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Microsoft Introduces Azure Space to Further Push the Boundaries of Cloud Computing
Recently Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative as a further push of cloud computing towards space. This initiative by the public cloud vendor consists of several products and partnerships to position Azure as a critical player in the space- and satellite-related connectivity and compute part of the cloud market.
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Just AI Launched Open-Source Kotlin-Based Conversational Framework
Just AI Conversational Framework (JAICF) provides a Kotlin-based DSL to enable the creation of conversational user interfaces. JAICF works with popular voice and text conversation platforms as well as different NLU engines. InfoQ has spoken with Just AI’s solution owner, Vitaliy Gorbachev.
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Sidewalk Labs Launches Machine Learning Tool for Urban Design
Sidewalk Labs recently released Delve, a generative design tool powered by machine learning (ML), which helps developers, architects, and planners design urban neighborhoods. The ML algorithms can generate design options from minimal user input about the space and the goals of the project, while also measuring the impact of each design choice.
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HashiCorp Supports AWS Lambda Extensions for Serverless Security
HashiCorp has recently announced the public preview of the HashiCorp Vault AWS Lambda Extension. The new service is based on the recently launched AWS Lambda Extensions API and allows a serverless application to securely retrieve secrets from HashiCorp Vault without making the Lambda functions Vault-aware.
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Rust Hyper HTTP Library Will Contribute to Make Curl Safer
Written in C, the popular curl and libcurl tools, which are installed in some six billion devices worldwide, are exposed to well-known security problems arising from the use of a non-memory safe language. A new initiative now aims to provide a memory-safe HTTP/HTTPS backend for curl based on Rust Hyper library.
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HashiCorp’s Waypoint Targets Consistent Build and Deploy Workflows across Platforms
HashiCorp announced Waypoint - an open source project that aims to provide a consistent build and deploy workflow across different platforms including Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Nomad, Google Cloud Run, Docker, Buildpacks, and Azure Container Instances.
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REPLicant, a Super Simple Svelte REPL - Peter Allen at Svelte Summit 2020
Peter Allen recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he explained the benefits of REPL (Read-Print-Eval-Loop) playgrounds. While the Svelte REPL is complex due to the handling of many edge cases, the principles underlying code playground implementations are simple. Allen progressively led the viewer into the implementation of the simplest possible version of the Svelte REPL.
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Git 2.29 Introduces Experimental Support for SHA-256
The latest version of Git experimentally enables using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 for file hashing, thus removing a long-standing vulnerability which in principle allowed an attacker to forge a counterfeited repository with a HEAD not distinguishable from the original's.
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Articulating Leadership through Nemawashi and Collaborative Boards
High performance teams don’t need to be managed, but led. Collaborative boards is where leadership and teams meet to align direction and initiatives. Nemawashi can be used to separate conversations from meetings. Fernando Guigou spoke about articulating leadership using an approach that he calls ZenSum at Agile Tour London 2020.
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Markdown-Wasm, a Very Fast Markdown Parser Written in WebAssembly
Rasmus Andersson released markdown-wasm, a very fast Markdown parser ported from C to WebAssembly. markdown-wasm is twice as fast as the best JavaScript Markdown parser in one benchmark. markdown-wasm remains additionally small (31KB gzipped).
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Join Gene Kim, Michael Nygard, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and 54 Other Software Leaders at QCon Plus
QCon Plus, the virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects that covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, is less than two weeks away.
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Cloudflare Releases a Cloud-Based Network-as-a-Service Solution: Cloudflare One
Cloudflare, an American web-infrastructure and website-security company, recently introduced a cloud-based network-as-a-service solution for the enterprise workforce called Cloudflare One. The solution provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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Animated, Responsive, and Reactive Data Visualization with Svelte
Tom Fevrier and Matthias Stahl recently gave the Svelte community an overview of the techniques that can be used to achieve responsive, interactive, and animated data visualization with Svelte.
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Introducing Webpack 5
Version 5.0 of Webpack, the most popular JavaScript module bundler, is finally out offering a slew of improvements, including faster build times, decreased bundle sizes, and many breaking changes.
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NVIDIA's AI Reduces Video Streaming Bandwidth Consumption by 10x
GPU-manufacturer NVIDIA announced their Maxine platform for AI-enhanced video-conferencing services, which includes a technology that can reduce bandwidth requirements by an order of magnitude. By moving much of the data processing to the cloud, end-users can take advantage of the compression without needing specialized hardware.