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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft's Lachlan Evenson
InfoQ caught up with Lachlan Evenson, principal program manager at Microsoft, regarding the recent announcement at KubeCon of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI). Topics also discussed included the ecosystem of service meshes on Kubernetes.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Bastion, Eliminating the Jumpbox Virtual Machine
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of a secure remote desktop solution, called Azure Bastion, which does not require organizations to expose virtual machines using public IP Addresses. The platform as a service (PaaS) extends virtual machine connectivity using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) inside a modern web browser.
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Sucrase, a Faster Babel for Modern JS Runtimes
The Sucrase JavaScript/TypeScript compiler aims at providing significantly faster development builds than the Babel compiler. Faster builds mean faster iterations, specially when testing on a large codebase. Some empirical measures show a gain in speed between 4x and 20x vs. Babel. Developers may thus enjoy the improved developer experience in development, and still resort to Babel in production.
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Cloudflare CIRCL Experiments in Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cloudflare has open-sourced CIRCL (Cloudflare Interoperable, Reusable Cryptographic Library), a collection of algorithms for post-quantum (PQ), elliptic curve cryptography, and hashing for prime groups.
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Kyma 1.0 Released, Simplifying Integrating Enterprise Applications with Cloud-Native Services
The first major release of Kyma, an open-source project designed to simplify building cloud-based and on-premise enterprise applications, is now available. Kyma provides components to simplify connecting existing and new applications with Kubernetes and expose them via the Kubernetes Service Catalog, with out-of-the-box support for monitoring, logging, eventing, tracing, and authentication.
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.NET Core: Past, Present, and Future
During the latest edition of Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s .NET program manager Scott Hunter published an article stating that .NET Core is the future of .NET .
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Applying Cyberpsychology Research for a Positive Internet Experience
There is a lot of opinion and not enough fact on how we use the internet and the effect of the internet on our lives; the goal of cyberpsychology is to establish the facts, said Oonagh O'Brien. At RebelCon.io 2019 she spoke about her research on the use of the internet and its effects on student well-being and academic performance, and on positive use of and positive development on the internet.
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W3C and FIDO Alliance Finalized WebAuthn, Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance recently announced that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now an official web standard. WebAuthn allows users to log in via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO security keys, with higher security over passwords alone.
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Solo.io Announces Service Mesh Hub and Chaos Engineering Tool
Solo.io, a cloud native software company, launched the first industry service mesh hub. The hub provides resources to help users adopt service mesh technology in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and features tools such as Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, AWS App Mesh, and HashiCorp Consul.
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Quality and Culture: Learnings from Other Disciplines and Industries
We can gain by learning about other industries such as aviation and healthcare, and studying other disciplines, argued Conor Fitzgerald, software tester at Poppulo, at RebelCon.io 2019. Aviation has a history of continually learning from its mistakes, whereas in healthcare, culture and bias seem to challenge learning and continuous improvement.
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Democratizing AI for Business Applications, Microsoft Release AI Builder Preview
At the recent Business Applications Summit in Atlanta, Microsoft announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for the Power Platform called AI Builder. The new service brings AI capabilities to low code application and workflow services: Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow which run on top of the Common Data Service (CDS), an enterprise-grade datastore.
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Experience Building Distributed Systems and Microservices — Jeppe Cramon at Micro CPH
We must understand the business domain we are working in, identify the bounded contexts and the business capabilities, and design our services using this knowledge. In a presentation at Micro CPH, Jeppe Cramon talked about his experience working with distributed systems, microservices and the principles and patterns he sees as beneficial for successfully creating microservices based systems.
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C# 8 Pattern Matching Enhancements
C# 7 laid the groundwork for pattern matching, but a lot of features had to be left on the cutting room floor. With the extra time C# 8 needs, many of these are being picked up.
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MIT Researchers Open-Source AutoML Visualization Tool ATMSeer
A research team from MIT, Hong Kong University, and Zhejiang University has open-sourced ATMSeer, a tool for visualizing and controlling automated machine-learning processes.