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BBC Online Going Serverless
In a recent article, the BBC engineering team describes the work done moving BBC Online to the cloud and to a serverless deployment. Half of the BBC’s website is now rendered serverlessly with AWS Lambda.
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How Dropbox Created a Distributed Async Task Framework at Scale
Engineers at Dropbox designed a distributed async task framework (ATF) that can handle tens of thousands of async tasks scheduled per second. ATF's main feature is its ability to enable developers to define callbacks and schedule tasks that execute against these pre-defined callbacks.
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What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
Oracle recently released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. We take a look at what's known about the contents of the upcoming next releases, Java 16 and 17.
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Puppet Releases Its 2020 State of DevOps Report
The State of DevOps Report 2020 released by Puppet reveals that internal platforms for self-service and effective change management practices were key for organizations to move up the DevOps evolution ladder. Security integration in the software delivery pipeline also plays a key role.
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Google Launches a New Serverless Database Migration Service
Recently, Google announced a new serverless Database Migrates Service (DMS) in preview. The service supports migrations of self-hosted MySQL databases, either on-premises or in the cloud, and managed databases from other clouds, to Cloud SQL for MySQL.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2020 Highlights Jakarta EE 9 and MicroProfile 4.0
The second annual JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, scheduled after the formal GA releases of Jakarta EE 9 and MicroProfile 4.0, will go live on December 8th, 2020 with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile topics, these sessions include keynotes, 15-minute theme slots and panel discussions delivered by a host of Java luminaries.
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Microsoft .NET Conf 2020: .NET 5, C# 9.0, F# 5.0, and More
At the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, streamed online last week, Microsoft released the much-awaited .NET 5, along with new major .NET language versions (C# 9 and F# 5), ASP.NET 5, and EF Core 5.0. New versions of Visual Studio 2019 were also released, with support for .NET 5 and improved Git tooling. The event also featured sessions covering tools and frameworks such as Blazor and Project Tye.
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AWS Announces New S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers
S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class, which AWS added to Amazon S3 for optimization of storage costs for its users. The company recently announced it would add two new archive access tiers designed for asynchronous access optimized for rare access at a very low cost: Archive Access tier and Deep Archive Access tier.
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Bloomberg Engineering Share Experiences of Adopting TypeScript across a Large Codebase
Rob Palmer, JavaScript infrastructure and tooling lead at Bloomberg, recently shared a few learning points and insights from the adoption of TypeScript at scale at Bloomberg. While some learning points are specific to Bloomberg’s custom runtime, others may be valuable across any large codebase switching to TypeScript.
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AWS Introduces the Event Replay and Archive Capability in Its Eventbridge Service
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. Recently, AWS introduced an event replay and archive capability - providing developers a way to replay past events and extend their applications with new functionality.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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Fastly Expands Capabilities for Compute@Edge
Fastly, the cloud computing company providing solutions for edge cloud networks and content delivery networks, recently announced new features for their serverless compute environment Compute@Edge. The new release introduces new CLI functionalities, Terraform API support and additional language support.
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Maximizing User Experience with Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Netflix uses its homegrown API gateway, Zuul, to classify incoming requests into priorities. When the system comes under load or is otherwise unstable, Zuul throttles traffic, starting with the lowest priority. It then progressively adjusts to shed load according to the priorities calculated until the system is healthy again.
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The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 5
Earlier today, at .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5. The new release focuses on improvements of .NET Core 3.1: smaller single-file applications, support for Windows ARM64, and more capable JsonSerializer APIs are among the key features of .NET 5, along with many considerable performance improvements. New major language versions (C# 9 and F# 5) are also featured as part of this release.