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Preventing and Dealing with Vulnerabilities with GitLab
One year after the official launch of GitLab public bung program, it is time for the company to wrap up its results and determine how it helped improve security for GitLab and its customers. InfoQ had the chance to speak with GitLab senior application security engineer James Ritchey to learn more about GitLab's security strategy and what a bug bounty program can contribute to an organization.
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Solo.io Release WebAssembly Hub for Envoy-based Wasm Extensions
Solo.io released WebAssembly Hub, a service for building deploying, sharing, and discovering Web Assembly extensions for Envoy. The goal of WebAssembly Hub is to enable users to configure and extend their Envoy-based service mesh.
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The Importance of Fun in the Workplace
Things at work that make us smile or laugh can improve team cohesion, productivity and organisational performance. Fun can’t be forced, but it can be fostered, said Holly Cummins at FlowCon France 2019, where she spoke about the importance of fun in the workplace.
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Failure Modes and Building Resilient Systems: Adrian Cockcroft at QCon SF
Adrian Cockcroft recently shared his thoughts on how to produce resilient systems that operate successfully in spite of the presence of failures. At the recent QCon San Francisco event, he also shared what he considers are good cloud resilience patterns for building with a continuous resilience mindset.
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Pull Queries and Connector Management Added to ksqlDB (KSQL) Event Streaming Database for Kafka
The new release of KSQL, an event streaming database for Kafka, includes pull queries to allow for data to be read at a specific point in time using a SQL syntax, and connector management that enables direct control and execution of connectors built to work with Kafka Connect. The Confluent team behind KSQL believes it's a significant release, and has decided to rename the tool to ksqlDB.
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Wasmtime Enables Running WebAssembly from .NET Programs
While momentum around WebAssembly keeps growing, WebAssembly runtime Wasmtime just added support for .NET Core, aimed to enable to run WebAssembly code from within .NET Core programs.
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Amazon Releases SageMaker Studio IDE for Machine Learning
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon SageMaker Studio, an integrated development enviornment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that brings code editing, training job tracking and tuning, and debugging all into a single web-based interface.
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Amazon Announces the Open Preview of a Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) on AWS
At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a new way of managing Cassandra databases on AWS. With Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), the public cloud vendor can offer Cassandra directly to customers instead of through third-party vendors.
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Red Hat Releases WildFly 18 Featuring Support for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
Red Hat has released version 18 of their WildFly application server featuring support for Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile 3.0. Other features include alignment with the Jakarta EE APIs, support for JDK 13, and enhancements to security, clustering and EE subsystems, especially in the areas of EJB and RESTEasy.
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Atlassian Introduces Forge, a New Way to Build Serverless Cloud Apps
In a recent blog post, Atlassian announced a new serverless cloud platform called Forge that allows developers to build Functions-as-a Service (FaaS)-based applications that are hosted and operated by Atlassian. Forge UI, a flexible and declarative UIL language, will be used by developers to build interactive experiences across web and mobile devices using a low-code approach.
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Mind Your State for Your State of Mind: Pat Helland at QCon SF
The features of different types of data storage should be considered when selecting how data is stored in a system. Is always reading correct data, or low latency, most important? In his keynote at this year’s QCon San Francisco, Pat Helland described trends in storage and computing, durable and session state semantics, and other aspects of storage like transactions, identity and immutability.
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Live Recorder: Debugging C++, Rust, and Go with Capture and Replay of Nondeterministic Data
Early in the year the Undo team released Live Recorder 5, a “software flight recorder technology” for C, C++ and Go applications that enables the capture of all non-deterministic data within an application’s execution for debugging purposes. The resulting recording supports the replay of events in time, backwards and forwards, when looking for and fixing bugs.
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Google's ARCore Depth API Brings Depth Maps and Occlusion to Non-Specialized Devices
Now available in closed preview, ARCore Depth API enables to create depth maps using a single camera. This feature, previously available only on devices with a depth sensor, makes it possible to realistically blend virtual objects in physical environments as well as building more natural, interactive, and helpful experiences, Google says.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Experiences from Mob Programming at an Insurance Startup
What do you do when two developers in your team mention that they have been stuck on a task for three days? At an insurance startup, the whole team decided to try-out mob programming. From the first day they started to mob, their knowledge of the codebase increased. Working together also helped them to get to know each other better and to be more efficient as a team.