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Tone.js Interactive Music Web Framework
Tone.js leverages the Web Audio API to provide a framework for creating interactive music in the browser.
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Firefox 72 Released with Better Privacy, User Experience and a Four-Week Release Cycle
The Firefox browser shipped new versions in 2020 which strive to improve privacy, user experience, and JavaScript and WebAPI support. Additionally, Mozilla will now release new Firefox versions on a monthly cycle.
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Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace
In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service that removes the burden of operationally managing Kafka for engineers.
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Microsoft Ships Preview of Cluster-Friendly Cloud Disks
Storage is one of the more mature services in the public cloud, but rarely supports traditional clustered systems. To attract those on-premises workloads, the Microsoft Azure team released a preview of Azure Shared Disks, a block storage option for attaching managed disks to multiple virtual machines.
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How to Embrace “You Build It, You Run It” with Paul Hammant at QCon London
Paul Hammant talked at QCon London about having developers responsible for the first line of support in production, as the saying goes, “if you build it, you run it.” Hammant recommends following this practice only if there are proper support levels and escalation policies defined. As a result, companies could reduce the chances of burnout or staff quitting.
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Tenko ES2020 JavaScript Parser
Tenko is a 100% specification compliant JavaScript parser authored in JavaScript. Tenko fully supports parsing for ES6 through ES2020 syntax and language features.
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How N26 Scales Technology through Hypergrowth
As N26 grew fast, they had to scale their technology to keep up. This meant scaling not only their infrastructure, but also their teams; for instance, they had to decide how to distribute work over teams and what technology to use or not use. Folger Fonseca, software engineer and Tech Lead at N26, shared his experience from scaling technology at N26 at QCon London 2020.
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Involving Engineers in Incident Management: QCon London Q&A
Learning from past incidents can increase engineers' confidence in handling live incidents and convincing them to join the on-call team. Samuel Parkinson spoke about how we can benefit from past incidents and encourage engineers to get involved in incident management at Qcon London 2020.
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DevOps beyond Development and Operations with Patrick Debois at QCon London
Patrick Debois talked at QCon London about thinking of DevOps beyond development and operation silos. DevOps is inherently complex, and there are other risks, challenges, and bottlenecks outside the software delivery pipeline where collaboration is vital, for instance, when collaborating with other groups like suppliers, HR, marketing, sales, finance, or legal.
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Let's Encrypt is Revoking Three Million Certificates on March 4
Non-profit certificate authority Let's Encrypt, which provides X.509 certificates for TLS encryption at no charge, has announced it will revoke customer certificates today due to a bug in their Boulder CA software.
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Facebook Natively Rewrites Messenger to Make it Faster and Smaller on iOS
Facebook has been at work to rewrite its iOS Messenger app using native technologies. Soon to be available on the App Store, the new Messenger is twice as fast on launch and less than one-fourth in size, says Facebook. Its unified architecture outlines a new SQLite-centered approach to native app development.
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Trust in High Performing Teams: QCon London Q&A
High-performing teams flourish in a culture of trust and safety. It’s important that trust come both from within and outside of the team, in order to avoid isolating teams from their stakeholders. Stephen Janaway shared his experience with trust in high performing teams at Qcon London 2020.
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Splice Machine Data Platform 3.0 Supports Kubernetes Managed Service and New ML Manager
The latest version of distributed SQL data platform Splice Machine supports a new Kubernetes managed service, new version of Machine Learning Manager (v2.0), and automatic in-database model deployment.
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Oracle Cloud Now Offers Data Science and Machine Learning Services
Oracle recently announced the availability of its Cloud Data Science Platform, a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which the software designed to let teams of data scientists collaborate on the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning models.
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Spotify Open-Sources Terraform Module for Kubeflow ML Pipelines
Spotify has open-sourced their Terraform module for running machine-learning pipeline software Kubeflow on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). By switching their in-house ML platform to Kubeflow, Spotify engineers have achieved faster time to production and are producing 7x more experiments than on the previous platform.