Month: September 2020

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Carl Chesser shares what the teams at Cerner Corporation, a healthcare information technology company, found to be effective in introducing chaos engineering with their systems.

By Carl Chesser

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Oliver Strickson discusses automatic differentiation, a family of algorithms for taking derivatives of functions implemented by computer programs, offering the ability to compute gradients of values.

By Oliver Strickson

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Edward Thomson, npm product manager at GitHub, recently explained at GitHub Satellite 2020 the implications of npm joining GitHub for JavaScript developers and how to get the best out of GitHub for both open source and professional work.

By Bruno Couriol

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During its annual Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Communication Services (ACS), a fully-managed communication platform. The offering is currently in public preview.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced the acceptance of KubeEdge as an incubating project. KubeEdge is a platform that aims to provide “infrastructure support for network, application deployment and metadata synchronization between the cloud and edge devices” and uses Kubernetes as the underlying foundation.

By Hrishikesh Barua

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The vision for Swift to become a cross-platform programming language has moved one step further with the introduction of a Swift toolchain for Windows 10. Early adopters can now use Swift to create Windows 10 programs that interoperate through the C ABI with existing libraries available on the platform.

By Sergio De Simone

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Folger Fonseca shares his experience during the time of hypergrowth at N26, a mobile-first bank which was recently listed as the number one startup in Germany. He talks about the problems they (as engineers and tech leads) faced, the solutions that worked well and those which did not and how their technology adapted to demands of increasing scale and complexity.

By Folger Fonseca

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nishant Bhajaria about security, data privacy, ethics and privacy by design .

By Nishant Bhajaria

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Kubernetes operators can be an attractive proposition for developers streamlining their applications, or DevOps engineers reducing system complexity. Here’s how you construct an operator from scratch.

By James Laverack

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Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).

By Steef-Jan Wiggers