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Google Introduces E2 Family of VMs in Beta for Google Compute Engine
In a recent blog post, Google announced its new E2 family of general-purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine are available in beta. With E2, Google aims to provide customers with flexible, performance-driven, and cost-effective VMs for Google Compute Engine on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Scaling Tech to Keep Building the Right Product During Hyper-Growth
When your organization is growing fast and steadily, change has to be part of your culture. People are recruited, people leave, and people change teams; you have to learn to adapt fast and keep tech and business synchronized. At FlowCon France 2019 Nicholas Suter and Nicolas Nallet spoke about scaling tech at Younited.
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Snowpack Releases 1.0, Seeks to Speed Up App Development by Removing the Need for Bundlers
The Pika package registry recently released the first major version of Snowpack. Snowpack seeks to streamline the developer experience by leveraging web standards and modern browsers. Developers who restricts themselves to using ES modules, and standard features of the JavaScript language may no longer need to go through an often complex build chain to build, run and debug their applications.
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Decision Strategies for a Micro Frontends Architecture
Micro frontends is an architectural style for frontend applications based on the concepts of microservices. Luca Mezzalira believes this is a style that will change the future of these applications. There are some challenges though and architectural decisions that must be made, and he has therefore created a decisions process for embracing a micro frontends architecture.
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Apple, Google, Amazon, And Others Team Up to Create New Smart Home Standard
Connected Home over IP is a recently announced, joint effort by Apple, Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance to define a connectivity standard for smart home products. To accelerate this initiative, Apple has open sourced parts of its core technology for smart home connectivity.
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ESLint 6.7.0 Released
ESLint, a powerful JavaScript linting tool, recently released version 6.7.0. This release provides developers with a new Suggestions API to apply manual linting suggestions and a new ignorePatterns configuration property to better control the files ESLint ignores.
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Google Open-Sources ALBERT Natural Language Model
Google AI has open-source A Lite Bert (ALBERT), a deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model, which uses 89% fewer parameters than the state-of-the-art BERT model, with little loss of accuracy. The model can also be scaled-up to achieve new state-of-the-art performance on NLP benchmarks.
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Can We Build Trustable Hardware? Andrew Huang at 36C3
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at 36C3 on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware’ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?’ His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating the array of potential attacks in the threat model.
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New Features and Design Principles of Vue 3.0 - Evan You at VueConf Toronto
With the major iteration of the Vue.js framework scheduled for Q1 2020, Evan You, creator and project lead of Vue.js, discussed in detail at VueConf Toronto the design principles behind Vue 3, together with the latest additions to the new release.
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Azure Functions 3.0 Released to Production, Support for .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12 Included
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available in production. The new capabilities in this release include support for .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12. In addition, Microsoft claims previous versions of Azure Functions should be able to run in the version 3.0 runtime without code changes, due to Azure Functions 3.0 being highly backwards compatible.
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Building a Custom React Renderer - Sophie Alpert at ReactConf 2019
React developers may know that the renderer lives in a separate module from React. They may not know that they can write their own renderer by implementing the same interface than React DOM implement. Sophie Alpert, former manager of @reactjs team, gave in her talk at ReactConf 2019 a concrete example of how to use the react-reconciler package to implement a custom renderer.
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New Elm Release Helps Developers Learn Syntax
Evan Czaplicki, Elm’s creator, recently released Elm 0.19.1 with improved error messages. Elm 0.19.1 goes a step further in realizing Elm’s vision of being a delightful language for reliable webapps. The new release comes a year after the previous one (0.19) which emphasized smaller assets, and faster builds.
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Reasons to Use ReasonML - Anton Tuzhik at ReactiveConf 2019
Anton Tuzhik, recently presented a talk at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague detailing the reasons why he thinks ReasonML is a good option for implementing applications. ReasonML supports native and JavaScript as compile-targets, provides a sound type system, encourages immutable data structures, and has good interoperability with the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Solandra, a TypeScript-First Algorithmic Art Framework
Solandra is an open-source TypeScript-first framework for creating algorithmic art. Leveraging HTML Canvas, Solandra provides a rapid development framework for creating art.
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ServiceMeshCon 2019: Platform Plumbing, Debugging, and Custom Implementations
The inaugural CNCF-hosted ServiceMeshCon 2019 took place during November as part of KubeCon. A core message from the event was that service mesh technology is rapidly becoming part of the platform “plumbing”, and therefore the interesting innovation is happening in relation to the higher-level abstractions and the human-focused control planes.