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Chrome Updates Experimental Wake Lock API Support
The Wake Lock API prevents some aspect of a device from entering a power-saving state, a feature currently only available to native applications. Chrome 79 Beta updates its experimental support for this feature, adding promises and wake lock types.
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Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software
Microsoft has been recently experimenting with Rust to improve the safety of their software. In a talk at RustFest Barcelona, Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez explained the challenges they faced in using Rust at Microsoft. Part of Microsoft's journey with Rust included rewriting a low-level Windows component, as Adam Burch explained.
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Ahead of re:Invent, Amazon Updates AWS Lambda
A series of updates to AWS Lambda aim to improve how the function-as-a-service platform handles asynchronous workflows and processes data streams. These newly announced features arrived the week before the annual mega-conference, AWS re:Invent.
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Data Science at the Intersection of Emerging Technologies
Kirk Borne, principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, gave a keynote presentation at this year’s Oracle Code One Conference on how the connection between emerging technologies, data, and machine learning are transforming data into value. Emerging technological innovations like AI, robotics, computer vision and more, are enabled by data and create value from data.
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Pulumi: Cloud Infrastructure with .NET Core
Earlier this month, Pulumi announced the addition of .NET Core to their supported languages. Pulumi is an open-source tool that allows the creation, deployment, and management of infrastructure as code on multiple cloud providers, similarly to HashiCorp Terraform.
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How Shopify Implements Custom Autoscaling Rules in Kubernetes
Andy Kwiatkowski from Shopify talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about why they had to create a custom autoscaler in Kubernetes. Existing solutions for autoscaling didn’t fulfill Shopify’s needs, mainly because of the large and sudden influx of traffic requests they receive. Also, they needed a cost-efficient solution when scaling down or configuring complex scaling conditions.
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How Lean Has Helped the IT Team Take Pride in Their Work
More teamwork, a better vision of daily work, a team that works in a concentrated way, and more pride in doing a job well; these are the benefits that Mélanie Noyel mentioned that their IT team at Acta gained from using Lean. At the Lean Digital Summit 2019 she presented on how they applied Lean to improve the IT team’s daily work.
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Microsoft Announces 1.0 Release of Kubernetes-Based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
Microsoft has announced the 1.0 version of the Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) component, an open-source project that can run in a Kubernetes cluster to provide "fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero)" for every container. KEDA also serves as a Kubernetes Metrics Server and allows users to define autoscaling rules using a dedicated Kubernetes custom resource.
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Highlights from SEACON:UK 2019 - Enterprise Measurement, Enterprise Structuring for Outcomes
This is a summary of the key topics and presentations from the SEACON:UK Study of Enterprise Agility conference held in London 12th November 2019. Key messages from the conference were about: measuring success at enterprise level; structuring your organisation for agility; the importance of culture in agility at scale; and the use of cloud services in the enterprise. All are available on YouTube.
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JakartaOne 2019: Livestream 7am to 1pm Summary
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream global virtual conference, scheduled in conjunction with the formal release of Jakarta EE 8, went live on September 10th, 2019 at 7am EDT with the first of 19 one-hour sessions. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions included keynotes, demos and panel discussions delivered by an all-star cast of Java luminaries.
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Q&A with Matt Fisher of Microsoft about Helm 3.0 Release for Kubernetes
Matt Fisher talks about the features of Helm 3.0, which is a major release, including why and how they overcame some technical debt, primarily related to tiller.
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Jay Kreps: Events, Event Streams and Their Importance in a Digital Business
Organizations are moving more and more processes into software, Jay Kreps notes in a blog post, and adds that in an accompanying change businesses are increasingly defined in software – the core processes are specified and executed in software. To support this transition, he believes we have to move away from traditional databases into working with the concepts of events and events streams.
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DataOps and Operations-Centric Data Architecture
Eric Estabrooks from DataKitchen spoke at this year's Data Architecture Summit 2019 Conference about how DevOps tasks should be managed for data architecture. DataOps is a collaborative data management practice and is emerging as an area of interest in the industry.
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What Made the iOS 13 Launch So Buggy and How to Fix the Development Process
Apple's latest iOS release, iOS 13, was affected by a number of bugs that caused disappointed reactions by users. In a story ran by Bloomberg, sources familiar with Apple explained what went wrong in the iOS 13 release process and how Apple is aiming to fix this for the future.
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Microsoft Releases DialogGPT AI Conversation Model
Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing Group released dialogue generative pre-trained transformer (DialoGPT), a pre-trained deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model for automatic conversation response generation. The model was trained on over 147M dialogues and achieves state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks.