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Next.js 9.3 Released, Improves Static Site Generation
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9.3, featuring improved static website generation and preview and adding Sass support, while shipping a smaller runtime.
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Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
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Google Announces Beta Launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a new product for automating and managing machine learning (ML) workflows, which leverages the open-source technologies TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP).
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Amazon Introduces Bottlerocket, a Linux-Based OS for Container Hosting
Recently, Amazon announced a new Linux-based open-source operating system (OS) called Bottlerocket, which is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket is currently in public preview as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for customers to try out.
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Network Automation at Fastly
Ryan Landry, the senior director for TechOps at Fastly, has shared how network automation enables them to manage traffic peaks during popular live-streamed events such as the Super Bowl LIV. Fastly is directly connected to numerous ISPs across the US and tries to keep their live video traffic on these direct paths with their partners to deliver video streams as close to the end-user as possible.
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CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is now an official web standard. The new CSS standard enables developers to configure texts to be laid out horizontally or vertically, as well as to set the direction in which lines are stacked. Thanks to CSS Writing Modes, content in a large number of languages can be natively displayed.
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NGINX Releases Controller 3.0 with Major Redesign Providing Consolidated Application View
NGINX announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0, their control-plane solution to manage the NGINX data plane. The 3.0 release sees a full redesign of Controller moving it into an "app-centric experience" that allows for interacting with the infrastructure at the application level. This includes a full configuration API, a role based self-service portal, and a built in certificate manager.
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Google Propeller Squeezes Extra Performance from Large-Scale LLVM Binaries
Google Propeller is able to improve the performance of LLVM binaries by relinking and optimizing them based on a profile of their behaviour at runtime. Propeller can bring 2-9% improvements on key performance benchmarks for binaries that were previously highly optimized by LLVM, say Google engineers.
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Platform9 Announce Free SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Solution
Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud platform, has announced a free managed Kubernetes service for hybrid environments with automated Day2 operations including one-click upgrades, security patching, and monitoring. The new free tier enables users to take advantage of a SaaS management plane for Kubernetes on hybrid environments.
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JavaFX 14 Released
JavaFX 14 is available to help developers create cross-platform GUI applications with a single codebase. Improvements include HTTP/2 support with an embedded browser, controlled by native Java code.
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Prettier 2.0 Supports Typescript 3.8, Improves CLI
The opinionated code formatter Prettier recently released its second major iteration. Prettier 2.0 adds support for TypeScript 3.8. The new Prettier also strives to provide better defaults, a better CLI and better heuristics.
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Facebook’s Switch from ntpd to chrony for a More Accurate, Scalable NTP Service
Facebook's engineering team wrote about their approach on how they built a more accurate and scalable Network Time Protocol service by replacing ntpd with chrony and a multi-layered architecture.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability for UI Flows, Enabling Robotic Process Automation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of UI Flows on April 2nd, for customers worldwide. UI Flows is an addition to Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, that enables democratized access to automation and workflow. In this this latest release, Microsoft is enabling robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in the Power Automate service.
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Project OWL Enables Disaster-Relief Solutions Using Wireless Mesh Networks
Backed by IBM and adopted by the Linux Foundation, Project OWL aims to make it possible to build mesh network nodes that are able to reconfigure themselves to avoid prolonged connectivity loss. The project targets scenarios such as natural disasters, where communication links become quickly unavailable or unreliable.
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HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway Are Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of HTTP APIs in the API Gateway on AWS. With HTTP APIs, the public cloud provider will offer the core functionality of REST API at a lower price, reduction of the latency overhead, and ease of use.