Month: August 2020

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Fastify is an open source, low performance overhead Node.js web framework filling a significant need in the ecosystem. Fastify emphasizes developer experience as a driving force in building a solid open source project and community. The Fastify project is part of the OpenJS Foundation.

By Dylan Schiemann

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In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The panelists discuss DevOps buzzwords and when and where they might have value for organizations seeking performance improvements.

By John Allspaw, Damon Edwards, Dominica DeGrandis, Helen Beal

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Quality is not only about not releasing bugs to production, it is much more than that. Quality is a product that is user-friendly, easy to access and use, has high performance/short load time, and is about code that is stable and easy to maintain. Jette Pedersen gave a talk about how to ensure good quality products at Swiss Testing Day 2020.

By Ben Linders

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Emily Jiang performs live coding of building 12-factor microservices using MicroProfile programming mode and gets them running Open Liberty and Quarkus. Jiang deploys them to Kubernetes and Istio to see how they function.

By Emily Jiang

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The book Techlash by Ian Mitroff and Rune Storesund explains why companies need to become socially responsible by considering the potential negative outcomes of technology. It explains how proactive crisis management can help prevent a crisis by the early detection and correction of deviations from expected conditions.

By Ben Linders, Ian Mitroff, Rune Storesund

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Interview with developer Mikael Koskinen, He tells us about his new Plugin Framework, why he created it, how to get the best from it and plans for the future.

By Andy Clark

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Katy Anton looks at security vulnerabilities from a different angle, flipping the security from focusing on vulnerabilities (measured at the end) to focus on the security controls which can be used by developers from beginning in software development cycle.

By Katy Anton

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Amazon has published videos and supplementary materials from several of its internal Machine Learning University courses. The course lectures cover three machine-learning topics and can be watched on-demand on YouTube, while the slides, notebooks, and datasets can be downloaded from GitHub. A total of twelve courses are planned to be released by the end of the year.

By Anthony Alford

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gRPC is a relatively new implementation of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) API paradigm. It can play a major role in all synchronous communications between internal microservices
Here we examine key gRPC concepts, their usage, and benefits of having gRPC as an inter-service communication by using a real-world microservice use case.

By Lakmal Warusawithana