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AWS Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding for Bond Trading Predictions
AWS developed the Deep Graph Knowledge Embedding Library (DGL-KE), a knowledge graph embedding library built on the Deep Graph Library (DGL). DGL is a scalable, high performance Python library for deep learning in graphs. This library is used by the advanced machine learning systems developed with Trumid to build a credit trading platform.
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The Road to Removing JQuery from Gov.uk
When the team that maintains the gov.uk website faced the issue of updating their old and outdated jQuery dependency, they decided instead to get rid of it altogether. Among other benefits, they achieved a not negligible performance improvement and, in the process, created a migration guide for other developers to tap into.
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Adopting Remote Development Environments at Slack
The Slack internal tools team recently talked about utilizing remote development environments in their application development workflow. By January 2022, over 90% of engineers had started using the remote development workflow at Slack, which lead to an increase in developer productivity.
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Meta Open-Sources 175B Parameter Chatbot BlenderBot 3
Meta AI Research open-sourced BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter chatbot that can learn from live interactions with users "in the wild." In evaluations by human judges, BlenderBot 3 achieves a 31% rating increase compared to the previous BlenderBot version.
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Amazon CloudFront Supports HTTP/3
AWS recently announced that CloudFront distributions support HTTP version 3 (HTTP/3) requests over QUIC. HTTP/3 is optional and provides faster response times and enhanced security over previous HTTP versions.
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Next Generation of Data Movement and Processing Platform at Netflix
Netflix engineering recently published in a tech blog how they used data mesh architecture and principles as the next generation of data platform and processing to unleash more business use cases and opportunities. Data mesh is the new paradigm shift in data management that enables users to easily import and use data without transporting it to a centralized location like a data lake.
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Virtual Machine Threat Detection in Google Security Command Center Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) as a built-in service in Security Command Center Premium, which can detect if hackers attempt to mine cryptocurrency in a company's cloud environment.
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Java News Roundup: JReleaser 1.2, Spring Batch, PrimeFaces, Quarkus, JobRunr, Apache Beam
It was very quiet for Java news during the week of August 22nd, 2022, featuring news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Batch 5.0.0-M5, Quarkus 2.11.3, JReleaser 1.2.0, PrimeFaces 12.0.0-M3, JobRunr 5.1.8, Apache Beam 2.14.0 and Apache Johnzon 1.2.19.
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Cloud Security Posture Management Now Available in Vulnerability Scanner Trivy
The open source vulnerability scanner Trivy has been recently extended to support cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities. While initially available only for AWS, Trivy will soon get support for other cloud providers, says Aqua Security.
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Trusted Advisor Priority Capability Now Available for Enterprise Support Customers
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of a new capability for their Trusted Advisor service with Trusted Advisor Priority, allowing Enterprise Support customers prioritized and context-driven recommendations manually curated by the AWS account team based on their knowledge of the customer’s environment and the machine-generated checks from AWS Services.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation in the cloud targeted to developers. Integrated with Windows 365, the new service supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows and simplifies onboarding of new developers.
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Google Releases CameraX 1.2 Beta with MLKit Integration
Now available in beta, CameraX 1.2 brings out-of-the-box integration with some of MLKit vision APIs and a new feature aimed to reduce shutter button lag when taking pictures.
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Slack Implements Circuit Breakers to Improve CI/CD Pipeline Availability
Slack recently published how it implemented the Circuit Breaker pattern to improve its CI/CD pipeline availability. Before this project, engineers at Slack saw challenges as peak request volumes in internal tooling caused cascade failures in dependent systems. Since completion, engineers saw increased service availability and fewer bad developer experiences like flakiness from failing services.
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AWSGoat Open-Source Project for Pen Testing AWS Cloud Solutions
AWSGoat is a vulnerable-by-design infrastructure on AWS, featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and ECS. It mimics real-world infrastructure with additional flaws and uses a black-box approach, including multiple escalation paths.
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Programming Observability: Measuring the Maturity of Observability as Code
Observability can be programmed and automated with observability as code. A maturity model can be used to measure and improve the adoption of observability as code implementation. Yury Niño Roa, cloud infrastructure engineer at Google, spoke about programming observability at InfoQ live August 2022.