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Java News Roundup - Week of April 26th, 2021
This week's Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK, point releases for Hibernate, Micronaut, Quarkus and Payara Platform, a status update on JCenter, ManageCat joining the Adoptium Working Group and Payara having been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2021 in the category of international trade.
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Compilation Meets Documentation: OpenJDK JEP-413
A new Java proposal offers a way to enhance API documentation through compilable source snippets.
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Swift 5.4 Brings Support for Multiple Variadic Arguments, Result Builders, and More
Recently released Swift 5.4 brings support for multiple variadic parameters, extends implicit member syntax, adds support for local functions overloading, and more. Additionally, it improves runtime performance and binary size.
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Dos and Don’ts of Pair Programming - Study Suggests Togetherness and Expediency for Good Sessions
A recent study by researchers from the Institute of Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin analyzed pair programming (PP) sessions from 13 companies. The study concluded that togetherness and expediency associate with good pair programming sessions.
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GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions
In response to the recent surge in cryptocurrency mining attacks, GitHub has changed how pull requests from public forks are handled in GitHub Actions to prevent abuse.
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Prisma ORM Tool Suite Is Ready For Production in Node.js and TypeScript Apps
Nikolas Burk, developer relations at Prisma — the database ORM — recently announced that all Prisma tools (Prisma Client, Prisma Studio, Prisma Migrate) are ready for production usage. Prisma Migrate graduated from preview this year and is now generally available.
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.NET 6 Brings Blazor WebView Controls to WPF and WinForms
ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 Preview 3 brings many interesting features to explore, including the usage of Blazor components inside of desktop, WPF and Win Forms, applications via BlazorWebView control.
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.NET 6 LINQ Improvements
Continuing our series on the over 100 API changes in .NET 6, we look at extensions to the LINQ library.
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Google Provides a Peek into the Architecture of Colossus - Its Storage Foundation
In a recent post, Google provided a glimpse into the architecture of Colossus. Colossus underpins Google's scalable storage system, which serves both its Google Cloud offerings and Google's own globally available services such as YouTube, Google Drive, and Gmail. Five separate components compose Colossus - the client library, curators, metadata database, file servers, and custodians.
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AWS Introduces Savings Plans and Instant Price Reductions for Amazon Sagemaker
Recently, AWS announced instant price reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, their fully-managed Machine Learning (ML) service. With Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, customers can benefit from cost savings up to 64% compared to the on-demand price. The company also drops the price of several instance families in Amazon SageMaker by up to 14.2%.
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The Importance of Psychological Safety for Agile Transformations in Africa
The absence of psychological safety in the world of work limits the agile transformation journeys of organisations in Africa. Psychological safety is an enabler, not an act of weakness. Organisations that do not understand or foster it might find it difficult to survive in these VUCA times.
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Amazon Updates Its Elasticsearch Service, Begins Embrace of New Fork
Amazon recently released several enhancements to Amazon Elasticsearch Service. The new capabilities stem from two different sources: Elasticsearch, the project long associated with the service, and Open Distro for Elasticsearch, a new fork.
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CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on Secrets Management
CNCF published the fourth edition of the end-user Technology Radar. This time the theme was secrets management: the set of tools and technologies to manage digital authentication. The purpose of this edition is to share what tools are used by end-users, the tools they recommend, and any patterns that emerged.
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Cloudflare Improves Automated Terraform Generation Tool
Cloudflare recently released an updated version of their cf-terraforming tool. This tool streamlines generating Terraform HCL from existing Cloudflare resources. The new release simplifies the generation process and introduces changes to better future proof the tool.
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Using Rust to Write Safe and Correct Linux Kernel Drivers
As part of the Rust for Linux project, aimed to make it possible to use Rust for Linux driver development, the Android team at Google is working on evaluating the benefits that using Rust would bring.