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Apple Releases iOS 13.5 with Exposure Notification Beta and Best Practices Sample App
The latest release of iOS, iOS 13.5, includes beta support for the Exposure Notification API Apple defined jointly with Google to enable contact tracing apps. Apple also published a sample app to showcase best practices in contact-tracing apps.
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Tech Giants Shift to More Remote Working for the Long Term
As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to be felt around the globe, and many tech industry employees get used to working from home, large tech companies are making long-term decisions about allowing and encouraging their people to work remotely. Facebook, Twitter, Shopify and others are making plans to have most or all of their workforce permanently remote.
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Java at 25
Java is one of the few recent languages (along with only Javascript, Python and C / C++) to have attained the top level of sustained, truly mainstream usage. The language and platform are celebrating their 25th birthday amid ongoing successes.
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Secure Multiparty Computation May Enable Privacy-Protecting Contact Tracing Solutions
The current COVID-19 pandemic has fueled several efforts to implement contact tracing apps, based on a number of different cryptographic approaches. InfoQ has spoken with HashiCorp principal product manager for cryptography and security Andy Manoske to learn more about Secure Multiparty Computation and how it can enable privacy-protecting analysis on private data from different sources.
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New Proposal Improves Client-Side Video Editing by Four Times
Melanie Richards discussed the client-side video editing proposal that the Edge team at Microsoft has been working on. The proposal is in the incubation phase at the Web Platform Incubator Community Group(WICG) and aims at enabling dramatically faster client-side video editing experience and better performance. The proposed interface includes methods for trimming and concatenating videos.
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Khan Academy's Scaling Story to 2.5x Traffic Using a Serverless Architecture and CDN
Khan Academy’s engineering team shared their story of scaling to 2.5x their usual traffic by leveraging a serverless architecture on Google App Engine and their static content delivery providers Fastly and Youtube.
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OverOps for .NET: Tal Weiss Q&A
In January, OverOps announced that it is expanding its support to the .NET ecosystem. OverOps is a continuous reliability platform that allows developers to analyze and optimize code at runtime. InfoQ interviewed Tal Weiss, co-founder, CEO, and CTO at OverOps, about how engineers can benefit from using OverOps and the future of automating the production debugging process for .NET.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of EC2 M6g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of their 6th generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g – with the ‘g’ standing for “Graviton2”, a next-generation Arm-based chip. The public cloud vendor and their acquired company Annapurna Labs designed this chip, which utilizes 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores.
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Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims
In an article, MongoDB claimed their database passed “the industry’s toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency Tests”. In response, Jepsen published an article stating that MongoDB 3.6.4 had in fact failed their tests; the newer MongoDB 4.2.6 has more problems including “retrocausal transactions” where a transaction reverses order so that a read can see the result of a future write.
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With Project Reunion Microsoft is Attempting to Unify Win32 and UWP APIs
At Build 2020, Microsoft announced Project Reunion with the aim of unifying app development across multiple Windows 10 versions and devices. The first three components of Project Reunion available to developers in preview are WinUI 3, WebView2 and MSIX (MSIX-Core).
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IBM Launches Equal Access Toolkit to Help Developers Write Accessible Applications
IBM recently released the IBM Equal Access Toolkit and the Accessibility Checker, two new open-source toolkits that strive to give designers, developers, and testers a set of tools to make websites and applications accessible.
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How Agile Can Work Together with Deadlines
Even with a hard deadline, you can still prioritise work in sprints, use daily stand ups to manage blockers, and run retrospectives to improve your ways of working. Stakeholder relationships are key when attempting to negotiate and soften arbitrary deadlines. Start conversations up front to set better expectations and ensure a smoother delivery, particularly when facing uncertainty.
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Scaleway Launches Kubernetes Kapsule
Bare-metal cloud solutions provider, Scaleway, has released Kubernetes Kapsule, its containerized application orchestration solution based on the Kubernetes platform and certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Kubernetes Kapsule service is designed to give IT organizations inside and out of France access to a bare-metal instance of Kubernetes.
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Recoil - a New State Management Library for React
Recoil is a brand new, experimental state management by Facebook that addresses many of the problems larger applications encounter when using the existing Context API.
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Q&A on Container Scaling with Fargate
Vlad Ionescu, an AWS Container Hero, in early April reported on his experiments with scaling Amazon Fargate for batch processing or background jobs.