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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.
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Material-UI 4.9 Release Improves Support for Material Design Specification
Material-UI, a React UI framework, recently released version 4.9.0 with dozens of improvements to UI components and better alignment with the Material Design specification. This release added or resolved inconsistencies with hover across several key UI components including the IconButton, ListItem, and TableRow. The release resolves dozens of smaller inconsistencies and makes refinements.
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Adaptive Loading for a Faster Web
The Google Chrome team recently introduced Adaptive Loading, an exploration for loading and rendering the most suitable version of a component based on network speed, CPU, memory, and other web platform signals.
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New Relic Introduces Real-Time Java Profiling
Concurrent with the formal release of Java 14, New Relic announced the release of their real-time Java profiling and JVM cluster timeline view utilities to more effectively troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in Java applications. Ben Evans, principal software engineer and JVM technologies architect at New Relic, spoke to InfoQ about these new tools.
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Application Manager Brings GitOps to Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has launched Kubernetes Application Manager, intending to simplify application configuration and lifecycle management. It’s an application delivery solution delivered as an add-on to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which is also part of Anthos. Kubernetes is widely used for managing containerised applications, but end-to-end Kubernetes lifecycle management can be challenging.
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Airbnb Transfers Ownership of Enzyme, Its React Testing Library
Airbnb transferred ownership of Enzyme, its React testing library, to the new enzymejs GitHub organization. Airbnb nonetheless plans to continue to use and contribute to Enzyme.
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Istio 1.5: Consolidated "Istiod" Control Plane Binary and New Wasm-Based Extension Model
Istio 1.5 has introduced the Istiod binary to simplify Istio's architecture and improve operational experience. It has become simpler to install and run Istio since the control plane components have been consolidated into a single binary, Istiod. Istio has introduced a new extension model for proxy servers and improved usability, security, telemetry and traffic control.
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How Team Interactions Help Kubernetes Adoption with Manuel Pais at QCon London
Manuel Pais talked at QCon London about how team interactions are vital to reduce cognitive load to have a successful adoption of Kubernetes. Pais recommends having a digital platform on top of Kubernetes. And, organizations can get started by assessing the team's cognitive load, defining a digital platform, and setting clear team interactions.
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Edge to Cloud: Building the Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Tesla engineers discuss the Tesla Virtual Power Plant and how the software they’re building is tackling some of the hardest problems in distributed systems and in renewable energy. The Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a modern example of a cloud-native architecture that heavily leverages edge computing.
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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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Chrome 81 Release Features New AR and NFC Features, and Redesigned HTML Form Controls
Google recently released Chrome 81 on desktop and mobile phones. This latest release provides new augmented reality (AR) features and new NFC features, and also shipped with redesigned HTML form controls. The redesign aims at improving the look and feel of form controls, and providing better accessibility and touch support.
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OCI Releases Micronaut 1.3 Featuring Micronaut Data 1.0
Object Computing, Inc. released Micronaut 1.3 featuring the milestone release of project Micronaut Data 1.0, a database access toolkit using Ahead of Time compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces executed by a lightweight runtime layer. Micronaut Data provides an API for translating a Query model into a query at compile time and provides runtime support for supported databases.