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Go 1.16 Will Support Register-Based Calling Convention
The Go team is working to implement a minimum viable register-based calling convention in Go 1.16. This change could provide 5-10% throughput improvement, according to the Google Go team, while keeping backward compatibility for code using Go current stack-based calling convention.
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Containers Running on EKS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. The update is a follow-up to AWS customers requesting support for EFS with Fargate when using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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Airbnb Releases Tool to Convert Large Codebases to Typescript
The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process may however be more productive than starting from scratch. The Airbnb team reports converting projects with over 50,000 lines of code in a day.
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TypeScript 4.0 Adds Long-Awaited Variadic Tuple Types
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, which includes long-awaited variadic tuple type support and other improvements without introducing any major breaking changes.
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Containerizing Java Applications with Jib
Jib, the open source tool for building optimized Docker images for Java applications, has been constantly adding new features to improve the developer and CI/CD experiences. Some of the highlights include the Jib Plugin Extension Framework, native support for popular application frameworks, CI/CD performance improvements, and enhanced development experience on a local Kubernetes with Skaffold.
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Is Julia Production Ready? Q&A with Bogumił Kamiński
On the heels of JuliaCon 2020, SGH Warsaw School of Economics professor and DataFrames.jl maintainer Bogumił Kamiński summarized the status of the language and its ecosystem and stated that Julia is finally production-ready. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with professor Kamiński.
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.
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Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more.
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Axon 4.4 Improves Server Performance, Simplifies Framework Usage, and Enhances Developer Experience
AxonIQ has formally released Axon 4.4, a major release of the framework and server infrastructure that helps build event-driven microservices applications utilizing CQRS/event sourcing and domain-driven design.
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Twitter Launches New Developer API
Twitter recently released the new Twitter API (early access) to be used by third-party developers. The new Twitter API features three new product tracks: standard, academic research, and business. The new API offers conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, real-time tweet tracking, and a more powerful stream filtering and search query language.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of AWS Glue 2.0
AWS Glue is a fully-managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. With AWS Glue, customers don’t have to provision or manage any resources, and only pay for resources when the service is running.
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GitHub's OpenAPI Spec Open-Sourced in Beta
GitHub has open sourced an OpenAPI description of its API. Aimed to allow developers to discover the API capabilities first-hand, GitHub's OpenAPI also enables the programmatic creation of mock servers, test suites, and language bindings.
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Ionic Introduces Improved Customization with Shadow Parts
The Ionic Framework recently adopted an upcoming W3C specification titled CSS Shadow Parts that addresses the current limitations with CSS modifications within Web Components.
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Camille Fournier on Effectively Managing Internal Platform Teams
Camille Fournier, managing director, head of platform engineering for Two Sigma, recently shared her learnings from managing internal platform engineering teams. Two of the key challenges she shares are the smaller size of the customer base and the challenge in understanding how your customers will use your product.
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Zoom on Web: WebAssembly SIMD, WebTransport, and WebCodecs
At the recent web.dev live event, Google V8 product manager Thomas Nattestad explained some of the proposed additions to the web to support Zoom and other video conferencing features within the web browser.