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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities
During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities.
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Microsoft Launches a New Communication Platform with Azure Communication Services
During its annual Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Communication Services (ACS), a fully-managed communication platform. The offering is currently in public preview.
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Google Announces New Features Making It Easier to Manage Windows Server VMs
Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).
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Heapothesys - an Open-Source GC Latency Benchmark by Amazon Corretto
The Amazon Corretto team has introduced Heapothesys, a collection of JVM garbage collection (GC) workloads designed for the application developer to compare alternative GC algorithms and configuration choices, and to detect GC performance and latency regressions. Using the resulting JVM pauses, developers may produce their own reference points to study GC boundaries within their applications.
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Using Serverless Backends to Iterate Quickly on Web Apps
In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently shown the advantage of building serverless backends to iterate quickly on web apps and be able to follow changing product requirements. These development methodology and architecture allow flexibility but increase coupling with cloud vendor services.
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Java 15 Released
Oracle has released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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Introducing QCon Plus by InfoQ: a Virtual Conference for Senior Software Engineers and Architects
QCon Plus covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations. The conference is built to accelerate your learning with thoughtfully curated, shorter, focused technical sessions over three weeks featuring 54 speakers, 4 keynotes, 18+ facilitated peer sharing sessions, and 6 focused open space sessions.
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AWS Launches New Contact Flow APIs for Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center. It is based on the same technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world to power customer conversations.
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Cypress 5.x Adds Test Retries and Shadow DOM Support
Cypress, a browser-based test runner and dashboard, recently introduced native support for test retries in the Cypress 5.0 release, helping developers avoid intermittent test failures. Other recent Cypress advances include networking stubbing and shadow DOM support.
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Interview with Event Modeling Founder - Adam Dymitruk
Q&A with Adam Dymitruk about the Event Modeling Project: its genesis, reason for existence, feature set and future plans.
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AWS Launches Low-Cost Burstable T4g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
AWS provides various Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, including a broad choice of Graviton2 processor-based, which allow customers to optimize their workloads on performance and costs. The latest addition to the Graviton2-based instances is the low cost burstable general-purpose T4g instances.
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Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Core 5.0 RC 1
Last week, Microsoft released Entity Framework Core 5.0 RC1, the first "go live" release of the framework before its official debut in November, together with .NET 5. This release candidate contains all features planned for EF Core 5.0, including: transparent many-to-many mapping, general query enhancements, and overall improvements in performance, migrations, and deployment experience.
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Focused on Observability: CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar
CNCF released their second quarterly technology radar focused on Observability. The goal of the radar is to “share what tools are actively being used by end users, the tools they would recommend, and their patterns of usage” when adopting cloud-native technologies.
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Public Beta of Google Cloud API Gateway Now Available
At the recent Google's Cloud Next virtual conference, Google announced the public beta of API Gateway, a fully-managed Google Cloud service to create and monitor APIs for serverless workloads.
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Navigating Complex Software Projects and Leading in Uncertain Times: InfoQ Live, Sept 23rd
InfoQ Live brings together world-class practitioners such as John Willis, senior director in Red Hat's Global Transformation Office, and Sarah Wells, technical director for operations and reliability @FT, to share their valuable insights and practical advice on software engineering leadership.