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DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony 41 Taking Place on Thursday
The DNSSEC signing ceremony, which takes place as an in-person event every three months, will be a combined physical and virtual event on Thursday at 17:00 UTC. The next few months' signing keys for the DNSSEC root nameservers will take place, but not all of the keyholders will be physically present due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. Find out how the ceremony has been adapted.
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Alcide's New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files
Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Java 15: the Story So Far
Java 14 has just been released, but attention is already turning to the next release, with some features already confirmed for the September 2020 release.
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Refactoring GitHub OctoKit JavaScript REST SDK for Maintainability and Modularization
GitHub engineer Gregor Martynus recently described his journey to refactor GitHub official REST JavaScript SDK, originally containing about 16 thousand lines of code across six files total, into a more maintainable and modular project.
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New MDJS Markup Language Adds JavaScript to Markdown for Interactive Documentation
Thomas Allmer, founder of Open Web Components (@OpenWc), released MDJS, a Markdown variant that allows developers to include runnable JavaScript code into their Markdown documents. MDJS can be interpreted as regular Markdown content or be progressively enhanced to produce interactive documentation including web components.
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Browser-Automation Library Puppeteer Now Supports Firefox
Mathias Bynens, Google developer working on @ChromeDevTools & @v8js, released Puppeteer 3.0. Puppeteer now supports Firefox in addition to the Chrome browser. The new version also upgraded support to the latest Chrome 81, and removed support for Node 8.
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Q&A with Amazon's Deepak Singh Regarding Bottlerocket, Containers and EC2
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding technical details about Bottlerocket and its roadmap.
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jQuery 3.5 Released, Fixes XSS Vulnerability
Timmy Willison released jQuery 3.5, which fixes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in its HTML parser. The Snyk open source security platform estimates that 84% of all websites may be impacted by jQuery XSS vulnerabilities. jQuery 3.5 also adds missing methods for the positional selectors :even and :odd in preparation for the complete removal of positional selectors in jQuery 4.
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Containers Running on ECS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic, fully-managed shared file system. Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate are now able to use EFS.
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Safari 13.1 Released
Safari 13.1 was recently released for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS. Safari 13.1 strives to improve on the WebKit engine, privacy, performance, and web developer experience.
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W3C Finalizes Web of Things (WoT) Recommendations
The W3C recently announced two new W3C Recommendations, Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), for web integration across IoT platforms and applications.
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Managing Infrastructure from Kubernetes with the HashiCorp Terraform Operator
HashiCorp has released the alpha version of the Terraform operator for Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code from Kubernetes. After installing the operator, users can synchronize Terraform workspaces using Kubernetes manifests. Then, applications running in Kubernetes can reference Terraform outputs using ConfigMaps. For now, this operator only works for Terraform Cloud.
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Introducing the JAMstack
JAMstack is a new architecture for building sites that can be served directly from a CDN that offers many benefits over existing LAMP or MEAN solutions. It stands for JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup.
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How Duolingo Migrated its Android App to 100% Kotlin
Across the last two years, Duolingo seamlessly migrated its Java Android app to 100% Kotlin. Among the main benefits this brought, developers improved their productivity and happiness while the Duolingo app became almost null pointer exception (NPE) free. InfoQ has spoken with Duolingo Android and web development leader Art Chaidarun to learn more about their experience.