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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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ML Kit for iOS and Android Now Generally Available
After two years in beta, Google has announced the general availability of ML Kit for iOS and Android along with improvements to the Pose Detection API. Furthermore, Selfie Segmentation is now available in public beta.
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Vamp Announces Results of State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021
Vamp.io, a company providing a release automation platform, recently published the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 survey results. Results show that Kubernetes and microservices are popular, and high-risk release strategies are still being used.
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Sustainable Internet: Reducing the Environmental Impact
To be sustainable, the internet needs to assess, mitigate, and live up to its responsibilities for a healthy environment. By understanding the environmental impact, we can point to avenues where progress is possible and identify aspects of our digital infrastructures that come with unintended consequences that are too severe to look the other way.
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Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain
Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support.
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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Dropbox Reveals Atlas - a Managed Service Orchestration Platform
In a recent blog post, Dropbox revealed Atlas, a platform whose aim is to provide various benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture while minimizing the operational cost of owning a service. Atlas' goal is to support small, self-contained functionality, saving product teams the overhead of managing a full-blown service, including capacity planning, alert setup, etc.
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Manuel Pais on Team Topologies during COVID-19
Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies, recently spoke alongside leaders of Capra Consulting who have used the topologies to move from hierarchical structures to empowered teams. We report on the journey and speak to Pais about team topologies in the context of COVID-19.
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Google Open-Sources AutoML Algorithm Model Search
A team from Google Research has open-sourced Model Search, an automated machine learning (AutoML) platform for designing deep-learning models. Experimental results show that the system produces models that outperform the best human-designed models, with fewer training iterations and model parameters.
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Google Releases Memorystore for Memcached into General Availability
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of Memorystore for Memcached, a fully-managed service compatible with open-source Memcached protocol. With the GA release of Memorystore for Memcached, the company now has two generally available managed caching service options for customers looking for a caching capability in the Google Cloud.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021 featuring celebrations related to Oracle and OpenJDK milestones, and other news from IBM, Red Hat and Spring.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates
The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees, as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release, both the tracing API and the tracing SDK are considered stable.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
At this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database product to manage Cassandra-based workloads into Azure cloud.
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New Svelte NodeGui Allows Creating Native Desktop Applications with Qt and Svelte
Jamie Birch recently announced Svelte NodeGui, a framework for developing desktop applications on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. A lighter alternative to Electron, Svelte NodeGui lets developers write their applications with the Svelte front-end framework and compiler, the Qt widget toolkit, and a subset of HTML and CSS.