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New Features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
New features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are in preview. These new features include encryption of data at rest with customer-managed keys, database authentication with Azure Active Directory, geo-redundant backups and fast restores of data, and a migration tool for moving workloads from the product’s older Single Server deployment option.
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Scaling Access Management at Airbnb
Airbnb's product engineering team recently discussed their implementation of a self-serving, centralized access control platform. Built on the principle of least privilege, the team designed a five-stage architecture, providing benefits from security, usability, and developer experience aspects.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Developer Tooling for Cloud-Native Wasm Is Going Mainstream
The focus of Cloud Native Wasm Day at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit is developer tooling for server-side WebAssembly.
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Microsoft Releases Final Release Candidate for ASP.NET Core 7
Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 7 Release Candidate 2, the final release candidate for .NET 7 on October 11th. This release includes improvements to output caching, to the dynamic authentication in Blazor feature introduced in RC1 and experimental WebAssembly multithreading support using Web Workers. It introduces a new vary-by option and improves the OutputCachePolicyBuilder API.
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Amazon DynamoDB - Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service: Akshat Vig at QCon SF 2022
Akshat Vig, a principal engineer in NoSQL databases at Amazon, spoke at QCon San Francisco about Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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OpenSSL Hit by Two High Severity Vulnerabilities, Recently Patched
Introduced in OpenSSL 3.0 in September 2021 and affecting all successive versions up to and including OpenSSL 3.0.6, the two recently patched vulnerabilities are caused by buffer overruns in X.509 certificate verification.
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The Myth of Product Mindset: It's What You Do, Not How You Think
Companies nowadays are looking for ways to cultivate a product mindset. While the idea of cultivating a “product mindset” allows us to focus primarily on ourselves, actually transforming our organizations often means changing our behavior to focus on our customers and how we work together to serve them.
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum: Charity Majors at QCon SF
Charity Majors, founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, gave a talk at QCon San Francisco about the pendulum of being a senior engineer and manager. She discussed the need for managers in technical teams to have engineering credibility and the value that comes from deliberately embracing both senior technologist and manager roles, but not both at the same time.
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Maven Central Search Retrieves Dependency Coordinates from Maven Central
Maven Central Search (mcs) is a command line tool to retrieve dependency coordinates from Maven Central. The tool uses Picocli for the command line interface and GraalVM to compile executable native images for macOS, Linux and Windows.
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Docker Launched WebAssembly Support
In the Cloud Native Wasm day event at KubeCon NA 2022, Docker announced Docker+Wasm technical preview in partnership with CNCF’s Wasm runtime WasmEdge. With a single command, docker compose up, Docker developers can instantly build, share, and run a complete Wasm application.
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Azul Joins the Effort of Improving Supply Chain Security by Launching Vulnerability Detection SaaS
November, 2nd: Azul released a new security product that intends to offer a solution to the increased risk of enterprise software supply chain attacks, compounded by severe threats such as Log4Shell. Azul Vulnerability Detection is a new SaaS that continuously detects known security vulnerabilities in Java applications. In addition, they promise not to affect the application’s performance.
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Amazon Neptune Now Supports Serverless Deployment Option
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of a new deployment option for Amazon Neptune, providing automatic scaling capacity based on the application’s needs. The deployment option is called Amazon Neptune Serverless.
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Anaconda Publishes 2022 State of Data Science Report
Anaconda, makers of a Python distribution popular among data scientists, recently published a report on the results of their State of Data Science survey. The report summarizes responses from nearly 3,500 students, academics, and professionals from 133 countries, and covers topics about respondent demographics and jobs as well as trends within the community.
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Next.js 13 Targets "Dynamic without Limits" Apps with New, Experimental Features
The Next.js conference recently introduced Next.js 13, the latest version of the React application framework. Next.js 13 wants to enable developers to make “dynamic without limits” applications through innovative features, many of which are still in alpha or beta. The new features update the compiler, routing, and rendering infrastructure, and improve the component toolkit.