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The Technology Stack at Medium
Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. Launched in 2012, it now has over 60 million unique monthly visitors. The technology stack behind the site includes deployment to AWS, applications and services written in NodeJS and Go, data storage with DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift as their data warehouse.
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Google, IBM and Lyft Open-Source Microservice Service-Mesh Istio
Google, IBM and Lyft have open sourced Istio (Greek word for “sail”), a framework for managing, securing and monitoring microservices.
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Calculating the Operations Cost of Software You Haven't Developed: Q&A with John Davis from easyJet
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit, John Davis, lead architect at EasyJet, will present “Calculating the Operations Cost of Software You Haven't Developed”. InfoQ sat down with Davis to discuss how traditional organisations can migrate to a more collaborative “DevOps”-enabled approach for implementing IT projects, and how project management and costing will change.
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Microsoft Has Moved the Windows Code Repo to Git
Microsoft has completed the move of their Windows codebase from Source Depot to Git using GVFS.
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Facebook Publishes New Neural Machine Translation Algorithm
Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research team published research results using a new approach for neural machine translation (NMT). Their algorithm scores higher than any other system on three established machine translation tasks.
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Datacenter Operators: Bumpy Ride Running Containers on Infrastructure Built for VMs
Specialized container technology company Diamanti was named a “cool vendor” by Gartner for their hyperconverged container platform. Mark Balch, VP of products and marketing, spoke to InfoQ with his take on the current friction that containers are creating between developers and data center operators.
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Developing Virtual Assistant Apps with Amazon Lex and Polly Deep Learning Technologies
Greg Bulmash from Amazon spoke at the OSCON 2017 Conference last week about developing your own virtual assistant applications using Amazon's Lex and Polly technologies.
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Microsoft Standardizes XAML across UWP and Xamarin
Announced during BUILD 2017, Microsoft has made public the first draft of the XAML Standard, a markup dialect meant to unify how user interface elements are defined.
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Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka as a Service in AWS
Apache Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant pub sub messaging soltuion, originally developed by LinkedIn and open sourced. Confluent was formed by former LinkedIn engineers in the Kafka development group and today announced Confluent Cloud, a fully hosted and managed Apache Kafka as a Service in AWS. We also take a look at Confluent's second annual Streaming Data report and its findings.
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QCon San Francisco 2017 Tickets on Sale; Committee Announced; Top Podcasts & Top Talks from 2016
QCon San Francisco, the 11th annual Bay Area software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns to the Silicon Valley area November 13-15, 2017 and tickets are officially on sale.
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The Economics of Microservices: Phil Calçado Recommends Avoiding ‘Microliths’ at CraftConf
At CraftConf 2017 Phil Calçado presented “The Economics of Microservices”. The key takeaway from the talk: the ‘Inverse Conway Maneuver’ can be a useful tool to shape an application’s architecture during a migration away from a monolith, but this can lead to creating ‘microliths’ unless the ‘transaction cost’ of creating a new service is lowered to below the cost of adding to an existing monolith.
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Dani Traphagen on Next Phase of Distributed Systems with Apache Ignite
Dani Traphagen from GridGain spoke at OSCON 2017 Conference about Apache Ignite platform. She talked about the paradigm shift in viewing the disk as a bottleneck, the decreasing costs of memory and how to optimize toward the cache, leveraging it for microservices architectures with the open source project Apache Ignite.
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Microsoft Invests in Hybrid Connectivity, Releases On-Premises Data Gateway
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the On-premises data gateway has reached General Availability (GA). This gateway allows for remote connectivity from many Microsoft PaaS and SaaS services to data sources residing behind a corporate firewall.
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Microsoft Announces Draft .NET Architecture Guidance
Four application architecture guidance drafts are available from Microsoft. These drafts cover four areas: Microservices and Docker, ASP.NET Web Applications, Azure Cloud Deployment, and Xamarin Mobile Applications. Each guidance consists of a set of documents appropriate for the topic. Microsoft wants feedback from the general community on these draft documents.
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Red Hat Releases Next Generation of OpenShift Online
Red Hat has announced the initial availability of the next generation of OpenShift Online, the PaaS cloud application platform. This next edition is re-engineered to be built on top of OpenShift container platform, powered by open source tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.