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Gradle 6 Brings Significant Dependency Management Improvements
Gradle, the customizable open source build automation tool, has released version 6.0 with significant improvements to dependency management, out of the box support for javadoc and source jars, and faster incremental compilation of Java and Groovy code. In addition, the latest release 6.1.1 supports a relocatable dependency cache for speeding up ephemeral CI builds.
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Swift 6 Will Bring Improved Concurrency Support and Memory Ownership
Swift development lead Ted Kremenek has announced a preliminary vision of what Swift 6 could include and how the community will get there on Swift's mailing list. Swift 6 will bring significant improvements to the language, including better concurrency support and memory ownership. No fixed timeline has been set yet, though, leading people to think it will not happen in 2020.
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Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the GCP Marketplace
In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service, which removes the burden of its users to manage Kafka themselves.
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Database Access Misconfiguration Exposes 250M Customer Records at Microsoft
Comparitech security firm reported a major data breach at Microsoft that exposed 250 million customer records over a period of a couple of days. Microsoft said the leaked data, which did not include personally identifiable information, was not used maliciously.
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Apple Acquires Edge-Focused AI Startup Xnor.ai
Apple has acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle-based startup that builds AI models that run on edge devices, for approximately $200 million.
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QCon London - Keynotes & Workshops on Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Microservices, Docker
QCon London is fast approaching. Join over 1,600 global software leaders this March 2-4. At the event, you will experience: talks that describe how industry leaders drive innovation and change within their organizations; a focus on real-world experiences, patterns, and practices (not product pitches), and implementable ideas for your projects and your teams.
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C# Futures: Covariant Return Types
A frequent API design problem is the inability to use a more specific return type when overriding a method. Proposal 49, which is now a C# 9 candidate, seeks to correct this issue.
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Reducing Build Time with Observability in the Software Supply Chain
Tools commonly used in production can also be applied to gain insight into the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the build time. Ben Hartshorne, engineer at honeycomb.io, gave the presentation Observability in the SSC: Seeing into Your Build System at QCon San Francisco 2019.
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JetBrains Releases Coding Typeface, Mono
JetBrains has released a new monospaced font to increase a developer's ability to scan across lines code. The font maximizes space and clearly differentiates letters and curves to decrease unnecessary eye movement.
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Nuxt 2.11.0 Released
Nuxt.js, a Vue.js framework, recently released version 2.11.0 to provide better control over the removal of non-client or non-server code in third-party dependencies. Nuxt 2.11 also adds flexibility with conditional statements supporting the run-time evaluation of application templates.
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Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
Elastic recently moved Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) into GA. Originally announced as an alpha release in May 2019, Elastic is looking to support the growing number of users leveraging Kubernetes for deploying ElasticSearch. This release includes support for many of Elastic's core features and can run on a number of public cloud Kubernetes offerings.
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Q&A on Okteto: a Tool to Develop Applications in Kubernetes
Okteto is an open-source tool that runs locally to synchronize application code changes to a running pod in a local or remote Kubernetes cluster. There's no need to commit, build, and push a container image to start testing an application. Developers can continue using their existing IDE, debuggers, compilers or hot reloaders to test their code changes instantly.
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Microsoft Patches Severe Crypto32.dll Vulnerability
Microsoft has released patches for various versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 and 2016 to fix a severe vulnerability affecting system validation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. This vulnerability enables an attacker to spoof the validity of a certificate chain and signature validation and requires prompt patching.
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Uber's Synthetic Training Data Speeds Up Deep Learning by 9x
Uber AI Labs has developed an algorithm called Generative Teaching Networks (GTN) that produces synthetic training data for neural networks which allows the networks to be trained faster than when using real data. Using this synthetic data, Uber sped up its neural architecture search (NAS) deep-learning optimization process by 9x.
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Preventing Inadvertent Changes, Amazon Adds Change Calendar to AWS Systems Manager
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced a new capability has been added to AWS Systems Manager called Change Calendar. This feature allows administrators to create change windows that either block or enable changes to be made, within a specific time frame, and is beneficial to organizations that have deployment freezes such as during the holidays or key business events.