MicroStream 5 is now open-source.
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Linkerd Showcases Rust in Cloud-Native Infrastructure
The Linkerd project has recently become a graduated project in the CNCF. One of the most interesting aspects of Linkerd that differentiates it from other service mesh products is the Rust-based Linkerd2-proxy. Rust has made Linkerd significantly faster and lighter than other service mesh solutions.
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Google Jetpack Compose Goes 1.0, JetBrains Launches Compose Multiplatform Alpha
Jetpack Compose, Google's Kotlin-based declarative UI framework for Android, has now reached stability at version 1.0, which also brings a few new tools to improve developer experience. While Google's Compose only supports Android, Kotlin maker JetBrains announced its Compose Multiplatform, which aims to extend Compose to the Desktop and the Web.
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ElasticSearch Fork OpenSearch is Generally Available
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch 1.0, the Apache 2.0-licensed fork of Elasticsearch that was created after Elastic changed their license.
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Explore the Software Engineering Trends That Matter in 2021 at QCon Plus in November
This November at the QCon Plus software development conference, senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will learn from their peers and discuss emerging software trends and practices. Join them to develop your technical and non-technical skills and get valuable insights that you can take home to your team and implement right away.