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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019
Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.
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Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York
Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.
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Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation Join Open-Source Hyperledger Blockchain Project
In a recent press release, Hyperledger, an open-source blockchain and distributed ledger project, announced eight new members have joined their consortium including Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation. These organizations join established members like Airbus, Cisco, IBM and Intel.
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Blameless Post-Mortems and On-Call Gamification at 1st DevOpsDays Portugal (Day 2)
Ten years after the first DevOpsDays conference in Ghent, the evolution of DevOps and organizations trying to adopt it was at the forefront of the first DevOpsDays conference in Portugal. On the second day, a mix of local and international speakers covered topics such as learning from incidents without blame, gamifying on-call, modern pipelines, and more.
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Using Helm Charts Tools to Manage Kubernetes Deployments at Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero’s engineering team uses Helm and related tools to simplify management of multiple Kubernetes environments, sensitive data, and configuration.
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Git 2.22 Adds Topology-Preserving, Interactive Rebase
The most significant new feature in the latest Git release, Git 2.22, enables rebasing non-trivial branch topologies, e.g., those including merges, without flattening them while also allowing to use interactive rebase features.
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Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.
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restQL V3 Released
The latest version of restQL, a microservices query language, has been released, providing notable new features including content aggregation, support for additional HTTP methods, self-healing functionality, and a version for node.js apps. Comprehensive performance improvements have made the latest version up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
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Sonic: A Lightweight, Schema-Less Search
Sonic is an open source, lightweight, schema-less search backend promoted as an alternative to full-feature search systems such as Elasticsearch. Sonic can normalize natural language search queries, provide auto-complete, and return the most relevant results for a search query.
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Binary AST Proposal Could Improve Performance of Large JavaScript Apps
Binary AST is a stage 1 proposal for the JavaScript language. Binary AST aims to drastically improve the load time of large JavaScript applications by adding a new, binary encoded abstract syntax tree (AST) to the language inspired in part by WebAssembly.
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Refactoring Organizations to Reduce Organizational Debt
Organizations can accumulate organizational debt when adopting new ways of working. An agile mindset can be a driving force to remove organizational impediments and promote continuous improvement, said Jess Long, enterprise Agile coach at LeanDog. At the ACE Conference 2019, she presented how we can reduce organizational debt by refactoring organizations.
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Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.
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Chrome 74 Natively Supports Lazy Loading
Google recently released Google Chrome 74 with a new experimental flag to enable native lazy loading support for images and iframes. The img and iframe HTML tags get an additional loading attribute to configure the lazy loading behaviour of the corresponding resource. Deferring load of non-visible content may reduce data usage, memory usage, and speed up above-the-fold content.
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Google Local Home SDK Live as a Developer Preview
Announced at Google I/O 2019, the new Local Home SDK aims to make it easier for developers to connect their home devices to Google Assistant and improve their responsiveness by running their actions locally. It is now available as a developer preview.