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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At AWS Storage Day 2021, the cloud provider announced Amazon FSx for ONTAP, a managed file system for ONTAP data management software. Supporting file access and storage functionalities already used by enterprise customers, the service targets the migration to the cloud of applications and workloads that require high-performance ONTAP storage.
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How Quantifying Information Leakage Helps to Protect Systems
Information leakage happens when observable information can be correlated with a secret. Secrets such as passwords, medical diagnosis, locations, or financial data uphold a lot of our world, and there are many types of information, like error messages or electrical consumption patterns, that can give hints to these secrets.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a new managed service tier for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. The new enterprise tier is available in preview.
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PyTorch 1.9 Release Includes Mobile, Scientific Computing, and Distributed Training Updates
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.9 which includes improvements for scientific computing, mobile support, and distributed training. Overall, the new release contains more than 3,400 commits since the 1.8 release.
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Google Introduces Minimum Instances to Reduce Cold Starts
Google’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering Cloud Functions now supports minimum (“min”) instances. With this new feature, Google aims to take away a well-known friction point of FaaS called "cold-starts".
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Docker Now Requiring Paid Subscription for Large Businesses
Docker has introduced a new Subscription Service Agreement which requires organizations with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in revenue to buy a paid subscription, starting at $5 per user per month. Additionally, Docker has launched a new Business subscription plan for larger organizations operating at scale.
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Java News Roundup: Roadmap for Spring 6.0 and Spring Boot 3.0, OpenJDK and Quarkus Updates
This week's Java roundup for August 30th, 2021, features news from SpringOne in which the roadmap of Spring Framework 6.0 and Spring Boot 3.0 was revealed, updates to OpenJDK JEPs, JDK 18, updates to the Quarkus 2.1 and 2.2 release trains, MicroProfile API release candidates, Open Liberty 21.0.0.9, Hibernate 5.6.0.Beta1, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.4 and a new JHipster project for Helidon.
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New Template DSL Tempura Focuses on Parsing Speed and Size
Luke Edwards recently released Tempura, a lightweight template DSL with fast parsing speeds. Like other static site generators’ templating languages, Tempura also features custom blocks for user-defined template directives. While Tempura’s primary use case is to generate HTML for web applications, it can be used in any context where a template DSL adds value vs. using JavaScript.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 13
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora supports major version 13 of PostgreSQL. The compatibility with the latest major PostgreSQL version adds improvements such higher performing partitioned table queries and deduplication of B-tree index entries.
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Chrome Browser Extensions Study Reveals Performance Impact of Popular Extensions
DebugBear recently published the results of a study reviewing the impact of the 1000 most popular Chrome extensions on browser performance and end-user experience. Some extensions may delay the page loading time by up to 4 seconds. Others shorten battery life by causing more than 20 seconds of CPU activity on page load.
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AWS Introduces Backup Audit Manager for Compliance Requirements
Amazon recently announced the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager, a new feature of AWS Backup to monitor the compliance status of backups and generate reports to meet business and regulatory requirements.
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Reviewing the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
In a recent article on Ably Blog, Alex Diaconu reviewed the eight fallacies of distributed computing and provided a number of hints at how to handle them. InfoQ has taken the chance to talk with Diaconu to learn more about how Ably engineers deal with the fallacies.
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Xamarin.Essentials 1.7 with New Web Authenticator Options and .NET MAUI Essentials
Xamarin.Essentials represent the critical library that enables developers to create apps that work seamlessly across various mobile platforms, providing an easy way to access the native APIs and consume them inside of the app. Based on the numbers, it has become one of the most widely used libraries in the .NET development environment.
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The “Backends for Frontends” Pattern at SoundCloud
SoundCloud recently published an article about their implementation of the Backends for Frontends pattern, adopted in 2013 while beginning to migrate towards a microservices-based architecture. SoundCloud tech lead Jorge Creixell concluded that this pattern has significant drawbacks that its adopters must adequately manage while enjoying its advantages.
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Tech People: Enhance Your Professional Journey with Mindfulness
In software development, we need to focus carefully and stay focused in order to be productive. Especially during a lockdown, people in tech are faced with stress, lack of concentration, and other mental problems that reduce their focus and motivation. To enhance tech people’s professional journey, a suggestion is to combine testing with mindfulness.