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Google Cloud Memorystore Adds Import-Export and Redis 4.0
In a recent announcement, Google has unveiled two new features for Cloud Memorystore, their fully managed Redis service. These features consist of the beta of import-export, allowing to import and export data from and to other Redis instances, as well as the general availability of Redis 4.0 support.
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Google Introduces Spinnaker for GCP, Simplifying the Configuration of Continuous Delivery
Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform co-developed by Google and Netflix. In a recent blog post, Google introduced the Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform solution, which allows customers to install and run Spinnaker in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Terraform 0.12 Release: New HCL Syntax, Improved Error Messages, and Upgrade Tooling
Terraform 0.12 release includes updates to the HCL, such as first-class expression syntax, value types, loops, dynamic blocks, and conditional expression improvements. Error messages now contain additional context, and the output to a terraform plan now renders in a more readable format. Terraform 0.12 isn't 100% backwards compatible, but comes with an upgrade and validation tool.
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C++20 Feature List Now Frozen: Modules, Coroutines, and Concepts are in; Contracts out
The ISO C++ Committee has closed the feature list for the next C++ standard, dubbed C++20, scheduled to be published by February 2020. C++20 will be a significant revision of C++, bringing modules, coroutines, and concepts, among its major new features.
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How Shopify Migrated to a Modular Monolith
Kirsten Westeinde, senior engineer at Shopify, discussed the evolution of Shopify into a modular monolith at Shopify Unite 2019. This included using the design payoff line to decide when to make this change, how it was achieved, and also why microservices were ruled out as a target architecture.
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Docker Enterprise 3.0 Brings Docker Kubernetes Services, New Lifecycle Automation Tools, and More
Docker has announced Docker Enterprise 3.0 GA. This version brings Docker Kubernetes Services (DKS), new lifecycle automation tools for automating deployment of containers and Kubernetes, security enhancements, and more.
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Microsoft Releases PowerApps Portals Preview, a Low-Code Customer Portal Solution
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals in preview, a low-code solution for building responsive customer portals. PowerApps Portals is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, which generally required developers to use complex web templates. Using PowerApps Portals, people familiar with Microsoft PowerApps can transition those skills into building customer-facing portals.
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Mozilla's Firefox Reality VR Browser Now Available on Oculus Quest, with Tracking Data Protection
Mozilla recently brought Firefox Reality, its popular open-source Virtual Reality (VR) browser, to the Oculus Quest handset. Oculus Quest users will now enjoy the privacy features included in the browser, such as Enhanced Tracking Protection.
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Smashtest: New Web App Testing DSL Focusing on Speed
Peter Tesler recently announced the first major release of Smashtest, a new domain-specific language for describing and deploying test cases. Smashtest strongly focuses on improving tester productivity by expressing succintly in the language the repetitive testing chores performed by developers. The new language comes with a test runner which runs tests in parallel, and a REPL.
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Google Adds New Integrations for the What-If Tool on Their Cloud AI Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new integration of the What-If tool, allowing data scientists to analyse models on their AI Platform – a code-based data science development environment. Customers can now use the What-If tool for their XGBoost and Scikit Learn models deployed on the AI Platform.
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How to Become Customer-Focused with Autonomous Teams
Traditional organizations are often suffering from ineffective ways of working and structures not allowing the people to collaborate in a structured way. Organizations need to find ways to enable brain power in cross-functional and autonomous teams that are able to deliver products and services with expected business impact faster, said Mia Kolmodin, founder of Dandy People.
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OpenJDK Project Valhalla Releases LW2 Prototype
Project Valhalla (OpenJDK) has released LW2, a new user-accessible prototype of the effort to align with modern hardware. InfoQ discusses this new prototype in-depth with IBM's tech lead for this new technology.
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Microsoft Quantum Development Kit Goes Open Source
Microsoft has recently made its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) open source in an effort to make “quantum computing and algorithm development easier and more transparent for developers”, Microsoft says. Microsoft QDK includes the Q# compiler, quantum libraries, and the quantum simulator.
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Microsoft's Chromium-Based WebView2 Supports Hybrid Windows Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced a preview release of WebView2, a Chromium-based control to host web content within native Windows applications. Developers building applications that support Chromium-based browsers will get the same benefits when building hybrid applications with WebView.
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Google Releases Post-Training Integer Quantization for TensorFlow Lite
Google announced new tooling for their TensorFlow Lite deep-learning framework that reduces the size of models and latency of inference. The tool converts a trained model's weights from floating-point representation to 8-bit signed integers. This reduces the memory requirements of the model and allows it to run on hardware without floating-point accelerators and without sacrificing model quality.