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NLP Library spaCy 3.0 Features Transformer-Based Models and Distributed Training
AI software makers Explosion announced version 3.0 of spaCy, their open-source natural-language processing (NLP) library. The new release includes state-of-the-art Transformer-based pipelines and pre-trained models for 17 languages.
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Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 6 Preview 1
Last week, Microsoft released the first preview of .NET 6. The new version of the framework represents the final steps of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5, providing a cross-platform open-source platform for all things .NET. This first preview brings performance improvements and features such as WPF support for ARM64, support for Apple Silicon, and a redesigned thread pool.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of February 15th, 2021.
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Lightstep Connects Tracing and Metrics with New Change Intelligence Feature
Lightstep has released a number of improvements to their observability platform. These include native support for OpenTelemetry metrics, a new underlying time series database, and Change Intelligence, a new feature that looks to connect unusual patterns with impacting changes by bringing together system metrics and trace data.
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Microsoft Satin Audio Codec Uses AI to Outperform Skype Silk
Microsoft announced Satin, a new audio codec that leverages AI techniques to outperform Skype's Silk codec over ultra-low bandwidth and highly constrained network conditions.
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Amazon Introduces CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
AWS has recently introduced Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle, a pricing plan that gives a 30% discount on CloudFront in exchange for a one-year commitment. The savings bundle also includes free AWS Web Application Firewall requests up to 10% of the committed amount.
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Gremlin Releases State of Chaos Engineering 2021 Report
Gremlin released their State of Chaos Engineering 2021 report based on a community survey and their own product data. The key findings include a positive correlation between running chaos engineering experiments and increased availability.
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Amplify Flutter Brings Together Flutter and AWS for Cross-Platform Apps
Amplify Flutter aims to simplify the creation of cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, and the Web using Google Flutter UI toolkit and AWS. Announced as a developer preview last August, Amplify Flutter is now generally available and includes new Data, API, and Auth capabilities.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Modules for Linux on Windows in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.
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How Using Modern JavaScript May Improve Performance
Houssein Djirdeh and Jason Miller recently explained at the Chrome Developer Summit 2020 how modern JavaScript may shorten the size and improve the performance of web applications. The estimator.dev website provides Google’s estimation of the potential savings and suggests plugins that help materialize those savings.
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Characteristics of Agile Leaders
Agile leaders are passionate about agile practices. They look to instill trust in their people, create transparency and are open to constructive criticism so that great work can be achieved. They focus on the vision and customers. Understanding what agile means, they give autonomy to the people, support them, and encourage them to develop and grow through learning and experimentation.
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Testing Asynchronous Code - RxJS Live London
Jay Phelps, former member of the RxJS core team, recently explained how to test code that leverages code using RxJS, the reactive programming library used by the Angular front-end framework for asynchronous programming. RxJS provides a testing API with a DSL to express timed sequences and lifecycle events.
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Google Extends Tsunami Security Scanner's Capabilities
Open-sourced last year, Google's Tsunami security scanner has received a significant update, extending its detection capabilities and adding support for Web application fingerprinting, among other things.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.0 Announced
The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) team announced today that Dapr v1.0 is now available and is considered production-ready. Dapr is an open-source runtime that allows developers to build resilient, microservices-based applications that run on the cloud and edge. With the v1.0 release, developers can deploy Dapr applications to Kubernetes clusters in production scenarios.