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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with support for most of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-certified Kubernetes distributions. With this capability, customers can manage and govern their Kubernetes clusters from Azure across their data centers, multi-cloud configurations, and Azure Stack Hub.
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Istio 1.5: Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar Discuss istiod, Wasm, and Multi-Cluster Support
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar discussed the release of Istio 1.5 and explored the future of service mesh space. Topics covered included the motivations for migrating to the “istiod” monolithic control plane, the addition of WebAssembly data plane (Envoy proxy) extension support, and the future of multi-cluster support within Istio.
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Space-Efficient Full-Text Search with Rust and WebAssembly
Matthias Endler, backend engineer for Trivago, published a client-side full-text search engine designed for space efficiency by leveraging Bloom filters. Tinysearch is written in Rust, transpiled to WebAssembly, and used in the browser. Tinysearch claims sizes between 50 and 100KB and can only index full words.
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Google Open-Sources Computer Vision Model Big Transfer
Google Brain has released the pre-trained models and fine-tuning code for Big Transfer (BiT), a deep-learning computer vision model. The models are pre-trained on publicly-available generic image datasets and can meet or exceed state-of-the-art performance on several vision benchmarks after fine-tuning on just a few samples.
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Amazon Releases AWS Amplify iOS and Android into General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, which are both part of the open-source Amplify Framework. Amplify iOS and Amplify Android include libraries and tools, allowing mobile developers to build scalable and secure cloud-powered applications.
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How Paypal Enables UI Component Sharing at Enterprise Scale
Dong Chen, Paypal engineer, recently discussed the challenges behind component sharing at the enterprise level and the solutions that Paypal is using to address those challenges.
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Facebook's Vision for the Future of Work
In a recent article, Facebook showcased various technologies it has been developing to transform the way people interact and communicate. They also have the ability to unleash a radical change in the way people work together, the company
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Facilitating Threat Modelling Remotely
ThoughtWorks' Jim Gumbley recently published a guide to Threat Modelling on Martinfowler.com with a template for facilitating remote and onsite sessions. He makes a case for continuous threat modelling within each iteration, alongside business stake-holders. Derek Handova has also written about removing friction from security through automation and a greater security focus in the SDLC.
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DigitalOcean’s Journey to a Scalable Networking Model Using GoBGP and Open vSwitch
DigitalOcean's network engineering team wrote about their journey in switching from a Layer 2 to a Layer 3 based routing model for traffic to virtual machines in their cloud using Open vSwitch (OVS) and other tools.
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C# 9: Partial Method Enhancements for Source Generators
Source Generators in C# 9 will allow compiler-extensions to inspect code and then inject additional source code at compile-time. This injected code is then incorporated into the very same assembly that was being compiled. In order to facilitate this capability, Microsoft is removing most of the restrictions on Partial Methods.
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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available for MacOS and iOS
IBM's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Toolkit aims to allow developers to start using FHE in their solutions. According to IBM, FHE can have a dramatic impact on data security and privacy in highly regulated industries by enabling computing directly on encrypted data.
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Dekorate: Generating Kubernetes and OpenShift Manifests for Java Projects
Dekorate, formerly the ap4k project which stood for Annotation Processors for Kubernetes, is designed to make the generation of Kubernetes and OpenShift manifests in Java based projects easier. The project was rebranded since it now supports decorating Kubernetes manifests without the use of annotations, so the name ap4k no longer describes the project accurately.
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After MS-DOS, Microsoft Now Open Sources GW-Basic
Microsoft released on GitHub the original 8088 assembly language sources for its interpreter for GW-BASIC 1.0, a dialect of the BASIC programming language released in 1983 and bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles. After re-open-sourcing MS-DOS, Microsoft proceeds with releasing GW-BASIC under an MIT license due to numerous requests.
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Predicting the Future with Forecasting and Agile Metrics
Common estimation approaches often fail to give us the predictability we want. Forecasting provides a range of possible outcomes with the chance of outcomes becoming reality. It can answer questions like “When will it be done?” or “What can we deliver by xx?” with confidence.
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Microsoft Announces a New Pricing Model Option for Azure Cosmos DB and More Capabilities
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced a new consumption-based pricing model for Azure Cosmos DB called 'serverless' that is ideal for spiky workloads and complements the existing provisioned throughput pricing model.