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How Amazon Teams Do Continuous Delivery
An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don't actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.
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Cloudflare Announces a New Class of Workers Called Workers Unbound
Cloudflare announces an expanded version of Cloudflare Workers called Cloudflare Workers Unbound.
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Remembering Bill Shannon
William (Bill) Shannon, a renowned engineer who was instrumental in the evolution of SunOS, Solaris, and JavaEE while he worked as employee number 11 at Sun Microsystems, passed away last month after a long battle with cancer. Shannon’s contributions to the IT industry are immeasurable and he will be deeply missed within the Unix and Java communities.
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Open-Source Raspberry Tablet CutiePi Lets Developers Customize Hardware and Firmware
The Taiwanese startup CutiePi recently launched its Raspberry Pi tablet on Kickstarter. CutiePi software and hardware design are entirely open-source, and thus can be customized at will. CutiePi self-describes as the first truly usable and thinnest Raspberry Pi tablet.
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.
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Google Launches Confidential VMs in Beta on Its Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.
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Alexa Adds Conversations and Deep-Linking Based Control for Mobile Apps
Alexa Conversations, recently launched in beta, aim to enable the creation of custom skills with fewer code thanks to a new AI-based approach. Alongside Alexa Conversations, Amazon has also announced Alexa for Apps, which allows Alexa users to interact with their mobile phones using Alexa.
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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.