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Amazon Web Services Reports That All GA Services Are Now GDPR Ready
On May 25, 2018 European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. AWS recently announced that all its generally available services now comply with the GDPR regulation. GDPR is the largest overhaul of data privacy regulations in the past 20 years. In this article we will cover the key changes in AWS and GDPR and what we have to do to become GDPR compliant.
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Leaders Discuss How to Build Great Engineering Cultures
QConLondon’s Building Great Engineering Cultures track brought together a panel of leaders to take questions from an audience. Leaders from Google, Sky Betting and Gaming, ITV, Deliveroo and GlobalSign shared how they support and build great cultures for engineers, accounting for individual growth, organisation need, a social conscience and a balanced life.
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Opening Sessions from VueConf.US
The first ever VueConf.US took place March 26-28 in New Orleans, bringing together the Vue Core team and hundreds of Vue developers from around the world. The conference contained a single day of workshops, all taught by members of the VueJS core team, followed by two days of talks. Speakers announced new releases and project processes, detailed Vue internals, and shared best practices.
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U.S. Congress Passes CLOUD Act - New Legislation Might Make Microsoft Supreme Court Case Moot
On March 23, 2018, the CLOUD Act became law in the United States. It clarifies how US and foreign countries can gain access to data stored in cloud servers in each other’s jurisdictions. Companies such as Google and Microsoft facing requests for data they have stored in foreign countries support the legislation. Privacy and human rights activists have criticized the measure.
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Redmonk Language Rankings Sees Rapid Rise for Kotlin and Swift
Industry analyst company Redmonk has published the Q1 2018 results of their quarterly programming language rankings. The top 5 are JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C#. Python’s position above PHP and C# is also echoed in the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey. C++, CSS, Ruby and C take the next four spots, then in joint tenth place are Swift and Objective-C. Kotlin has also seen a sharp rise.
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Payara Foundation Releases Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5
The Payara Foundation recently released version 5 of Payara Server and Payara Micro with a host of new features and upgrades including a fresh new admin console, improvements with clustering, a new database, and support for Java EE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. Michael Croft, Java middleware consultant at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Community OpenJDK Build Farm Goes Live
The AdoptOpenJDK project has recently announced that its build farm is now fully operational and it is producing community binaries as free software.
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Ember 3.0 and beyond, with Co-Creator Tom Dale
Tom Dale, co-creator of Ember and senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, recently talked with InfoQ about the recent Ember 3.0 release, the direction of the Ember project, alignment with modern web standards, and Ember’s initial experiments with Rust and Web Assembly.
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The Future of Microservices as the IT World Changes: Uwe Friedrichsen at microXchg Berlin
You have finally mastered Microservices, including Docker and Kubernetes, and some other new cool trends. But are you prepared for the future, Uwe Friedrichsen asked in his presentation at microXchg 2018 in Berlin where he explored the future of IT and the consequences for microservices.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Both these open-source database engines are now brought in their community version as a managed service, with 99.99% SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry-leading security and compliance to Azure.
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Chile’s Energy Regulator to Adopt Blockchain
PV magazine, a publication focused on reporting photovoltaics (solar power generation), has announced the Chile Energy Regulator is set to adopt blockchain in March 2018. The regulator plans to use blockchain technology to transparently record market prices, marginal costs, fuel prices and compliance documentation.
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Designing Reactive Systems Using DDD, Event Storming and Actors
Domain-driven design (DDD) is often used for finding boundaries (bounded contexts) around microservices. But everything in domain-driven design (DDD) is not good for microservice, Lutz Huehnken claimed in a presentation at microxchg 2018 in Berlin where he discussed how DDD, Event Storming and the Akka-based Lagom framework can be used to build reactive systems.
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The Maturity of Microservices: MicroXchg Berlin Panel Discussion
In the microservices panel at microXchg 2018 in Berlin, Susanne Kaiser, together with the panel, consisting of Stefan Tilkov, Chris Richardson, Elisabeth Engel and Daniel Bryant, discussed the state of microservices as of today and whether the hype is over — is microservices now a mature technique or is serverless the next step?
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Stefan Tilkov at microXchg Berlin: Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns
In his presentation at microXchg 2018 in Berlin, Stefan Tilkov explored patterns and antipatterns in microservice projects from his perspective, including Evolutionary Architecture, Decoupling Illusion, Distributed Monolith and Entity Service. He especially noted that some of the patterns he considers to be patterns, other people may see as antipatterns, and the other way around.
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Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Delivery System
On March 1st, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a patent application by Walmart that describes a “Smart Package” system built upon blockchain technology to aid in the tracking of packages between sellers, couriers and buyers. The patent also has references to autonomous vehicle systems and IoT sensors.