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Consul-Terraform-Sync Enables Automating of Common Networking Tasks
HashiCorp has moved Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) into full general availability. CTS allows for the definition of tasks as Terraform modules that can be run as services are added or removed from Consul. CTS is part of a solution called Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) which focuses on automating day two network tasks such as updating load balancer pools or firewall policies.
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Cloudflare Announces New Web Application Firewall
Cloudflare has recently introduced a new Web Application Firewall. The latest engine is written in Rust, provides better performances and integrates with other Cloudflare products.
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Ki is a New, More Flexible Kotlin Interactive Shell
Ki is a new interactive shell for Kotlin that aims to make it easier for developers to do quick experiments with the language and to take advantage of REPL-driven development.
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Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background
Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.
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Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0
Crystal, a new object-oriented, compiled systems programming language that aims to blend the conciseness and friendliness of Ruby with the efficiency of C, recently released its first major version. Crystal 1.0 has a syntax close to Ruby’s and features statically inferred types, C bindings, and macros. Crystal may attract developers with a Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix background.
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Google Announces the Public Preview of Network Connectivity Center
Recently Google announced the preview of Network Connectivity Center, a new service for network connectivity management in Google Cloud. With the network service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enterprises can create, connect, and manage heterogeneous on-prem and cloud networks from a single place.
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Engaging All Generations with Adaptable Reward and Recognition Systems
Reward and recognition systems should be adaptable, agile, and take contexts into consideration. All generations want three things - to be respected, rewarded and recognised for their work. The motivation and the form factor of the rewards are what differ for the generations. You need to be creative and keep reward and recognition systems fresh, and tailor them to teams.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Introduces Auto-Tune
Amazon has recently announced the Auto-Tune feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a closed-loop control system that adapts the Elasticsearch cluster to the running workload. The new automated memory management provides better ingestion throughput for log analytics workloads and reduced tail latencies for search queries.
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The Road to Kotlin 1.5
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.4.30 with new experimental features that are planned to be stable for Kotlin 1.5. Considered the last incremental version of Kotlin 1.4.x, these new features include a new JVM internal representation (IR) compiler backend, support for Java records and sealed interfaces, and configuration cache support for the Kotlin Gradle Plugin.
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Rendering Large Logs in the Browser for GitHub Actions
Rendering large logs in a browser can be a complex task if you want a rich UI including coloring, grouping, search, and permalinks, says GitHub engineer Alberto Gimeno. This is why after testing with both a React and plain JS library, they opted to build their own.
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Patterns and Antipatterns of Business Agility
At a recent WellyBam event the authors of the book Sooner, Safer, Happier shared the key ideas and explained the patterns and antipatterns of business agility adoption they have found through working on transformation in a wide range of organisations.
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Compat2021 Unites Browser Vendors to Tackle Compatibility Issues
Microsoft, Google, Igalia, and other industry partners are joining hands to improve browser compatibility. The cross-browser effort, named #Compat2021, will focus on the top five compatibility pain points, all CSS-related: CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS position: sticky, the CSS aspect-ratio property, and CSS transforms.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Hosting of AsyncAPI
The Linux Foundation announced today that it would host the AsyncAPI Initiative. It will provide a forum where individuals and organizations can advance AsyncAPI and nurture collaboration in a neutral platform that can support the growth that AsyncAPI is experiencing.
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Google's Apollo AI for Chip Design Improves Deep Learning Performance by 25%
Scientists at Google Research have announced APOLLO, a framework for optimizing AI accelerator chip designs. APOLLO uses evolutionary algorithms to select chip parameters that minimize deep-learning inference latency while also minimizing chip area. Using APOLLO, researchers found designs that achieved 24.6% speedup over those chosen by a baseline algorithm.
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How Rocky Linux Aims to Fill the Gap Left by Red Hat’s CentOS Setback
Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS, started the Rocky Linux project in Dec 2020 to fill the gap created by RedHat when they changed direction for CentOS Linux. This shift, from a stable operating system to a stream for testing pre-release code, left many organizations without a Linux distribution that suits their needs. InfoQ interviewed Kurtzer about the goals for the project going forward.