Recently AWS announced Lambda extensions’ general availability (GA), which allows its users to integrate Lambda functions with their preferred tooling for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. The GA release includes performance improvements and an expanded set of partners. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Recently AWS announced Lambda extensions’ general availability (GA), which allows its users to integrate Lambda functions with their preferred tooling for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. The GA release includes performance improvements and an expanded set of partners. By Steef-Jan WiggersRead More
OpenJDK Discusses Post-SecurityManager Practices
Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in early-release builds of Java 17 (a Long-Term Support release). In particular, Oracle has published a technical paper, “Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager.” By Erik Costlow Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in early-release builds of Java 17 (a Long-Term Support release). In particular, Oracle has published a technical paper, “Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager.” By Erik CostlowRead More
Amazon SNS Gains Message Archiving and Analytics via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Amazon SNS supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions to send messages to “data lakes, data stores, and analytics services […] without writing custom code”. The new event destination also simplifies the integration of third-party service providers. By Steffen Opel Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Amazon SNS supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions to send messages to “data lakes, data stores, and analytics services […] without writing custom code”. The new event destination also simplifies the integration of third-party service providers. By Steffen OpelRead More


