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Successful Remote Working
For both employees and employers, remote work requires intentional design and implementation to be effective. People find remote work challenging because the established mindset says that being in an office is how work gets done. Despite the challenges, when remote work is done well, the advantages to employees and employer are sufficient to make it worthwhile.
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AzureRM Terraform Provider 2.0 Released with Custom Timeouts and Improved Resource Importing
HashiCorp announced the release of version 2.0 for the AzureRM Terraform Provider. This release includes an overhaul of how virtual machines and virtual machine scale set resources are described, an introduction of custom timeouts, and the removal of a number of deprecated resources. There are also changes to improve how existing resources are handled while running terraform apply.
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Amazon Updates Transcribe with Automatic Redaction of Personally Identifiable Information Feature
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, allowing customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Recently, the public cloud provider made a significant update to the service with an automatic redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) feature.
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GraalVM 20.0: Run Tomcat as Native Image on Windows
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript, has released major version 20.0 with full support on Windows Platform. In a related news, Apache Tomcat 9 has announced full support for GraalVM native image generation that includes the container.
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Flutter Golden Tests Powering Automated UI Testing at eBay
Automating UI tests to ensure the visual appearance of your app is correct on all supported devices and form factors is usually challenging. Flutter golden tests may help simplify this task, as eBay's approach to UI screenshot testing for its Motors app shows.
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Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware.
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OpenSilver: Open-Source Silverlight via WebAssembly
Earlier this month, Userware released the first version of OpenSilver, an open-source reimplementation of Silverlight. OpenSilver runs on current browsers via WebAssembly, without requiring any additional plug-ins. The current version of OpenSilver is available as "Technology Preview." It covers about 60% of the original Silverlight API and is available as a Visual Studio 2019 extension.
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TensorFlow Quantum Joins Quantum Computing and Machine Learning
TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) brings Google quantum computing framework Cirq and TensorFlow together to enable the creation of quantum machine learning (ML) models.
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Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages with Laura Maguire at QCon London
Laura Maguire talked at QCon London about how the coordinative efforts during outages cause a high cognitive cost. Maguire found out that coordination during anomaly response is difficult, that existing models can undermine speedy resolution, and that the strategies to control the cost of coordination are adaptive to the type of incident. Moreover, tooling has additional costs of coordination.
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New Relic – the State of Java Report
While self-reported data suggests that running the latest and greatest JVM in production is the way forward, the recent report by New Relic (which monitors real JVMs in production) suggests that the Java landscape is dominated by Java 8, and to a lesser extent, Java 11, with non-LTS releases barely a blip on their radar. Read on to find out what their report says customers are actually using.
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Netflix Open Sources Crisis Management Orchestration Tool
Netflix announced the release of Dispatch, their crisis management orchestration framework. Dispatch integrates with existing tools such as Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack to streamline the crisis management process. Dispatch includes integration endpoints for adding in support for additional tooling.
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.NET Interactive: Jupyter Notebooks with .NET Core - Preview 2
.NET Interactive is the new name for Try .Net. This suite of APIs and command-line tools allows you to create interactive notebooks and documents combining rich text, code and data. One of the main use cases for .NET Interactive is embedding code into a Jupyter Notebook.
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Tailwind CSS 1.2 Release Adds CSS Grid Support
Tailwind CSS, a low-level CSS framework, recently released Tailwind CSS version 1.2, adding support for CSS Grid Layout, CSS Transitions, and CSS Transforms.
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GitLab 2020 Remote Work Report Highlights Key Motivators for Remote Work
GitLab has just released its 2020 Remote Work Report, which provides a thorough perspective on remote work from the viewpoint of both remote workers and employers. Based on over 3,000 respondents across various industries and roles, the report also aims to give a glimpse of what remote work might look like in the future. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with GitLab head of remote Darren Murph.
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What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London
Bilgin Ibryam talked at QCon London about the evolution of distributed systems on Kubernetes and the future architecture trends. Ibryam said that the next trend would be to decouple infrastructure concerns from microservices. Ibryam calls this multi-runtime microservices, a service with business logic along with a sidecar in charge of state management, networking, binding, and lifecycle.