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Azure Sphere, a Secure IoT Platform, Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Sphere, an end-to-end IoT Security Platform. The Azure Sphere platform focuses on three key areas including microcontroller units (MCUs), a secure operating system (OS), which is based upon Linux, and providing cloud security services including software updates and detecting emerging threats.
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Remote Work Flourishes and Enables Business Continuity
Buffer.com and AngelList recently published the 2020 State of Remote Work survey results. The survey coincides with a report by the Wall Street Journal on a sudden boom in remote working within China. Remote work has enabled business continuity across companies like Alibaba, in response to mobility restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 virus.
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How Jetstack Set Up a Global Load Balancer for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Jetstack's engineering team talked about setting up a global load balancer across multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters while utilizing Google’s non-standard container-native load balancing with Google Cloud Armor for DDoS protection.
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Microsoft Releases Azure App Configuration to General Availability
Azure App Configuration is a new service on Microsoft's Cloud Platform, allowing developers to centralize their application configuration and feature settings in a secure and straightforward manner. In a recent Microsoft Azure update, the public cloud vendor announced the general availability of this service.
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Evolving Architecture with DDD and Hypermedia: Einar Høst at DDD Europe
Hypermedia is an enabler for a better architecture, Einar Høst claimed in his presentation at the recent DDD Europe 2020 conference in Amsterdam. In his talk he described the architecture challenges at NRK TV, the TV streaming service at the Norwegian public broadcaster, and how they migrated their monolithic architecture into a more modular design and implemented hypermedia in their Player API.
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CSS Motion Path Now Supported in Most Browsers
With the release early this year of Firefox 72, the CSS Motion Path specification is now implemented in most browsers. With CSS Motion Path, developers can implement a larger range of complex animations without resorting to JavaScript, or importing full-featured animation libraries like GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform).
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MIT CSAIL TextFooler Framework Tricks Leading NLP Systems
A team of researchers at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) recently released a framework called TextFooler which successfully tricked state-of-the-art NLP models (such as BERT) into making incorrect predictions.
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Q&A with Martijn Verburg and Bruno Borges of Microsoft Regarding Contributing to the OpenJDK
InfoQ caught up with Martijn Verburg, principal group SWE manager, Java and Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java at Microsoft, about the specifics of the intended contribution from Microsoft to the OpenJDK.
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GitHub Actions API Released into Public Beta
GitHub announced the release into public beta of their Actions API. The Actions API can be used to manage GitHub Actions via a REST API. Endpoints available within the API allow for managing artifacts, secrets, runners, and workflows.
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ZetZ is a Formally Verified Dialect of C
ZetZ, or ZZ for short, is a Rust-inspired C dialect that is able to formally verify your code by executing it symbolically at compile time in a virtual machine. InfoQ has spoken with ZZ creator and maintainer Avid Picciani.
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How Leaders Can Foster High-Performing Teams
A leader can act as a coach, provide opportunities for ownership, and find out what motivates people to foster high performing teams. It also helps teams if leaders have powerful and meaningful conversations with team members and give vocal feedback face to face to team members.
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Building (and Re-Building) the Airbnb Design System - React Conf 2019
Maja Wichrowska and Tae Kim, engineers at Airbnb, explained how Airbnb’s design system evolved its architecture and implementation in response to business and technical challenges encountered.
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Storybook 5.3 Released, Targets Design Systems, Supports Web Components
Storybook 5.3 was recently released and strives to allow developers to build production design systems faster. Storybook users can now document their components with MDX, have a documentation site automatically generated, and integrate with popular design tools like Sketch, Figma or Adobe XD. Storybook 5.3 also now officially supports web components.
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OpsRamp Introduces AI-Driven Suggestions for Incident Remediation
OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for hybrid infrastructure discovery, monitoring, management and automation has launched OpsQ Recommend Mode, a capability for incident remediation. OpsQ Recommend Mode provides predictive analytics to digital operations teams with the goal of reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
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TCMalloc, Google's Customized Memory Allocator for C and C++, Now Open Source
Google's TCMalloc can be used as a replacement for C and C++ default memory allocators to provide greater efficiency at scale and better support for parallelism, says Google.