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Helidon Supports GraalVM for Native Executable Applications
Shortly after the release of Helidon 1.0, Oracle announced Helidon support for GraalVM that converts Helidon applications to native executable code via the native-image utility. Helidon was designed to be simple and fast, and is comprised of two versions: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about Helidon support for GraalVM.
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Web Application Firewall Causes Outage
The CloudFlare outage from June 2nd was caused by high CPU consumption of a backtracking regular expression, defending against a Sharepoint CVE.
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Rust 1.36 Stabilizes Futures, Backports Non-Lexical Lifetimes, and More
Following its roadmap to Rust 2018, Rust 1.36's most awaited new feature is support for the Future trait, which is the first step towards bringing async/await to the language. Additionally, it backports non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) to improve the borrow checker, and introduces a new alloc crate to enable the creation of memory allocation-dependent libraries that do not require std.
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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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HAProxy EBtree: Design for a Scheduler, and Use (Almost) Everywhere
At QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer.
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Uncovering Sustainable and Scalable Solutions for Digital Transformations
Using the term “digital transformation” limits our change approach to traditional linear management techniques which are ineffective in dealing with today’s organizational complexity. We need to focus on understanding the context and the organization’s inner working to come up with sustainable and scalable solutions for organizational change.
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Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard
The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.
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Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
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MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0
Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Google Releases TensorFlow.Text Library for Natural Language Processing
Google released a TensorFlow.Text, a new text-processing library for their TensorFlow deep-learning platform. The library allows several common text pre-processing activities, such as tokenization, to be handled by the TensorFlow graph computation system, improving consistency and portability of deep-learning models for natural-language processing.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019
Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.
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Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York
Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.
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Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation Join Open-Source Hyperledger Blockchain Project
In a recent press release, Hyperledger, an open-source blockchain and distributed ledger project, announced eight new members have joined their consortium including Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation. These organizations join established members like Airbus, Cisco, IBM and Intel.