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Microsoft Announces New Capabilities in Azure Firewall: Threat Intelligence and Service Tags Filters
Recently Microsoft announced two new capabilities for Azure Firewall, a cloud-native firewall-as-a-service offering, enabling customers to govern all their traffic flows using a DevOps approach centrally. The firewall service supports both application (such as *.github.com), and network level filtering rules.
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NPM Adopted Rust to Remove Performance Bottlenecks
Npm exponential growth drove the npm engineering team to switch from Node.js to Rust to handle CPU-bound tasks that were going to become a performance bottleneck. A recent white paper overviews the experience of developing the new service in Rust and running it in production for more than one year.
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Rancher Labs Release Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution "k3s" for Edge, IoT and Telco Platforms
Rancher Labs has announced a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that has been optimised towards running within resource-constrained environments, such as edge or IoT locations, or within telco and manufacturing systems.
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Recommendations When Starting with Microservices: Ben Sigelman at QCon London
During the years Ben Sigelman worked at Google, they were creating what we today call a microservices architecture. Some mistakes were made during this adoption, which he believes are being repeated today by the rest of the industry. In his presentation at QCon London 2019, Sigelman described his recommendations to avoid making these mistakes when starting with microservices.
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Building Services at Scale at Airbnb: QCon London Q&A
The re-architecture to SOA at Airbnb improved the performance of the services and site reliability. Faster build and deploy times led to increased developer productivity, and improving clarity and boundaries for ownership increased efficiency. Jessica Tai, a software engineer at Airbnb, presented Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale at QCon London 2019.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Java Support in Azure Functions
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Java support in Azure Functions V2.0. Developers can now write functions in Java 8 and take advantage of the Maven-powered developer experience provided by Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, and the cross-platform Functions Core Tools.
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Amazon Releases Corretto 8 GA: A Downstream Distribution of OpenJDK
Amazon recently released Corretto 8 GA, a "no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution" of OpenJDK. Corretto was introduced as a preview release last November at Devoxx Belgium by Arun Gupta, principal open source technologist at Amazon Web Services, and Yishai Galatzer, senior engineering manager at Amazon Web Services. Gupta spoke to InfoQ about this latest Corretto GA release.
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San Francisco: QCon.ai Schedule Nearing Completion
April 15-17 software engineering teams will gather in the Bay area for the Second Annual QCon.ai Software Conference. QCon.ai is focused on helping teams adopt and validate roadmaps in machine learning by hearing and learning from those that are doing it today. What truly differentiates QCon.ai is its machine learning focus given through the lens of the software engineer.
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Microsoft Announces Two New Azure Cloud Services Allowing Developers to Build Cross-Platform AR Apps
At the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Microsoft announced two new services: Azure Spatial Anchors and Azure Remote Rendering. Both services will allow developers to build cross-platform and contextual mixed reality applications.
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On the road to Python 3.8: Assignment Expressions, Merging typed_ast and Multiprocessing Improvement
The first two deployments of the Python 3.8 development branch were released this month, on the road to releasing the final version later this year. The fastest growing programming language as measured by Stack Overflow is starting development on the next major version a few months after 3.8 was released in June 2018. In this news article we will see the major features in this new version to date.
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The Risk of Climate Change and What Tech Can Do: QCon London Q&A
Data centres create more emissions than the aviation industry due to energy usage and 24x7 availability, and the growth of the cloud computing and mining of cryptocurrencies is increasing the impact technology has on our climate. Moving existing servers to providers who use renewable sources of electricity could lead to planet-wide climate improvements. A QCon Q&A with Jason Box and Paul Johnston.
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The Importance of Event-First Thinking
For global businesses to meet today’s architectural challenges with constant change and extreme scale, we need to go back to the basic principles of system design. The common element in the problems we face is the notion of events driving both actions and reactions, Neil Avery writes in a series of blog posts describing why events are so important and the advantages of an event-first approach .
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Microsoft Announces Several Updates to Azure Event Grid
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Event Grid, which allows for creating event-driven application architectures. The announcement includes features around retry policies, dead lettering capabilities, Azure Storage Queues and Hybrid Connections as a destination for events, and a manual validation handshake.
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Google's Software-Driven Hybrid Cloud Platform Moves from Alpha to Beta Stage
First revealed at Google Cloud Next 2018, the Cloud Services Platform (CSP) is now available in beta form. This collection of Kubernetes-driven services runs atop on-premises infrastructure, and represents what Google hopes will become a ubiquitous technology stack.
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Google Releases Versions 7.2 and 7.3 of V8 JavaScript Engine
The recent 7.2 and 7.3 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine improve JavaScript parsing performance, new JavaScript language features, and WebAssembly performance.