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Rust 1.36 Stabilizes Futures, Backports Non-Lexical Lifetimes, and More
Following its roadmap to Rust 2018, Rust 1.36's most awaited new feature is support for the Future trait, which is the first step towards bringing async/await to the language. Additionally, it backports non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) to improve the borrow checker, and introduces a new alloc crate to enable the creation of memory allocation-dependent libraries that do not require std.
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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard
The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.
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Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
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MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0
Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019
Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.
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Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York
Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.
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Git 2.22 Adds Topology-Preserving, Interactive Rebase
The most significant new feature in the latest Git release, Git 2.22, enables rebasing non-trivial branch topologies, e.g., those including merges, without flattening them while also allowing to use interactive rebase features.
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Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.
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restQL V3 Released
The latest version of restQL, a microservices query language, has been released, providing notable new features including content aggregation, support for additional HTTP methods, self-healing functionality, and a version for node.js apps. Comprehensive performance improvements have made the latest version up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
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Binary AST Proposal Could Improve Performance of Large JavaScript Apps
Binary AST is a stage 1 proposal for the JavaScript language. Binary AST aims to drastically improve the load time of large JavaScript applications by adding a new, binary encoded abstract syntax tree (AST) to the language inspired in part by WebAssembly.
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Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.
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Chrome 74 Natively Supports Lazy Loading
Google recently released Google Chrome 74 with a new experimental flag to enable native lazy loading support for images and iframes. The img and iframe HTML tags get an additional loading attribute to configure the lazy loading behaviour of the corresponding resource. Deferring load of non-visible content may reduce data usage, memory usage, and speed up above-the-fold content.