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AWS Announces Node.js 14 Support for Its Function as a Service, Lambda
Recently AWS announced Node.js version 14 support for its Function as a Service (FaaS), Lambda. Developers can now author AWS Lambda functions using Node.js' new features, such as top-level-await, enhanced diagnostics, modifications of the streams APIs, and a revised JavaScript engine for better performance.
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WebdriverIO 7 Rewritten in Typescript, Released with Improved Lighthouse Integration
The browser and mobile automation test framework WebdriverIO recently released a major update. Webdriver IO 7 is now written with TypeScript. TypeScript users may thus need to update their types, while JavaScript users should be largely unaffected. The new version also drops support for Node v10, upgrades the used Cucumber version to v7, and integrates better with Google Lighthouse.
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AWS Releases Privatelink for Amazon S3 into General Availability
AWS has recently announced that PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available (GA). With PrivateLink for Amazon S3, customers can securely connect Amazon S3 to on-premise resources.
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HashiCorp Terraform Adds Concise Diff Formatter and Sensitive Data Obfuscation
Hashicorp has released Terraform 0.14 into general availability. The release introduces a new concise diff format that limits the output to only the elements that are changing. Other improvements include the ability to hide sensitive data and produce lockfiles for provider dependencies.
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Rust Core Team Announces the Formation of the Rust Foundation
The Core Rust Team today announced the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation is a new independent non-profit organization whose purpose is to steward the Rust language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.
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Pinterest Describes an Architecture for Efficient Retrieval of Hierarchical Documents
In a recent blog post, Pinterest engineers describe how they implemented an efficient two-stage retrieval architecture to retrieve hierarchical documents in a home-grown search engine. They accomplished it by combining index flattening, index normalization, and index denormalization.
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JakartaOne Livestream 2020: Conference Summary
The second annual JakartaOne Livestream conference went live on December 8th, 2020, with the first of 12 one-hour sessions starting at 6:00am EST. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, these sessions included keynotes, 45-minute technical sessions, 15-minute theme sessions, and panel discussions delivered by a host of Java luminaries. There was also a special tribute to Bill Shannon.
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Thrift for Haskell Aims to Eliminate Bugs from RPC Code
Originally created at Facebook and now part of Apache, Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol aimed to enable efficient RPC at scale across services written in multiple languages. Facebook has recently open sourced hsthrift, which makes it possible to use Thrift in Haskell projects and take advantage of its dependent types to eliminate bugs in production.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.
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Open Policy Agent Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. OPA is an open source policy management and enforcement engine that has declarative policies and integrates with various systems including Kubernetes.
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Kaggle Publishes 2020 State of Machine Learning and Data Science Report
Kaggle has published a report on the State of Machine Learning and Data Science for 2020. The report is based on survey responses from over two thousand users currently employed as data scientists. The report notes that the "vast majority" of data scientists are under 35 years of age, two-thirds have a graduate degree, and most have less than 10 years coding experience.
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The Cloud Trust Paradox According to Google Cloud
In a series of three technical articles, Google Cloud has recently discussed how to trust cloud providers, covering the concepts of customer trust, security key management and scenarios where keeping encryption keys off the cloud may be necessary.
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Google Announces VM Manager, a Suite of Infrastructure Management Tools
In a recent blog post, Google announced VM Manager, a suite of infrastructure management tools to maintain large fleets of Compute Engine VMs more efficiently.
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JFrog to Shut down JCenter and Bintray
JFrog has announced that it is shutting down the Bintray asset hosting service, which includes the JCenter Java repository, often used by Gradle and Android builds. Uploads to Bintray will be blocked at the end of the month, and assets will be unavailable for download after the end of April, and deleted shortly afterwards. Read on to find out what this means for your Java build pipelines.
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Draft Published of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching
The Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has published a draft code of ethics that aims to raise the standards around agile coaching. It runs under the auspices of the Agile Alliance to independently represent the wider agile community.