Capabilities enable cloud native and Java
developers to cost-efficiently build highly responsive
applications
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VEGAS, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
CloudWorld -- Oracle today announced new application
development capabilities to enable developers to rapidly build and
deploy applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Designed
for cloud native and Java developers, the new capabilities will
help developers build highly responsive and efficient cloud native
applications while reducing costs. In addition, Oracle is building
generative AI capabilities for application development to take
advantage of cutting-edge large language models with the level of
security and privacy that enterprises demand.
"Today we are announcing several new capabilities across our
cloud native and Java portfolios that will enable developers to
simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, and management
of applications while reducing costs," said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president,
Security and Developer Platforms, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "In
addition, with our upcoming new generative AI services, Oracle will
help developers further leverage the latest technologies to help
drive business growth."
Oracle is introducing several new capabilities for Java
developers:
- Java 21: Helps developers increase productivity and
drive innovation and growth across their organizations. Announced
today, Java 21 (Oracle JDK 21) is the latest version of the world's
number one programming language and development platform. By
delivering thousands of improvements on performance, stability, and
security, including 15 Java Development Kit (JDK) Enhancement
Proposals, Java 21 helps developers cost-effectively accelerate the
development of robust, scalable, and secure applications.
- GraalOS: Helps developers improve the
responsiveness of applications while lowering costs. GraalOS is a
technology that works with advanced GraalVM Native Image to enable
deployed applications to run as native machine executables to take
full advantage of the latest Arm and Intel features. It enables low
latency and fast start capability that increases the responsiveness
of applications, while its reduced memory requirements and ability
to suspend and resume applications improve efficiency.
- OCI Functions powered by GraalOS: Helps
developers increase application performance, improve productivity,
and reduce costs. OCI Functions powered by GraalOS is a service
that addresses the issue of slow cold starts by running functions
as native executables, providing sub-second startup times. In
addition, OCI Functions leverages GraalVM Native Image to
dramatically reduce memory usage by up to 50 percent, and
out-of-the-box integrations to improve developer productivity. For
developers that run functions at scale, the increase in CPU
performance, reduced memory usage, and faster startup can result in
significant cost savings and increased performance.
- Graal Cloud Native 4.0: Helps
developers reduce compute costs by enabling them to build portable
cloud-native Java microservices that start almost instantly and use
fewer resources. Graal Cloud Native 4.0 is a curated set of
open-source Micronaut framework modules to help developers take
full advantage of powerful cloud services without dependency on
proprietary platform APIs.
Oracle is also introducing new capabilities to help developers
simplify cloud native deployments, Kubernetes operations, and
enhanced security while saving costs:
- Oracle Cloud Guard Container Governance: Enables
developers to enhance security for Oracle Container Engine for
Kubernetes (OKE) via predefined policies aligned to Kubernetes
Security Posture Management. In addition, the new Oracle Cloud
Guard Container Governance service simplifies configuration of
containerized workloads deployed on OKE, helping developers save
time and costs associated with audits and reviews.
- Arm Support for all Runtimes: Helps developers leverage
lower-cost CPUs for all runtimes, including OCI Functions, OKE
Virtual Nodes, and OCI Container Instances in addition to bare
metal compute, virtual machines, and OKE Managed Nodes. Since Arm
processors are highly compact and energy efficient, developers can
help their organizations realize cost savings by running suitable
workloads on Arm.
The above innovations are in addition to recent significant
releases that make Kubernetes operations simpler and more
secure:
- Serverless Kubernetes: Enables customers to ensure
reliable operations at-scale without the complexities of managing,
scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting the underlying Kubernetes
node infrastructure.
- Add-on lifecycle management: Provides customers
greater flexibility to install and configure their chosen
operational software or related applications. Add-ons include
essential Kubernetes software deployed on the cluster, such as
CoreDNS and kube-proxy, and access to a growing portfolio of
related applications, such as the Kubernetes Dashboard, Oracle
Database Operator, and more.
- Workload identity: Enhances security posture with
the ability to specify granular identity and access management
controls at the pod level versus scoping access permissions at the
node level.
- Pre-built functions: Ready-to-use tasks or actions
implemented using OCI Functions. Pre-built functions leverage the
existing integration between various OCI services to help
orchestrate service functionality using a guided experience,
enabling you to configure functions without having to build or
manage code.
"With Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, we're able to
quickly expand agentless scanning of workloads on OCI, which allows
us to focus on delivering value to our OCI customers and fuel our
continued rapid growth, rather than spend resources on
infrastructure management," said Oron
Noah, director of product management, Wiz.
In addition, Oracle is building generative AI capabilities for
application development that are powered by NVIDIA GPUs. The
capabilities will be designed to help ensure security and privacy
while delivering predictable performance. Developers will gain
access to the foundational models that enables them to tune and
customize in a secure manner, hosting the models in Oracle's AI
infrastructure — all the way up to OCI Supercluster scale — and
exposing them via endpoints. Developers will then be able to
leverage these tuned and customized models to embed generative AI
in their own applications. Developers will also have access to out
of the box assistance for developer use cases such as test
generation, code translation, code generation, code refactoring,
and code summarization.
"At Cohere, we are building generative AI models that will act
as an extension of the developer, allowing them to maintain their
unique coding styles while helping them develop more efficient
code," said Saurabh Baji,
senior vice president, engineering, Cohere. "We are very
excited to work with OCI to build foundational models that address
a wide range of developer use-cases."
Java 21, Arm support for all runtimes, and Graal Cloud Native
4.0 are available now. OCI Functions Powered by GraalOS and Oracle
Cloud Guard Container Governance will be available soon.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Learn more about OCI Application Development
- Learn more about Oracle Container Engine for
Kubernetes
- Learn more about GraalVM
- Download Oracle JDK 21
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