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ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP
At their annual Scylla Summit conference, ScyllaDB released version 3.0 of their flagship product, ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0. New features include: concurrent OLTP and OLAP; materialized views; secondary indexes; and compatibility with the Cassandra 3.x file format. Dor Laor, CEO at ScyllaDB, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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DockerCon EU 2018 Summary: Migration Tooling, Docker Desktop Enterprise and More
At DockerCon Europe 2018, core announcements included the preview of container-based migration tooling for .NET and Java applications, support for digital transformation efforts and technology integration projects, the launch of Docker Desktop Enterprise, the open sourcing of Docker Compose on Kubernetes, and the announcement of the CNAB specification in collaboration with Microsoft.
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Microsoft Announces New Features and Integrations for Azure Pipelines
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced several new features and integrations with Azure Pipelines. The new features and integrations include an Azure Pipelines extension for Visual Studio Code, management of GitHub Releases, support for IoT projects, and ServiceNow integration.
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Beaker Browser Offers Electron-Based Peer-to-Peer Web Browser
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser based on Electron, Chromium, and Node.js. Beaker includes new Dat-based APIs for building hostless applications while retaining compatibility with the traditional Web.
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KubeCon 2018: The Return of SQL
Like many conferences, KubeCon 2018 has a variety of distributed database vendors. But what is unusual this year is every single one of them InfoQ talked to emphasized their support for SQL
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Amazon Announces an AWS Well-Architected Tool to Review Workloads Against Best Practices
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new Well Architected tool - a self-service tool that helps customers review AWS workloads at any time without the need for an AWS Architect. Moreover, this new tool uses the AWS Well-Architect Framework launched back in 2015.
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InfoQ's New Desktop Design Launched
We've made a number of changes to InfoQ's desktop site, the third major overhaul of our design since we got started in 2006. You can switch to the new design now to try it out.
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AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond Officially Supported Runtimes
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including Lambda Layers, to centrally manage code and data shared across functions, and the Lambda Runtime API, expanding Lambda beyond JavaScript to any programming language.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Kubernetes Service Updates
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Kubernetes Service, their managed Kubernetes offering. The announcements include features around AKS virtual nodes, GPU support for Azure Container Instances, and the donation of the Virtual Kubelet project to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation.
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Microsoft Announces AI-Assisted IntelliCode for TypeScript and JavaScript in VS Code
Beyond the typical IntelliSense or code completion developers have come to appreciate, earlier this year Microsoft announced IntelliCode, a set of capabilities that provide AI-assisted development. The VS Code team has now announced a new experimental extension to bring IntelliCode to TypeScript and JavaScript users.
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Microsoft Introduces New API Management Consumption Tier for Serverless Architectures
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This tier allows for micro-based billing and aligns to serverless architecture principles including automated scaling, built-in high availability, per action billing and no infrastructure to provision or manage.
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Scaling Apache Kafka at Pinterest
Apache Kafka is used at Pinterest for transporting data for real time streaming applications, logging and visibility metrics for monitoring. Hosted on AWS, Pinterest’s Kafka installation uses the MirrorMaker and DoctorKafka tools for replication and high availability.
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TensorSpace.js Delivers Neural Network 3D Visualization Framework
TensorSpace.js provides an open source browser-based neural network data visualization framework to complement the growing machine learning landscape by supporting pre-trained models created with TensorFlow.js, Keras, or TensorFlow.
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Amazon Announces Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. This new service is called Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka, Amazon MSK for short, and is now in public preview.
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Amazon Introduces Intelligent-Tiering for S3 Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs
Amazon introduces a new S3 Storage tier called Intelligent-Tiering which optimizes storage costs by automatically selecting the most cost-effective storage tier based on usage patterns. This new tier can help reduce costs for customers infrequently accessing their data in S3.