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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.
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Operating Microservices & Securing Serverless: InfoQ Live, 25th August
InfoQ Live, the virtual event where experts interact with the audience to share their experience and learning in relation to running microservices and serverless systems, is just a few days away. Attend in order to learn best practices for working with modular architectures and leave with peer-validated ideas that you can implement right away in your team and organization.
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Amazon Releases Quantum Computing Service Braket into General Availability
Amazon Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. With the service, customers can test and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum circuit simulators and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.
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HashiCorp Introduces HashiCorp Cloud Platform
HashiCorp, the company behind the software tool Terraform, introduces a platform to run their products on AWS, Azure, and GCP as managed services. This will extend their enterprise offer with a focus on multi-cloud environments.
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Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds.
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Microsoft Announces the Preview of Java Message Service 2.0 over AMQP on Azure Service Bus
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP in the Azure Service Bus Premium tier. The support will allow customers to modernize their application stack by lifting and shifting their Java and Spring workloads to Azure.
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Ajv Joins the OpenJS Foundation
Ajv, a JSON Schema validator for both server-side and client-side JavaScript applications, has joined the OpenJS Foundation. Ajv, which was recently awarded a grant from Mozilla’s Open Source Support (MOSS) program, may benefit from the OpenJS infrastructure and organization to grow the number of contributors and foster wider enterprise adoption.
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Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and more.
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Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Join the Open Source Security Foundation
Supported by The Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) aims to create a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security. The list of initial members includes Google, Microsoft, GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, and more.
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KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and the Role of the Cloud during the Pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma
InfoQ caught up with newly appointed GM of CNCF, Priyanka Sharma, regarding the role of the cloud, open source and the work of the foundation for the current unprecedented times and going forward.
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UI Component Explorer Storybook Releases 6.0 with Live Edits, Storybook Composition, Zero-Config
The Storybook team recently released the sixth major version of Storybook. Storybook 6.0 features zero-configuration setup, live edit of component examples, and support visualizing several storybooks in the same component explorer window (composition feature).
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Building a Banking Infrastructure with Microservices: QCon London Q&A
In a few years, the number of microservices has grown from 100 to 1600 at Monzo, and it continues to grow. Microservices are split when responsibilities grow, or merged when services are tightly coupled. Engineers can generate, deploy, scale and monitor their own services using code generation.
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Records and Pattern Matching for Instanceof Finalized in JDK 16
Final releases of records and the new pattern matching functionality for instanceof are planned for JDK 16.
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React 17 to Ease Migration Pains for Future React Versions
The React team recently released React 17 (first release candidate), two years after React 16. React 17 strives to ease the migration between future major versions of React by enabling two concurrent versions to coexist. React 17 additionally has a few breaking changes related to the event system and the scheduling.
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AWS Releases Amazon Fraud Detector into General Availability
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully-managed service on AWS providing customers with the capability to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse or online payment fraud. The service uses machine learning (ML) and relies on two decades of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com.