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How to Integrate Infosec and DevOps Using Chaos Engineering
Kelly Shortridge from Capsule8 talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about how using chaos engineering can help to integrate Infosec within a DevOps culture. Shortridge discussed how distributed, immutable, and ephemeral infrastructure, or the D.I.E. model, is an organizationally friendly way to building security by design. With this model, users can continuously raise the cost of the attack
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Google Updates Google App Engine with More New Runtimes: Node.js 12, Go 1.13, PHP 7.3 and Python 3.8
In a recent blog post, Google announced several new runtimes for the App Engine service on its cloud platform. These runtimes are Node.js 12, Go 1.13, PHP 7.3 and Python 3.8.
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WebXR Arrives in Chrome 79
WebXR, the in-progress standard for virtual and augmented reality on the web, is now available in Chrome 79. After preliminary work on WebVR was superseded by WebXR, Chrome becomes the first production browser release supporting portions of the new standard.
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Hidden Costs of iOS/Android Shared Development, at Dropbox and Slack
Building a new native mobile app requires a lot of work since it is necessary to code it in Kotlin/Java for Android, and then again in Objective-C/Swift for iOS. In the past, Dropbox and Slack had been implementing a strategy to share code between platforms, building a shared library in C++, until recently, when they decided to get rid of this.
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Microsoft Extends Azure Security Center Capabilities to Partners, Adds Automation
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced several updates to their Azure Security Center offerings. These updates include enhanced cloud resource threat protection, Customer Lockbox extensions, the release of a Secure Code Analysis toolkit, additional support for Azure Disk Encryption, certificate management extensions, API automation and partner integrations.
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CloudFlare Releases Open Source Implementation of Network Time Security Protocol
CloudFlare announced the first major release of their implementation of the Network Time Security (NTS) protocol. This builds on their previous release of time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both Network Time Protocol (NTP) and NTS.
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Objective-C Introduces Zero-Runtime-Cost Direct Methods
Since Swift was launched in 2014, Objective-C has known only minor changes, mostly aimed at improving its interoperability with Swift. Far from being a fringe language, though, Objective-C has recently added support for "direct" methods, which look like ordinary class methods but behave more like a C function.
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GraalVM 19.3 Brings JDK 11 Support
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, C, Python, and JavaScript, has released version 19.3 with support for JDK 11. Previous versions of GraalVM were based on JDK 8.
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Google Announces General Availability of Skaffold for Easing Kubernetes Development
Google announced the general availability of Skaffold, a tool that simplifies common tasks when developing and deploying to Kubernetes. Skaffold can auto-detect and deploy changes automatically in development mode, and build, test and deploy changes in deployment mode. Skaffold supports multiple tools in the various stages of its pipeline.
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Microsoft Announces .NET Support for Jupyter Notebooks
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of .NET Core support to Jupyter Notebooks, allowing the use of code written in C# and F#. This release is part of the Try .NET project, an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core.
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Wade Davis Encourages Solidarity with Women at QConSF
Wade Davis spoke at QCon San Francisco 2019, at the Women in Tech & Allies Breakfast Co-Sponsored by Netflix. He encouraged allies to do something every day in the journey of creating equality for women in technology.
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Machine Learning on Mobile and Edge Devices with TensorFlow Lite: Daniel Situnayake at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Daniel Situnayake presented "Machine learning on mobile and edge devices with TensorFlow Lite". TensorFlow Lite is a production-ready, cross-platform framework for deploying ML on mobile devices and embedded systems, and was the main topic of the presentation.
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Systemic Coaching as a Leadership Approach
Leadership and culture drive every transformation. An organization will not accept structural or process changes without being open and ready for such changes, said Matthias Gebhardt at Agile Leadership Day 2019; the way to go with a transformation is to transform your leaders first.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Online: Distributed Development for Visual Studio
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of Visual Studio Online (VSO) at its Ignite conference. The service provides managed development environments that can be used with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. It also features an online code editor with IDE capabilities such as debugging, code completion, and collaborative sessions.
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Microsoft Edge 79 to Use the Chromium Browser Engine
With the release of Edge 79, Microsoft will transition from its proprietary EdgeHTML engine to Chromium, the popular open-source engine that powers Chrome.