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Amazon Releases Quantum Computing Service Braket into General Availability
Amazon Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. With the service, customers can test and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum circuit simulators and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.
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HashiCorp Introduces HashiCorp Cloud Platform
HashiCorp, the company behind the software tool Terraform, introduces a platform to run their products on AWS, Azure, and GCP as managed services. This will extend their enterprise offer with a focus on multi-cloud environments.
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Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds.
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Microsoft Announces the Preview of Java Message Service 2.0 over AMQP on Azure Service Bus
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP in the Azure Service Bus Premium tier. The support will allow customers to modernize their application stack by lifting and shifting their Java and Spring workloads to Azure.
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Google Meet’s Scaling Challenges during COVID-19
Google wrote about their challenges in scaling Google Meet due to increased usage since the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people using it. The SRE team at Google used their existing incident management framework with modifications to tackle the challenge of increased traffic that started earlier this year.
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KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and the Role of the Cloud during the Pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma
InfoQ caught up with newly appointed GM of CNCF, Priyanka Sharma, regarding the role of the cloud, open source and the work of the foundation for the current unprecedented times and going forward.
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InfoQ Live Virtual Event on Aug 25th: Session Spotlights and Roundtables
The inaugural InfoQ Live (Aug 25th) is a one-day virtual learning event that deep-dives into building and operating microservices and distributed systems. Discover practical strategies for the current environment that you can put into use straight away. Join world-class practitioners for inspiration, connections, and actionable ideas. See the InfoQ Live full schedule and the speaker line-up.
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AWS Releases Amazon Fraud Detector into General Availability
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully-managed service on AWS providing customers with the capability to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse or online payment fraud. The service uses machine learning (ML) and relies on two decades of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com.
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Dropbox Improves Sync Performance Using a Modified Brotli
After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers have slightly modified Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%, Dropbox engineers Rishabh Jain and Daniel Reiter Horn maintain.
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Eventuate Platform Adds Support for Micronaut, Enhanced Developer Tooling and Improved Performance
Eventuate.io has released a new version of the Eventuate platform, adding support for Micronaut, enhanced developer tooling, and improved performance. It also upgrades to Java 14 and Spring Boot 2.2.6.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ 2020.2
JetBrains has just rolled out IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2: the latest version of its popular integrated development environment (IDE).
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Microsoft Introduces the Azure Well-Architected Framework
In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced the Azure Well-Architected Framework, which provides customers with a set of Azure architecture best practices to help them build and deliver well-designed solutions.
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Q&A with New Relic Regarding Open Sourcing Agents and a Future of Open Instrumentation
InfoQ caught up with New Relic's principal software engineer, Ben Evans, director of software engineering, Sharr Creeden, and group VP of engineering, Greg Unrein regarding the open sourcing of New Relic's agents and the future of open instrumentation.
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RavenDB 5 Improves Distributed Time-Series, Document Compression, and Indexing
RavenDB, a NoSQL document database with multi-document ACID transactions, adds distributed time-series support, smart document compression, and enhanced indexing in the RavenDB version 5 release.
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64).