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Google Open-Sources Reformer Efficient Deep-Learning Model
Researchers from Google AI recently open-sourced the Reformer, a more efficient version of the Transformer deep-learning model. Using a hashing trick for attention calculation and reversible residual layers, the Reformer can handle text sequences up to 1 million words while consuming only 16GB of memory on a single GPU accelerator.
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Microsoft Releases Sustainability Calculator, Helps Enterprises Analyze Carbon Emissions
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, which is a Power BI application that allows Azure customers to measure carbon emissions associated with their Azure consumption. The goal of this tool is to provide people who are responsible for measuring their carbon impact of their cloud workloads with insights on how they can reduce their carbon footprint.
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React Native is the Way to Go for Mobile App Development at Shopify
After a year spent experimenting with React Native, Shopify says it will adopt it for future mobile app development. Reported benefits include almost doubled development performance and over 95% code sharing across platforms.
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Experience Using Event Streams, Kafka and the Confluent Platform at Deutsche Bahn
To provide trip information to their rail passengers, Deutsche Bahn (DB) has created the RI-Plattform (Passenger Information Application) based on Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams with a plan to feed all information channels through the system. In a blog post, Axel Löhn and Uwe Eisele describe the microservices based design, how they build and run the system, and their experience from production.
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Npm, Inc. Announces Npm Pro for Independent JavaScript Developers
npm, Inc. recently announced the launch of npm Pro, designed for independent JavaScript developers. npm also rebranded its existing npm Orgs, which caters to teams of developers, as npm Teams.
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IoT Development with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a series of low-cost, programmable computers that include a set of GPIO, or 'General Purpose Input Output', pins that can be used to connect and control external electronic devices, and to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
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How Twitter Improves Resource Usage with a Deterministic Load Balancing Algorithm
Twitter recently shared the details of why their RPC framework Finagle implements a client-side load balancing using a deterministic aperture algorithm for their microservices architecture. Twitter ran different experiments but confirmed that with a deterministic approach, requests are better distributed, connections count reduces drastically, and they even need less infrastructure.
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C# Static Analysis Tool Roslynator.Analyzers Now Has over 500 Ways to Improve Code
The new version 2.3.1 of the Roslynator.Analyzers package brings the number of analyzers, refactorings and fixes to over 500. Roslynator uses the open-source Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform to perform static analysis on your C# code. This analysis drives your IDE to display hints and actions to improve your code.
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The Distributed Data Mesh as a Solution to Centralized Data Monoliths
Instead of building large, centralized data platforms, corporations and data architects should create distributed data meshes.
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Amazon Elastic File System New Features: IAM Authorization and Access Points
Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS) Service (EFS) offers a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Recently Amazon announced updates for this service by adding two new features, namely Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization for Network File System (NFS) and EFS Access Points.
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Large Collection Performance in Entity Framework and EF Core
Entity Framework Core offers significant performance improvements over Entity Framework 6. As this article shows, none are so readily apparent as when dealing with large collections.
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Yelp Open-Sources Fuzz-Lightyear, A Swagger-Based IDOR Vulnerability Detector
Business directory and crowd-sourced review service, Yelp, has open-sourced their in-house security testing framework, fuzz-lightyear, that identifies Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities.
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Electron Desktop JavaScript Framework Finds a New Home
At the Node+JS Interactive conference in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the Electron framework has joined the foundation. Electron is a popular cross-platform desktop application development tool based on Node.js and Chromium.
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Microsoft Announces Playwright Alternative to Puppeteer
Playwright is an open-source Node.js library started by Microsoft for automating browsers based on Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API. The primary goal of Playwright is improving automated UI testing.
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Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer
Rust Analyzer is an experimental IDE/latency-oriented Rust compiler. This is an emerging endeavour within the Rust ecosystem, which is aimed at improving the IDE experience with Rust.