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Refactoring GitHub OctoKit JavaScript REST SDK for Maintainability and Modularization
GitHub engineer Gregor Martynus recently described his journey to refactor GitHub official REST JavaScript SDK, originally containing about 16 thousand lines of code across six files total, into a more maintainable and modular project.
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Q&A with Amazon's Deepak Singh Regarding Bottlerocket, Containers and EC2
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding technical details about Bottlerocket and its roadmap.
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Containers Running on ECS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic, fully-managed shared file system. Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate are now able to use EFS.
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W3C Finalizes Web of Things (WoT) Recommendations
The W3C recently announced two new W3C Recommendations, Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), for web integration across IoT platforms and applications.
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Managing Infrastructure from Kubernetes with the HashiCorp Terraform Operator
HashiCorp has released the alpha version of the Terraform operator for Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code from Kubernetes. After installing the operator, users can synchronize Terraform workspaces using Kubernetes manifests. Then, applications running in Kubernetes can reference Terraform outputs using ConfigMaps. For now, this operator only works for Terraform Cloud.
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Introducing the JAMstack
JAMstack is a new architecture for building sites that can be served directly from a CDN that offers many benefits over existing LAMP or MEAN solutions. It stands for JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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Rancher 2.4 Adds Scalability, Management and Security Capabilities
Kubernetes management platform creator, Rancher Labs, has released Rancher 2.4 in line with their ‘Run Kubernetes Everywhere’ strategy. Rancher is a heterogeneous, multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes management platform. The new release is focused on providing the scalability, management and security capabilities required to support Kubernetes at edge scale.
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Ionic 5 Release Supports iOS 13 Consistency, Angular Ivy
The recent Ionic 5 release adds support for iOS 13 styles, a new custom animation API, and an improved Ionicon icon set.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of New Security Service: Amazon Detective
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Detective. This new security service in AWS allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
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WebAssembly Used by Java-to-Web Compiler CheerpJ 2.0 to Port Java Applications to Browsers
LeaningTech recently released the second major iteration of CheerpJ. CheerpJ 2.0 may convert Java applications into a mix of HTML, WebAssembly and JavaScript, so that developers can run Java applications (including applets) in browsers or integrate Java libraries into web applications. CheerpJ 2.0 uses WebAssembly to improve runtime speed.
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ts-toolbelt Adds over 200 Type Utilities to TypeScript
ts-toolbelt provides a type library to update, change, and compute TypeScript types. Through a lodash-inspired programmatic API, ts-toolbelt provides more than 200 type utilities while adding minimal overhead to TypeScript.
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Grafana Labs Announces GA of Cortex v1.0 and Discusses Architectural Changes
Grafana Labs, the company behind popular open-source monitoring projects Grafana and Loki, announced the General Availability of Cortex v1.0. Cortex is a clustered Prometheus implementation that includes features such as horizontal scalability, multi-tenancy, durability, and long-term storage.
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Angular 9.1 Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support and Faster Builds
The Angular 9.1 release adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and reduces the time it takes to build an Angular application.
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What's New in MicroProfile 3.3
The Eclipse Foundation released MicroProfile 3.3 featuring updates to five APIs - Rest Client, Config, Fault Tolerance, Metrics and Health. Other improvements include clarifications and enhancements to specifications and documentation, improved integration among all the MicroProfile APIs, interoperability across different MicroProfile implementations, and a complete set of artifacts for each API.