News Archives - Elvento Labs

Zoom looks to bolster employee experience with Workvivo acquisition

Zoom, one of the leading video communication platforms, has recently announced its acquisition of Workvivo, an Irish employee engagement platform.

News - 04/18/2023

Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare

At QCon London, Andrea Medda, Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, and Matt Boyle, Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, shared the lessons their platform services team learned from enabling the use of Apache Kafka at the scale of 1 trillion messages.

News - 04/15/2023

Google Announces Preview of AlloyDB Omni: Run a PostgreSQL-Compatible Database Anywhere

Google recently announced the preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on-premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.

News - 04/15/2023

Amazon GuardDuty Adds EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection

Amazon GuardDuty added Amazon EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora. EKS Runtime Monitoring can detect runtime threats from over 30 different security findings. RDS Protection adds support for profiling and monitoring access activity to Aurora databases.

News - 04/15/2023

Web Framework Astro Now Features Static, Server, and Hybrid Rendering for Faster Web Sites

HTML-first web framework Astro recently released Astro 2.0 and complements previously available static and dynamic server rendering with new hybrid rendering capabilities. Hybrid rendering allows prerendering specific pages for faster performance.

News - 04/15/2023

Improving Web Accessibility with Semantic HTML and Testing Techniques and Tools

Web accessibility benefits all of us. Designers, developers, and testers can check for web accessibility and can make the web and services more inclusive, for instance by using semantic HTML, following web standards when coding, and testing for web accessibility. Countries are introducing regulations to enforce inclusive standards.

News - 04/07/2023

GitHub Adds SBOM Export to Make it Easier to Comply with Security Requirements

GitHub has announced a new SBOM export feature meant to be used as part of security compliance workflows and tools. The new feature allows you to export NTIA-compliant SBOM easily, says GitHub.

News - 04/07/2023

Slack Open Sources Hakana, a Type Checker for Hack Language

Slack has recently open-sourced its type checker, Hakana. Based on Psalm and written in Rust, Hakana’s main objective is to enforce good code quality. Additionally, Hakana can also perform security analysis. Matt Brown, Senior Staff Engineer at Slack made the announcement in a blog post.

News - 03/24/2023

Developing Software to Manage Distributed Energy Systems at Scale

Functional programming techniques can make software more composable, reliable, and testable. For systems at scale, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing can impact speed and security.

News - 03/24/2023

Gradle 8.0 Provides Improved Kotlin DSL and Build Times

The Gradle team announced Gradle 8.0 which reduces the build duration and improves the Kotlin DSL, for example, Kotlin API 1.8 and Java 11 features may now be used in the build scripts.

News - 03/24/2023