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HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together
Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.
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NGINX Plus Release 18 Available with Support for Dynamic Certificate Loading
NGINX has released version 18 (R18) of NGINX Plus, their all-in-one load balancer, content cache, and web server. This release includes support for dynamic certificate loading, enhancements to their OpenID Connect implementation, and the ability to specify port ranges for virtual servers.
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W3C Publishes WebXR Draft Specification for Direct Web Interaction with Immersive Hardware
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published draft specifications for WebXR. The WebXR Device API seeks to provide "the interfaces necessary to enable developers to build compelling, comfortable, and safe immersive applications on the web across a wide variety of hardware form factors".
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Introducing Traffic Director: Google's Service Mesh Control Plane
Traffic Director is GCP’s fully-managed traffic control plane for service meshes that offers resiliency, load balancing, and traffic control capabilities. Traffic Director is currently available as a beta release.
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Summary of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
Javascript, MySQL and Linux have retained their places as most popular technologies, according to the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey. Public cloud providers- AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform - make the list for most popular platforms again. The survey of almost 90,000 developers also collated demographic information, with huge imbalance of genders and ethnicities in the industry.
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Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them: QCon London Q&A
Microservices is an architectural approach to keep systems decoupled for releasing many changes a day, said Sarah Wells in her keynote at QCon London 2019. To build resilient and maintainable systems you need things like load balancing across healthy nodes, backoff and retry, and persistence or fanning out of requests via queues. The best way to know whether your system is resilient is to test it.
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Red Hat Becomes Steward of Java 8 and 11
RedHat has taken a leadership position in Java 8 and 11, leading its first April release.
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Security Landscape of the Docker Ecosystem and Best Practices
As part of its annual State of Open Source Security Report, security firm Snyk issued a specific report focusing on Docker security that shows vulnerabilities in container images are widespread. InfoQ has spoken with Liran Tal, Snyk developer advocate.
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Google Experiments with Key-Value Storage, Built-In Modules in Chrome 74
Google recently announced its intent to ship two new WICG proposals in a future version of Chrome. KV Storage attempts to bring the convenience of LocalStorage, but with better performance. The intent is to deliver this as the first example of a built-in module, leveraging the import maps proposal.
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Benchmark Ranks 18 Front-End Frameworks Implementation of Medium.com Clone
The RealWorld-based benchmark comparing the implementation by 18 front-end frameworks of a non-trivial full-stack application code-named Conduit recently updated its results. Most (13 out of 18) frameworks obtain a top-tier LightHouse performance score. Svelte, Stencil, AppRun, Dojo, HyperApp and Elm exhibit the lowest payload transferred over the network (< 30 KB).
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Amplifying Sources of Resilience: John Allspaw at QCon London
At QCon London John Allspaw presented “Amplifying Sources of Resilience: What Research Says”. Key takeaways from the talk included: that resilience is something a system does, not what a system has; creating and sustaining “adaptive capacity” within an organisation is resilient action; and learning about how people cope with surprise is the path to finding sources of resilience.
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AWS Releases Enhancements to AI Services for NLP, Speech-to-Text Transcription, and Image Detection
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released new features for three of its AI services: Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe.
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Nimbus: New Framework for Building Java Serverless Applications
The Nimbus framework is a Java framework that aims to ease the development, testing, and deployment of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications in the cloud by providing a cloud-agnostic, common interface for interacting with cloud providers’ serverless functionality.
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Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable.
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Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform, to General Availability
Recently, Google announced on their blog the general availability of Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Furthermore, besides running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it also allows customers to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like AWS and Azure.