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Fauna Transactional Database Introduces Event Streaming
Fauna, the company behind the Fauna transactional database, recently announced the general availability of event streaming, a push-based stream that sends changes at both the document and collection levels to subscribed clients.
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Dockerfile Linter Hadolint Brings Fixes and Improvements, and Support for ARM64 Binaries
After a long wait, recent Hadolint releases have brought a number of fixes, improvements, and support for ARM64 binaries.
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Microsoft Introduces NVads A10 V5 Azure VMs in Preview for Graphics-Heavy Workloads
Microsoft recently announced the NVads A10 v5 series in preview. These virtual machines (VMs) are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and an all-core peak frequency of 4.0 GHz.
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Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft
Lyft used cloud-based isolated environments for several purposes, including end-to-end testing. As the number of microservices increased, tests using these environments became harder to scale and lost value. Recent articles describe how Lyft shifted to testing using request isolation in a shared staging environment and used acceptance tests to gate production deployments.
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Using Team-Set Salaries for Company-Wide Compensation
Team-set salaries (TSS) can be scaled up by doing appraisals across teams where results are automatically calibrated. The scores indicate where conversations are needed. TSS encourages people to learn new skills and adapt.
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How Lyft Reduced its Android App Launch Time by 21% in One Month
Based on the insights provided by Google's Android App Vitals, Lyft Android team improved their Android app's startup time by 21% and increased driver sessions by 5%.
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Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
Kestra, a new open-source orchestration and scheduling platform, helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines. The concept of a workflow, called Flow in Kestra, is at the heart of the platform. It is a list of tasks defined with a descriptive language based on yaml.
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AWS Lambda Supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage for Data-Intensive Applications
AWS recently announced that Lambda functions now support up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage that is preserved for the lifetime of the execution environment. The feature will help customers that run data workloads such as media processing, machine learning inference or financial analysis.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
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Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components
Minze is a modern JavaScript library that abstracts many of the difficulties of writing Web Components with a minimal overhead (2kb minified and compressed) and good developer ergonomics.
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From Natural Language Queries to Insights: GCP BigQuery Data QnA Usage in Twitter
The Twitter engineering team has shared architectural details of their Qurious data insights platform and its advantages for real-time analysis. Designed for internal business customers, the platform allows users to analyze Twitter’s BigQuery data using natural language queries and create dashboards.
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Meta AI Labs Introduces BuilderBot, a Voice Control Builder for Virtual Worlds
Meta’s latest AI research introduces BuilderBot, a new tool to fuel creativity in the metaverse capable of generating immersive objects through voice commands only.
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Meta Announces Conversational AI Model Project CAIRaoke
Meta AI Research recently announced Project CAIRaoke, an end-to-end deep-learning model for digital assistants. Project CAIRaoke is currently being used in Meta's Portal device and outperforms a previous conversational model when evaluated on a reminder task.
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AWS Releases Amazon GameSparks into Preview
Recently, Amazon announced the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend of their games. The public cloud provider also provides an SDK for the Unity game engine with the preview release.
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Hardware Mitigation on Intel, Arm, and AMD CPUs Shown Ineffective against Spectre v2
Security researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam showed the hardware mitigations to Spectre v2 attacks implemented in both Intel and Arm processors have fundamental flaws that make them vulnerable to branch history injection.