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GitLab 11.9 Released with Automated Secrets Detection
GitLab 11.9 has been released with automated secrets detection and additional merge request approval rulesets. GitLab is a software development lifecycle support tool, providing project planning, source code management, and CI/CD capabilities.
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Ts.ED Provides TypeScript Framework Leveraging Express and Decorators
Ts.ED provides a server-side TypeScript framework on top of Node.js and Express. The framework provides classes and decorators to simplify common server-side patterns, and offers integration with many other projects including TypeORM, Swagger, GraphQL, AJV, Passport.js, and Socket.io, among others.
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Rust 1.34 Introduces Alternative Registries for Non-Public Crates
The most significant feature in Cargo 1.34 is support for using alternative cargo registries, which could be a game changer in enterprise environments. Additionally, this release also include support for ? in documentation tests, and several improvements to the standard library.
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Sitting Considered Deadly: Introduce Movement in Our Workdays
Prolonged sitting wreaks havoc on our bodies and our minds. A first step to introduce more movement throughout your workday is to organize a sit-stand workstation, claimed Marek Stój in his talk Sitting Considered Deadly at Codemotion Amsterdam 2019. He suggested alternating between the two and trying out various ways in which one can sit or stand.
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JEP 230: A New Microbenchmark Suite for JDK 12
The OpenJDK Microbenchmark Suite (JEP 230), based on the Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH), is a new feature in the release of JDK 12. Claes Redestad, principal member of technical staff at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about the new Microbenchmark Suite.
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NSFW.js: Machine Learning Applied to Indecent Content Detection
With the beta-released NSFW.js, developers can now include in their applications a client-side filter for indecent content. NSFW.js classifies images into one of five categories: Drawing, Hentai, Neutral, Porn, Sexy. Under some benchmarks, NSFW categorizes images with a 90% accuracy rate.
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Google Open-Sources GPipe Library for Faster Training of Large Deep-Learning Models
Google AI is open-sourcing GPipe, a TensorFlow library for accelerating the training of large deep-learning models.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of SignalR Service Bindings in Azure Functions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions, which provides the ability to push messages and content updates in real-time to connected clients. Moreover, this would start through the various triggers of Azure Functions, including services such as Cosmos DB and Service Bus.
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Google Announces the General Availability of Elastifile Cloud File Service for GCP
Recently, Google announced the availability of Elastifile Cloud File Service (ECFS) for its Cloud Platform (GCP) on their blog website. With ECFS, Google provides a managed file service for its customers.
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Prashanth Southekal on Applied Machine Learning
Prashanth Southekal, managing principal at DBP Institute, hosted a workshop last month at Enterprise Data World 2019 Conference, on applied machine learning techniques and when to use different ML algorithms.
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Build a Monolith before Going for Microservices: Jan de Vries at MicroXchg Berlin
Most developers don’t work at global large-scale companies like Netflix. Most developers work in much smaller companies with maybe up to 50 – 80 developers, Jan de Vries noted in his presentation at MicroXchg Berlin, where he argued that a properly built monolith in many cases is superior to a microservices based architecture. With a well-built monolith, it will also be easy to pull services out.
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Bringing Intelligence to Enterprise Content Management, Google Releases Document Understanding AI
At the recent Google Cloud Next Conference, Google announced a new beta machine learning service, called Document Understanding AI. The service targets Enterprise Content Management (ECM) workloads by allowing customers to organize, classify and extract key value pairs from unstructured content, in the enterprise, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
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Running Serverless Containers on Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run, now available in beta, allows you to run serverless applications based on Docker containers that are automatically activated when an HTTP request comes in. Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform and is based on KNative, which allows you to easily port your applications to any other platforms using Kubernetes clusters.
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Merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus into a Single Distributed Tracing Framework
The OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects have announced that they will merge into a single, unified project. The goals of the merge include creating a single instrumentation standard, maintaining essential functionality without including every feature from both projects, a loosely coupled architecture to enable pluggability, and cover within its scope traces, metrics and logs.
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React 16.8 Releases React Hooks: Reusable and Composable Logic in React Components
The React team recently released React 16.8 featuring React Hooks. Hooks encapsulate impure logic (such as state, or effects) with a functional syntax that allow hooks to be reused, composed, and tested independently. Developers may additionally define their own Hooks by composition with the predefined Hooks shipped with React 16.8.