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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities
During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities.
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Google Engineer Tailors Swift for Windows
The vision for Swift to become a cross-platform programming language has moved one step further with the introduction of a Swift toolchain for Windows 10. Early adopters can now use Swift to create Windows 10 programs that interoperate through the C ABI with existing libraries available on the platform.
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Google Announces New Features Making It Easier to Manage Windows Server VMs
Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).
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Google Expands Its Confidential Computing Portfolio
In a recent blog post, Google announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing Portfolio with the addition of Confidential Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Nodes. Furthermore, the public cloud vendor will make Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) publically available.
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ML Kit Pose Detection Brings Body Movement Tracking to iOS and Android
Initially available under the ML Kit early access program, Pose Detection is now officially part of ML Kit. The library is capable of tracking the human body, including facial landmarks, hands, and feet.
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Google's BigBird Model Improves Natural Language and Genomics Processing
Researchers at Google have developed a new deep-learning model called BigBird that allows Transformer neural networks to process sequences up to 8x longer than previously possible. Networks based on this model achieved new state-of-the-art performance levels on natural-language processing (NLP) and genomics tasks.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.
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eBay Rearchitected Android App to Leverage App Bundles and Dynamic Feature Delivery
eBay engineers worked with Google to rearchitecture and reimplement their mobile app to take advantage of several new technologies, including Android app bundles (AAB) and Kotlin. They also took the chance to improve test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and overcome global infrastructure limitations.
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Google Announces General Availability of CPU Overcommit for Sole Tenant Nodes
In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.
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Go 1.16 Will Support Register-Based Calling Convention
The Go team is working to implement a minimum viable register-based calling convention in Go 1.16. This change could provide 5-10% throughput improvement, according to the Google Go team, while keeping backward compatibility for code using Go current stack-based calling convention.
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Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more.
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TensorFlow 2.3 Features Pipeline Bottleneck Reduction and Improved Preprocessing
The TensorFlow project announced the release of version 2.3.0, featuring new mechanisms for reducing input pipeline bottlenecks, Keras layers for pre-processing, and memory profiling.
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Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and more.
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Google Meet’s Scaling Challenges during COVID-19
Google wrote about their challenges in scaling Google Meet due to increased usage since the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people using it. The SRE team at Google used their existing incident management framework with modifications to tackle the challenge of increased traffic that started earlier this year.
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Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Join the Open Source Security Foundation
Supported by The Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) aims to create a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security. The list of initial members includes Google, Microsoft, GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, and more.