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InfoQ Headlines Now Available as Alexa Flash Briefing
InfoQ released an Alexa Flash briefing that tells you the latest tech-news available on InfoQ.com. This flash briefing skill gives you an update on the latest trends in software, and summarizes it in less than two minutes. The skill is available wherever Amazon has English Alexa skills.
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EnvoyCon 2018: The Rise of Envoy Proxy and the xDS APIs, and Square and Alibaba Adoption
The inaugural EnvoyCon ran in Seattle, USA, alongside the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon events, and explored the past, present and future of the Envoy Proxy. Key takeaways from the first part of the day included that the success of Envoy is driven by the community engagement and the technical qualities in regard to performance, extensibility and well-defined management APIs.
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Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. Developers can build functions using Python 3.6, based upon the open-source Functions 2.0 runtime and publish them to a Consumption plan.
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Cross-Platform Augmented Reality Apps with Unity AR Foundation
Unity, maker of the eponymous game engine, continues to advance its AR Foundation project, which aims to make it easier for developers to create AR apps that runs both on iOS and Android. Its latest release adds support for ARKit’s ARWorldMap and Unity’s Lightweight Render Pipeline.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Cloud Map: "Service Discovery for Cloud Resources"
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new service called AWS Cloud Map which discovers and tracks cloud resources. With the rise of microservice architectures, it has been increasingly difficult to manage dynamic resources in these architectures. But, using AWS Cloud Map, developers can monitor the health of databases, queues, microservices, and other cloud resources with custom names.
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What Can We Learn from the Digital Natives Using Lean
Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder and CEO of Theodo UK, presented "what lean can learn from digital natives" at Lean Digital Summit 2018. Digital natives are familiar with the lean startup and agile practices. They go further by combining Agile with the Toyota Production System which enables them to experiment with ideas, spread innovations, and scale fast.
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Deno: Secure V8 TypeScript Runtime from Original Node.js Creator
Deno is a rethink of a server-side JavaScript runtime from original Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, to address regrets and challenges with Node.js.
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Grafana Adds Log Data Correlation to Time Series Metrics
The Grafana team announced an alpha version of Loki, their logging platform that ties in with other Grafana features like metrics query and visualization. Loki adds a new client agent promtail and serverside components for log metadata indexing and storage.
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GitLab 11.6 Supports Serverless Function Deployment
The latest release of GitLab is able to use Knative and Kubernetes to build, deploy, and manage serverless workloads leveraging the Function as a service (FaaS) model.
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The Future of Work Is Female
Jobs currently performed by the majority of women, where it’s more about adaptability, improvisation, emotional intelligence, and implicit knowledge, will predominate in the future, according to Agnieszka Walorska. Artificial intelligence and robotics will automate highly specialized jobs mostly performed by men.
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License Changes for Confluent Platform Restricting Cloud Vendor Usage
Confluent has announced changes to the license for some components of their Confluent Platform, a streaming platform which provides capabilities to transport data, and tools to connect systems and data sources. The license changes specifically focus on restricting the usage of these components by SaaS providers.
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Raw String Literals Removed from Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen
The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ramp-down point where the feature set if frozen. Amongst other things JDK 12 provides a preview of an enhanced Switch statement, adds a number of improvements to the G1 garbage collector, and introduces a new experimental garbage collector called Shenandoah. But one major proposal for JDK 12, raw string literals, has been removed.
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Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.1 Adds New Consensus Algorithms and WebAssembly Smart Contracts
After the initial GA release back in February, the Hyperledger project has just released version 1.1 of Sawtooth, which mostly focuses on making it simpler to add new consensus algorithms and brings WebAssembly smart contracts.
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Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems
Nick Craver, architecture lead at Stack Exchange, wrote about their monitoring systems in a recent article. He discussed the philosophy and motivation behind their monitoring strategy and talked about their toolset - mainly Bosun, Grafana and Opserver.
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Amazon Announces the Availability of AWS Europe Stockholm Region
Public Cloud providers are opening more regions every year. Before the end of 2018, Amazon announced the availability of another new region. This new region is the fifth region in Europe; the official name is Europe (Stockholm), and the API name is eu-north-1.