Week 10 2017 - Mozilla Buys Pocket; AWS oopsie; Some Small Things
Mozilla buys Pocket, a typo causes a major AWS outage, SpaceX plans to go around the moon, Cloudflare follows up on last week's security bug, and Azure releases a new CLI tool.
Mozilla buys Pocket, a typo causes a major AWS outage, SpaceX plans to go around the moon, Cloudflare follows up on last week's security bug, and Azure releases a new CLI tool.
Cloudflare had a security bug reminiscent of Heartbleed, TensorFlow is now 1.0, and 7 Earth-sized planets are circling a single star.
A couple of long awaited features became available for AWS EC2 instances and Go 1.8 was released.
A very short one this week, solely around the new secret management feature from Docker.
More information about Mirai, Gitlab's dataloss, and Chrome for iOS was open sourced.
Setapp, an app subscription service, was released and AWS turns on IPv6 for EC2 instances.
Google acquired Fabric, Mozilla unveiled a new logo, and Cloudflare opens up about their fight against gag orders.
More information about the Nintendo Switch, some quick thoughts about Atlassian's acquisition of Trello, and Chris Lattner's move to Tesla.
Alexa was everywhere at CES, Medium is changing things around, Bitbucket Pipelines introduces some nice features, and I have a look back at how the site did in 2016.
Christmas time is always a slump when it comes to news in the tech world. So, this week we've got some new things and a bit older news I didn't get around to including before. This includes the Go font, and the rest is focused on Docker news.
AWS opened 2 new regions, and that prompted me to see how this compares to both Azure and Google Cloud. Microsoft announces the Cortana SDK for speakers, and Fitbit bought Pebble.
There have been quite a few announcements lately regarding machine learning, so I try to give an overview of the ones that caught my attention. And Hyperdev has been rebranded and extended into Gomix.
Re:Invent 2016 took place last week, and AWS didn't disappoint in how much they released. I'll go through some of what I see as the highlights, but there is far too much to cover everything.
With several major hardware releases in the last week, that is what I'll focus on. Apple (finally) updated their Macbook Pros with a touch bar and, possibly more interesting, Microsoft introduced a completely new input device to match their new desktop.
The Internet of Things attacked a major DNS node, Nintendo announced its new console, and VMWare will run on AWS.