PROGRAMMING & SCRIPTING
JAVASCRIPT: AWS Streamlines Cloud Services for JavaScript Developers. Amazon Web Services has developed a declarative JavaScript library, AWS Amplify, to aid building cloud-enabled applications via categories of cloud services instead of via individual service contracts. Read more
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JAVA: Java Microservices, Resiliency, and Istio. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers all Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects under one roof to further the advancement of cloud native computing. At the upcoming event in Austin, Animesh Singh and Tommy Li of IBM will discuss how to build, deploy, and connect Java microservices with Istio service mesh. Here’s a preview of their presentation. Read more.
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DEVELOPER TOOLS: Google’s Angular, Apple’s Swift: Meet the Decade’s Fastest-Growing Developer Tech. Stack Overflow’s latest look at fast rising and falling technologies has found that Google’s Angular framework for building web and native apps, and Swift, Apple’s language for building iOS apps, have been by far the two fastest-growing developer technologies of the past decade. Find out more
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PYTHON: Uber Releases Pyro, An Open Source Probabilistic Programming Language. Pyro is Uber’s homegrown probabilistic programming language. The company says that it’s “a tool for deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling.” By open sourcing Pyro programming language, Uber aims to accelerate research and applications of different deep learning-related techniques and decentralize them. Currently, in alpha stage, it’s developed by Uber AI Labs. Stanford University is also using Pyro. Read more
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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems November 2017 https://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-november-2017.
IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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