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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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Build A Time-Based One-Time Password Manager With NativeScript

The Polyglot Developer

Not too long ago I released a time-based one-time password manager called OTP Safe to Google Play and iTunes. That particular application was built with Ionic Framework and I even wrote a tutorial explaining how to make a similar 2FA manager with Ionic 2. Being a hybrid mobile application, there were some performance limitations that came with the Ionic 2 application.

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Ecosystems and the Energy Source of Last Resort

The Agile Manager

It's fashionable for a company to proclaim itself an ecosystem. A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app market place for developers. The virtuous cycle of an ever increasing collection of apps motivating an ever increasing population of consumers. They have the benefit of steady cash flows from existing customers and constant growth from new ones attracted by an increasingly complex array of products.

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The Value of Unpredictable Work

Professor Beekums

One stressful thing about software development is that it is not always straightforward. Sometimes we build things that are similar to other things we’ve done in the past. The work is more predictable because we have a clear idea on what’s involved. Think of it like writing a blog post about something you are an expert in. There’s still some challenge in structuring your words to be coherent to others, but at least you know all the main points you would want or need to cover.

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Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice

All Things Distributed

In the past voice interfaces were seen as gimmicks, or a nuisance for driving “hands-free.” The Amazon Echo and Alexa have completely changed that perception. Voice is now seen as potentially the most important interface to interact with the digitally connected world. From home automation to commerce, from news organizations to government agencies, from financial services to healthcare, everyone is working on the best way is to interact with their services if voice is the interface.

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Scan For Bluetooth Enabled iBeacons Via A Raspberry Pi IoT Device

The Polyglot Developer

Lately I’ve been working a lot with iBeacons and Raspberry Pi Internet of Things (IoT) devices. I’ve been building an office monitor for logging foot traffic around the office. I planted a few Raspberry Pi devices around the office and distributed some Gimbal iBeacons to a few of my coworkers so I could determine what part of the office experiences the most heat.

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds.