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SeaMonkeys - Chaos in the War Room
Glen Ford describes his experience applying a very early form of chaos testing to naval combat systems in the Australian military in the late 1990s and draws the parallels to modern SRE.
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Deno Introduction with Practical Examples
Deno is a simple, modern, and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript applications built with the Chromium V8 JavaScript engine and Rust, created to avoid several pain points and regrets with Node.js. Deno was originally announced in 2018 and reached 1.0 in 2020, created by the original Node.js founder Ryan Dahl and other mindful contributors.
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Seven Hard-Earned Lessons Learned Migrating a Monolith to Microservices
Based on experience gained from several microservices migrations, these seven lessons can help you be successful and overcome or avoid common challenges.
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Is Artificial Intelligence Closer to Common Sense?
Intelligent agents lack the common-sense knowledge they need to reason about the world. Traditionally, there have been two unsuccessful approaches to getting computers to reason about the world—symbolic logic and deep learning. A new project, called COMET, tries to bring these two approaches together. Although it has not yet succeeded, it offers the possibility of progress.
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Real Time APIs in the Context of Apache Kafka
Events offer a Goldilocks-style approach in which real-time APIs can be used as the foundation for applications which is flexible yet performant; loosely-coupled yet efficient. Apache Kafka offers a scalable event streaming platform with which you can build applications around the powerful concept of events.
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Brahmos, a New, Small, React-Like UI Framework with Concurrent Rendering -- Q&A with Sudhanshu Yadav
Brahmos implements the known React APIs (hooks, context, concurrent mode, and more) with a different and potentially faster method that also leverages a standard feature of JavaScript: template literals. Brahmos is among the very few UI frameworks that implements the experimental concurrent mode API sponsored by React. Other frameworks may be waiting out, or discarding the feature entirely.
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Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there's a barrier to more widespread adoption.
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The End of the Privacy Shield Agreement Could Lead to Disaster for Hyperscale Cloud Providers
The recent ending of the Privacy Shield agreement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) might impact cloud adoption. This article looks at the demise of this agreement, and possible solutions.
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The Abyss of Ignorable: a Route into Chaos Testing from Starling Bank
Greg Hawkins describes how Starling Bank introduced a chaos engineering practice, starting in 2016 with their own simple chaos daemon.
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Improving Webassembly and Its Tooling -- Q&A with Wasmtime’s Nick Fitzgerald
WebAssembly, now a web standard, aims to grow beyond the browser. Wasm runtimes are implementing proposals to achieve this vision. Fitzgerald tells us about his recent work on WebAssembly tooling and his implementation of reference types in the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime -- a prelude to interface types and easy interoperation between Wasm and a host language.
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COVID-19 and Mining Social Media - Enabling Machine Learning Workloads with Big Data
In this article, author Adi Pollock discusses how to enable machine learning workloads with big data to query and analyze COVID-19 tweets to understand social sentiment towards COVID-19.
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From Cloud to Cloudlets: a New Approach to Data Processing?
The growing popularity of small, distributed clouds, or “cloudlets” is an implicit recognition of the limitations of the “traditional” cloud model, and could signal a major shift in the way that data is collected, stored, and processed.