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Microsoft Introduces New UI Experience for Trying out Computer Vision with Vision Studio
Microsoft recently introduced a new User Interface (UI) for developers called Vision Studio to try its Computer Vision API.
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Sigstore Moves to GA with Enhanced Stability and Reliability
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has moved Sigstore, an artifact signing, and verification technology, into general availability. This announcement sees the Sigstore certificate authority, Fulcio, and transparency log, Rekor, also move into GA with their 1.0 releases. The release brings improved stability and reliability to the services for use within production workloads.
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New Features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
New features for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are in preview. These new features include encryption of data at rest with customer-managed keys, database authentication with Azure Active Directory, geo-redundant backups and fast restores of data, and a migration tool for moving workloads from the product’s older Single Server deployment option.
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Scaling Access Management at Airbnb
Airbnb's product engineering team recently discussed their implementation of a self-serving, centralized access control platform. Built on the principle of least privilege, the team designed a five-stage architecture, providing benefits from security, usability, and developer experience aspects.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Amazon DynamoDB - Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service: Akshat Vig at QCon SF 2022
Akshat Vig, a principal engineer in NoSQL databases at Amazon, spoke at QCon San Francisco about Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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OpenSSL Hit by Two High Severity Vulnerabilities, Recently Patched
Introduced in OpenSSL 3.0 in September 2021 and affecting all successive versions up to and including OpenSSL 3.0.6, the two recently patched vulnerabilities are caused by buffer overruns in X.509 certificate verification.
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Docker Launched WebAssembly Support
In the Cloud Native Wasm day event at KubeCon NA 2022, Docker announced Docker+Wasm technical preview in partnership with CNCF’s Wasm runtime WasmEdge. With a single command, docker compose up, Docker developers can instantly build, share, and run a complete Wasm application.
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Azul Joins the Effort of Improving Supply Chain Security by Launching Vulnerability Detection SaaS
November, 2nd: Azul released a new security product that intends to offer a solution to the increased risk of enterprise software supply chain attacks, compounded by severe threats such as Log4Shell. Azul Vulnerability Detection is a new SaaS that continuously detects known security vulnerabilities in Java applications. In addition, they promise not to affect the application’s performance.
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Amazon Neptune Now Supports Serverless Deployment Option
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of a new deployment option for Amazon Neptune, providing automatic scaling capacity based on the application’s needs. The deployment option is called Amazon Neptune Serverless.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Threat-Detection Tool Falco Now Supports Multiple Event Sources, Syscall Selection, and More
The latest release of Falco adds the ability to handle multiple simultaneous event sources within the same instance, support for selecting which syscalls to capture, a new Kernel Crawler to collect the most recent supported kernel versions, and more.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0
This week's Java roundup for October 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20 release schedule, Build 20-loom+20-34, Spring Integration 6.0-RC1, Spring Tools 4.16.1, GraalVM 22.3, Open Liberty 22.0.0.11 and 22.0.0.12-beta, Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.14, Apache TomEE 8.0.13, JReleaser 1.3.0, Hibernate Search 5.11.11 and 5.10.13, PrimeFaces point releases, JDKMon 17.0.37 and EclipseCon 2022.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Sei and Vinod Sridharan spoke at QCon San Francisco on Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.