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Dropbox Makes the Android App Faster and More Reliable: Swaps C++ Code for a Native Approach
Dropbox recently published how it made the camera upload process for Android faster and more reliable. Dropbox engineers removed shared Android and iOS C++ code and replaced it with a platform-native Kotlin implementation. The engineers are pleased with the decision to rewrite the process, stating that error rates went down and upload performance greatly improved.
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Lightstep Adds Incident Response to Their Observability Platform
Lightstep has announced the addition of incident response management to their observability platform. The general availability of Lightstep Incident Response provides integrations with common collaboration tools, rotation scheduling, escalation policies, APIs, and a CLI.
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Orchestrate Operations, Validations, and Approvals on Data Entities with Azure Purview Workflows
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Purview Workflows, allowing customers to orchestrate then create, update and delete operations, validation, and approval of data entities using repeatable business processes. These workflows are currently in preview.
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Google Previews the Exactly-Once Delivery Feature for Its Pub/Sub Service
Recently, Google announced the preview of the exactly-once delivery feature for its Pub/Sub Service. Pub/Sub guarantees that subscriptions do not receive duplicate deliveries of messages when enabling the feature.
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Measuring the Environmental Impact of Software and Cloud Services
Software has an influence on the limitation of the service life or the increased energy consumption. It’s possible to measure the environmental impacts that are caused by cloud services. The design of the software architecture determines how much hardware and electrical power is required. Software can be economical or wasteful with hardware resources.
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Uber's Engineering Manages to Cut 70k CPUs by Tuning Go GC
In an effort to help the company become profitable, Uber’s engineering department has focused their efforts on making their infrastructure more efficient. As an outcome of this effort, they managed to develop a semi-automated GO Garbage Collection tuning mechanism which in turn saved 70K CPU cores across 30 mission critical services.
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Netflix’s RENO Keeps Experience Consistent across Devices
Netflix has developed the Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to create a consistent user experience across various platforms and devices. RENO reacts more quickly and consistently than the traditional request/response model to user-generated actions ranging from watching a title to changing profile information.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Deep Learning Toolkit Intel OpenVINO Extends API, Improves Performance, and More
The latest release of Intel OpenVINO offers a cleaner API, expands support for natural language processing, and improves performance and portability thanks to its new AUTO plugin. InfoQ has spoken with senior director AI Intel OpenVINO Matthew Formica to learn more.
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QCon Software Development Conferences: Seven Tracks Not to Miss
Why are micro-frontends important? How should you optimise your organisational architecture for speed and flow? How to make microservices successful? Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions? Looking for new processes and best software practices?
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Quine Aims to Simplify Event Processing on Data in Motion
Developed at thatDot, Quine is an open source streaming graph solution aimed at high-volume event processing. Quine combines graph data and streaming technologies to enable the creation of real-time, complex event processing workflows at scale, says thatDot.
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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration
When a company migrated to the cloud, security issues arose due to difficulties in getting stakeholders on board and involving security from the start. Embedding security assessments as part of the continuous cloud DevOps process and adopting an agile strategy for security risk management throughout the lifecycle of the project helped to increase the governance of security during the migration.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Projects Updates, Value Objects (Preview) JEP, Quarkus 2.7.2
This week's Java roundup for February 21st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Quarkus 2.7.2.Final, JReleaser early-access, and multiple Spring project updates: Spring Boot 2.7.0-M1, 2.6.4, 2.5.10; a new ListCrudRepository interface for Spring Data 3.0-M2; Spring Security 5.7.0-M2, 5.6.2, 5.5.5; Spring Session 2021.1.2, 2021.0.5; Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3; and Spring Batch 4.3.5.
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Grafana Cloud Adds Incident and On-Call Management Solutions
Grafana has announced the addition of incident management and on-call support to their Grafana Cloud offering. Grafana Incident, currently in preview, generates meeting spaces, integrates with Slack, and constructs incident timelines with information pulled from Grafana dashboards. Grafana OnCall provides on-call rotation scheduling and notification from connected monitoring systems.