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Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Enters Beta
Created by JetBrains to enable using Kotlin to build iOS and Android apps with native UI from a single codebase, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile has exited the experimental phase and is now available in beta.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new generally available (GA) service to build cloud-native relational applications. It is a distributed relational database offering with the scale, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB.
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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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Open Source Skyplane Targets Faster and Cheaper Data Transfers between Clouds
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley has recently released Skyplane, an open source tool to optimize the transfer of large datasets between cloud providers, reducing transfer times and costs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
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Threat Operations and Research Team Cloudforce One Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced that the threat operations and research team Cloudforce One began conducting briefings and is now generally available. Available as an add-on subscription, Cloudforce One includes threat data and briefings, security tools, and the ability to make requests for information (RFIs) to the team.
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NCC Group Dissect Aims to Scale Incident Response to Thousands of Systems
Developed at Fox-IT, part of NCC Group, Dissect is a recently open-sourced toolset that aims to enable incident response on thousands of systems at a time by analyzing large volumes of forensic data at high speed, says Fox-IT.
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Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
The GoF Design Patterns published in 1998 qualifies as a classic still being taught in universities and recommended as best practice in the industry. In his deep dive session from Devoxx, Venkat Subramaniam gave them a contemporary twist, by implementing Iterator, Strategy, Decorator or Factory Method with modern Java. Extras were: call around method or the infamous optional usage.
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New Grafana Releases Tighten Integration between Metrics and Tracing
Grafana Labs have recently released two new minor versions of their multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. The release of version 9.1 back in August was followed by 9.2 this week. These two new versions bring a variety of improvements on their major milestone 9.0 release, and tightens the integration between metrics and tracing.
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Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available
AWS announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium Chips. Trn1 instances deliver the highest performance on deep learning training of popular machine learning models on AWS, while offering up to 50% cost-to-train savings over comparable GPU-based instances.
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Learn to Fight Cyberattacks in 2023: Steve Poole's Call to Action at Devoxx
Almost a year after the world was shelled by log4, Sonatype’s Steve Poole - a long-time secure code promoter, sounded the alarm regarding the advancement of cyber attacks during his Devoxx talk. Cyberwarfare is a reality, and countries use cyberattacks to fight other countries. More than awareness, the talk gives us hope by revealing the tools each developer has at hand to fight this evil.
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Performance Testing Should Focus on Trends
Performance testing starts by setting a baseline and defining the metrics to track together with the development team. Nikolay Avramov advises executing performance tests and comparing the results frequently during development to spot degrading performance as soon as possible.
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HashiCorp Enhances Terraform Drift Detection with Continuous Validation
HashiCorp released a number of new features for Terraform including continuous validation and no-code provisioning. Both features are currently in beta for Terraform Cloud Business users. Additional releases include native Open Policy Agent (OPA) support and Azure provider automation.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Amazon SageMaker Clarify Now Supports Online Explainability for ML Predictions
Amazon is announcing that Amazon SageMaker Clarify now supports online explainability by providing explanations for machine learning model’s individual predictions in near real-time on live endpoints.