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Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019
Frank Yan discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS.
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Audi Releases Autonomous Driving Dataset
Researchers at Audi have released the Audi Autonomous Driving Dataset (A2D2) for developing self-driving cars. The dataset includes camera images, lidar point clouds, and vehicle control information, and over 40,000 frames have been segmented and labelled for use in supervised learning. The dataset can be used for commercial purposes.
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55th Anniversary of Moore's Law
April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published ‘Cramming more components onto integrated circuits’. For over 50 years Intel and its competitors kept making Moore’s law come true, but more recently efforts to push down chip feature size have been hitting trouble with limitations in economics and physics that force us to consider what happens in a post Moore’s law world.
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Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Ingress Controller Released
Kong Inc. released Kong for Kubernetes version 0.8 - a Kubernetes Ingress controller that works with the Kong API Gateway. The release adds Knative integration, a new cluster level Custom Resource Definition, and annotations to minimize configuration.
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To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told the cautionary tale, and emphasized the importance of evaluating trade-offs in architectural decisions.
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Vulnerability Scanner Trivy Now Available as Integrated Option within Harbor
Aqua Security has announced that Trivy, their open source vulnerability scanner, is now available as an integrated option within a number of platforms. Trivy is able to scan for vulnerabilities within operating systems and a number of common application dependencies.
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Rewriting Dropbox Sync with Confidence Thanks to a Robust Test Strategy
Over the last few years, Dropbox engineers have rewritten their client-side sync engine from scratch. This would not have been possible had they not defined a clear testing strategy to allow them to build and ship the new engine through a quick release cycle, writes Dropbox engineer Isaac Goldberg.
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KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud
KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka, and it is currently available as a fully-managed service on the Confluent Cloud Platform for all its customers on usage-based billing plans. In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the availability of Confluent Cloud KSQL.
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108 Common DOM Tasks in Vanilla JS: the HTML DOM Project
The open-source project HTML DOM provides over 100 snippets of vanilla JavaScript performing common DOM manipulation tasks. The tasks' difficulty range from trivial (get the class of an element) to advanced (create resizable split views). The project may be useful for educational purposes, and for component developers who need to do low-level DOM handling themselves.
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Go as a Scripting Language
Go's growing adoption as a programming language that can be used to create high-performance networked and concurrent systems has been fueling developer interest in its use as a scripting language. While Go is not currently ready out of the box to be used as a replacement for bash or python, this can be done with a little effort.
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Node.js 14.0 Improves Diagnostics and Internationalization, Adds Web Assembly System Interface
The Node.js project recently released Node.js version 14.0.0, adding diagnostic reports, internationalization, experimental async local storage, native N-API module improvements, refinements to ES modules, and numerous other updates since the Node.js version 12 release. The release also adds experimental Web Assembly System Interface support.
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Amazon Updates AWS Snowball Edge with Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball is a part of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Recently Amazon announced a few updates for Snowball Edge device option. It now has a graphical user interface with AWS OpsHub, 25% faster data transfer performance, and support for local Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS System Manager.
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OpenAI Approximates Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI studies empirical scaling laws for language models using cross entropy loss to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget.
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Maven 3.7 to Include Default Wrapper
Apache 3.7.0 will ship with a new wrapper utility, making it easier to build projects without having a pre-existing Maven installation.
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Significant New Features Planned for Helidon 2.0
Oracle is well on their way to a Helidon 2.0 GA release scheduled for late Spring 2020. Helidon 2.0.0-M1, released in early February, and Helidon 2.0.0-M2, released in late March, have provided a host of new features including: support for reactive messaging; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client.