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Splitting Stateful Services across Continents at Instagram
At the recent Large Installation System Administration (LISA) 2018 Conference, Sherry Xiao, production engineer at Instagram, explained how their team split Instagram’s services across datacenters in the US and Europe. They achieved data locality in their stateful services - Cassandra and TAO - by using new and modified tools from Facebook’s engineering team.
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The Story behind Very Fast iPhone XS JavaScript Performance
Initial reviews of JavaScript performance benchmarks show the iPhone XS and iPhone XS max having better performance than even an iMac Pro with the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark, which compares performance in real-world framework loading scenarios.
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Microsoft Announces Container Support for Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft has announced container support for Cognitive Services, which allows taking advantage of machine learning capabilities anywhere, whether it is in the cloud, on the edge or on-premises. With Azure Cognitive Services, organizations can start using various cognitive features, like vision, speech and text processing, without the need for a dedicated data scientist.
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Google Introduces AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines for Easier ML Deployment
Google is launching two new tools, one proprietary and one open source: AI Hub and Kubeflow pipelines. Both are designed to assist data scientists design, launch and keep track of their machine learning algorithms.
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Google Labs Announces Squoosh: Image Compression PWA
At the 2018 Google Chrome Developer Summit, Google announced Squoosh, an open source image compression Progressive Web App (PWA) that doubles as a practical demonstration of modern web technologies.
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Google Open-Sources Speaker Diarization AI Technology, Claims 92% Accuracy
In a recent blog post, Google announced they have open-sourced their speaker diarization technology, which is able to differentiate people’s voices at a high accuracy rate. Google is able to do this by partitioning an audio stream that includes multiple participants into homogeneous segments per participant.
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Ionic Announces Alpha Release of Vue.js Integration
At VueConf Toronto, Ionic announced the first alpha release of @ionic/vue, making it possible to add Ionic 4 to any Vue.js project, getting access to Ionic's APIs in a Vue.js-friendly manner.
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U.S. Commerce Dept Proposes Rulemaking for Export Control of Emerging Technologies Including AI
In the Federal Register, the official journal of the federal government of the United States, an article titled “Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies” outlines proposed rulemaking for export control of “emerging technologies”, which includes a wide range of categories including biotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics.
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The Software Defined Delivery Manifesto: Collaborative, Model-Based, Event-Driven Automation
At GOTO Copenhagen, Rod Johnson announced “The Software Defined Delivery Manifesto”, and argued that the delivery of software “is not a detail, it is our job”, and accordingly, “now is the time to engineer our delivery”. The authors of the manifesto argue that software defined delivery should be core, well-engineered, collaborative, accelerated (through automation and reuse) and observable.
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Howler.js Audio Library for the Modern Web
Howler.js provides a modern audio library with support for the Web Audio API and a fallback mechanism for HTML5 Audio. The project strives to streamline cross-platform development efforts with audio in JavaScript.
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Code Reviews in Practice
Code reviews are a great way to find bugs, get input from other team members, and share knowledge and ownership. For maximum benefit, integrate code reviews into your development process to ensure that no code reaches production without being reviewed. Reviews tend to uncover unresolved issues in the development process which you may need to address.
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The Human Side of Microservices
A microservices architecture is a game changer for team communication, not a purely technical solution. If different teams don’t have stable, direct communication channels, the software they produce will suffer. The five key properties crucial for a successful microservices implementation are zero-configuration, auto-discovery, high redundancy, self-healing, and fault tolerance.
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Google Open-Sources BERT: A Natural Language Processing Training Technique
In a recent blog post, Google announced they have open-sourced BERT, their state-of-the-art training technique for Natural Language Processing (NLP) . Google has decided to do this, in part, due to a lack of public data sets that are available to developers. In addition, optimizations have been made to Cloud TPUs to reduce the amount of time required for training NLP.
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Amazon Releases Corretto: A Multiplatform Java OpenJDK Build with No-Cost Support
At Devoxx BE, held in Antwerp, Belgium, Amazon announced a preview release of Amazon Corretto, a “no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution” build of OpenJDK, the reference implementation of Java.
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Amazon Announces AWS GovCloud US-East Region
Amazon has announced their AWS GovCloud (US-East) region, an isolated AWS region, offering FedRAMP High and Moderate baseline security controls. This region is available now and targets federal, state, and local government agencies, IT contractors that serve them, and customers with regulated workloads.