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How GitLab Managed to Migrate from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
Recently GitLab.com was migrated from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it more suitable to mission-critical workloads requiring the lowest error rates and the highest availability. InfoQ has spoken with Brandon Jung, VP of Alliances at GitLab, and Andrew Newdigate, Staff Engineer, Infrastructure, to learn more.
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Mozilla Revamps WebThings, its Open Source IoT Platform
Mozilla recently released its open source IoT platform, formerly called Project Things, as WebThings. Mozilla WebThings brings a series of logging, alarm, and networking features.
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Why and How Etsy Embraces Differences at the Workplace
Etsy has deployed various tactics to drive diversity and greater inclusion. They recently included diversity and inclusion in their guiding principles, integrated inclusion at each step of their employees' lifecycle, and developed strategies not just to hire diversity, but to foster a culture of inclusion. They empowered their employee resource groups to lead change based on feedback.
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OpenAI Introduces Sparse Transformers for Deep Learning of Longer Sequences
OpenAI has developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural-network architecture for learning sequences of data, including text, sound, and images. The networks can achieve state-of-the-art performance on several deep-learning tasks with faster training times.
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Making Robots More Intelligent, Microsoft Releases Autonomous Systems Platform
At the recent Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced, in limited preview, an end-to-end toolchain to help developers and organizations build autonomous systems for their industries. The platform includes machine teaching tools and simulation technologies that enable intelligent robotic systems to complete tasks like running autonomous forklifts and robotic inspection platforms.
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Node.js 12 Release Improves Security, Performance, and Modules
The Node.js project recently released Node.js version 12, adding improvements through its underlying V8 JavaScript engine, startup performance, ES6 modules, and more.
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ML.NET, an Open Source Machine Learning Framework for the .NET Ecosystem: Pranav Rastogi Q&A
Earlier this month Microsoft released the first major version of ML.NET, an open source machine learning (ML) framework for the .NET ecosystem. ML.NET allows the development of custom ML models using either C# or F#. These models can be used in scenarios involving sentiment analysis, fraud and spam detection, product and movie recommendation, image classification, and more.
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Databricks Open Sources Delta Lake to Make Data Lakes More Reliable
Databricks recently announced open sourcing Delta Lake, their proprietary storage layer, to bring ACID transactions to Apache Spark and big data workloads. Databricks is the company behind the creators of Apache Spark, while Delta Lake is already being used in several companies like McAffee, Upwork etc . Delta Lake is addressing the heterogeneous data problem that data lakes often have...
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Allegro Launches Hermes 1.0, a REST-based Message Broker Built on Top of Kafka
Allegro has launched version 1.0 of Hermes, a rest API based message broker built on top of Apache Kafka. Whilst not containing any new features, this first major version release is given to the current stable codebase.
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Optimize Automated Testing Using Defect Data
By integrating the test framework and the bug tracking system, it becomes possible to deactivate test cases for known bugs and reactivate them when the bug is solved. Aneta Petkova, QA chapter lead at SumUp, presented The Framework That Knows Its Bugs at TestCon Moscow 2019.
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Open Liberty 19.0.0.4 Released with Support for Reactive Streams Operators 1.0 and JDK 12
IBM’s latest monthly release of Open Liberty 19.0.0.4 features support for the MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators 1.0 API, JDK 12, and Oracle Universal Connection Pool.
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J2CL: A Java-to-JavaScript Transpiler
J2CL is a source-to-source compiler that converts Java to Javascript. It attempts to solve a different problem than similar Java-to-Javascript frameworks such as GWT. Likewise, J2CL is not meant to compete with or replace existing JavaScript frameworks; J2CL is about interoperability and cross-platform code reuse.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm Powering Bing
Microsoft's latest contribution to open source, Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG), is an implementation of the approximate nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithm that is used in Microsoft Bing search engine.
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CRI-O: An Open Source Container Runtime for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted CRI-O as an incubation-level hosted project on April 8th. CRI-O, created by Red Hat, is an Open Container Initiative container runtime for Kubernetes that provides an alternative to Docker.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Brendan Burns about GA of OpenShift on Azure
The general availability (GA) of OpenShift on Azure was included alongside several other Kubernetes-related announcements at Microsoft Build 2019 and Red Hat Summit 2019, which recently concluded in Seattle and Boston, concurrently. InfoQ caught up with Brendan Burns, a co-founder of the Kubernetes platform and a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, regarding the announcement.