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Best Practices for Web Developers with Webhint - Rachel Simone Weil at OpenJS World
Rachel Simone Weil, product manager for the new Microsoft Edge’s developer tools, recently gave a talk at OpenJS world addressing how the webhint tool suite supports web developers in implementing best practices.
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Taking Advantage of Attitudes for Building Products
Attitudes like cynicism, skepticism and optimism impact how we develop products. Being aware of attitude matters, as it can block development or lead to building the wrong product. InfoQ interviewed Gwen Diagram about cynicism, skepticism, and optimism, the impact developers can have, and dealing with attitudes in teams.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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Rookout CTO Discusses Understandability, Architecture Styles, and Live Debugging
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, discussed the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems. Building on the concepts introduced in his recent InfoQ article, he also discussed how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.
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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.
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Rust 1.46.0 Released
The latest Rust stable release, 1.46.0, extends the number of core language constructs that are allowed in const fn. Also, a couple of features are stabilised.
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Google's BigBird Model Improves Natural Language and Genomics Processing
Researchers at Google have developed a new deep-learning model called BigBird that allows Transformer neural networks to process sequences up to 8x longer than previously possible. Networks based on this model achieved new state-of-the-art performance levels on natural-language processing (NLP) and genomics tasks.
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ServiceMeshCon Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Located Event
Christian Posta form Solo.io discussed multi-cluster and multi-mesh patterns at the recent ServiceMeshCon event which was held as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Conference. There were also talks on Istio architecture, WebAssembly for Istio telemetry and iteratively implementing Istio service mesh with no downtime.
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Introduction to Mutation Testing - Dave Aronson at JSConf Hawaii
Dave Aronson gave at JSConf Hawaii 2020 an introduction to mutation testing. Aronson presented the rationale behind mutation testing, its benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls, and how it works under the hood.
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RustConf Promotes a More Inclusive Community as Rust Grows
RustConf ws held in August 2020. As Rust grows into a mainstream programming language, it needs to be inclusive with regard to developers of all backgrounds and skill levels. Inclusivity was the theme of this year's RustConf.
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New LiveRecorder for Java Enables Software Failure Replay
LiveRecorder for Java is a newly released application for software failure replay. It enables developers to record application failures and then replay them in IntelliJ to find the cause of the failure. It helps to reduce the debugging time, especially with intermittent failures.
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Snyk Releases Enhanced Vulnerability Prioritization Features
Snyk has announced the release of a number of new features to simplify prioritizing security vulnerabilities. This includes a new, proprietary algorithm to assess and provide a score for each identified issue. This approach takes into account the maturity of the exploit and can analyze if the affected code is reachable through application execution.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August. Key takeaways included: there is an increasing importance in understanding end-user adoption patterns of technologies; it is important to recognize and discuss the topics of security, observability, and energy efficiency as more organizations move to the cloud; and more.
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GitHub Availability Report: Monthly Report Examining Incidents
Going beyond publishing the post mortem of major incidents, GitHub recently introduced the Availability Report. This report will not only have a description of incidents but also highlight what is being done to advance GitHub's engineering systems and practices.
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An Open Source Chaos Engineering Library from AWS
AWS engineers recently wrote about an open source chaos engineering tool called AWSSSMChaosRunner that they used to test fault injection in Prime Video. Built using AWS Systems Manager that can execute arbitrary commands on EC2 instances, the team was able to mitigate latency related issues using it.