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AWS Announces New S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers
S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class, which AWS added to Amazon S3 for optimization of storage costs for its users. The company recently announced it would add two new archive access tiers designed for asynchronous access optimized for rare access at a very low cost: Archive Access tier and Deep Archive Access tier.
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Angular 11 Has Arrived
Google has released version 11 of Angular, its popular Single Page Application framework. The release focuses on improving the developer experience and finalizing the cleanup of the issue tracker.
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Bloomberg Engineering Share Experiences of Adopting TypeScript across a Large Codebase
Rob Palmer, JavaScript infrastructure and tooling lead at Bloomberg, recently shared a few learning points and insights from the adoption of TypeScript at scale at Bloomberg. While some learning points are specific to Bloomberg’s custom runtime, others may be valuable across any large codebase switching to TypeScript.
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Waymo Publishes Autonomous Vehicle Safety Report
Waymo has published a report analyzing collisions involving their self-driving vehicles. The data was collected during more than 6 million miles of driving and includes 18 actual collisions as well as 29 simulated collisions.
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OSGi Alliance to Transition to Eclipse Foundation
The OSGi Alliance announced that after 21 years of being an independent foundation, they would be transferring their assets into the Eclipse Foundation, and continuing work under the OSGi Working Group. InfoQ reached out to Dan Bandera, president of the OSGi Alliance, to find out more about the move.
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AWS Introduces the Event Replay and Archive Capability in Its Eventbridge Service
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. Recently, AWS introduced an event replay and archive capability - providing developers a way to replay past events and extend their applications with new functionality.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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Fastly Expands Capabilities for Compute@Edge
Fastly, the cloud computing company providing solutions for edge cloud networks and content delivery networks, recently announced new features for their serverless compute environment Compute@Edge. The new release introduces new CLI functionalities, Terraform API support and additional language support.
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Cloud Native Storage Tool Rook Graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced the graduation of Rook, an open-source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. Rook is the 13th CNCF project, and provides functionality using a Kubernetes Operator for each storage provider.
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Maximizing User Experience with Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Netflix uses its homegrown API gateway, Zuul, to classify incoming requests into priorities. When the system comes under load or is otherwise unstable, Zuul throttles traffic, starting with the lowest priority. It then progressively adjusts to shed load according to the priorities calculated until the system is healthy again.
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The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.
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Microsoft Releases Playwright Cross-Browser End-to-End Test Runner
Microsoft released (in preview) a dedicated test runner for Playwright, its test automation tool. The Playwright test runner provides zero-config cross-browser end-to-end testing for web apps, Jest-like assertions, and built-in support for TypeScript. The new test runner leverages Folio, a customizable test framework to build higher-level test frameworks.
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Gitpod Announces Native Integration with GitLab
Gitpod recently announced its partnership with GitLab to provide cloud-based development environments. Gitpod uses a version control system as a single source of truth to automate the installation and configuration of a local development environment.
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QCon Plus: Summary of the Inclusion & Diversity in Tech Track
QCon Plus is running over three weeks in November. One of the tracks on the first day focused on Inclusion and Diversity in Tech. The track was designed to to change perceptions about DEI and advance the conversation. Three talks provided the audience with concrete tools, difficult questions and invited them to deep self exploration.
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Applying Lean and Accelerate to Deliver Value: QCon Plus Q&A
Understanding the science and math behind lean principles and practices can enable engineering leaders to advocate for and implement them in their workplace. This way they can directly impact employee engagement and morale, as well as the bottom line, as David Van Couvering explained in his talk about applying lean principles and practices for delivering value at QCon Plus 2020.