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Microsoft Introduces Azure Health Bot
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Health Bot, an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot that is becoming an Azure service with added functionalities. Built for developing virtual health care assistants, Azure Health Bot combines medical databases with natural language capabilities.
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Yari, the New MDN Web Documentation Platform
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), Mozilla’s multilingual resource for web documentation, recently launched Yari, MDN Web Docs’ new platform. Yari reduces the burden of developing, maintaining, and contributing to MDN. MDN content is now stored in GitHub and can be contributed to via pull requests.
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Rust China Conf 2020 Showcases Production-Ready Rust Applications
Rust China Conf is the largest grassroots event for the Rust programming language in China. As Amazon, Microsoft, and others in the US, Chinese tech companies are increasingly using Rust in mission-critical production software systems. Huawei, Bytedance (parent company of Tiktok), Ant Group, Agora, and other big companies and startups showed how they used Rust at the confernce.
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New Deno Module Builds and Compiles Vue Applications
The vno Deno module, which self-describes as the first build tool for compiling and bundling Vue single-file components in a Deno runtime environment, recently released its first stable version. vno v1.0 features a parser, compiler, bundler, and an adapter. A server-side renderer is planned.
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Cloudflare’s Origin CA Issuer: an Extension to the K8s cert-manager
Cloudflare has released Origin CA Issuer, an extension to cert-manager, a native Kubernetes certificate management controller. Integrating with Cloudflare Origin CA, the extension makes it easier to create and renew Cloudflare Origin Certificates.
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No-Code App Development is Essential for Digital Transformation
Jennifer Cadence, a product marketing manager at Google, recently published an account of the state of no-code app development. In her post, Cadence breaks down why no-code platforms have become an essential part of digital transformation. She suggests that speed and agility, productivity and collaboration, and governance and security are the critical factors for these platforms' importance.
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TensorFlow 2.4 Release Includes CUDA 11 Support and API Updates
The TensorFlow project announced the release of version 2.4.0 of the deep-learning framework, featuring support for CUDA 11, cuDNN 8, and NVIDIA's Ampere GPU architecture, as well as new strategies and profiling tools for distributed training. Other API updates include mixed-precision in Keras and a NumPy frontend.
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Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Its Grafana Cloud with a Free Tier, New Pricing and Features
Grafana Cloud is a fully-managed observability platform from Grafana Labs for applications and infrastructure. The company recently announced a new version for Grafana Cloud, including a free tier version, a different pricing structure, and several significant new features such as enhanced alerting and synthetic monitoring.
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Generics Enter Go Change Proposal Process
Generics, one of the features more frequently requested by Go developers, are making their way into the language based on a draft design that has been evolving for the last couple of years and is now entering the language change proposal process.
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New Haskell-Based Web App Specification Language Released in Alpha
The Web App Specification Language (Wasp) was recently released in alpha to help developers write modern web applications with less code. Just like Elm, Wasp is a domain-specific language written in Haskell. Unlike Elm, which only addresses single-page applications, Wasp also supports multi-page applications. The alpha release leverages a React/Node/Express/Prisma stack.
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AWS Launches Amazon DevOps Guru
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced Amazon DevOps Guru, one of several new machine learning-driven services. DevOps Guru detects operational issues, generates reports and notifications, and offers insights and recommendations on how to take action.
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AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS
AWS has recently introduced support for Amazon EFS as a data store in the AWS Transfer Family, the managed service that handles SFTP, FTP and FTPS requests. The new option is intended to simplify the migration to the cloud of file transfer workloads.
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Sysdig: Container Security Shifting Left, Docker Usage Shrinking
Sysdig 2021 container security and usage report highlights a trend for container security to shift left. Yet, many of the analyzed images are still lacking in basic security provisions.
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Building an Intentional Organisation: a Holistic Approach
Building an intentional organisation requires a mindset that considers all organisational building blocks holistically. Leadership is key; actions that managers take have organisational consequences which need to be aligned to design an organisation that can achieve its purpose.
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Experiences from a Testing Tour of Pairing and Learning
Being a solo tester on a team, Parveen Khan decided to do a testing tour where she paired remotely with testers and developers to explore topics. It became a testing journey of learning where she explored testing topics like performance testing, AI and ML, observability, and Sketchnoting. In doing these sessions she also experienced how pairing and sharing can help to develop oneself.