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Payara Server: the Latest Product Certified as Jakarta EE 8-Compatible
With the release of Payara Server 5.193.1, Payara joins the Eclipse Foundation, IBM and Red Hat to offer products that are certified as Jakarta EE 8-compatible since the formal release of Jakarta EE 8 on September 10, 2019. Patrik Duditš, Java software engineer at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this milestone.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.1 LTS
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 3.1 on their development blog, together with ASP.NET Core 3.1 and EF Core 3.1. The new releases are mostly composed of fixes and refinements over their previous version (3.0). However, these are long-term supported (LTS) releases, which means they will be supported for at least three years.
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Introducing React Concurrent Mode
React's "Concurrent Mode" refers to a set of newly-released experimental features in React that aim to increase the responsiveness of applications by using interruptible rendering.
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TensorFlow 2.1.0 Will Be the Last Version to Support Python 2
The TensorFlow project announced a release candidate for version 2.1.0. In addition to several improvements and bug fixes, this release will be the last version of the deep-learning framework to support Python 2.
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Using React Native for iOS and Android App Development at Walmart
For the last two years, Walmart engineers have been steadily integrating React Native into their mobile development tool chest. Instead of aiming for a pure React Native app, they chose to deliver a hybrid app leveraging the best of native and React.
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Vue.js CLI 4 Released
The Vue CLI team recently updated its command line tool for Vue.js development to version 4. The release will help developers automate the migration process, use additional package managers and remove extraneous whitespace for more efficient DOM structures.
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AWS IoT Day Recap: Eight New Powerful Features
As part of AWS re:Invent pre-event announcements, Amazon shared eight new features available within their Internet of Things platform. These new features include: secure tunneling, configurable endpoints, custom domains for configurable endpoints, enhanced custom authorizers, fleet provisioning, Alexa Voice Services (AVS) integration and AWS IoT Greengrass enhancements.
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How Monzo Isolated Their Microservices Using Kubernetes Network Policies
Monzo's security team shared their story about implementing Kubernetes network policies using Calico APIs to provide isolation among 1500 microservices.
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Oxide Computer Company Launch
Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck have announced the launch of Oxide Computer Company to deliver ‘hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us’. The company aims to tackle the ‘infrastructure privilege’ presently enjoyed by hyperscale operators by developing ‘software to manage a full rack from first principles’, including platform firmware.
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Preact X Adds Features, Remains Lean
The Preact team announced Preact X, adding significant updates such as fragments and hooks to their React alternative, while retaining their lean size of less than 4KB, gzipped.
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Amazon Announces AWS Firelens – a New Way to Manage Container Logs
Recently, Amazon announced a new log aggregation service called AWS Firelens. The service unifies log filtering and routing across all AWS container services including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
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WebAssembly 1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation and the Fourth Language to Run Natively in Browsers
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that the WebAssembly Core Specification is now an official web standard. Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly thus becomes officially the fourth language to run natively in browsers.
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AWS Announced Braket, a Fully-Managed Quantum Computing Service
Now in preview, Amazon Braket is a new service AWS will be offering to make it possible to build, test, and run quantum algorithms. Braket includes a development environment, support for testing quantum algorithms on simulated quantum computers, and the ability to run them on existing quantum processors.
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Kubernetes the Very Hard Way with Large Clusters at Datadog
Laurent Bernaille from Datadog talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about the challenges of operating large self-managed Kubernetes clusters. Bernaille focused on how to configure resilient and scalable control planes, why and how to rotate certificates frequently, and the need for using networking plugins for efficient communication in Kubernetes.
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Usability Testing and Testing APIs with Hallway Testing
Hallway testing can be used to enhance the usability of products and make your UX better. You can also use it to test APIs as Ewa Marchewka, head of software integration and test department at Nokia, presented at TestCon Europe 2019. It’s cheap, straightforward, there’s no need for complicated tools, and it’s fast, getting feedback from the end-user almost instantly.