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Flow Type Checker No Longer Just JavaScript with Types, Centers of Facebook Needs
Vladan Djeric, engineering manager supporting the Flow team at Facebook, announced that the Flow type checker will go beyond being just JavaScript with types and introduce new features based on Facebook’s internal user needs. In particular, Flow strives to deliver fast type-checking on large, complicated codebases. Flow’s vision is in contrast with TypeScript’s — JavaScript with syntax for types.
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Moving from Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome toward Seeing the Benefits of Diversity in Technology
As someone with a non technical background, Charu Bansal, has navigated the imposter syndrome in her career, often wondering what value she could bring to security. In her talk at The Diana Initiative 2021, she showed how having a diverse perspective helped her to solve challenging security problems as she pivoted from a non-technical career into information security.
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Canonical Anbox Cloud Appliance Simplifies Running Android Apps on AWS
Anbox Cloud is a solution from Canonical that lets you stream Android apps at scale to any device. The new Anbox Cloud Appliance makes a small-scale version of Anbox Cloud readily available on the AWS marketplace. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Simon Fels, engineering manager at Canonical and Anbox Cloud team lead.
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Data Collection, Standardization and Usage at Scale in the Uber Rider App
Uber Engineering recently published how it collects, standardises and uses data from the Uber Rider app. Rider data comprises all the rider's interactions with the Uber app. This data accounts for billions of events from Uber's online systems every day. Uber uses this data to deal with top problem areas such as increasing funnel conversion, user engagement, etc.
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Micronaut 3.0 Delivers Significant Changes Adaptable for Future Development
Object Computing, Inc. has released Micronaut 3.0 featuring the removal of a default reactive streams implementation, a change in annotation inheritance, and HTTP compile-time validation. This release was a culmination of work to resolve design faults of the past to make the framework more intuitive and adaptable to future requirements.
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Lit 2 Ships with New Custom Directives and Reactive APIs
The Lit Team recently released Lit 2.0, more than two years after Lit 1. Lit 2 features a new API for custom directives that include asynchronous directives. Lit 2 users will also be able to use reactive controllers to encapsulate reusable reactive logic.
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Facebook Open-Sources Computer Vision Model Multiscale Vision Transformers
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) recently open-sourced Multiscale Vision Transformers (MViT), a deep-learning model for computer vision based on the Transformer architecture. MViT contains several internal resolution-reduction stages and outperforms other Transformer vision models while requiring less compute power, achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy on several benchmarks.
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Practical API Design Using gRPC at Netflix
A two-part series of articles about API design at Netflix was recently published in the company’s technology blog. It describes how they solved the problem of ignoring irrelevant message fields in their backend API requests and responses by using the special Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) message FieldMask.
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Java News Roundup: JDK LTS Release Cadence, OpenJDK, Spring Updates, Helidon, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for September 13th, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, a proposal to accelerate the JDK LTS release cadence from three years to two years, JDK 18, Liberica JDK 17, updates to Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Tools 4, Payara Platform, Helidon, JDK 17 dev builds of GraalVM, Hibernate, Piranha, Apache Camel, JobRunr 4.0 and the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer survey.
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Facebook Superpack Leverages Code Analysis for Android App Compression
In a recent article, Facebook described its novel technique for Android app compression, Superpack, which combines compiler analysis with data compression. While not yet available for everyone, Facebook is hoping to open source it.
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NSA and CISA Publish Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The National Security Agency(NSA) in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) recently published the Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a technical report focused on securing Kubernetes environments. The report identifies the common areas of Kubernetes security risks: supply chain, malicious actors, and insider threats.
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.NET MAUI: Preview 8 Available, But GA Postponed to Q2 2022
Microsoft postponed the release of .NET MAUI. Release and global availability of .NET MAUI were targeted together with .NET 6 for November 2021. According to the latest news from Microsoft, .NET MAUI will not be ready for production with .NET 6 global availability in November this year. The new planned date is set for Q2 of 2022.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Video Transcoding
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances, the first instances optimized for video transcoding. The new virtual machines feature hardware acceleration and are designed for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding.
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Rookout Launches Live Logger to Dynamically Modify Log Verbosity
Rookout, creators of Live Debugger, have launched Live Logger with the goal of making the wealth of information hidden in production logs more accessible. They intend to achieve that by dynamically switching the logging levels, log pipelining, log throughput tracking, text and context based filtering.
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MicroStream 5.0 is Now Open Source
MicroStream has reached version 5.0 and it is now published as open source. MicroStream is a persistence engine for storing any kind of Java object. It is similar to Java built-in serialization, but much more powerful. Markus Kett, CEO and co-founder of MicroStream, spoke to InfoQ about MicroStream.