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Spring Cloud App Broker V1 Eases Development of Managed Services
Spring Cloud has introduced a new framework called Spring Cloud App Broker that eases the development of Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API and the provisioning of those applications as managed services.
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Go 1.13 Brings Centralized Module Mirror Proxy and Checksum Database
While leaving the language mostly unchanged, Go 1.13 brings a number of improvements to the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, including a relatively controversial default Go module proxy and Checksum database which requires developers to accept a specific Google privacy policy.
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Mozilla Will Continue to Support Existing Ad Blockers, Partially Implementing Extension Manifest V3
Mozilla will continue to support existing extensions which prevent ads from being displayed, unlike Google, which in its draft Extensions Manifest v3, proposes changes to the browser extensions mechanism which may break ad-blockers.
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Kubernetes Policy Enforcement with Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper
The latest release of the Kubernetes Policy Controller Gatekeeper takes greater advantage of the CNCF project Open Policy Agent to offer users the ability to declare policies, share constraint templates, and audit resources for policy violations.
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The Importance of Leadership and Management in Hypergrowth
At QCon New York 2019, Patrick Kua shared lessons learned sowing the seeds and fertilising an environment to cultivate high performing teams in a startup fintech company. This article explores how to manage technical managers in a fast growing company.
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TypeScript 3.6 Introduces Stricter Generators & Better Promise Handling
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.6, including stricter generators, better developer experience around promises, improvements to array spread accuracy, and a new TypeScript Playground.
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Security Architecture Anti-Patterns by UK Government National Cyber Security Centre
The National Cyber Security Centre of the UK Government recently published a white paper on the six design anti-patterns that we should avoid when designing computer systems.
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Waymo Shares Autonomous Vehicle Dataset for Machine Learning
Waymo, the self-driving technology company, released a dataset containing sensor data collected by their autonomous vehicles during more than five hours of driving. The set contains high-resolution data from lidar and camera sensors collected in several urban and suburban environments in a wide variety of driving conditions and includes labels for vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, and signage.
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Introducing KiloGram, a New Technique for AI Detection of Malware
A team of researchers recently presented their paper on KiloGram, a new algorithm for managing large n-grams in files, to improve machine-learning detection of malware. The new algorithm is 60x faster than previous methods and can handle n-grams for n=1024 or higher. The large values of n have additional application for interpretable malware analysis and signature generation.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of Aurora Multi-Master
In a recent announcement, Amazon has publicized the general availability of Aurora Multi-Master, which allows for reading and writing on multiple database instances across several Availability Zones. Consequently, this brings high availability capabilities, as the platform no longer needs to trigger a fail-over upon failure of database instances.
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Simplifying Device Connectivity, Microsoft Releases IoT Plug and Play in Preview
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of IoT Plug and Play to simplify device integrations through a published capability model, which is based on the Digital Twin definition language. When device manufacturers incorporate this capability model, their products are eligible to appear in the Azure Certified for IoT device catalog.
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Google Releases a Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta release of the Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD). With this service, Google acts as a managed service provider for any customer requiring Microsoft AD, and will the cloud provider will take care of the patching and maintenance of Microsoft's identity and access management service.
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Five 0-Day iOS Vulnerability Chains Have Been Exploited for Years
A collection of fourteen vulnerabilities affecting almost every iOS versions from iOS 10 to iOS 12 enabled a number of hacked Websites to gain control of their visitors' devices and steal a wealth of private data aver at least two years, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) engineer Ian Beer wrote. These vulnerabilities are not new. What is new is the discovery of their active exploit in the wild.
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Facebook Proposes New IsInputPending API for Faster Input Event Processing
Facebook recently announced its first major browser API contribution. The new isInputPending API aims to shorten the time between a user input and its processing by the browser, and to increase the user experience of highly interactive applications.
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Firefox 68 with BigInt, Extended Dark Mode, and Curated Extensions
Firefox 68 was recently released to web users. Firefox 68 supports big integers , expanded Dark Mode, improved extension security and discovery, and more.