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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.
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The Road to MicroProfile 4.0
Originally scheduled for a June 2020 release, MicroProfile 4.0 had been delayed until an Eclipse Working Group was established. The new release date is November 10, 2020. John Clingan, senior principal product manager at Red Hat, spoke to InfoQ about the upcoming release of MicroProfile 4.0.
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Common Challenges Facing Angular Enterprises - Stephen Fluin at Ngconf
Stephen Fluin, developer advocate for Angular, discussed at ngconf the common challenges facing Angular teams that are building applications at scale.
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Swift Aims to Become a Data Race-Free Concurrent Language
The Swift team has published its roadmap to improve concurrency support in Swift. In a first phase, Swift will gain the async syntax and actors, while in a second phase focus will be on eliminating data races and deadlocks.
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Google Introduces a New Version of Its Cloud Shell Editor
Google provides customers with Cloud Shell - a command-line editor in a browser to access their cloud resources directly. In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new version of its Cloud Shell Editor, which is available as a preview.
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UX Patterns: Stale-While-Revalidate
Stale-while-revalidate (SWR) caching strategies provide faster feedback to the user of web applications, while still allowing eventual consistency. Faster feedback reduces the necessity to show spinners and may result in better-perceived user experience.
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Large-Scale Multilingual AI Models from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
Researchers from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have published their recent work on multilingual AI models. Google and Microsoft have released models that achieve new state-of-the-art performance on NLP tasks measured by the XTREME benchmark, while Facebook has produced a non-English-centric many-to-many translation model.