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The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has recently announced SBOMit, a tool designed to bolster Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with in-toto attestations. This development, announced under the OpenSSF Security Tooling Working Group, increases transparency and security in the software development process. (News) |
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Recently, AWS notified existing customers running Amazon Aurora that Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year. The absence of scaling to zero in the newer Aurora Serverless v2 has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a "true" serverless relational database on AWS. (News) |
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Paul Biggar talks about Darklang, a language designed to run on the cloud. The server, operating system, kernel, hypervisor, container, load balancer, orchestration framework, database, queue, and web host are all below the level of abstraction. By combining so many things below the programming language abstraction layer, significant complexity burden was removed from the developer. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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Explore a spectrum of Java persistence patterns, from data-oriented to domain-centric. Delve into Driver, Mapper, DAO, Active Record, and Repository for robust architectural foundations. (Article) |
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Microsoft team has released a new tool, called Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET (AppCAT). This tool is intended to help developers in the migration of on-premises .NET applications to Azure. AppCAT tool facilitates the assessment of .NET source code, configurations, and binaries, identifying potential issues and opportunities during the migration process to Azure. (News) |
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