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High-Performance Data Processing with Spring Cloud Data Flow and Geode
Cahlen Humphreys and Tiffany Chang spoke recently at the SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about data processing with Spring Cloud Data Flow and Apache Geode frameworks.
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When Deferring Decisions Leads to Better Codebases: Boris Litvinsky at ReactiveConf 2019
Boris Litvinsky, tech lead at Wix, recently presented in a talk at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague why he thinks deferring decisions taken in the software development process can result in a better codebase. He also discussed some design and coding practices which support delaying or reversing decisions.
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Mark Schwartz on DevOps, Bureaucracy and His Upcoming Book at 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES)
Mark Schwartz is speaking at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Vegas about bureaucracy. He shared some topics that will be covered in his new upcoming book about bureaucracy. Schwartz is developing a playbook for identifying bureaucracy in organizations and practical steps for addressing it.
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TypeScript, Seeing Past the Hype - Matthew Gerstman at ReactiveConf 2019
Matthew Gerstman, senior software engineer at Dropbox, recently presented at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague the lessons learnt by Dropbox after they migrated to TypeScript four years ago. Gerstman described the good, the bad and the ugly parts of TypeScript, and how TypeScript helped Dropbox to tackle programming at scale.
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Apple Adds Native W3C WebDriver Support to iOS
With the release of iOS 13, Apple now includes native iOS W3C WebDriver support. Beyond previous support for WebDriver added in Safari 10, WebDriver can now easily be used for testing mobile Safari web applications efficiently.
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The Traits of an Agile Nation
Dr Rashina Hoda gave a TEDx talk in which she reflected on New Zealand’s response to the terror attacks of March 15, 2019. She described how the response showed the traits of an agile society, and presented a view of the agile manifesto values as an inspiration for societal change towards humanism and collaboration.
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Reduce Xcode Build Times Using Carthage and Caching Binary Dependencies
In a recent post, Spotify engineer Patrick Balestra explained how they managed to improve Xcode build time by 50% using dependency manager Carthage to avoid rebuilding dependencies over and over across their teams.
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Microsoft and University of Maryland Researchers Announce FreeLB Adversarial Training System
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland (UMD) announced Free Large-Batch (FreeLB), a new adversarial training technique for deep-learning natural-language processing (NLP) systems that improves accuracy, increasing RoBERTa's scores on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark and achieving the highest score on AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) benchmark.
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The Swift Method: A Framework for Software Modernization Using DDD
The Swift Method is a set of techniques for analyzing complex legacy systems, and determining the work required to gradually modernize key components or the whole system.
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Largest Transport Provider in Norway Rewrites Its Website with 83,000 Lines of Elm
Vy.no, the largest transport provider in Norway, rewrote its website in the compile-to-JavaScript Elm language. Robin Heggelund Hansen and Kjetil Valle presented in a recent article the three-year journey by which Vy gradually switched to Elm for the non-static parts of its website.
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Elastic Releases New Security Suite Integrating SIEM with Endpoint Protection
Elastic recently released Elastic Endpoint Protection, a new feature for integrated security built upon Elastic’s acquisition of Endgame. With Endpoint, Elastic is combining their SIEM product and endpoint security into a single solution built on the Elastic stack.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachCloud, a Fully-Managed Distributed SQL Database in Beta
Recently, Cockroach Labs announced the beta program of CockroachCloud, a fully-managed service for its CockroachDB distributed SQL database. With CockroachCloud, customers can provision, scale and manage a complex, highly available distributed SQL database within minutes.
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Facebook AI Releases New Computer Vision Library Detectron2
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has released Detectron2, a PyTorch-based computer vision library that brings a series of new research and production capabilities to the framework. While the first Detectron was written in Caffe2, Detectron2 represents a full rewrite of the original framework in PyTorch from the ground up, with several new object detection capabilities.
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SAP and Microsoft Extend Partnership, Introducing New HANA VMs, Identity and Blockchain Integration
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced its expanded partnership with SAP, following up on the announcements made at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW event. This announcement includes new investments in larger Mv2 Series SAP Virtual Machines that include up to 12 TB of memory for SAP HANA, improved SAP HANA infrastructure monitoring using Azure Monitor and co-innovation in the area of data governance.
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Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes
A study published in June 2019 reveals that in the Alexa Top 1 million websites, one out of 600 sites execute WebAssembly (Wasm) code. The study moreover finds that over 50% of those sites using WebAssembly apply it for malicious deeds, such as cryptocurrency mining and malware code obfuscation.