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Doubling Delivery Without Multiplying Staff, Using Lean Principles
Lean tools can help to improve productivity and fulfil customer commitments. At Keepeek, techniques like pull flow, PDCA, and Red Bin are used to analyse discrepancies. Improvements are prioritised on customer impact. As a result, their throughput increased significantly, customer satisfaction went up, and their NPS improved.
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Amazon Announces an AWS Well-Architected Tool to Review Workloads Against Best Practices
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new Well Architected tool - a self-service tool that helps customers review AWS workloads at any time without the need for an AWS Architect. Moreover, this new tool uses the AWS Well-Architect Framework launched back in 2015.
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Git 2.20 Brings Improved Workflows and Performance
Git 2.20 brings a wealth of changes and fixes, including improved cloning, fetching, grepping, etc. In addition, it now requires Vista on the Windows platform.
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InfoQ's New Desktop Design Launched
We've made a number of changes to InfoQ's desktop site, the third major overhaul of our design since we got started in 2006. You can switch to the new design now to try it out.
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AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond Officially Supported Runtimes
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including Lambda Layers, to centrally manage code and data shared across functions, and the Lambda Runtime API, expanding Lambda beyond JavaScript to any programming language.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Kubernetes Service Updates
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Kubernetes Service, their managed Kubernetes offering. The announcements include features around AKS virtual nodes, GPU support for Azure Container Instances, and the donation of the Virtual Kubelet project to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.0 Open Sources Auto-Unseal, Adds Batch Tokens
HashiCorp has released version 1.0 of Vault, their secrets management tool that open-sources the auto-unseal feature needed to continue using Vault server after a failure or a restart. In this version, a new type of token called batch is now available for ephemeral workloads. Another new feature is that service account tokens are now supported in Kubernetes auth to inject tokens into a pod.
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Microsoft Announces AI-Assisted IntelliCode for TypeScript and JavaScript in VS Code
Beyond the typical IntelliSense or code completion developers have come to appreciate, earlier this year Microsoft announced IntelliCode, a set of capabilities that provide AI-assisted development. The VS Code team has now announced a new experimental extension to bring IntelliCode to TypeScript and JavaScript users.
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Microsoft Introduces New API Management Consumption Tier for Serverless Architectures
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This tier allows for micro-based billing and aligns to serverless architecture principles including automated scaling, built-in high availability, per action billing and no infrastructure to provision or manage.
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GitHub Desktop 1.5 Simplifies Merge Conflict Resolution
The lastest version of GitHub official client app for macOS and Windows, GitHub Desktop 1.5, makes it easier to resolve merge conflicts and to create, add, or clone a repository. InfoQ has spoken with Neha Batra, GitHub Desktop engineering manager.
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Scaling Apache Kafka at Pinterest
Apache Kafka is used at Pinterest for transporting data for real time streaming applications, logging and visibility metrics for monitoring. Hosted on AWS, Pinterest’s Kafka installation uses the MirrorMaker and DoctorKafka tools for replication and high availability.
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Rust 1.31 Brings the First Rust 2018 Features, Non-Lexical Lifetimes and Module Improvements
Rust 1.31 is the first release that implements new features exclusive to Rust 2018 and does not guarantee source compatibility with existing code bases. Rust 2018 is a work in progress and Rust 1.31 only marks the beginning of a three year development cycle that will significantly extend the language.
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TensorSpace.js Delivers Neural Network 3D Visualization Framework
TensorSpace.js provides an open source browser-based neural network data visualization framework to complement the growing machine learning landscape by supporting pre-trained models created with TensorFlow.js, Keras, or TensorFlow.
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Embracing Diversity and Fostering Inclusion: A Necessity
In technology we need to consistently innovate and push boundaries, which we cannot do to the best of our ability without hiring, listening and retaining different demographics of people. A tech industry which actively supports and empowers underrepresented groups is a better industry for everyone. Embracing diversity and fostering an environment of inclusion improves the bottom line.
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Amazon Announces Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. This new service is called Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka, Amazon MSK for short, and is now in public preview.