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Heroku set to end its free tier later this year

Heroku has announced that later this year it will end its free tier, which means users can no longer use free Dynos and free Postgres and Redis add-ons. Users have until 28 November 2022 to migrate to a paid plan. Heroku announces the changes in a …

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Type hints in Python 3

Python has support for type hinting since version 3.5. That’s quite useful, because it makes your code more predictable since you have more information about what types to expect. In this article we will dive deeper into what type hinting exactly is, …

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New features when upgrading from Java 11 to Java 17

In september 2021 Java 17 was released. Now, almost one year later, it is about time to upgrade. Java 17 is an LTS release with support until September 2023 and extended support until September 2026, which makes this version ideal for running in a …

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Getting started with AWS CDK v2

With the AWS CDK you can easily build your infrastructure on AWS as Infrastructure-as-Code. Instead of writing long CloudFormation templates in YML you can write short, to the point code to create an S3 bucket, deploy a Lambda or create a CloudFront …

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Overview of available JDKs

There are different kinds of JDKs, each with its own pros and cons. We will walk you through a couple of known JDKs, so you know exactly which one to download under which circumstances. JDK stands for Java Standard Edition Development Kit and is used …