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Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600+ Integrations
Plaid.com has integrations with over 9600 financial institutions, and their monitoring challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of these integrations and as well as their large number. They rebuilt their monitoring system on Kinesis, Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana to solve the challenges of scalability and low latency.
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QLoo Creates GraphQL Interface for Existing Services
Solo.io recently released QLoo , an API translation layer to provide GraphQL endpoints for existing services and serverless functions. QLoo is intended to simplify the process of adding GraphQL on top of existing software.
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New York Creates Task Force to Examine Automated Decision Making
New York City has created an Automated Decision Systems Task Force to demand accountability and transparency in how algorithms are used in city government. The final report of the task force is due in December 2019. This task force is the first in the United States to study this issue.
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Pymetrics Open-Sources Fairness-Aware Machine Learning Algorithms
Pymetrics, an AI start-up that specializes in providing recruitment services for organizations, has recently open-sourced their bias detection algorithms on Github. The tool, also known as Audit AI, is used to mitigate discriminatory patterns that exist within training data sets which influence or improve the probability of a population being selected by a machine learning algorithm.
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Google Cloud Platform Release Edge TPU and Cloud IoT Edge
Google announced it would bring two new products to their cloud platform to aid customers in developing and deploying their devices. These products are the Edge TPU, a new hardware chip, and Cloud IoT Edge, an expansion of the Google Cloud AI capability for gateways as well as connected devices.
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Google Updates Key Cloud Database Services
Google unveiled new database capabilities and partnerships at the recently-concluded Google Cloud Next conference. This included expanded beta access for Cloud Firestore, new functionality for Cloud Bigtable, and highly-requested features for Cloud Spanner. There were also announcements around expanded support for SAP and Oracle workloads.
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How SendGrid Scales Its Email Delivery Systems
SendGrid, a cloud based email service, has seen its backend architecture evolve from a small Postfix installation to a system hosted on their own data-centers as well as on the public cloud. Rewriting of services in Go, a gradual move to AWS, and a distributed Ceph-based queue allows the team to hand over 40 billion emails per month.
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Eich and Crockford on the Future of JavaScript: Insight from the Creators of JavaScript and JSON
At the recent FullStack conference in London, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and JSON creator and JavaScript: The Good Parts author Douglas Crockford spoke on the future of JavaScript.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Now Offers an Amazon Linux 2 Desktop
With the new Amazon WorkSpaces, customers now use Amazon Linux 2 as a desktop besides Windows 7 and 10. The Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces are available in different forms including Amazon Machine Image.
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Instana Releases Sample Microservice Application
Instana, provider of AI powered monitoring solutions for dynamic containerised microservice applications, announced at QCon New York the release of Stan’s Robot Shop, a sample microservice application that can be used as a sandbox to test and learn about microservice architecture, containerised application orchestration and automatic monitoring techniques.
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Google Releases Knative: A Kubernetes Framework to Build, Deploy, and Manage Serverless Workloads
At Google Cloud Next 2018 the release of Knative was announced as a “Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads”. The open source framework attempts to codify the best practices around building, serving requests, and eventing. Knative has been developed by Google in close partnership with Pivotal, IBM, Red Hat, and SAP.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.2 with "Consul Connect" Service Mesh Solution
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.2.1, the latest version of their highly available and distributed service discovery and key-value store, which also includes a public beta launch of the Consul Connect. Consul Connect provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS, and “automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution.”
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Microsoft Releases Azure Service Fabric Mesh as a Public Preview
Service Fabric now has a relative in the cloud – Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a fully managed service in Azure that will enable developers to deploy and operate containerised applications. This service is now publicly in preview after its initial private preview debut during Build 2018 last May.
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Netflix Announces Polly.JS HTTP Interaction Library
Netflix recently announced the release of Polly.JS, an open source library for recording, replaying and stubbing HTTP interactions.
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Is On-Premise a Better Fit for SaaS Compliance with GDPR?
The EU's GDPR has led to a debate between those who feel it is advantageous to move to an on-premise solution to best meet the requirements of the GDPR, and those who feel that achieving compliance is independent of the hosting model.