Open-source Java platform provider Azul Systems today unveiled a new series of migration tools and services designed to help enterprise and public sector IT teams transition from proprietary Oracle Java SE to its Zulu builds of OpenJDK. These tools and services include inventory and usage auditing, testing, and certification, "to help organizations move their entire Java estate quickly, easily, and securely from Oracle to Azul's OpenJDK platform," the company said in a statement.
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Posted by John K. Waters on October 22, 20200 comments
When IBM and the organizers of the Call for Code Global Challenge announced the grand prize winner last week (our coverage here) of its third annual international tech-for-good competition, they also unveiled a new Call for Code initiative: Call for Code for Racial Justice, which IBM is describing as "a vital initiative that brings together technology and a powerful ecosystem to combat one of the greatest challenges of our time: racial injustice."
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Posted by John K. Waters on October 20, 20200 comments
The decade-long court battle between Google and Oracle over 37 Java APIs Google used without Oracle's permission in its Android mobile operating system is finally coming to an end. (Really this time…. probably.) Oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ended on Friday.
The case has been pending at the High Court for almost two years. It was set originally for oral argument in March, but was rescheduled to this fall when the coronavirus pandemic scrambled the spring argument sessions. (My earlier report includes a summary of the long history of this case, which started when Oracle sued Google in 2010.)
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Posted by John K. Waters on October 14, 20200 comments
There's a lot going on this week in the Kotlin community. JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and creator of Kotlin, is hosting an online event focused on the programming language.
Kotlin 1.4 (named, obviously, for the latest release) is a three-day event, underway now (Oct 12-14) that's bringing together Kotlin experts to share insider insights with the global developer community.
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Posted by John K. Waters on October 14, 20200 comments
Kubernetes security solutions provider Alcide achieved a milestone this week. The Israel-based company has earned the AWS Outposts Ready designation, which is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program.
This designation is a big deal for the young company. It recognizes that Alcide's platform has demonstrated successful integration with AWS Outposts deployments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a consistent hybrid experience.
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Posted by John K. Waters on September 17, 20200 comments
Enterprises are adapting their software security efforts to support DevOps as CI/CD instrumentation and operations orchestration have become standard components of organizations' software security initiatives. That's one of the insights from the latest Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM ) report from Synopsis.
First published in 2009, the BSIMM is the result of a multiyear study of real-world software security initiatives (SSIs). It was developed to provide a "fact-based" set of best practices for developing and growing an enterprise-wide software security program. That set of practices was the first maturity model for security initiatives created entirely from real-world data. The latest BSIMM is available for download now.
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Posted by John K. Waters on September 15, 20200 comments
We finally dipped our quarantined toes into the ever-widening podcast ocean last week, because we just didn't have enough to do around here. But seriously, after more than two decades on this beat, it really seemed like the right time to start sharing some of the amazing conversations I get to have on a daily basis with the brilliant and inventive people driving high tech.
We were lucky to have as our first guest Ashique KhudaBukhsh, a project scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI). I met Ashique in January, when he was still a post-doctoral researcher. I stumbled upon one of his team's published papers, and I called him to talk about what they were up to. That conversation led to two stories in ADTmag's sister publication, Pure AI.
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Posted by John K. Waters on September 3, 20200 comments
GitHub's upgrade this year to Ruby 2.7 was a massive, months-long undertaking that required a serious investment in engineering resources and time. The team maintaining the popular Microsoft-owned code-hosting-and-collaboration platform recently shared some of the details of that transition, which, among other things, required that they fix more than 11,000 warnings.
"Fixing that many warnings, some of which were coming from external libraries, takes a lot of coordination and teamwork," observed Eileen M. Uchitelle, a staff software engineer at GitHub and core Rails team member, in a blog post. "In order to be successful we needed a solid strategy for sharing the work."
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Posted by John K. Waters on September 1, 20200 comments
Microsoft wants to empower its customers to lift and shift their Java and Spring workloads to Azure, while also helping them to modernize their application stack with best-in-class enterprise messaging in the cloud. Toward that end, Redmond recently announced preview support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP in Azure Service Bus premium tier.
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for passing business messages among apps or organizations. It comprises an efficient wire protocol that separates the network transport from broker architectures and management. AMQP version 1.0 supports a range of broker architectures that may be used to receive, queue, route, and deliver messages, or used peer-to-peer.
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Posted by John K. Waters on August 26, 20200 comments