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Google Updates its Eventarc Service with New UI, Event Destination, and Storage Trigger
Recently, Google announced several new features for its eventing platform Eventarc. The new features are a new UI, Cloud Run for Anthos services as an event destination, and a generally available (GA) Storage Cloud trigger.
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Knative Announces v1.1 and Applies to Become a CNCF Incubating Project
The Knative community released version 1.1 of the Knative project across multiple components. The core components serving and eventing have notable changes and introduce experimental features, such as global min-scale configuration, capability to handle Retry-After headers in 429 / 503 responses.
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How GitHub Does DevOps for its iOS and Android Apps
GitHub relies heavily on GitHub Actions to manage the release process for their iOS and Android apps. Using the right tools to automate the process allows the mobile team to ship a new release every week, GitHub engineer Taehun Kim explains.
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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript
Amazon recently announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging and custom metrics.
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Cloudflare Introduces Support for Relational Database Connections Through Workers
Cloudflare recently announced they are introducing support for relational database connections through Workers, their serverless application platform. The initial support is for Postgres and MySQL. There are still a number of challenges that the Cloudflare team are working through and there are opportunities for community contributions.
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How to Foster Startup-Like Innovation in Established Companies
Startup founders expect uncertainty and failure as part of their innovation process. Leaders in established companies need to make sure that people take on risks to build the next big thing. Adding small improvements to products in a constant manner will create a compounding effect over time, and will help you build the exact thing your users are looking for.
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InfoQ 2022 Events: Get Ready to Deep-Dive with Leading Software Practitioners
Our events will be both online (InfoQ Live and QCon Plus) and in-person once again with our QCon software development conferences in London (April 4-6) and San Francisco (October 24-28). Join us to find practical inspiration to help you adopt the patterns and practices this year.
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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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AngularJS Officially Reached End of Life
After a grace period induced by the current global pandemic, long-term support for AngularJS has been discontinued. While AngularJS will still remain available, its repo will be archived and will receive no more additional updates, including security patches.
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AI Listens by Seeing as Well
Meta AI released a self-supervised speech recognition model that also uses video and achieves 75% better accuracy for some amount of data than current state-of-the-art models. This new model, Audio-Visual Hidden BERT (AV-HuBERT), uses audiovisual features for improving models based only on hearing speech. Visual features used are based on lip-reading, similar to what humans do.
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Meta and AWS to Collaborate on PyTorch Adoption
Meta and AWS will work together to improve the performance for customers of applications running PyTorch on AWS and accelerate how developers build, train, deploy, and operate artificial intelligence and machine-learning models.
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Kubernetes Proceeding with Deprecation of Dockershim in Upcoming 1.24 Release
Kubernetes is proceeding with deprecation and removal of dockershim in the upcoming 1.24 release. Workflows and systems that make use of the Docker Engine as the container runtime for their Kubernetes cluster will need to migrate prior to moving to the 1.24 release. The 1.23 release will retain dockershim and will be supported for another year.
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Facebook Open-Sources Two Billion Parameter Multilingual Speech Recognition Model XLS-R
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced XLS-R, a cross-lingual speech recognition (SR) AI model. XSLR is trained on 436K hours of speech audio from 128 languages, an order of magnitude more than the largest previous models, and outperforms the current state-of-the-art on several downstream SR and translation tasks.
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AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources
Recently, AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.
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Java News Roundup: Java Plans for 2022, Spring Framework 6.0-M2, Introducing Eclipse Jifa
This week's Java roundup for January 10th, 2022, features news from JDK 18, JDK 19, Java’s plans for 2022 as presented by Nicolai Parlog, point releases for Spring Framework and Spring Data, Quarkus 2.6.2, Micronaut 3.2.5 and 3.2.6, Piranha 22.1.0, JobRunr 4.0.6, introducing Eclipse Jifa, Micrometer Metrics 2.0.0-M1, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M1 and the July - December 2021 Foojay Status Report.