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Facebook.com Redesign: Stack and Strategies for Sustainable Performance
Facebook detailed in a blog post the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the latest iteration of the facebook.com website. Facebook rearchitected its website and standardized its technological stack around React, GraphQL, Relay, and its custom CSS-in-JS library. The goal of the rewrite was to increase performance and make it easy to add new features.
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AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
AWS announced Amazon MQ will now support RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. With the support for RabbitMQ, customers can migrate their existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without rewriting code.
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AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves, Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing
AWS has recently made available Nitro Enclaves, isolated EC2 environments to process confidential data. Based on a lightweight Linux OS, a Nitro Enclave is a hardened, attested and highly constrained virtual machine.
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HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations
Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes.
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Google Announces Eventarc in Preview
In a recent blog post, Google announced Eventarc, a new events functionality that allows customers to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. With Eventarc, customers can build event-driven applications and take care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, observability, and error handling.
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Cloud Computing in a Shipping Container: Microsoft Introduces the Azure Modular Datacenter
Microsoft recently announced a new Azure in a shipping container service called Azure Modular Datacenter. The new offer provides an option for setting up an Azure datacenter in hybrid or challenging environments where cloud computing previously would not have been possible.
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The Road to MicroProfile 4.0
Originally scheduled for a June 2020 release, MicroProfile 4.0 had been delayed until an Eclipse Working Group was established. The new release date is November 10, 2020. John Clingan, senior principal product manager at Red Hat, spoke to InfoQ about the upcoming release of MicroProfile 4.0.
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Common Challenges Facing Angular Enterprises - Stephen Fluin at Ngconf
Stephen Fluin, developer advocate for Angular, discussed at ngconf the common challenges facing Angular teams that are building applications at scale.
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Redwood - Bringing the Ruby on Rails Experience to JavaScript
Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, released RedwoodJS, a new fullstack, edge-ready JavaScript web framework. Redwood is highly opinionated and integrates pre-determined back-end and front-end stacks. Redwood follows convention-over-configuration principles and strives to provide a Ruby on Rails-like developer experience.
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Amazon SNS Supports FIFO for Pub/Sub Messaging
AWS has recently introduced support for First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics in Amazon SNS with strict ordering and deduplication of messages. The new feature enforces ordering in which messages are sent and received, and avoids that a message is processed multiple times.
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HashiCorp Announces 1.0 Beta of Distributed Orchestrator Nomad
HashiCorp announced version 1.0 Beta of Nomad - their orchestration framework for deploying and managing containerized and non-containerized applications.
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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Available for Public Preview
Recently, AWS announced the public preview of the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, developers can instrument their applications in one go to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions ranging from Amazon Cloudwatch to Datadog and Grafana.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Gains Delivery to HTTP Endpoints
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose recently gained support to deliver streaming data to generic HTTP endpoints. This also enables additional AWS services as destinations via Amazon API Gateway's service integration. The new capability is complemented with dedicated integrations of additional third-party service providers like Datadog, MongoDB, and New Relic.
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Svelte at the Edge - Luke Edwards at Svelte Summit
Luke Edwards recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he discussed running Svelte application at the edge. Edwards demoed building and running a simple Svelte application with CloudFlare Workers and Google Cloud.
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Better Managing Cost in AWS with Budgets Actions
Recently, AWS announced budgets actions allowing customers to define actions to take when a budget exceeds its threshold (actual or forecasted amounts). With budget actions, customers will have more control over their AWS Budgets in order to reduce unintentional overspending in their AWS accounts.