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• newReport: Developers have been more productive during Covid-19
  Developers forced to work remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic have proved to be so productive they may never return to the office, according to a study by analyst firm Accelerated Strategies release…
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• How MariaDB achieves global scale with Xpand
  As information and processing needs have grown, pain points such as performance and resiliency have necessitated new solutions. Databases need to maintain ACID compliance and consistency, provide high…
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• 14 open source tools to make the most of machine learning
  Spam filtering, face recognition, recommendation engines — when you have a large data set on which you’d like to perform predictive analysis or pattern recognition, machine learning is the way to…
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• Does Snowflake mean the end of open source?
  The Snowflake IPO was a big deal, and not merely because of the company’s enormous valuation.In 2013 Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson confidently (and accurately) declared “a stunning and irreversib…
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• TypeScript 4.1 beta brings template literal types
  TypeScript 4.1, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s popular open source language that adds types to JavaScript, is now available as a beta release, featuring template literal types and a multitude of o…
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• Ignite 2020: Introducing Azure Communication Services
  Microsoft Teams’ growth has exploded as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced more and more companies to shift to home working and virtual meetings. With more than 5 billion daily meeting minutes, Teams…
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• Vue 3.0 arrives, now in TypeScript
  Vue 3.0, a major upgrade to the popular JavaScript framework for building web UIs, is now available as a production release, after nearly two years in development. Highlights include better performanc…
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• Will cloud architecture change after COVID?
  A few things have changed since the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns. The Global 2000, as well as governments, now understand that traditional data centers are more vulnerable to natural disasters (suc…
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• GitHub CLI reaches 1.0 status
  The GitHub CLI command line tool has reached 1.0 release status. The tool is intended to help developers reduce context switching by allowing them to run their GitHub workflow from the terminal, from…
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• 10 MLops platforms to manage the machine learning lifecycle
  For most professional software developers, using application lifecycle management (ALM) is a given. Data scientists, many of whom do not have a software development background, often have not used lif…
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Etherealmind

• Dictionary: Firewall Rulette
  Define the term 'firewall roulette'
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• Response: Paradox: Covid crisis elevates technology professionals’ stature, but limits career growth | ZDNet
  This article fails at making the case that workers don’t like remote work. 
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• DNS Flag Day 2020 – ISC
  The DNS protocol needs refreshing but a global, distributed database is not easy to change. The folks leading the DNS architecture are making small but substantial changes once per year. There is a no…
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• Musing: Hidden Complexity of Dual SIM Phones
  It hadn’t occurred to me that having Dual SIMs in a smartphone has hidden aspects of complexity. In this slide, having multiple SIMs means thinking about activity – are both SIMs active at all tim…
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• My Thoughts on LinkedIn in 2020
  LinkedIn originated with a focus on connecting professionals and contacts were supposed to be people that you know or worked with. The early team worked hard to build a monopoly/network effect around…
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• Why Routers and Switches Don’t Matter Now
  Stop futzing with one device and think about the system.
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• Virtual Open Office Hours – Mid September 2020
  Virtual Open Office is a chance for people to gather and discuss any topics you find interesting. Open to Anyone. No cost or commitment. Just a chance to sit around and talk, like you were in the corr…
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• Virtual Open Office Hours – Late August 2020
  Virtual Open Office is a chance for people to gather and discuss any topics you find interesting. Open to Anyone. No cost or commitment. I’ll be there with a coffee/tea or a beer/cocktail (as approp…
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• Opinion: You Represent Your Employer When ….
  Your bio says "words are mine" but your feed has company content all over it.
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• Response: Kubernetes and Networks – why is this so dang hard? – Speaker Deck
  Kubernetes networking is a mess. This explains some of the mess.
  - 36 days ago 18 Aug 20, 7:56pm -

ITWorld

• newWindows 10 Insider Previews: A guide to the builds
  Microsoft never sleeps. Even before Microsoft made the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) generally available to users, the company began working on upcoming feature updates to Windows 10. As i…
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• Next perpetual version of Office to debut in 2021
  Microsoft will create at least one more Office suite, the company said this week during its annual Ignite conference.The next perpetual licensed Office will be released for both Windows and macOS in t…
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• Google takes on Airtable, Microsoft Lists with Tables work-tracking app
  Google has unveiled its take on the market for highly customizable work-tracking apps with the beta launch of Tables.  Created in Google’s Area 120 project incubator, Tables combines spreadshee…
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• Microsoft's forthcoming Outlook for Mac should boost WFH
  Microsoft has been watching what remote workers need and seems to have introduced some of these necessary features in the planned October release of Microsoft Outlook for Mac, which adds new tools, cu…
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• Wayback Wednesday: No good deed goes unpunished
  This pilot fish’s post-college job for a credit card company largely involves typing data from telemarketers into a database and then printing out stacks of reports every night.“One day, I got the…
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• Pandemic gives VDI a new lease on life
  The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shift to working from home have brought about numerous technological disruptions, many centered around how organizations deliver IT services to their workforce. Te…
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• Microsoft Teams gets custom layouts, new Together ‘scenes’
  Microsoft will enable Teams users to overlay a presenter’s video feed when displaying content such as slides – part of its aim to improve meetings as the number of video calls rockets during the p…
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• IT admins want one, and only one, Windows 10 upgrade annually
  IT administrators voiced strong support for Microsoft's move to a fewer-than-two-upgrades-a-year Windows 10 cadence, even as many question the way the Redmond, Wash. developer has reduced the number o…
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• Android 11's biggest letdown
  Android 11's got plenty of good stuff going on, both on the surface and under the hood — but one of the release's most promising new additions is turning out to be one of its least compelling elemen…
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• Apple’s Tim Cook shares his company's WFH experience
  It still seems a little counter-intuitive that one of the world’s biggest technology firms was also one of the least amenable to remote working, but this, I’ve heard, describes the culture at App…
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