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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Using reviews from real users, our list of free database tools is ordered by highest G2 Score as of November 20, 2017. out of 5 stars.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos is best known for its cross-platform, open source engine for 2D mobile games, but many have argued it has fallen behind in the 3D era. Since launching on WeChat in 2017, HTML5 games, or what the Tencent-owned messenger calls “mini games,” have become a hit in China. The mini game renaissance. and Russia.

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Telecom Network Analytics: Transformation, Innovation, Automation

Cloudera

In a sense, there have been three phases of network analytics: the first was an appliance based monitoring phase; the second was an open-source expansion phase; and the third – that we are in right now – is a hybrid-data-cloud and governance phase. The Explosion in Telco Big Data: 2012-2017. Let’s examine how we got here.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Mike Roberts

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Mike Roberts

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

Kentik has been running Rust in production since 2017 (more on that in this previous blog post ), but this is our first serious use of async/await , which was stabilized in late 2019. That’s why I’ve contributed an open-source crate, raw-socket , that provides this functionality and more for both synchronous and asynchronous raw sockets.

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