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AWS Introduces Proton - a New Container Management Service in Public Preview
During the annual AWS re:Invent developer conference, the public cloud provider announced the public preview of AWS Proton, a new fully-managed deployment service for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, customers can automate and manage infrastructure provisioning and code deployments for serverless and container-based applications.
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2021 State of Testing Survey: Call for Participation
The 2021 State of Testing survey aims to provide insights into how the testing profession develops and to recognize the adoption of testing practices and testing trends. The survey is open through December.
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AWS Now Offering Mac Mini-Based EC2 Instances
Announced at re:Invent 2020, AWS new EC2 Mac Instances enable running macOS on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute to build, test, package, and sign Xcode applications for Apple platforms, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari.
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Kubernetes 1.20: Q&A with Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard
InfoQ caught up with Jeremy Rickard, release lead and staff engineer at VMware, regarding the Kubernetes 1.20 release, which is one of the largest releases this year.
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Microsoft Launches New Data Governance Service Azure Purview in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a new data governance solution in public preview on its cloud platform called Azure Purview. This new service automates the discovery of data and cataloging while minimizing compliance risk and helps customers map all their data, no matter where it resides, to provide an end-to-end view of their data estate.
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NativeScript Now a Member of the OpenJS Foundation
NativeScript recently joined the OpenJS foundation as an incubating project. The framework, which allows developers to write applications leveraging native mobile APIs with JavaScript and TypeScript, will benefit from the OpenJS foundation support in terms of governance and community outreach, and strengthen its long-term viability.
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LinkedIn Migrates away from Lambda Architecture to Reduce Complexity
Software engineers from LinkedIn recently published how they migrated away from a Lambda architecture. The Lambda architecture implementation caused their solution to have high operational overhead and added complexity, leading to slow product iteration times. As a result, the engineers chose to migrate to a Lambda-less architecture, resulting in significant development velocity improvements.
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AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview
During the AWS re:Invent keynote, AWS announced the new database service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview. The service is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible and ACID-compliant relational database engine that runs in the Amazon cloud and is open-source.
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Google Releases New Coral APIs for IoT AI
Google has released new APIs and tools for their Coral AI toolkit. The new release brings parity across the C++ and Python SDKs and includes more efficient memory usage. Other updates include additional pre-trained models and general-availability of model pipelining.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET Core
In part 3 of our .NET 5 Breaking Changes series, we look at ASP.NET Core.
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Airbnb Releases Visx, a Set of Low-Level Primitives for Interactive Visualizations with React
Airbnb Engineering recently released the first major iteration of visx, a set of low-level React components that can be composed into interactive visualizations. Visx builds on D3 primitives, React component model, and React DOM handling. Visx strives to provide a data visualization front-end solution that is easy to learn without sacrificing expressiveness.
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Grafana Announces Grafana Tempo, a Distributed Tracing System
Grafana Labs recently released the distributed tracing backend Grafana Tempo. It only requires object storage like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to operate. Grafana Tempo integrates with any existing logging system to create links from trace IDs in log lines.
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Logz.io Extends Monitoring Platform with Hosted Prometheus and Jaeger
Logz.io recently announced the addition of Prometheus-as-a-Service to their infrastructure monitoring product. The service incorporates the metrics collection of Prometheus with the Logz.io platform that includes Grafana, ELK, and, also added recently, Jaeger. The data correlation features included within Logz.io allow for connecting metrics, traces, and logs all within a single platform.
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Safe Interoperability between Rust and C++ with CXX
CXX enables calling C++ code from Rust and vice versa through safe low-level bindings so you do not have to create your foreign function interface on top of unsafe C-style signatures. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with CXX creator David Tolnay.
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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2
During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas.