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KubeCon NA 2022: Doug Davis on CloudEvents and beyond
CloudEvents specification can help solve challenges associated with cloud event management lifecycle, like discovery of event producers, setting up subscriptions and event verification. Doug Davis from Microsoft spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about how CloudEvents project has been focused on eventing-related painpoints that might benefit from some standardization.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Google Cloud Introduces Blockchain Node Engine for Web3 Development
Google Cloud recently announced the private preview of Blockchain Node Engine, a managed node-hosting option for Web3 development. Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported.
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Threat-Detection Tool Falco Now Supports Multiple Event Sources, Syscall Selection, and More
The latest release of Falco adds the ability to handle multiple simultaneous event sources within the same instance, support for selecting which syscalls to capture, a new Kernel Crawler to collect the most recent supported kernel versions, and more.
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Kent Beck: Software Design is an Exercise in Human Relationships
In the closing keynote at QCon SF, Kent Beck spoke about how software design is an exercise in human relationships, why iterative and incremental development is the most cost effective way to build software, and how the overall cost of a software system is directly related to the cost of coupling and decoupling and the jackpot changes which result in cascaded coupling.
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Alpa: Automating Model Sharding for Distributed Deep Learning
A new open-source library called Alpa aims to automate distributed training and serving of large deep networks. It proposes a compiler where existing model-parallel strategies are combined and the usage of computing resources is optimized according to the deep network architecture.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0
This week's Java roundup for October 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 release schedule, Build 20-loom+20-34, Spring Integration 6.0-RC1, Spring Tools 4.16.1, GraalVM 22.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.11 and 22.0.0.12-beta, Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.14, Apache TomEE 8.0.13, JReleaser 1.3.0, Hibernate Search 5.11.11 and 5.10.13, PrimeFaces point releases, JDKMon 17.0.37 and EclipseCon 2022.
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Azure Functions v4 Now Support .NET Framework 4.8 with Isolated Execution
Microsoft announced on September 26th that Azure Functions runtime v4 will support running .NET Framework 4.8 functions in an isolated process, allowing the developers to move their legacy .NET functions to the latest runtime. The isolated process execution decouples the function code from the Azure Functions’ host runtime.
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Dynamic Web Apps without JavaScript - HTMX Showcase at DjangoCon and Devoxx
DjangoCon and Devoxx Belgium recently reported examples of interactive web applications developed without JavaScript developers. The showcased htmx HTML-first framework seems to target those applications that mainly propose a friendly interface to CRUD operations over remote resources. In one case, the team was able to remove the JavaScript developer.
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AWS Amplify for Swift Reaches 2.0, Brings Async/Await and macOS Support
Previously known as AWS Amplify iOS, AWS Amplify for Swift now offers a rewritten API to support Swift async/await and make concurrency code more idiomatic. Additionally, the new release introduces beta support on macOS for a number of AWS features, including Auth, Storage, Geo, and others.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Sei and Vinod Sridharan spoke at QCon San Francisco on Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Seán McCord on Kubernetes Storage Technologies
Kubernetes platform offers a variety of storage systems and which option you choose depends on storage characteristics like scalability, performance, and cost. Seán McCord from Sidero Labs spoke on Wednesday at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the tools the teams can use to evaluate when to use which storage solution.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Savings Plans for Compute
Microsoft recently announced Azure Savings Plans for Compute, providing customers with an easy and flexible way to save significantly on compute services compared to pay-as-you-go prices by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for one or three years.
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Interactive Query Service Amazon Athena Introduces New Engine
AWS recently announced version 3 of the engine for Amazon Athena, the serverless interactive service to query S3 data using standard SQL. The cloud provider claims that the new engine improves performance and supports new use cases thanks to over 50 new SQL functions and 30 new analytics features.