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Secrets at Planet-Scale: Engineering the Internal Google KMS
At QCon San Francisco 2019, Anvita Pandit, senior developer at Google, explained Google’s Internal Key Management System (KMS), which supports various Google services. This internal KMS not only manages the generation, distribution and rotation of cryptographic keys, but also handles other secret data.
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Web Components Reaching Mainstream Maturity
For years web components have been a standard that was almost ready. With the recent Apple Music web client release, Apple shipped over 45 web components to drive the Apple Music experience. Others, including Amazon, Porsche, arm, Panera, and Microsoft, are leveraging Stencil to create design systems and cross-framework web components.
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New Bytecode Alliance Announces WebAssembly Nanoprocesses Proposal for Safe Use of Untrusted Modules
Mozilla’s Lin Clark recently announced the creation of the Bytecode Alliance. The Bytecode Alliance is an industry partnership aiming at proposing and implementing standards to enable the growth of a secure-by-default WebAssembly ecosystem, inside and outside the browser. The Bytecode Alliance introduced nanoprocesses to provide isolation and safety when running third-party Wasm packages.
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Faster Web Rendering with WICG Display Locking Proposal
The Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) recently introduced Display Locking, a proposed set of API changes that make it straightforward for developers and browsers to easily scale to large amounts of content and control when rendering work happens.
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Democratizing Portal Development, Microsoft Announces Power Apps Portals General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Power Apps portals, a solution that allows organizations to publish customer, partner and community portals to internal and external users using a low-code, configuration-driven, responsive web experience.
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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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TypeScript 3.7 Adds Optional Chaining and Coalescing
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.7, including optional chaining, nullish coalescing, assertion functions, and numerous other developer ergonomic improvements.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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Vlingo Joins the Reactive Foundation
Vlingo, creators of a platform designed to simplify building reactive systems using an actor model, has joined the Reactive Foundation. Launched in September, the Reactive Foundation was formed under the Linux Foundation to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. Vlingo is a new charter member, joining Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Predicting the Future of the Web: Richard Feldman at ReactiveConf 2019
At ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague, Richard Feldman drew on his 12 years of professional Web development experience, and history of being an early adopter of technologies like React in 2013 and Elm in 2014, to make and justify some concrete predictions about the future of the Web in both 2020 and 2025.
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Open Source CNCF CloudEvents Specification Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
CloudEvents is an open-source specification for describing event data in a standard way and is intended to ease event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. The driving force behind the specification is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which recently announced that the specification had reached a version 1.0 milestone.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.