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PostgreSQL Babelfish, AWS Proton, Kubernetes 1.20, Why DSLs?, mvnd, .NET 5 Breaking Changes, F#, Fluid Framework, Google Opens Fuchsia, LinkedIn Architecture, Remote Team Challenges

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The InfoQ eMag - Real World Chaos Engineering

Creating a successful chaos practice isn’t purely an engineering problem. As with many aspects ,of cloud native computing, it requires buy-in across the organisation. In this eMag we’ve pulled together a variety of case studies to show mechanisms by which you can do so, even in tightly regulated industries where you might face considerable opposition. (eMag)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Launches New Data Governance Service Azure Purview in Public Preview

  2. AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview

Google Releases New Coral APIs for IoT AI

Google has released new APIs and tools for their Coral AI toolkit. The new release brings parity across the C++ and Python SDKs and includes more efficient memory usage. Other updates include additional pre-trained models and general-availability of model pipelining. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon S3 Now Delivers Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

  2. AWS Introduces Proton - a New Container Management Service in Public Preview

  3. Large-Scale Infrastructure Hardware Availability at Facebook

  4. Kubernetes 1.20: Q&A with Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard

  5. Grafana Announces Grafana Tempo, a Distributed Tracing System

The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Native API Gateways

Daniel Bryant discusses the evolution of API gateways over the past ten years, current challenges of using Kubernetes, strategies for exposing services and APIs, and the (potential) future of gateways. (Presentation)

Can Chaos Coerce Clarity from Compounding Complexity? Certainly

Matt Simons attempts to catch some Black Swans in a system’s architecture and infrastructure, hidden in increased complexity. (Presentation)

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Why DSLs? A Collection of Anecdotes

Two years ago, I gave a talk on one of the systems discussed here. Together with a colleague, I explained the business case, the technical benefits, why a regular programming language would not work and the all-around positive outcomes of using the DSLs, plus some of the problems we’ve run into. (Article)

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mvnd: Maven's Speed Daemon, a Conversation with Peter Palaga and Guillaume Nodet

At almost 20 years old, Maven still remains Java's World build tool with the biggest market share (more than 60%). To adapt to today's needs of agility and shorter release cycles mvnd - Maven Daemon brings that needed speed using techniques made popular by Takari or Gradle. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. .NET 5 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET Core

What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter

Last month, at the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of F#. F# is as functional-first, cross-platform, open-source .NET programming language, and it’s developed by Microsoft and several open source partners and contributors. InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5. (Article)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Open-Sources Fluid Framework for Distributed, Scalable, Real-Time Collaborative Web Apps

  2. NativeScript Now a Member of the OpenJS Foundation

  3. Airbnb Releases Visx, a Set of Low-Level Primitives for Interactive Visualizations with React

Healthy Code, Happy People (an Introduction to Elm)

Katja Mordaunt discusses writing webapps in a simpler way than using the traditional HTML, CSS and JavaScript. (Presentation)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. MediaPipe Introduces Holistic Tracking for Mobile Devices

  2. AWS Now Offering Mac Mini-Based EC2 Instances

Google Opens Fuchsia to Public Contributions

Four years after open sourcing Fuchsia, its new capability-based operating system aimed at IoT and mobile, Google has announced the project will now accept contributions from the public. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. LinkedIn Migrates away from Lambda Architecture to Reduce Complexity

Let Devs Be Devs: Abstracting away Compliance and Reliability to Accelerate Modern Cloud Deployments

Rahul Arya shares how they built a platform to abstract away compliance, make reliability with Chaos Engineering completely self-serve, and enable developers to ship code faster. (Presentation)

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Dealing with Remote Team Challenges

Remote working provides challenges such as providing equitable access, ensuring adequate resources and tooling, addressing social isolation and issues of trust. Remote-first and truly asynchronous teams tend to consistently perform better. In the future, organisations will continue to have remote on their agenda. Fully realising the benefits of remote teams requires trust building and intent. (Article)

Q&A on the Book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies

The book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies by Tim Rains provides an overview of the threat landscape over a twenty year period. It provides insights and solutions that can be used to develop an effective cybersecurity strategy and improve vulnerability management. (Article)

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