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Chef Extends OpsWorks Capabilities in AWS
Chef has announced new capabilities to address application lifecycle control concerns in containers in AWS. New functionality includes Chef Automate with integrated compliance and builds on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate announced in 2016. OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a managed Chef server and suite of automation tools.
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.NET WebAssembly Support an Ongoing Experiment
WebAssembly now ships on by default in the four major browsers and the .NET community continues to push forward to provide .NET developers the ability to compile their to WebAssembly and run it in the browser.
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NIST Publishes Guidelines on Application Container Security
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a bulletin on application container technology and its most notable security challenges. The report is a summary of two previous bulletins outlining vulnerability areas including image, registry, orchestrator, container, host OS, and hardware, and their countermeasures.
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Amazon Adds New Features to Its Rekognition Service
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the addition of three new features to its Rekognition Service. These new features enable detection and recognition of text in images, face detection up to a hundred in a full picture, and real-time face recognition across ten million faces.
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ORMs for .NET Core
With EF Core struggling to accommodate basic database features such as views and stored procedures, developers are looking elsewhere for their data access needs. Here are some of the more popular options.
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Amazon GuardDuty: A Zero-Footprint Managed Threat Detection Service for AWS Accounts and Resources
At the AWS re:invent conference, the release of Amazon GuardDuty was announced - a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorised behaviour. The service can be centrally managed, is “zero footprint”, and remediation scripts or AWS Lambda functions can be configured to trigger automatically based on GuardDuty findings.
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Werner Vogels on “21st Century [Cloud] Architectures”: Availability, Reliability and Resilience
At the AWS re:invent 2017 conference, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, presented a keynote that discussed core concepts required for building “21st Century Architectures” on the cloud. Highlights of the talk included discussion of the emerging practices of evolutionary and “cloud native” architectures, the role of security becoming everyone’s responsibility, and the benefits of chaos engineering.
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Servlet vs. Reactive: Choosing the Right Stack - Rossen Stoyanchev Presents at QCon SF 2017
Spring Framework 5 introduced a brand new reactive web framework spring-webflux, which resides alongside the traditional servlet based web framework spring-mvc.In his presentation, Rossen Stoyanchev talked about the differences in these two frameworks’ execution models, and how to decide when to select spring-webflux over spring-mvc.
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AWS re:Invent Day 2 Keynote Announcements: Alexa for Business, Cloud9 IDE & AWS Lambda Enhancements
At the second keynote of the AWS re:invent 2017 conference, running in Las Vegas, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, took to the stage to announce several new product releases: Alexa for Business; AWS Cloud9 IDE; and multiple enhancements to the AWS Lambda service, including traffic shifting, the doubling of available RAM, and a pre-announcement of .NET Core 2 and Golang language support.
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WebAssembly Now Supported across All Browsers
With releases on September 19 for Safari and October 31 for Edge, Apple and Microsoft join Google and Mozilla in providing support for WebAssembly in production browsers. All four companies’ browsers can now run code compiled to the wasm binary format.
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Google and Intel Release Do-It-Yourself Artificial Intelligence Vision Kit
Google created a do-it-yourself artificial intelligence kit that allows you to build an intelligent camera that can recognize objects. The main component of their kit is the VisionBonnet board for the raspberry pi. This board contains a Movidius chip created by Intel. This company specializes in adding computational power to existing hardware, and created the neural compute stick.
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Event Sourcing in an Unreliable World
Examples of event sourced systems are often from process-oriented domains, like e-commerce, with incoming commands that generate events. But there are domains without processes that are intrinsically unreliable where we are collecting events from external event sources with transports that are unreliable, Lorenzo Nicora explained at the recent Microservices Conference µCon London 2017.
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Serverless Challenges in Hybrid Environments
Sam Newman, independent consultant and author of the book "Building Microservices", talked at the Velocity conference in London on the challenges faced when hybrid systems rely on both serverless architectures and traditional infrastructure. In particular, Newman discussed how serverless changes our notion of resiliency and how the two paradigms clash at times of high load in the system.
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AWS re:Invent 2017 ML and IoT Announcements: Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepLens & IoT Device Manager
At the AWS re:invent conference 2017, held in Las Vegas, USA, several new AWS machine learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT) products were released. Highlights include Amazon SageMaker - a fully-managed ML service that enables developers to “quickly build, train, and host ML models”; and IoT Device Manager - a service to securely onboard, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.
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Kotlin 1.2 Introduces Multi-Platform Projects
The latest version of Kotlin makes it possible to share code for the JVM and the JavaScript platform using multi-platform projects. Additionally, it includes a number of language and library improvements, and better compiler performance.