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Web Components Reaching Mainstream Maturity
For years web components have been a standard that was almost ready. With the recent Apple Music web client release, Apple shipped over 45 web components to drive the Apple Music experience. Others, including Amazon, Porsche, arm, Panera, and Microsoft, are leveraging Stencil to create design systems and cross-framework web components.
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Azure Functions Premium Plan Goes GA, Brings Pre-Warmed Instances, VNET Integration
Announced as a public preview back in April of 2019, the Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available. This set of functionality is focused on scale, performance, and network connectivity for serverless functions. The Premium plan was released amongst a host of other Azure Functions updates meant to broaden the appeal of Microsoft's serverless computing platform.
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Democratizing Portal Development, Microsoft Announces Power Apps Portals General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Power Apps portals, a solution that allows organizations to publish customer, partner and community portals to internal and external users using a low-code, configuration-driven, responsive web experience.
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Dropbox Predicts What File You Need Next with Content-Specific ML Pipelines
The Dropbox machine learning team shared how the company improved the model behind their content suggestions feature. The enhancements allow Dropbox to deal with different types of content, incorporate folder suggestions into the existing file suggestions model and handle cloud-based documents resulting from relatively recent partnerships.
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Digital Factory on a Global Scale: Scaled Agile and DevOps at UBS
UBS is rolling out a scaled agile setup globally in Switzerland, India and the APAC region. Christian Bucholdt, head IT of digital factory management at UBS, spoke at Agile Leadership Day 2019 about their Digital Factory approach and how it will change the entire delivery organization.
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Vlingo Joins the Reactive Foundation
Vlingo, creators of a platform designed to simplify building reactive systems using an actor model, has joined the Reactive Foundation. Launched in September, the Reactive Foundation was formed under the Linux Foundation to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. Vlingo is a new charter member, joining Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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How Digital Culture Can Drive the Digital Transformation
Digital culture is the key ingredient for digital transformations; it increases productivity and innovation in order to maintain a competitive edge, said Aisling Curtis. At Women in Tech Dublin 2019 she spoke about the future of work and the role that digital culture plays in digital transformations.
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Open Source CNCF CloudEvents Specification Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
CloudEvents is an open-source specification for describing event data in a standard way and is intended to ease event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. The driving force behind the specification is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which recently announced that the specification had reached a version 1.0 milestone.
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How the USCIS Bridged the Divide between IT and the Business at DOES 2019
An IT and business USCIS team who led their largest IT transformation program to date presented their journey at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit. In 2017, they embarked on their digitalization journey with the goal to optimize their manual adjudication processes. They overcame the challenges and delivered business outcomes while improving on their DevOps technology.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.
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Gutenberg – a Publish-Subscribe Service for Datasets Created by Netflix
To propagate datasets from a single producer to multiple consumers, Netflix has created Gutenberg, a service using a publish-subscribe technique to propagate versioned datasets between their microservices. In a blog post, Ammar Khaku, senior software engineer at Netflix, describes an overview of the design as well and some use cases for Gutenberg.
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GRIT Protocol Enables Distributed Transactions across Multi-Database Microservices
At the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2019, eBay engineers presented a paper introducing a protocol for distributed ACID transactions using multiple databases, GRIT. Support for multiple databases is key to enabling GRIT's use across microservices, which are usually implemented in different languages and may use multiple underlying databases.
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Facebook Releases Relay 7 for Building Data-Driven React Apps with GraphQL
Relay, a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications with GraphQL, recently released version 7, with improvements to error handling and Relay hooks.
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Developing Cultural Sensitivity in Working with Other Cultures
Cultural differences can be a challenge in an international workplace, but at the same time cultural diversity can also be fascinating, said Rachel Smets. At Positive Psychology in Practice 2019 she suggested we prepare ourselves when working with other cultures or moving abroad, and develop our cultural sensitivity by learning about new cultures as much as we can.