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Uber AI's Fiber, Rancher 2.4, eBPF, Cloud API Gateways, TLS in Java 8, Firefox 75, Zoom Risks, State at the Edge, Google & Apple Contact Tracing

How can you leverage WebAssembly?

Everyone in the JavaScript and Web Dev world is talking about WebAssembley. Understand where it fits on the adoption curve and how are people using it. Read the InfoQ Trends Report.
 

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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2020

QCon returned to London this past March for its fourteenth year in the city, attracting over 1,600 senior developers, architects, data engineers, team leads, and CTOs. This article provides a summary of the key takeaways. (Article)

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Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson on Mental Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson from Container Solutions about maintaining mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Podcast)

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It’s time to lead on innovations and be the disruptor in your industry

During challenging times it may be easier to forget your software goals. Make an impact on your tribe by helping others to learn and change. Attend QCon Munich, the conference that can help you make a change in your community. Find out more.

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. COVID-19 and AI: Virtual Conference at Stanford Discusses the Future

  2. Google's SEED RL Achieves 80x Speedup of Reinforcement-Learning

Uber AI Introduce Fiber, a New Library for Distributed Machine Learning

Uber AI has open-sourced Fiber, a new library which aims to empower users in implementing large-scale machine learning computation on computer clusters. The main objectives of the library are to leverage heterogeneous computing hardware, dynamically scale algorithms, and reduce the burden on engineers implementing complex algorithms on clusters. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer

  2. AWS Announces the General Availability of New Security Service: Amazon Detective

  3. Rancher 2.4 Supports 1 Million Kubernetes Clusters

  4. Periskop: SoundCloud's Exception Monitoring Service

eBPF - Rethinking the Linux Kernel

Thomas Graf talks about how companies like Facebook and Google use BPF to patch 0-day exploits, how BPF will change the way features are added to the kernel forever, and how BPF is introducing a new type of application deployment method for the Linux kernel. (Presentation with transcript included)
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The Future of Cloud Native API Gateways

Richard Li talks about the evolution of API gateways over the past ten years, and how the original problems being solved have shifted in relation to cloud native technologies and workflow. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Git Becomes 15: Q&A with GitHub and GitLab

WebAssembly Used by Java-to-Web Compiler CheerpJ 2.0 to Port Java Applications to Browsers

LeaningTech recently released the second major iteration of CheerpJ. CheerpJ 2.0 may convert Java applications into a mix of HTML, WebAssembly and JavaScript, so that developers can run Java applications (including applets) in browsers or integrate Java libraries into web applications. CheerpJ 2.0 uses WebAssembly to improve runtime speed. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. TLS Improvements Backported to Java 8

Getting Started with Quarkus

Quarkus created quite a buzz in the enterprise Java ecosystem in 2019. What exactly is Quarkus? How is it different from other technologies established in the market? How can Quarkus help me or my organization? To better explain the motivation behind the Quarkus project, we need to look into the current state of software development. (Article)

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Mono: from Xamarin to WebAssembly, Blazor, and .NET 5 - Q&A with Miguel de Icaza

Mono started as an open source .NET platform in 2001, being developed by Xamarin until 2011. Since the company's acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, both Mono and .NET Core have been developed in parallel. In the light of the most recent releases, InfoQ interviewed Miguel de Icaza - the original author of the Mono project - to talk about the current state of Mono and its future in the .NET ecosystem. (Article)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Firefox 75 Revamps Address Bar, Keeps Release Schedules despite Coronavirus

  2. Remaining Accessibility Issues in HTML Controls

  3. Ionic 5 Release Supports iOS 13 Consistency, Angular Ivy

React’s Future - under the Hook

Adam Klein rebuilds an existing React app using some of the new features including hooks, and explores pitfalls and patterns. (Presentation)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android

TinyGo Aims to Bring Go to the Internet of Things

Google-sponsored TinyGo is a new LLVM-based Go compiler to make it possible to run Go programs on microcontrollers, including the Arduino Uno and the BBC micro.bit, as well as modern browsers using Web Assembly. (News)

Infinite Parallel Universes: State at the Edge

Peter Bourgon describes the architecture and communication model of a global-scale, edge state system he is prototyping at Fastly. He shares the challenges of state management, when the speed of light can't be ignored. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Is service mesh the right solution for you?

Learn why companies such as Google, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Twitter are using service meshes. Read the ultimate guide to service mesh.

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Pandemic Shines Security Spotlight on Zoom Collaboration Risks

Leading through Experimentation in a Distributed Agile Organization

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. When your teams and organizations are distributed, experimentation becomes the primary tool to aid our change navigation. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation are important for agile coaches and all leaders. (Article)

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