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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.
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ServiceMeshCon Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Located Event
Christian Posta form Solo.io discussed multi-cluster and multi-mesh patterns at the recent ServiceMeshCon event which was held as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Conference. There were also talks on Istio architecture, WebAssembly for Istio telemetry and iteratively implementing Istio service mesh with no downtime.
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Introduction to Mutation Testing - Dave Aronson at JSConf Hawaii
Dave Aronson gave at JSConf Hawaii 2020 an introduction to mutation testing. Aronson presented the rationale behind mutation testing, its benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls, and how it works under the hood.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August. Key takeaways included: there is an increasing importance in understanding end-user adoption patterns of technologies; it is important to recognize and discuss the topics of security, observability, and energy efficiency as more organizations move to the cloud; and more.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.
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AWS Introduces a Solution of AI Services to Manage Contact Center Workflows
AWS has recently made Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions available, a combination of services that enables companies to integrate contact centers with AI.
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Web Components at GitHub - Web Component SF Meetup
Kristján Oddsson detailed at the Web Components SF meetup how GitHub uses Web Components and the patterns GitHub identified to foster readable, performant, and accessible front end components.
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Google Announces General Availability of CPU Overcommit for Sole Tenant Nodes
In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.
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Containers Running on EKS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. The update is a follow-up to AWS customers requesting support for EFS with Fargate when using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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Airbnb Releases Tool to Convert Large Codebases to Typescript
The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process may however be more productive than starting from scratch. The Airbnb team reports converting projects with over 50,000 lines of code in a day.
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TypeScript 4.0 Adds Long-Awaited Variadic Tuple Types
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, which includes long-awaited variadic tuple type support and other improvements without introducing any major breaking changes.
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.
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AWS Wavelength Now Generally Available
AWS has recently made AWS Wavelength zones in San Francisco and Boston available to provide a subset of their computing services on Verizon datacenters. The new zones will allow developers to build applications that can benefit from the ultra-low latency of the mobile carriers.
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Axon 4.4 Improves Server Performance, Simplifies Framework Usage, and Enhances Developer Experience
AxonIQ has formally released Axon 4.4, a major release of the framework and server infrastructure that helps build event-driven microservices applications utilizing CQRS/event sourcing and domain-driven design.
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Twitter Launches New Developer API
Twitter recently released the new Twitter API (early access) to be used by third-party developers. The new Twitter API features three new product tracks: standard, academic research, and business. The new API offers conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, real-time tweet tracking, and a more powerful stream filtering and search query language.