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Continuous Integration at Intel for the Mesa Graphics Library
Mesa CI is a continuous integration system at Intel for running builds and compliance test suites for the Mesa graphics library. It runs across more than 200 systems and runs tens of millions of tests per day.
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Google's Apigee API Platform Enhanced with API Monitoring and "Extensions" to Connect GCP Services
Google Cloud's full lifecycle API Management platform Apigee provides customers control over, and visibility into, the API's that connect applications and data across their enterprises and clouds. Recently, Google announced the general availability of various new Apigee capabilities such as Apigee API monitoring, Apigee extensions, and Apigee hosted targets.
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MIT Researchers Propose DAWG Defense against Spectre and Meltdown
Security researchers from MIT claim to have devised a hardware solution to prevent cache timing attacks based on speculative execution, such as Spectre and Meltdown. Their approach, named Dynamically Allocated Way Guard (DAWG), splits the processor cache in variably-sized partitions to make it impossible for processes to snoop on other processes’ cache partitions.
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Q&A with Jeff Smith on His DevOpsDays NZ Keynote on DevOps Transformations
InfoQ catches up with Jeff Smith on Centro transformation to a DevOps culture, which will feature in his forthcoming keynote at DevOpsDays NZ. Smith also discusses his recent DevOpsDays Indianapolis talk on the misalignment which can arise due to the different lenses through which collaborators see the world.
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The Road to Micronaut 1.0: A JVM-Based Full-Stack Framework
A year in the making, the road to Micronaut 1.0 has accelerated within the past three weeks as Object Computing (OCI) has published release candidates RC1, RC2 and RC3. Micronaut is a full-stack JVM-based framework for creating microservice-based applications that can be written in Java, Groovy, and Kotlin. Graeme Rocher, principal software engineer at OCI, spoke to InfoQ about Micronaut 1.0.
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Designing Organisations with Purposeful Agile
In a purpose-centric agile implementation, stakeholders make a clear shared purpose come to reality through visible outcomes. It starts with awareness of the organisation’s installed culture, finding installed habits and beliefs that pull back and block change, and deciding what you want to do about that. The second step is to create the necessary time and space for true change to happen.
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GitHub Release Developer Workflow Tools: Actions, Suggested Changes & Security Alerts for .NET/Java
At GitHub Universe in San Francisco, GitHub announced a number of new tools to help developers make their workflows more effective, including Actions, Suggested Changes, Security Alerts for .NET and Java, and more.
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Tim Berners-Lee Introduces "Solid" Decentralized Identity Platform
Solid is a new decentralized identity platform from WWW Creator Tim Berners-Lee. Solid provides a mechanism for users to own and better control the usage of their data.
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William McKnight on Data Platforms and Creating a Modern Data Architecture
William McKnight gave a keynote presentation last week at Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference on creating a modern data architecture using different data platforms.
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Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network with the Aim to Protect Linux and Open Source
Erich Andersen, corporate vice president and chief IP counsel at Microsoft, has announced that Microsoft is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN). This brings it over 60,000 issued patents from Microsoft, aiming to help make its license network even stronger for the benefit of the open source community.
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Google's Cloud Spanner DML Updates and Cloud Bigtable's New Key Visualization Feature
The Google Cloud Platform offers various cloud-native database services, and recently Google updated two of them. The updates affect the Cloud Spanner database service, a managed relational database offering and Cloud Bigtable, a managed NoSQL key value and wide-column database.
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Smoke is a New Lightweight Server-Side Framework for Swift from Amazon
Amazon Smoke framework is a new open-source light-weight server-side framework written in Swift and aimed to build REST-like or RPC-like services. Its architecture stresses ease of use and favours a pure-functional programming style for request handlers.
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Cloudflare Add WebAssembly Support and Key Value Store for CDN "Workers" Deployed at the Edge
Cloudflare has announced two additional capabilities for their Workers. WebAssembly will allow Workers to be written in compiled languages such as C, C++, Rust and Go. Workers KV provides an eventually consistent key value store hosted across Cloudflare’s global network of over 150 data centres.
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High Volume Space Exploration Time-Series Data Storage in PostgreSQL
The European Space Agency Science Data Center (ESDC) switched to PostgreSQL with the TimescaleDB extension for their data storage. ESDC’s diverse data includes structured, unstructured and time series metrics running to hundred of terabytes, and querying requirements across datasets with open source tools.
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Azure Content Delivery Network Is Now Generally Available
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure CDN, allowing customers to deliver content from Microsoft’s global CDN network. The release was a follow up on the public preview last May.