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Harbor 1.8 Includes OIDC Integration and Replication Enhancements
The latest version of Harbor, 1.8, was recently released. Harbor is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a cloud-native registry for storing, signing, and scanning container images. This release includes an OpenID Connect integration, the addition of robot accounts, and improvements to the replication features, among other improvements.
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Amazon Announces New Cross-Skill Conversational Model for Alexa
At Amazon's re:MARS AI conference in Las Vegas, Alexa vice president Rohit Prasad demonstrated a new conversational model for the Alexa smart assistant. In this new model, Alexa can seamlessly transition between skills and remember the context of the conversation to resolve ambiguous references.
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Teaching Machines to Understand Emotions with Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis teaches computers to recognise the human emotions present in text. The fundamental trade-off in sentiment analysis is between simplicity and accuracy. Approaches vary from using a list of words associated with emotions, to deep learning with techniques like word embeddings, neural networks and attention mechanisms.
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WF and WCF Given to the Community
After years of uncertainty, Microsoft has made the decision to officially hand off control of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and server-side Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to the community.
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Migrating from Self-Managed Kubernetes to AWS EKS Using Terraform at Blue Matador
Blue Matador migrated their self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS to take advantage of a better security model, a managed control plane, and lesser costs, using Terraform to automate the setup.
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ARKit 3 Brings People Occlusion, Motion Capture, and More
ARKit 3, recently announced at WWDC 2019, moves further into the direction of more immersive augmented reality experiences by adding support for integrating people with virtual objects and injecting human motion into the AR experience. Other new features in ARKit 3 are multiple face tracking, support for simultaneous use of front and back camera, and collaborative sessions.
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Apache Dubbo, a Java-Based RPC Framework, Graduates to Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Dubbo as a top-level project. Apache Dubbo is an open source, remote procedure call framework based on Java. Dubbo brings key functionalities such as interface based remote call, fault tolerance and load balancing, and automatic service registration and discovery.
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Summary of Chaos Community Day v4.0: Resilience, Observability, and Gamedays
Earlier in the year, the fourth edition of “Chaos Community Day” was held at Work-Bench in New York City. Key takeaways from the day included: the topic of chaos engineering draws heavily from other domains, which software engineers can also learn from; understanding systems, and communicating and exchanging the related mental models, is vital for establishing resilience.
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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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QCon New York 2019 Is Only Weeks Away: Learn from Julia Grace, Brian Goetz, Armon Dadger and Others!
QCon New York (June 24-26, 2019) isn't just a software conference; it's the software conference where leading technology organisations like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix open their doors and share their engineering successes and failures. QCon is the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, & architects come together to learn and share innovations in the software industry.
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Adapting Risk-Based Testing to Agile Teams: Think about Testing before Coding
Risk-based testing improves the quality of the delivered stories and helps system testers to become part of the Scrum team, said Csaba Szökőcs, a product expert at Evosoft Hungary Kft. At TestCon Moscow 2019, he explained how they adapted classical risk-based testing to fit with their agile implementation by making it part of the sprint planning and definition of done.
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Microsoft Showcases Fluid Framework, a Web-Based Platform for Collaborative Document Creation
Microsoft recently announced its new Fluid Framework at its annual Build developers conference. Fluid Framework is a developer platform designed to let developers build highly-collaborative interactive services and applications on the web.
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Upcoming MacOS Catalina to Ditch Bash in Favour of Zsh
At WWDC 2019, its official developer conference, Apple announced a number of new products, including the upcoming version of its desktop OS, dubbed macOS Catalina, which is going to replace the default command line shell bash with zsh for all newly created accounts.
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New Renaissance Performance Benchmark Aims to Compare JVMs
Charles University and Oracle Labs have released a new JVM performance benchmark, named Renaissance. The performance tests focus on modern parallel workloads, primarily comparing GraalVM in HotSpot mode against OpenJDK.
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40 Breaking Changes in EF Core 3
In an attempt to correct many perceived deficiencies in Entity Framework Core, Microsoft is introducing 40 breaking changes to EF Core 3.