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PayPal's Gimel Analytics Platform Provides Unified Data API and GSQL
Romit Mehta and Deepak Chandramouli from PayPal spoke at the recent QCon.ai Conference about Gimel data analytics platform and how it can be used to commoditize data access. InfoQ spoke with Mehta and Chandramouli about the data platform and its support in the areas of security,
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Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Released with Focus on Performance, Flexibility and Consistency
Pivotal has announced the General Availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream 2.0. This release includes a complete revamp of content-type negotiation functionality (allowing user-defined message converters), polling consumers, micrometer metrics support, enhanced Apache Kafka Streams support, and more.
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GCP Release “kaniko”, a Tool to Build Container Images inside Unprivileged Containers or Kubernetes
Google has released "kaniko", an open source tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. kaniko does not depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
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IBM Looking for a Quantum "Killer App"
A first bunch of startups have joined IBM’s Q Network to help explore practical applications of quantum computing for business and science, writes IBM Research director Jeff Welser, looking for a quantum killer app.
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Jakarta EE Working Group Established
Future versions of the Java EE technology will be branded as Jakarta EE, and it’s currently under active development at the Eclipse Foundation. When Java EE was under Oracle’s stewardship, it used the JCP to make decisions and introduce new features. Since there’s no JCP for Java EE at Eclipse, a new process had to be established. That process is now called the Jakarta EE Working Group.
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Lean-Agile Procurement for Outsourcing
One of the last barriers to organisations becoming agile in their operations is the procurement process. At the recent Agilia Conference, Mirko Kleiner presented on Lean-Agile Procurement, an approach to negotiating service contracts which involves procurement specialists, IT teams and suppliers, to move from a combative stance to a collaborative approach to addressing the customers’ needs.
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An Early Look at Zircon, Google Fuchsia New Microkernel
Google has published the official book about Fuchsia, its new operating systems aimed at IoT and mobile devices. Fuchsia will be based on a new microkernel called Zircon.
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Metrics Collection from Large Scale IoT Deployments at Vivint
Vivint's engineering team built their own metrics collection platform to collect and analyze metrics from their deployed devices. The key motivation behind writing their own system was to be able to store only aggregated data and focus on its analysis, which they achieve by their Rothko project.
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Git 2.17 Improves Moved Code Diffs and Object Search
Git latest release, version 2.17, brings a multiplicity of improvements and minor new features, including better moved code coloring, finding objects in history, and more.
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What It Means to Be a Site Reliability Engineer According to a Survey from Catchpoint
Site Reliability Engineering intersects software engineering with IT Operations and is an approach created at Google in 2003 and described in detail in their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, How Google Runs Production Systems. Digital experience intelligence provider, Catchpoint, surveyed 416 Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with the goal of understanding what it means to be a SRE.
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WebAssembly Studio: An Online WASM IDE Tool from Mozilla
WebAssembly Studio is an online tool developed by Mozilla and used to compile C/C++ and Rust code into WASM.
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Amazon S3 Receives New Updates: New Storage Class and General Availability of S3 Select
Amazon S3 recently received new updates to its service: a new storage class S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (Z-IA) Storage Class and S3 Select capability, now generally available for customers. With S3 Select, customers can get a subset of data faster, while the new storage One Zone IA class is a low-cost option for retrieving infrequent data.
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D3 Announces 5.0 Release of SVG, Canvas, and HTML Library for Manipulating Data
The D3 team has announced their 5.0 release, which embraces several newer asynchronous patterns such as promises and fetch, and updates key visualization APIs.
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Software Engineering for Creativity, Collaboration, and Inventiveness
A software engineering discipline must be iterative, based on feedback, incremental, experimental, and empirical. Craftsmanship is not sufficient; engineering is an amplifier, it enhances creativity, collaboration, and inventiveness. Continuous delivery is grounded in engineering principles.
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Kayenta: An Open Source Canary Analysis Tool from Netflix and Google
Kayenta is an open source canary analysis tool used to evaluate the readiness for production of a new version of a software.