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Web Components Reaching Mainstream Maturity
For years web components have been a standard that was almost ready. With the recent Apple Music web client release, Apple shipped over 45 web components to drive the Apple Music experience. Others, including Amazon, Porsche, arm, Panera, and Microsoft, are leveraging Stencil to create design systems and cross-framework web components.
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logz.io Releases Feature to Automatically Identify Patterns within Log Data
logz.io released a new feature to help identify recurring patterns within log data. This new feature, entitled Log Patterns, automatically analyzes millions of log messages in real-time to reduce the volume of logs and potentially reveal common trends. This feature is their third feature to provide automated interpretation and filtering of log messages under the label of AIOps.
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Swift Numerics Aims to Make Swift Suitable for Numerical Computing
Swift Numerics is a new open-source library for Swift that attempts to fill a gap in Swift Standard Library, writes Apple's engineer Steve Cannon. Currently, it includes two modules, for real and complex computational mathematics, but more are on the roadmap.
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New Bytecode Alliance Announces WebAssembly Nanoprocesses Proposal for Safe Use of Untrusted Modules
Mozilla’s Lin Clark recently announced the creation of the Bytecode Alliance. The Bytecode Alliance is an industry partnership aiming at proposing and implementing standards to enable the growth of a secure-by-default WebAssembly ecosystem, inside and outside the browser. The Bytecode Alliance introduced nanoprocesses to provide isolation and safety when running third-party Wasm packages.
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Faster Web Rendering with WICG Display Locking Proposal
The Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) recently introduced Display Locking, a proposed set of API changes that make it straightforward for developers and browsers to easily scale to large amounts of content and control when rendering work happens.
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Azure Functions Premium Plan Goes GA, Brings Pre-Warmed Instances, VNET Integration
Announced as a public preview back in April of 2019, the Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available. This set of functionality is focused on scale, performance, and network connectivity for serverless functions. The Premium plan was released amongst a host of other Azure Functions updates meant to broaden the appeal of Microsoft's serverless computing platform.
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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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From Waterfall to Agile at NAV Test Centre of Excellence
Changing how we work from waterfall to agile is all about envisioning the goals, focusing on success factors and then surviving the transit, said Torstein Skarra at TestCon Europe 2019. The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) has moved from project-based waterfall and six releases per year to agile cross-function autonomous teams with several releases per day, per team.
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TypeScript 3.7 Adds Optional Chaining and Coalescing
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.7, including optional chaining, nullish coalescing, assertion functions, and numerous other developer ergonomic improvements.
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Rust Gets Zero-Cost Async/Await Support in Rust 1.39
After getting support for futures in version 1.36, Rust has finally stabilized async/.await in version 1.39. As Rust core team member Niko Matsakis explains, contrary to other languages, async/.await is a zero-cost abstraction in Rust.
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Google Open Sources its Cardboard VR Platform
Low-cost virtual reality (VR) platform Google Cardboard is now available as an open source project to let developers create new VR-powered apps and adapt existing ones to new devices. Google's announcement comes a few weeks after the discontinuation of its Daydream VR platform.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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CPDoS Attacks Cause CDNs to Deliver Error Pages instead of Expected Results
Security researchers disclosed three new variants of the cache poisoning attack first discussed at the 2018 DEFCON conference. These three new attacks are being categorized as cache poisoning denial of service (CPDoS) attacks. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to inject their own malicious content to be served by the cache in lieu of the expected web pages.
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Google Applies NLP Algorithm BERT to Search
BERT, Google's latest NLP algorithm, will power Google search and make it better at understanding user queries in a way more similar to how humans would understand them, writes Pandu Nayak, Google fellow and vice president for Search, with one in 10 queries providing a different set of results.
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Vlingo Joins the Reactive Foundation
Vlingo, creators of a platform designed to simplify building reactive systems using an actor model, has joined the Reactive Foundation. Launched in September, the Reactive Foundation was formed under the Linux Foundation to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. Vlingo is a new charter member, joining Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal.