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Npm 7 Now Generally Available, Supports Workspaces and Deterministic Builds
The recently released npm 7 adds several features requested by developers, e.g. support for workspaces, better support for peer-dependency management, or deterministically reproducible builds. npm 7 is a big release that includes several breaking changes aiming at improving the overall developer experience.
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AWS Announces Enhanced Console Experience and New v2 APIs for Amazon Lex
AWS recently announced updates to Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. The service now has an enhanced management console and new V2 APIs, including continuous streaming capability.
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Newest TeamTNT IRC Bot Steals AWS and Docker Credentials
Cybercrime group TeamTNT’s internet relay chat (IRC) bot has had its functionality expanded from resource theft for crypto-mining to include the theft of Docker API, AWS, GCP and secure shell (SSH) credentials. Researchers have identified multiple recent changes in post-invasion behaviour. The crime group have likened it to a 'Docker Gatling Gun'.
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Docker Engine 20.10 Released: Supports cgroups v2 and Dual Logging
Docker announced the next release of Docker Engine 20.10, adding support for cgroups v2 with improvements in the command line interface (CLI) and support for dual logging. This is the first major release after Docker Engine 19.03, released on 22nd July, 2019.
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Google Releases Eventarc into General Availability
Eventarc is an eventing functionality available on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), allowing customers to send events to Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. In a recent blog post, the company announced the general availability (GA) of Eventarc.
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Google Cloud Workflows Now Generally Available
Google has recently announced that Google Cloud Workflows, the service to orchestrate Google Cloud and HTTP-based API services with serverless workflows, is now generally available. Workflows Connectors are now in public preview.
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Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users
Docker Hub and JFrog announced a partnership that would enable JFrog Artifactory users to avoid Docker Hub image pull rate and retention limits.
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Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Confluent, the company of the founders of Apache Kafka, recently announced a new strategic alliance between them and Microsoft to enable a more integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform.
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BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
In a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online's lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a single minute and then keep rising after that.
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Google Updates Its Cloud Run Service Support for WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC Bidirectional Streams
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It is serverless, meaning all infrastructure management is abstract away, and developers can focus more on building applications.
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driftctl : a Tool to Detect Infrastructure Drifts
The CloudSkiff team released an open source tool called driftctl which can detect drift in Terraform managed infrastructure.
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Grails Foundation Established to Advance Adoption of Grails Framework
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has announced the creation of the Grails Foundation, a not-for-profit company established to advance innovation and adoption of the Grails framework. The foundation will receive initial funding of $200,000 from OCI for development and evangelism. Jeff Scott Brown and Puneet Behl spoke to InfoQ about the formation of the foundation.
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Microsoft Research Develops a New Vision-Language System: VinVL
Microsoft Research recently developed a new object-attribute detection model for image encoding, which they named VinVL - Visual features in Vision-Language.
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Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both
Elastic recently announced licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana, with the company moving away from Apache 2.0 and adopting the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. Amazon reacted with a plan to maintain a fork of both Elasticsearch and Kibana under the previous license.
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Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.