Mirantis announced Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) 4, the latest evolution in its long-established product line that sets the standard for secure enterprise Kubernetes.
Azul introduced its Java Performance Engineering Lab, which collaborates with global Java developers and customers’ technical teams to deliver enhanced Java performance through continuous benchmarking, code modernization recommendations and in-depth analysis of performance impacts from new OpenJDK releases.
Azul’s Java Performance Engineering Lab was built to focus on optimizations for Azul Platform Prime. The lab works with Java developers globally as well as customers’ architects, developers, and site reliability and performance engineering teams to introduce optimizations that improve Java speed and performance. Azul’s performance engineers also make client recommendations on how to modernize their own application code which can result in even further performance gains.
Azul’s engineers continually test the code speed of Azul Platform Prime compared to other OpenJDK distributions using accepted industry standard benchmarks such as Renaissance, DaCapo and SpecJBB, as well as benchmarks for popular Java-based Apache projects like Kafka, Cassandra and Solr. Each LTS release, and updated versions of those LTS releases, typically impact Java performance. Azul continuously assesses the performance of a wide range of Java releases to improve performance and operational efficiency.
Azul’s Java Performance Engineering Lab also evaluates emerging technologies including:
- New hardware capabilities (e.g. LAM in Intel).
- Updates of CPU architectures (e.g. AWS Graviton 4).
- Latest Linux kernel features, performance tooling.
- Java evolution (e.g. CRaC, Virtual threads, Project Valhalla, Project Leyden).
- Optimizations developed and contributed to the LLVM compiler community.
Industry News
Cequence Security announced the launch of its new API Security Assessment Services.
Pulumi announced improvements including major updates to the EKS provider supporting Amazon Linux 2023 and Security Groups for pods, the release of Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0 with dedicated workspace pods, Pulumi ESC integration with External Secrets Operator, and a new Kubernetes-native deployment agent for enhanced security and scalability.
Loft Labs announced the public beta of vCluster Cloud, a managed solution that simplifies and reduces the costs of Kubernetes clusters.
DevZero announced DXI (Developer Experience Index), an initiative aimed at transforming developer productivity by unifying engineering throughput and operational metrics.
Horizon3.ai announced the release of NodeZero™ Kubernetes Pentesting, a new capability available to all NodeZero users.
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept wasmCloud as a CNCF incubating project.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the graduation of Dapr.
NetApp announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat to offer new solutions to streamline and accelerate enterprise application development and management in virtual environments.
Akamai Technologies announced the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale highly distributed applications.
Snyk has acquired Probely, a modern Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) provider based in Porto, Portugal, with coverage of API security testing and web applications.
Broadcom announced the general availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 10 that establishes a new layer of abstraction across Cloud Foundry infrastructure foundations to make it easier, faster, and less expensive to bring new applications, including GenAI applications, to production.
Tricentis announced the expansion of its test management and analytics platform, Tricentis qTest, with the launch of Tricentis qTest Copilot.
Redgate is introducing two new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) powered capabilities in its test data management and database monitoring solutions.
Upbound announced significant advancements to its platform, targeting enterprises building self-service cloud environments for their developers and machine learning engineers.