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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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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow

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As Youtube is one of the most preferred channels nowadays, we decided to create a list of our favourite software architecture youtube channels that we believe will inspire you. Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow. Mark Richards.

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

TechCrunch

Since launching on WeChat in 2017, HTML5 games, or what the Tencent-owned messenger calls “mini games,” have become a hit in China. Just as Unity has diversified its use cases into areas like architecture and aerospace , Cocos’s simulation technology has also found new applications. The mini game renaissance.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

Google’s move to turn Androids themselves—the ones already in consumers’ hands—into the physical keys needed to unlock accounts is a “game changer,” Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist and director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy and Technology , said in an email. “It

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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

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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. We deliver ksynth binaries for a number of different architectures including x86_64, armv7, and aarch64. Cross-compilation. Next Steps.

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Celebrating 1 million developers: What’s next for Netlify and the Jamstack

Netlify

It’s clear the Jamstack web architecture we pioneered five years ago has taken off. Expanding browser capabilities : The browser evolved into a full-fledged operating system. We reimagined a new architecture for web developers to deliver a faster, simpler and more secure way to build the web. Go to our interactive map.