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DeepMind's Agent57 Outperforms Humans on All Atari 2600 Games
Researchers at Google's DeepMind have produced a reinforcement-learning (RL) system called Agent57 that has scored above the human benchmark on all 57 Atari 2600 games in the Arcade Learning Environment. Agent57 is the first system to outperform humans on even the hardest games in the suite.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Shifting-Left Testing with Mabl DevTestOps Platform
Corresponding to the ideas of "test early, test often" and "test as early as possible" in the development lifecycle, shift-left testing is a well-known approach. Recently, the combination of shift-left testing and CI/CD is fueling a new approach to DevOps dubbed DevTestOps. InfoQ has spoken with Dan Belcher, co-founder at DevTestOps platform maker mabl.
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Chef Infra 16 Released with Resource Partials and YAML Support
Chef has announced the release of Chef Infra 16 with a number of new features to improve creating, customizing, and updating Chef policies. This release includes YAML support for recipes, new functionality to reduce code duplication, and improvements to how Chef Infra handles mixed custom resources.
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Google and Apple Publish Exposure Notification API Draft
Only a few weeks after its initial announcement, the partnership between Google and Apple to provide their mobile OSes with solid foundations for contact tracing applications has reached a key milestone, a preliminary draft of the Exposure Notification API and beta release for iOS.
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Amazon Introduces the New Streaming ETL Feature on AWS Glue
Recently, Amazon announced AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. With this new feature, customers can easily set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds.
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Q&A with Amazon's VP Kurt Kufeld Regarding Amazon AppFlow
InfoQ caught up with Kurt Kufield, VP AWS Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), regarding Amazon AppFlow, a bidirectional integration service between the AWS platform and a variety of SaaS platforms.
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Google Updates Cloud Spanner with New Features: Backup on Demand, Local Emulator, and More
In a recent blog post, Google announced a slew of new features for Cloud Spanner. The public cloud provider released the service with new updates including the managed backup-restore feature, foreign key support, query optimizer versioning feature, a C++ client library, and a local emulator.
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Microsoft Releases Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 RC
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 RC. This is the last planned preview release of Blazor WebAssembly, and it contains all features expected for its official general availability. The production-ready release is scheduled for sometime in May.
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Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf
Joe Savona explored at React Conf some of the ways Relay and Suspense can help improve the user loading experience and the best practices that have been identified in production for using Suspense for data-fetching.
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Blender, Facebook State-of-the-Art Human-Like Chatbot, Now Open Source
Blender is an open-domain chatbot developed at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Facebook’s AI and machine learning division. According to FAIR, it is the first chatbot that has learned to blend several conversation skills, including the ability to show empathy and discuss nearly any topic, beating Google's chatbot in tests with human evaluators.
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Splunk Launches New Release of SignalFx APM
Splunk, a platform for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated big data, has launched a new release of application monitoring tool SignalFx Microservices APM™. The new release combines NoSample™ tracing, open standards based instrumentation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven directed troubleshooting from SignalFx and Omnition into a single solution.
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CircleCI Releases API Version 2 with Improved Insights Endpoints
CircleCI has improved the stability of their insights endpoints in the version 2 release of their API. The insights endpoints allow for tracking the status of jobs and workflows, monitoring the duration of jobs, and investigating opportunities for optimizing resource consumption.
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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.
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Architecture Decision Records at Spotify
Several teams at Spotify use architecture decision records (ADR) to capture decisions they make. ADRs have brought a number of benefits to Spotify, including improved onboarding for new developers, improved agility when handing over project ownership due to organization changes, and improved alignment across teams regarding best practices.