Friday Links (AWS Edition)

Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/using_machine_l.html

Rails 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1 and 5.2.1.1 have been released!
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/

Tidal 1.0.0 refactor
 https://slab.org/tidal-1-0-0-refactor/

decidim/decidim
https://youtu.be/f6JMgJAQ2tc
https://github.com/decidim/decidim

Perceived Barriers to Trunk Based Development
http://www.davefarley.net/?p=269

Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring - 2018 Edition
https://nickcraver.com/blog/2018/11/29/stack-overflow-how-we-do-monitoring/

Go 2, here we come!
https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come

Fully Automated Continuous Deployment on Android with Bitrise
https://overflow.buffer.com/2018/11/29/fully-automated-continuous-deployment-on-android-with-bitrise/

event-stream, npm, and trust
https://lwn.net/Articles/773121/

AWS

AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Andy Jassy Keynote
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-previews-and-pre-announcements-at-reinvent-2018-andy-jassy-keynote/

New – Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/

Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand – No Capacity Planning and Pay-Per-Request Pricing
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-no-capacity-planning-and-pay-per-request-pricing/


New – Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-insights-fast-interactive-log-analytics/

New – EC2 Instances (A1) Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/

New – AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-service-for-amazon-s3/

New for AWS Lambda – Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/

Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/

New – Hibernate Your EC2 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-hibernate-your-ec2-instances/

Amazon Personalize – Real-Time Personalization and Recommendation for Everyone
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-personalize-real-time-personalization-and-recommendation-for-everyone/

Amazon Forecast – Time Series Forecasting Made Easy
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-forecast-time-series-forecasting-made-easy/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/aws-launches-amazon-forecast-to-make-time-series-predictions-easier/

Amazon QuickSight adds support for dashboard embedding and APIs
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-quickSight-adds-support-for-dashboard-embedding-and-APIs/