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Microsoft Launches New Data Governance Service Azure Purview in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a new data governance solution in public preview on its cloud platform called Azure Purview. This new service automates the discovery of data and cataloging while minimizing compliance risk and helps customers map all their data, no matter where it resides, to provide an end-to-end view of their data estate.
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NativeScript Now a Member of the OpenJS Foundation
NativeScript recently joined the OpenJS foundation as an incubating project. The framework, which allows developers to write applications leveraging native mobile APIs with JavaScript and TypeScript, will benefit from the OpenJS foundation support in terms of governance and community outreach, and strengthen its long-term viability.
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LinkedIn Migrates away from Lambda Architecture to Reduce Complexity
Software engineers from LinkedIn recently published how they migrated away from a Lambda architecture. The Lambda architecture implementation caused their solution to have high operational overhead and added complexity, leading to slow product iteration times. As a result, the engineers chose to migrate to a Lambda-less architecture, resulting in significant development velocity improvements.
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AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview
During the AWS re:Invent keynote, AWS announced the new database service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview. The service is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible and ACID-compliant relational database engine that runs in the Amazon cloud and is open-source.
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Google Releases New Coral APIs for IoT AI
Google has released new APIs and tools for their Coral AI toolkit. The new release brings parity across the C++ and Python SDKs and includes more efficient memory usage. Other updates include additional pre-trained models and general-availability of model pipelining.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET Core
In part 3 of our .NET 5 Breaking Changes series, we look at ASP.NET Core.
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Airbnb Releases Visx, a Set of Low-Level Primitives for Interactive Visualizations with React
Airbnb Engineering recently released the first major iteration of visx, a set of low-level React components that can be composed into interactive visualizations. Visx builds on D3 primitives, React component model, and React DOM handling. Visx strives to provide a data visualization front-end solution that is easy to learn without sacrificing expressiveness.
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Grafana Announces Grafana Tempo, a Distributed Tracing System
Grafana Labs recently released the distributed tracing backend Grafana Tempo. It only requires object storage like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to operate. Grafana Tempo integrates with any existing logging system to create links from trace IDs in log lines.
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Logz.io Extends Monitoring Platform with Hosted Prometheus and Jaeger
Logz.io recently announced the addition of Prometheus-as-a-Service to their infrastructure monitoring product. The service incorporates the metrics collection of Prometheus with the Logz.io platform that includes Grafana, ELK, and, also added recently, Jaeger. The data correlation features included within Logz.io allow for connecting metrics, traces, and logs all within a single platform.
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Safe Interoperability between Rust and C++ with CXX
CXX enables calling C++ code from Rust and vice versa through safe low-level bindings so you do not have to create your foreign function interface on top of unsafe C-style signatures. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with CXX creator David Tolnay.
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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2
During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas.
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Google Announces General Availability of Anthos on Bare Metal
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability (GA) of Anthos on bare metal, a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by the customer, without a hypervisor layer. With Anthos on bare metal, customers can leverage their existing hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure investments.
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Inertia.JS Lets Developers Write API-Free Monolithic React/Vue/Svelte Applications in PHP or Ruby
Inertia.js allows developers to write single-page applications using classic server-side routing and controllers. Inertia tightly couples the backend to the frontend so developers need not write APIs. Developers can use battle-tested server-side frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, AspNetCore). On the client, developers can use React, Svelte, or Vue to implement the user interface.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Recently, AWS introduced Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a fully-managed service simplifying running open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to execute extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines.
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The Vivaldi Browser Improves Privacy Protection for Android Users
The Vivaldi web browser recently shipped with enhanced privacy protection for Android users. Vivaldi 3.5 will protect users against the leaking of their real IP address when using the WebRTC communication protocol in chat applications, closing another hole allowing users to be tracked online. Vivaldi 3.5 also allows mobile users to clear their browsing data when exiting the browser.