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Facebook Open-Sources PyText NLP Modeling Framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyText, a natural-language-processing (NLP) modeling framework that is used in the Portal video-calling device and M Suggestions in Facebook Messenger.
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Amazon Announces AWS PrivateLink Support for Its ECR and ECS Services
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced AWS PrivateLink support for its Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Elastic Container Service (ECS). With AWS PrivateLink support customers can create endpoints for ECS and ECR appearing as elastic network interfaces with a private IP address in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
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GoDaddy Announces Sponsorship of AdoptOpenJDK to Further its Commitment to a Free and Open Internet
GoDaddy, the well-known domain name registrar company, recently announced sponsorship of the AdoptOpenJDK community. Charles Beadnall, CTO at GoDaddy, and Martijn Verburg, co-founder and CEO at jClarity and co-founder of AdoptOpenJDK, spoke to InfoQ about this new sponsorship.
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Making Machine Learning Adoptable for Clinicians
Dr. Alexander Scarlat explains the core tenants of machine learning in his 12-part series "Machine Learning Primer for Clinicians." Scarlat covers defining aspects of machine learning, followed by examples that communicate aspects of measuring the performance of machine learning models. The series uses animated charts in place of the math to help readers understand the machine learning concepts.
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Testing Complex Distributed Systems at FT.com: Sarah Wells Shares Lessons Learned
The complexity in complex distributed systems isn’t in the code, it’s between the services or functions. Testing implies balancing finding problems versus delivering value, said Sarah Wells at the European Testing Conference. Testers often have the best understanding of what the system does; they have a good hypothesis about what went wrong, and are able to validate it pretty quickly.
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Experiences Moving from Microservices to Workflows at Jet.com
The Order Management System (OMS) at Jet was originally developed using a collection of microservices orchestrating tasks. As the company grew, the challenges with this architecture also grew until they decided to build a new workflow-based platform. In a blog post, James Novino at Jet describes the challenges with their old system and an overview of the new platform.
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TNG-Hooks: Reuse and Compose Stateful, Effectful Logic within Regular Functions
With the new TNG-Hooks library, developers can now decorate regular, standalone functions with useful and frequent stateful and effectful logic, such as querying a remote database or accessing out-of-scope contextual data. The code reuse and composition enabled by Hooks potentially contributes to a smaller, more maintainable and more robust code base.
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A Conversation about ZipSlip, NodeJS Security, and BBS Hacking
Earlier this year, the popular Bower package manager was found vulnerable to archive extraction, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files on a user's disk. As it turns out, the vector attacks used by this exploit have been known since the early days of BBS. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Liran Tal to learn more about software security, and NodeJS security in particular.
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Apache Releases NetBeans 10.0 Featuring Enhanced Support for JDK 11
The Apache Software Foundation recently released NetBeans 10.0 featuring enhanced support for JDK 11, adding support for JUnit 5, and the reintegration of the PHP, JavaScript, and Groovy modules. Apache has committed to two releases in 2019 to include support for JDK 12 and JDK 13.
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Retrospective 3.0 at Ocado Technology
Toni Tassani identifies retrospective pitfalls, such as stale and repetitive activities and raises risks: the retrospective as an excuse for not solving issues on the spot, identifying an experiment but not driving the impediment to resolution, Post-it theater. He suggests looking at retrospectives radically differently, leveraging continuous improvement techniques borrowed from Kanban.
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Tech Ethics and Professionalism
Anne Currie, strategist at Container Solutions and co-founder of the Sustainable Servers campaign, is giving a talk titled "Are Tech Ethics Unprofessional?" at the upcoming Aginext.io conference. She spoke to InfoQ about her talk and why ethics has become such an important topic in recent times.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Support for Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced support for Azure IoT Edge on virtual machines. This new capability expands Microsoft’s support for virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Using these virtualization platforms, customers can choose to run Azure IoT Edge on Windows, a variety of Linux distributions or containers.
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Adiantum Brings Disk Encryption to Low-End Smartphones
Adiantum is a new encryption algorithm for low-end smartphones, smartwatches, and other Android Pie devices that are too slow to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) standard for storage encryption.
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FoundationDB's Record Layer Supports Relational Database Semantics, Schema Management and Indexing
FoundationDB NoSQL database's new Record Layer supports relational database semantics, schema management, primary and secondary indexes, and query capabilities. The FoundationDB team announced last month the open source release of the Record Layer.
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Highly Available MySQL Clustering at WePay Using Orchestrator, Consul and HAProxy
WePay’s engineering team talks about their new highly available MySQL cluster built with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator. It improves upon their previous architecture by reducing any downtime from 30 minutes to 40-60 seconds.