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Amazon Introduces Encrypted Communication Service AWS Wickr
A year after the acquisition of the company Wickr, Amazon recently announced the preview of the collaboration suite AWS Wickr. Built on a proprietary encryption protocol, the new managed service provides enterprises and government agencies with security and administrative controls to meet security and compliance requirements.
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Android Cross Device SDK Aims to Simplify Task Handoff and Multi-Device Experiences
Google has announced a developer preview of its new Cross device SDK for Android, aimed to help developers build cross-device experiences using high-level, intuitive APIs. The new capabilities can be used to create multiplayer games, to carry through productivity tasks across different devices, or to enable group experiences.
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NTT Announces a Fully-Managed Edge and Private 5G Offering as a Service
During the VMWare Explore Event, the VMWare partner NTT, an IT Infrastructure company, announced a new Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) service as the first globally available, fully-managed edge and private 5G offering.
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Accelerated Multi-Account Auditing and Compliance in AWS with Steampipe, HCL and SQL
AWS recently examined the use of AWS Insights Mod, based on Steampipe, an open-source tool that defines over 650 queries and displays their results on 84 dashboards.
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A Distributed System is Knowable: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this limits how much you can know about how a distributed system will behave. He gave a keynote about Six Impossible Things at QCon London 2022 and at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Amazon Launches What-If Analyses for Machine Learning Forecasting Service Amazon Forecast
Amazon is announcing that now its time-series machine learning based forecasting service Amazon Forecast can run what-if assessments to determine how different business scenarios can affect demand estimates. What-if analysis is an effective business technique for simulating hypothetical scenarios and stress testing on planning assumptions by recording potential outcomes.
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AWS Announced New Feature Fine-Grained Visual Embedding for Amazon QuickSight
Recently, AWS announced a new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding, for its cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service Amazon QuickSight allowing customers to embed individual visualizations from Amazon QuickSight dashboards in high-traffic webpages and applications.
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Owl: Meta's New Hot-Content Distribution System
Meta recently revealed Owl, their new hot-content distribution system that provides high-fanout distribution of large data objects to hosts in Meta's private cloud. Owl consists of a decentralized data plane based on peer-to-peer distribution trees with a centralized control plane - tracker services that keep metadata about the peers, their cache state, and ongoing downloads.
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AWS Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding for Bond Trading Predictions
AWS developed the Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding Library (DGL-KE), a knowledge graph embedding library built on the Deep Graph Library (DGL). DGL is a scalable, high performance Python library for deep learning in graphs. This library is used by the advanced machine learning systems developed with Trumid to build a credit trading platform.
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The Road to Removing JQuery from Gov.uk
When the team that maintains the gov.uk website faced the issue of updating their old and outdated jQuery dependency, they decided instead to get rid of it altogether. Among other benefits, they achieved a not negligible performance improvement and, in the process, created a migration guide for other developers to tap into.
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Adopting Remote Development Environments at Slack
The Slack internal tools team recently talked about utilizing remote development environments in their application development workflow. By January 2022, over 90% of engineers had started using the remote development workflow at Slack, which lead to an increase in developer productivity.
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Meta Open-Sources 175B Parameter Chatbot BlenderBot 3
Meta AI Research open-sourced BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter chatbot that can learn from live interactions with users "in the wild." In evaluations by human judges, BlenderBot 3 achieves a 31% rating increase compared to the previous BlenderBot version.
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Amazon CloudFront Supports HTTP/3
AWS recently announced that CloudFront distributions support HTTP version 3 (HTTP/3) requests over QUIC. HTTP/3 is optional and provides faster response times and enhanced security over previous HTTP versions.
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Next Generation of Data Movement and Processing Platform at Netflix
Netflix engineering recently published in a tech blog how they used data mesh architecture and principles as the next generation of data platform and processing to unleash more business use cases and opportunities. Data mesh is the new paradigm shift in data management that enables users to easily import and use data without transporting it to a centralized location like a data lake.
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Virtual Machine Threat Detection in Google Security Command Center Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) as a built-in service in Security Command Center Premium, which can detect if hackers attempt to mine cryptocurrency in a company's cloud environment.