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Dapr Aims to Simplify the Creation of Resilient and Portable Microservices
Microsoft Dapr is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. Dapr encapsulates the best practices for building microservices, Microsoft says, and allows developers to focus on the business logic of their application.
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Microsoft Announces Open Application Model for Kubernetes and Other Platforms
InfoQ caught up with Vaclav Turecek, principal program manager at Microsoft and one of the spec leads regarding the announcement. Turecek talks about the proliferation of platforms atop Kubernetes and how OAM is aimed at distinguishing the parts that developers and operators are responsible for, respectively.
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Facebook Open-Sources CraftAssist Framework for AI Assistants in Minecraft
Facebook AI researchers open-sourced CraftAssist, a framework for building interactive assistants for the Minecraft video game. The bots use natural language understanding (NLU) to parse and execute text commands from human players, such as requests to build houses in the game world. The framework's modular structure can be extended by researchers to perform their own ML experiments.
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Google Announces Updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API
In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to a part of its Vision AI portfolio: AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API. Each received updates to enhance their capabilities.
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Windows Containers on EKS
Last week Amazon announced that support of Windows containers on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now generally available. As such, this allows their users to run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same EKS environment, thus providing a consistent method of provisioning, monitoring, and logging, no matter what type of container they use to host their applications.
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CircleCI Adds Security Integrations to Streamline Securing CI/CD Pipelines
CircleCI announced the addition of new orbs that address common use cases and needs with securing your CI/CD pipelines. The orbs added to the repository with this release cover vulnerability scanning, secrets management, license scanning, and digital scanning. It includes integrations with AWS and Google Cloud.
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Simplifying ETL in the Cloud, Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of their serverless, code-free Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capability inside of Azure Data Factory called Mapping Data Flows. This tool allows organizations to embrace a data-driven culture without the need to manage large infrastructure footprints while having the ability to dynamically scale data processing workloads.
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Android NDK r21 Is the First NDK Release with Long Term Support
The latest NDK for Android, version r21, now available in beta, brings a number of significant changes, including Fortify being enabled by default, and newer versions of GNU Make and GDB. Additionally, starting with r21 Google will manage a new release process with a yearly Long Term Support (LTS) guarantee to provide users more stability.
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Blazor: Client-Side Web UI With .NET Core 3.0
Last month, together with the .NET Core 3.0 release, Microsoft announced the new features of ASP.NET Core 3.0. While there were significant changes in the new release, the official announcement of Blazor took the spotlight. Blazor is a new framework in ASP.NET Core that allows developers to write client-side web UI using .NET and C# instead of JavaScript.
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Smartphone-Based VR at a Dead-End with Google's Demise of Daydream VR
Google's decision to stop supporting its Daydream VR headset seemingly marks the end of phone-based virtual reality, a vision that attempted to combine the use of smartphones with "dumb" VR headsets to bring VR experiences to the masses. Google's decision is accompanied by the BBC disbanding its VR content team after two years of successful experimentation.
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Plaid.com Cuts Their Deployment Times on Amazon ECS with Custom Process Relaunching
Plaid's engineering team cut their deployment times on AWS ECS by 95% with a custom wrapper to relaunch their node.js processes without recreating the containers.
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Ray Tsang on Tools and Best Practices for Kubernetes Adoption
Ray Tsang, developer advocate at Google, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference last week about the tools and best practices developers can use in Kubernetes adoption in their organizations.
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PARSEC Is a New Platform-Agnostic API for Secure Systems
Backed by Arm and Docker, Platform AbstRaction for SECurity aims to define a universal software standard to handle secure object storage and cryptography services. It focuses on modern system architectures made of containerized services and strives to make security technology easy to access. InfoQ has spoken with Justin Cormack, security lead at Docker and PARSEC maintainer, to learn more.
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The Ethical Role Testers Can Have
Testers should step up outside of only doing quality level verification and be the ambassadors of ethical change, said Michal Buczko at TestCon Europe 2019. Ethics and integrity are becoming more and more important. Ensuring that employees understand appropriate ways to address daily ethical issues can have a major impact on your project outcome and your relationship with customers.
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Rasa Developer Summit: Production Grade AI Assistants
Rasa, an open source framework that provides machine learning tools to build and deploy contextual AI assistants, recently held its developer summit in San Francisco. The speakers at the summit shared interesting enterprise case studies on using Rasa to build AI assistants. "Our primary goal for the Rasa Developer Summit was to build community," said Alex Weidauer, CEO & co-founder of Rasa.