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DigitalOcean Adds Managed MySQL and Redis Services
Cloud provider DigitalOcean recently released a pair of new managed data services. Their Managed MySQL and Redis offerings are on-demand and elastic, and offer a variety of sizes and high-availablity options.
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Inclusive Leadership Supports Collaboration and Diversity In Teams
Research on Inclusive leadership shows it can provide gains in team performance, including being 29% more likely to show collaborative behaviour. Inclusive leadership showed it was effective at activating the value of diversity in a team. It required leaders to show humility, cultural intelligence and awareness of bias as key attributes.
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Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
Earlier this month Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The new release contains bug fixes and enhancements for the ASP.NET Core, CoreFX, and CoreCLR product areas. There are no new features since the framework entered the freezing period in the previous release, and all development efforts are focused on stability and reliability.
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How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Designing Products
Artificial intelligence is changing the way that we interact with technology; eliminating unnecessary interfaces makes interaction with machines more humane, argued Agnieszka Walorska at ACE conference 2019. The expectations towards customer experience have changed, and one factor that is becoming more and more important to this change is machine learning.
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Android Studio 3.5 Aims to Be Faster and More Memory-Efficient
Coming at the end of an eight-month development cycle, Project Marble, the latest release of Android Studio, refrains from adding new major features and opts instead for improving performance and memory efficiency.
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Java on iOS and Android via Gluon
Gluon has released beta support for Java applications running natively on iOS. The result is one application and one codebase running across many devices.
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Chrome 76 Shipped With PWA Installation, Stealthier Incognito Mode, Extension Tracking
Google recently released Google Chrome 76. Chrome 76 makes it easier to install Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on the desktop, disables a commonly used Incognito Mode detection technique, and allows users to track extension activities.
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IBM POWER Instruction Set Architecture Now Open Source
IBM has open sourced the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which is used in its Power Series chips and in many embedded devices by other manufacturers. In addition, the OpenPOWER Foundation will become part of The Linux Foundation to further open governance.
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Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8
Earlier this month Microsoft released Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8. Following the synchronized release calendar, the new previews were available on the same day as .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8.
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New Technique Speeds up Deep-Learning Inference on TensorFlow by 2x
Researchers at North Carolina State University recently presented a paper at the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) on their new technique, "deep reuse" (DR), that can speed up inference time for deep-learning neural networks running on TensorFlow by up to 2x, with almost no loss of accuracy.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Ultra Disk Storage to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage - a new Managed Disks offering, which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.
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Introduction to Stateful Property Based Testing - Lambda Days 2019
Tomasz Kowal, tech lead at ClubCollect, presented at Lambda Days 2019 an introduction to stateful property based testing. Property-based testing helped major companies find bugs which were not caught through example-based testing. Stateful property-based testing leverages an underlying model of the system under test to generate interesting test sequences, increasing the likelihood of finding bugs.
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High Performance Video Editing for the Mobile Web
Forbes Lindesay, a software developer at Threads Styling, shares his experience of creating Video Renderer, a high-performance video editor that was written for a mobile web application