Month: July 2020

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AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

By Christian Melendez

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In this article we explore improvements to functions in PHP 7, including the new array define(), returning a value from generator functions, generator delegation, and more.

By Deepak Vohra

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Juergen Hoeller covers some of the Spring Framework 5.2 technologies: R2DBC, RSocket, the core component container for GraalVM support and compile-time annotation indexing.

By Jüergen Hoeller

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Cornelia Davis discusses what distinguishes Pivotal Container Service and covers some of the latest advancements coming from the Kubernetes community, such as cluster-api and more.

By Cornelia Davis

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By Adelina Turcu

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JavaScript developers can now write IoT software on a large range of devices, including low-specs micro-controllers with as little as 32KB of memory. As the TC53 committee and companies like Moddable create standards and software for the interoperability of heterogeneous hardware, IoT companies may tap in a large pool of JavaScript developers, and leverage the productivity of a scripting language.

By Bruno Couriol, Peter Hoddie, Lizzie Prader

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IoT SiteWise is a fully managed service in AWS, which automates the processing of data from the plant floor, the structuring and marking of data, and generation of real-time metrics to monitor. The service provides customers with a way to connect their on-premise industrial equipment via a gateway to link their on-premises servers to the AWS cloud, where the data accumulates for analysis.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Organizations are increasingly focusing on the humanization of workplaces and supporting professionals to perform better. Ways to make workplaces more humanistic are going off-script, experimenting with working hours, being vulnerable as leaders, and appreciating diversity.

By Ben Linders

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Jay Alammar offers a mental map of Machine Learning prediction models and how to apply them to real-world problems with many examples from existing businesses and products.

By Jay Alammar

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Jon Topper presents a structured review of the architectural and operational choices of 150 platform teams. Topper explores several themes, talks about common mistakes, and gives advice on how to avoid these. The review tool used is part of the AWS Well-Architected program.

By Jon Topper