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Scaling Global Traffic at Dropbox with Edge Locations and GSLB
The Dropbox engineering team shared their experience of architecting and scaling their global network of edge locations. Located around the globe, these run a custom stack of nginx and IPVS and connect to the Dropbox backend servers over their backbone network. A combination of GeoDNS and BGP Anycast ensures availability and low latency for end users.
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DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open Source
Survey results released by DigitalOcean show that a majority of developers now invest in open source, while their employers fail to do so. 55% of respondents contribute to open source in a variety of ways, but only 25% of companies donate greater than $1000 annually, and 66% of companies don't offer time to work on open source projects.
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QCon San Francisco 2018 Preview: What You Can Expect from This Year’s Conference
QCon, the series of global software conferences organized by InfoQ, is returning to the Bay Area for the 12th annual event, November 5th - 7th, and we’re expecting around 1,600 senior individual contributors and architects to join us. As in years past, the conference runs over three days with two bonus workshop days.
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Redis 5.0 Released with New "Streams" Data Type
Redis recently announced version 5 of its popular database, 15 months after the release of Redis 4. Probably the most important feature of this version is the support for a new data type, Streams. Sorted set functionality has also improved and Redis modules have also been expanded, with the introduction of Clusters and Timers APIs. LOLWUT and other improvements are reviewed in the article...
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Google Releases New Security Features for Compute Engine: Resource-Level IAM and IAM Conditions
Google announced two new Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) features to help customers manage their security and access control in the Google Compute Engine better. These features are the resource-level IAM to set policies on individual resources, and IAM conditions to grant access based on predefined conditions.
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Angular 7 Released with Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts and More
Google has delivered Angular 7. This version brings Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts, and more.
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A Brief History of High-Performing Teams by Jessica Kerr
If you're looking for an early example of a high-performing, agile team, then study the Florentine Camerata, a group formed in Florence, Italy, around 1580 that reformed their contemporary music with the creation of opera. The lessons of the camerata, and similar teams throughout history, were the subject of Jessica Kerr's keynote presentation at Explore DDD 2018.
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Organizational Refactoring at Mango
To increase agility, companies can descale themselves into value centers in charge of a business strategic initiative, with end-to-end responsibility and with full access to the information regarding customer needs. You need to create spaces where people can cross-collaborate and learn, using for instance self-organized improvement circles, Communities of Practice or an internal Open Source model.
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GitHub Octoverse 2018 Highlights
Octoverse is the annual survey that GitHub conducts among its developers to take the pulse of the community. Here the most significant highlights from this year’s edition.
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Supercharging Marketo's Campaign Engine at Reactive Summit
Marketo is a marketing automation software, executing over 20 billions customer defined actions per month. Apurva Pawar, Daniel Pugliese, Dennis Bronnikov and Pei-Chiang Ma from Marketo’s engineering team explained at Reactive Summit how they rewrote the core of their system with Akka and a reactive approach.
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Amazon Announces Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon has announced managed databases for Lightsail, their lightweight and simplified virtual private server offering. The addition of managed databases intends to allow the creation of these databases on the Lightsail platform with a minimal amount of work, and removes several everyday maintenance tasks from the user.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Arindam Chatterjee Discussing Azure HDInsight 4.0
InfoQ caught up with Arindam Chatterjee, principal group manager at Microsoft, regarding the announcements about HDInsight at Microsoft Ignite.
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Concept and Object Modeling Notation for Data Modeling NoSQL Databases
Ted Hills hosted a workshop at the recent Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference about data modeling for relational and NoSQL databases. He said that the NoSQL movement helped the database community realize two things. First, not every application needs ACID properties. Second, the tabular data organization is still a good choice for much data, although not for all datasets.
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Oboe, a Library for Low Latency Audio Apps on Android
Google has released the first production-ready version of Oboe. Oboe is a C++ library for building high performance audio apps on Android, providing the lowest latency possible for Android devices.
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Quantum Advantage Formally Proved for Short-Depth Quantum Circuits
Researchers from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have proved theoretically that quantum computers can solve certain problems faster than classical computers. The algorithm they devised fits the limitations of current quantum computing processors, and an experimental demonstration may come soon.