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Migrating Medium to React.js and GraphQL
Medium migrated their existing system to a new architecture based on React.js and GraphQL. Two major goals of their endeavour, as Medium engineer Sasha T. Solomon explained, were making the new system incrementally available to users while not hindering development of new features.
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Latest Roundup of EE4J Activities for Jakarta EE
There has been a recent flurry of EE4J activity as the Eclipse Foundation is positioning Jakarta EE as the new home for cloud native Java. Numerous EE4J projects have been proposed, created, or are under creation review, and Microsoft has joined the Jakarta EE working group.
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Firefox Introduces Web Authentication API
With the Firefox 60 release on May 9, Firefox became the first major browser to support the Web Authentication API. This API enables users to avoid text-based passwords for websites and instead uses a local device with a biometric check or private PIN to generate a secure cryptographic identifier. Support for the API is in development for Chrome and Edge, and under consideration for Safari.
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Microsoft Announces Its Own Content Delivery Network in Public Preview
Microsoft announced it would start to provide a public preview of their own Content Delivery Network (CDN) to enable customers to use and deliver content from it. With Azure CDN customers can allow their businesses to provide content on any of Microsoft’s extensive 54 global point-of-presence (POP) CDN in 33 countries.
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Android Things 1.0 Supports More Hardware, Adds New Configuration UI
After a developer preview phase with over 100,000 SDK downloads, Google has released Android Things 1.0 with long-term support for production devices.
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First Look at Visual Studio 2017 15.8 with ARM64 Support
The first preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.8 has been released, and includes the first support for the ARM64 platform.
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Google Release "gVisor", a Lightweight Container Runtime Sandbox Used to Provide Secure Isolation
Google has released gVisor, a new kind of sandbox that can be used to provide secure isolation for containers that is less resource intensive than running a full VM. At its core gVisor is an open source user-space kernel, written in Go, that implements a substantial portion of the Linux system surface. The project includes an OCI runtime called “runsc” that integrates with Docker and Kubernetes.
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PyTorch 1.0 Announced for Research and Production AI Projects
In a recent blog post, Bill Jia announced a new 1.0 version of PyTorch. PyTorch is an open source AI framework package for Python with Tensor computation and Deep Neural Networks. The importance of this new release is the reduction in time required to move an AI-driven project from the research phase to production while improving the accuracy and performance of these applications.
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Q&A with Bob McWhirter on WildFly Swarm Rename to Thorntail
In early 2015, Red Hat released Wildfly Swarm, which allows Java EE based applications to run as microservices. The approach allowed developers to migrate Java EE monolith applications to microservices by creating an uber-JAR that not only contains the Java program but embeds its dependencies as well. Wildfly Swarm was recently renamed to Thorntail.
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Terratest - an Open Source Go Library for Automated Infrastructure Testing
Gruntwork open sourced their Go framework Terratest which can be used to write automated tests for testing infrastructure. The library comes with support for Terraform and Packer.
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AWS EC2 Fleet: Manage Thousands of On-Demand and Spot Instances with One Request
Amazon announced EC2 Fleet, a new feature that gives customers a unique ability to create fleets composed of a combination of EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances, by using a single API. Moreover, the customer can specify what capacity and instance-wise VM's it requires, and AWS will launch, manage, monitor and scale instances that they need, without writing any scaffolding code.
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Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Brings Full C++17 Compliance
Microsoft has released a seventh update to Visual Studio 2017. Notable additions in this release include full C++17 compliance, an improved installer, and general quality of life changes that should benefit most developers.
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Android Studio 3.2 Canary Brings Better Traces Support, Lint Checking, and More
Google has released Android Studio 3.2 Canary in the Canary and Dev channels. This version comes with improvements on core Android Studio IDE, as well new Android Profiler, Android Jetpack, Import/Export CPU traces, record CPU activity during startup, Lint checking and more.
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Google App Engine to Support Node.js 8.x Using the Recently Open Source gVisor Sandbox
Google App Engine (GAE), Google's PaaS offering, is now offering a preview of support for the Node.js 8.x runtime within the standard environment, with a full release promised soon.
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Google Overhauls the Android Support Library into AndroidX
The new Android extension library (AndroidX) is a replacement for the seven-year old Support library, aiming to streamline things and provide a solid foundation for the further evolution of the library.