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HashiCorp Waypoint Adds Triggers and External Data Fetching
HashiCorp has released version 0.7 of Waypoint, their open-source application deployment tool. This release presents a number of redesigns to the user interface, the introduction of scripting and continuous integration lifecycle operations via triggers, external data fetching, and scoping of configurations to specific workspaces.
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How Slack Modernized its Mobile Apps and Went Full Swift on iOS
Slack succeeded in the effort to bring their iOS and Android apps up-to-date and adopt new design trends. Among other things, this enabled a full switch to Swift for iOS and breaking the existing monoliths.
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Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy is Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the Spanner dialect enabling SQLAlchemy applications to run on the distributed SQL database management and storage service.
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NGINX Controller Application Delivery Modules Improve Health Checks and Caching Configurations
NGINX has released new versions of their NGINX Controller Application Delivery Module, a control plane solution for NGINX Plus load balancers. The new features include enhanced workload health-checks, improvements to caching configuration, and instance groups.
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Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances, Optimized for High-Performance Computing, Are Now Generally Available
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances. With these instances, the company expands its portfolio of HPC compute options.
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Introducing the Ionic 6 Component Framework
Ionic, a UI framework for cross-platform application development, is out in its 6th iteration, offering a set of new components and better UI integration for Android, iOS, and Desktop applications.
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Implementing Remote Software Verification and Validation Using a Real Vehicle
Bosch is doing automated regression testing and user testing using a real car instead of a simulated one. Their aim is to test the software as quickly as possible, both from the test engineer's and user's perspectives. The car can be accessed remotely, and team members can work without being in the car.
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AWS Proton Adds Terraform Support and Git Template Storage
AWS recently announced two new additions to AWS Proton, their fully-managed application delivery service. The first feature allows for defining and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform. The second feature allows for using Git repositories to manage the Proton templates.
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MLCommons Announces Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
Engineering consortium MLCommons recently announced the results of the latest round of their MLPerf Training benchmark competition. Over 158 AI training job performance metrics were submitted by 14 organizations, with the best results improving up to 2.3x compared to the previous round.
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Cloudflare Report Highlights Staggering Increase in DDoS Attacks in Q4 2021
In keeping with its custom of releasing a quarterly trends report on DDoS attacks, Cloudflare has just published its new findings for Q4 2021, which show a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks.
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eBPF and Wasm: Exploring the Future of the Service Mesh Data Plane
With the advancement of lightweight runtimes, such as eBPF and WebAssembly (WASM), we are now seeing a new generation of service mesh data plane solutions that are lighter, safer, and faster.
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Scaling Video Quality Measurements at Netflix with Cosmos
Netflix relies heavily on measuring perceptual video quality for different business purposes. As metrics evolve and become part of more workflows, their measurement tool needs to scale too. Netflix recently described how a new video quality measurement workflow was implemented using Cosmos microservices to foster innovation in quality metrics, with good scalability and loose data coupling.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 18, JDK 19, Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, JHipster, Micronaut Foundation
It was another relatively quiet week for the January 3rd, 2022 edition of the Java news roundup featuring build updates to JDK 18 and JDK 19, VMware publishing CVE-2021-22060 as a follow up to CVE-2021-22096, a new Groovy DSL for Spring Integration, Helidon 2.4.1, Hibernate Search versions 6.0.8 and 6.1.0.Beta2, JHipster 7.5.0, JReleaser 0.10.0 and Gradle having joined the Micronaut Foundation.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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AWS Releases Fully-Managed Data Lake for CloudTrail Logs
AWS announced the release of CloudTrail Lake, a fully-managed data lake for storing and analyzing CloudTrail logs. CloudTrail Lake can aggregate logs across regions and accounts. Once in the lake, the logs can be queried using SQL syntax.