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Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages today and is used for the Internet of Things, APIs, in big data technologies, e-commerce websites, scientific applications, and more. It's even ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...