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Raspberry Pi 400 Is an ARM Linux Desktop PC
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a fully-functional Linux desktop computer and a Pi device. It is much cheaper than laptops or Chromebooks on the market, and yet could be more suitable for kids and students with a large ecosystem of STEM education materials and programs.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 5
Earlier today, at .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5. The new release focuses on improvements of .NET Core 3.1: smaller single-file applications, support for Windows ARM64, and more capable JsonSerializer APIs are among the key features of .NET 5, along with many considerable performance improvements. New major language versions (C# 9 and F# 5) are also featured as part of this release.
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Google Open-Sources Fast Attention Module Performer
Google has open-sourced Performer, a Transformer deep-learning architecture that scales linearly with input sequence length. This allows Performer to be used for tasks that require long sequences, including pixel-prediction and protein sequence modeling.
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Facebook.com Redesign: Stack and Strategies for Sustainable Performance
Facebook detailed in a blog post the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the latest iteration of the facebook.com website. Facebook rearchitected its website and standardized its technological stack around React, GraphQL, Relay, and its custom CSS-in-JS library. The goal of the rewrite was to increase performance and make it easy to add new features.
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The Resurgence of Functional Programming - Highlights from QCon Plus
The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how object-oriented languages such as C# and Java are evolving by becoming more functional.
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AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
AWS announced Amazon MQ will now support RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. With the support for RabbitMQ, customers can migrate their existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without rewriting code.
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Rasa Announces Open Source AI Assistant Framework 2.0
Rasa, the customizable open source machine learning framework to automate text and voice-based AI assistants, has released version 2.0 with significant improvements to dialogue management, training data format, and interactive documentation. In addition, the latest release reduces the learning curve to get started while expanding configuration options for advanced users.
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AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves, Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing
AWS has recently made available Nitro Enclaves, isolated EC2 environments to process confidential data. Based on a lightweight Linux OS, a Nitro Enclave is a hardened, attested and highly constrained virtual machine.
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AWS Announces EC2 P4d Instances for ML and HPC
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) P4d instances with UltraClusters capability. These GPU-powered instances will deliver faster performance, lower cost, and more GPU memory for machine learning (ML) training and high-performance computing (HPC) than previous generation of P3 instances.
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New Relic Offers Real-Time Java Profiler via JFR
New Relic has released a continuous profiler that measures performance of production Java applications with low overhead. The platform incorporates additional data from other sources to help application teams better understand problems that appear across more than just the application alone.
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HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations
Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes.
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Google Announces Eventarc in Preview
In a recent blog post, Google announced Eventarc, a new events functionality that allows customers to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. With Eventarc, customers can build event-driven applications and take care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, observability, and error handling.
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Creating and Nurturing an Intentional Remote Culture
Company culture isn’t built in the short term, nor can it be imposed. It’s deeply rooted in the founders’ ideologies and behaviours around work. From there, it grows and evolves organically as the company hires individuals who embrace these values, and who also bring their own identity into the mix.
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Cloud Computing in a Shipping Container: Microsoft Introduces the Azure Modular Datacenter
Microsoft recently announced a new Azure in a shipping container service called Azure Modular Datacenter. The new offer provides an option for setting up an Azure datacenter in hybrid or challenging environments where cloud computing previously would not have been possible.
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Value vs Time: an Agile Contract Model
An agile contract model can help us to focus on the value delivered to the customer. It allows for rewarding teams and people, and can drive continuous improvement towards common goals. InfoQ interviewed Andrea Zomer, CEO at Zupit, about their experiences with an agile contract model.