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Cloud Development Kit Can Now Generate Terraform Configurations Using TypeScript and Python
AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
The transition of the OpenJDK projects from Mercurial to GitHub will be completed by September 2020.
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MIT Researchers Claim to Have Found a Way to Scale up Quantum Chips
In a recent paper published in Nature, MIT researchers have described a process to manufacture "artificial atoms" that can be integrated to create larger-scale quantum chips. As a proof of this, they built a 128-qubit chip, the largest yet.
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Introducing InfoQ Live: a Microservices Virtual Event on Tuesday, August 25th
We are excited to introduce InfoQ Live, a one-day virtual learning event designed for you, the modern software practitioner. You’ll get to deep dive into the topics of building and operating microservices with world-class practitioners and discover practical strategies that you can put to use straight away. Join us on August 25th, 2020, at 9 AM EDT / 3 PM CEST. Register now for only $49.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of Monitoring Service AWS IoT SiteWise
IoT SiteWise is a fully managed service in AWS, which automates the processing of data from the plant floor, the structuring and marking of data, and generation of real-time metrics to monitor. The service provides customers with a way to connect their on-premise industrial equipment via a gateway to link their on-premises servers to the AWS cloud, where the data accumulates for analysis.
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Oracle Announces a Fully-Managed Cloud Region with Cloud@Customer
In a recent press release, Oracle announced a fully-managed dedicated cloud region providing a full stack of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer data centers. The region brings all of Oracle’s second-generation cloud services starting from $500K USD per month.
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C# 9: Minor Improvements for Lambdas
Lambdas will be getting a small upgrade in C# 9 with two new features: discard parameters and static anonymous functions. Neither will change the way code is written, but they do clarify the developer’s intent.
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Rust 1.45 Fixes Cast Unsoundness and Stabilizes Support for Web Framework Rocket
Rust 1.45 includes a fix for a long-standing float cast issue potentially causing undefined behaviour and stabilizes features used by popular Web framework Rocket.
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Puppet Relay Provides Event-Driven Automation for Common Workflows
Puppet has announced the beta release of Relay, their event driven automation platform. Relay allows for automating processes as code. There are a number of pre-written workflows and there is support for creating additional workflows. Relay has a number of integrations available for use in workflows including AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, PagerDuty, and GitHub.
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Fastify 3.0 Improves Performance, Logging, Schema, and TypeScript Support
Fastify is an open-source, low-performance overhead Node.js web framework. Fastify version 3 introduces support for running Express applications inside Fastify, adds improvements to logging serialization and schema substitution, and provides better TypeScript definition support.
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WebAssembly Used to Extend Life of Flash Legacy Content
Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020. The large amount of Flash content accumulated over the years is however not entirely lost. Ruffle, a Flash emulator, and CheerpX, an x86 virtualization technology, both leverage WebAssembly to play .swf files in the browser.
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Pros and Cons of Migrating to React Native at Khan Academy
After a two-year long transition from native to React Native for their iOS and Android apps, Khan Academy engineer Bryan Clark offered their view on the pros and cons of this decision.
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C# 9: Range Operators in Switch Constructs and Pattern-Matching Expressions
Since C# was first introduced, developers have complained about the lack of a range operator in switch constructs. This made switches far less useful in C# than they were in VB. As part of the pattern-matching enhancements for C# 9, this limitation has been addressed.
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Helidon 2.0 Features New Web Client, DB Client and Command-Line Tool
Oracle has formally released Helidon 2.0 with a host of new significant features such as: support for reactive messaging and streams; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client. Dmitry Kornilov, director of software development at Oracle, spoke to infoQ about this latest release.
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Crowdfunding Web APIs - Igalia Lets Developers Fund APIs They Care About
Igalia, an open-source consultancy that contributed a large part of the CSS Grid implementation in WebKit and Chromium, is experimenting with the crowd-funding of new web APIs. Starting with six HTML/CSS features, the experiment gives developers a larger say on what web APIs get implemented and when.