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Microsoft Releases Preview of Azure Container Service (AKS), a New Managed Kubernetes Service
Microsoft has released a preview version of a new managed Kubernetes service, “Azure Container Service (AKS)”, which is a separate product from the existing ACS that offers support for multiple orchestrators Kubernetes, Mesos DC/OS and Docker Swarm.
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Start-up Vicarious Defeats CAPTCHA Security with AI Inspired by Brain’s Visual Cortex
Vicarious improved on neural network capable of solving CAPTCHA challenges using a novel network layout called Recursive Cortical Network. In contrast to a normal neural network, which starts without any knowledge before training, a RCN starts with knowledge of contours and surfaces. This prior knowledge facilitates model building and generalisability.
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CNCF Adds Security, Service Mesh and Tracing Projects: Docker Notary, Lyft Envoy and Uber Jaeger
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the addition of four new hosted projects over the past month: Docker’s Notary, The Update Framework (TUF), Lyft’s Envoy, and Uber’s Jaeger.
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Smart Replies for Member Messages at LinkedIn
LinkedIn has launched a new natural language processing (NLP) recommendation engine which is used to provide members with smart-reply recommendations to messages. The models and infrastructure development process has been documented in detail in a recent blog post by the engineering team.
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GoTo Copenhagen 2017: How Shopify Powers Online Commerce
Simon Hørup, senior product engineering lead at Shopify, gave an overview of how Shopify is architectured to support large sales at GoTo Copenhagen 2017. This included their OpenResty configured NGINX instances, shop and pod isolation architecture, failover strategies and more.
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Android Studio 3.0 and Oreo 8.1
Google has released the stable version of Android Studio 3.0 and a Developer Preview of Android Oreo 8.1.
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SciPy Goes 1.0, Gets New Governance Structure
Sixteen years after it was born, SciPy, the leading Python library for scientific and technical computing, reaches version 1.0, which marks the achievement of both technical and organizational goals.
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Traffic Shifting in AWS Lambda Aliases Coming Soon
Amazon’s Chris Munns announced at the recent Serverless Conference NYC that AWS Lambda will soon support a feature called traffic shifting. This will allow a weight to be applied to Lambda function aliases to shift traffic between two versions of a function. The feature will enable the use of canary releases and blue/green deployment.
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Monitoring Cloudflare's Global Network Using Prometheus
Matt Bostock’s SRECON 2017 Europe talk covers how Prometheus, a metric-based monitoring tool, is used to monitor CDN, DNS and DDoS mitigation provider CloudFlare’s globally distributed infrastructure and network.
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Book Review Understanding Software by Max Kanat-Alexander
The book "Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander is an interesting read for project managers and software architects. It provides insights into how to keep your software simple, and how you can avoid complex unmaintainable software. The book is most useful for project managers and architects.
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Azure Functions Now Support Java
At JavaOne, Microsoft announced that Azure Functions, which allows users to run small pieces of code in the cloud, support Java. This update adds to the number of supported languages for Azure Functions and makes Microsoft the second major cloud provider to introduce serverless Java support.
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RockScript: An Open Source Scripting Language and Engine for Microservice Orchestration
Tom Baeyens has released a preview of RockScript, an open source scripting language and engine for integrating and orchestrating microservices. RockScript uses a language that looks much like JavaScript, which when executed by the accompanying engine allows the coordination of transactional activities within microservice systems in a similar fashion to Business Process Modelling (BPM).
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The Future of Work - Afternoon Sessions from Agile People Sweden
The future of work is about microlearning and unlearning, freedom by technology, agile companies, alignment for autonomy, and self-organized groups of people around common goals and interests; these are some of the ideas that were discussed at Agile People Sweden.
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The Industry Just Can't Decide about DevOps Teams
The incidence of DevOps teams is on the rise according to reports, but the industry remains divided on whether a DevOps team should even exist. Some are wary of creating additional silos, or are of the opinion that DevOps is a methodology that everyone should subscribe to in an organisation; others point to DevOps teams as an effective way of transitioning to a new way of working.
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The Toyota Way at Codeweavers
Codeweavers combines the Toyota way with extreme programming and continuous delivery in development and support to do small, frequent releases. The advice to apply the Toyota way is to start with the books, understand the philosophy, and begin teaching it to others.