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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.
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Extending the Reach of SQL to IoT Microcontrollers, ITTIA and Cypress Release SDK
In a recent press release, ITTIA, a maker of embedded database software for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced a collaborative IoT device and data management capability. The new capability integrates SQL into the WICED SDK and unlocks the power of flash media on Cypress wireless microcontrollers (MCU).
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Product Thinking: Q&A with Jeff Patton
Product thinking focuses on outcomes to maximize the success of your customers, argued Jeff Patton in the closing keynote at the Agile Greece Summit 2019. The things that make a product good are results of customers seeing, trying and using your product; they happen after you ship it. Product delivery is the beginning, not the end.
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Full Stack Monitoring of JVM Applications, Using Micrometer
Clint Checketts, core committer of Micrometer Project, recently spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 conference about Micrometer monitoring and alerting framework.
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Google Claims Achievement of Quantum Supremacy, But IBM Issues Rebuttal
In a recent paper, Google researchers claim they programmed a quantum processor to perform a task that would require 10,000 years on a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer. Google's claim did not entirely persuade IBM researchers, who proposed an ideal simulation of the quantum task which, they argue, only requires 2.5 days on a classical computer and provides greater fidelity.
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Amazon Releases the Anomaly Detection Feature for CloudWatch to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the Anomaly Detection feature in Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and management service providing customers data and insights from AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
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How Team Feedback Can Drive OKRs
Team feedback meetings can help teams to define their own goals. Such meetings increase focus and motivation within teams, and with proper transparency they enable alignment between the teams’ and organizational goals. In his talk at Agile Leadership Day 2019, Michael Sommerhalder presented how Digitec Galaxus combined quarterly team feedback meetings and team missions with OKRs.
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How to Remain Agile While Scaling
Managing the complexity and scale of both the business and the software were key challenges as Yext started to grow, said Sean MacIsaac at Agile Business Day 2019. Yext addresses this by having product solutions that are broadly applicable and configurable by their customer team, and by hiding complexity with independently deployable services with clearly defined interfaces.
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QCon London 2020 Tracks Announced! Join Us March 2 - 6, 2020
QCon London returns to the city for the 14th annual software conference March 2-6, 2020. The program committee for QCon London 2020 is pleased to announce the list of the 2020 conference tracks! Topics include evolving Java, Kubernetes and cloud, machine learning, next-generation microservices, leading distributed teams, and others.
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Oleg Zhurakousky on Spring Based Event-Driven Microservices
Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Function technologies support the implementation of event-driven microservices for diverse use cases, ranging from application integration to data streaming. Oleg Zhurakousky, project lead for Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Function, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about the recent developments and features in both of these projects.