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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Extend Azure PaaS Resources to Your Network Using Azure Private Link
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new preview service, called Azure Private Link, which provides organizations the ability to connect to Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, or their own services, using a private IP address. Azure Private Link connections travel over Microsoft’s backbone network and avoid exposure from the public internet.
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Vue 2 vs. Vue 3: James Stewart at Vue Glasgow Meetup
James Stewart recently compared the incoming Vue 3 function-based Composition API to the current Vue 2.x class-based Options API. In a presentation held at the second Vue.js Glasgow meetup event, Stewart analyzed the code from the same application written with both APIs, and concluded that the Vue 3 API leads to better code structuring, and makes the isolation and composition of logic easier.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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Microsoft .NET Conf 2019: .NET Core 3.0, C# 8.0, F# 4.7, and Machine Learning
At the 2019 edition of .NET Conf, streamed online earlier this week, Microsoft announced several new features for the .NET ecosystem. .NET Core, ASP.NET, and EF Core 3.0 were released, together with C# 8.0 and F# 4.7. The new releases have a considerable impact on how Windows Desktop, Web, and Mobile applications are developed. New features and tools for Visual Studio 2019 were also showcased.
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Spotting and Calling Out Micro-Inequities
Micro inequities, small events based on subtle unintentional biases, are pervasive and can lead to discriminatory behaviour, both negative and positive, argued Coral Movasseli in her session at Women in Tech Dublin 2019. The good news is that behaviour containing micro-inequities is malleable through counter-stereotypic training, intergroup contact, and by taking the perspective of others.
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Storybook 5.2 Improves Design System Documentation
The recent Storybook 5.2 release delivers a new approach for generating design system documentation. Storybook 5.2 streamlines component documentation to make best practice documentation easier for anyone creating Storybook projects.
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Design and Implementation of a DDD-Based Modular Monolith
Kamil Grzybek recently published a project where he has designed, implemented, and in detail described a monolithic application with a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach. His goal is to show how a monolithic application can be designed and implemented in a modular way. He also discusses some architectural considerations and design patterns he has found useful in the application.
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AdoptOpenJDK Introduces Quality Assurance Program
AdoptOpenJDK has created a comprehensive set of over 30,000 tests designed to ensure compatibility, performance, and reliability of their JRE distributions. The test suites are small enough to be run regularly by those working on the project, and also benefit those who simply use the project.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 3.0 simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new release includes support for Windows Desktop apps using Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), new JSON APIs, support for Linux ARM64, and overall performance improvements. F# 4.7 and C# 8.0 are also featured as part of this release.
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Creating an Online Platform for Refugees Using Lean Startup
What do you do if you want to reach a new user group whose complex needs you need to learn about quickly? At Agile Business Day 2019, Stephanie Gasche shared her experience using lean startup methods to create an online platform, without financial support, for the integration of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Swift 5.1 Brings Module Stability, Opaque Return Types, Property Wrappers and More
While module stability is by far the most impactful new feature in Swift 5.1, the latest version of Apple's language includes a number of new language constructs, such as property wrappers and opaque return types, and a number of standard library extensions.
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Facebook Open-Sources RoBERTa: an Improved Natural Language Processing Model
Facebook AI open-sourced a new deep-learning natural-language processing (NLP) model, Robustly-optimized BERT approach (RoBERTa). Based on Google's BERT pre-training model, RoBERTa includes additional pre-training improvements that achieve state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks, using only unlabeled text from the world-wide web, with minimal fine-tuning and no data augmentation.
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Highlights from JAFAC 2019 Day 2: Leadership, Cultural Readiness, Self Care and Growth Mindset
Continuing the coverage of JAFAC 2019 (Just Another F&#k!ng Agile Conference), the conference brings different voices to the fore and highlighting ways that agile ideas are being applied in a wide variety of contexts. Important themes that emerged on day two included cultural readiness for change, the importance of self care, and the need for a growth mindset at all levels of an organisation.