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DockerCon 2017: Moby’s Cool Hack sessions

Every year at #DockerCon, we expand the bounds of what Docker can do with new features and products. And every day, we see great new apps that are built on top of Docker. And yet, there’s always a few that stand out not just for being cool apps, but for pushing the bounds of what you can do with Docker.
This year we had two great apps that we featured in the Docker Cool Hacks closing keynote. Both hacks came from members of our Docker Captains program, a group of people from the Docker community who are recognized by Docker as very knowledgeable about Docker, and contribute quite a bit to the community.
Play with Docker
The first Cool Hack was Play with Docker by Marcos Nils and Jonathan Leibiusky. Marcos and Jonathan actually were featured in the Cool Hacks session at DockerCon EU in 2015 for their work on a Container Migration Tool.
Play with Docker is a Docker playground that you can run in your browser.

Play with Docker’s architecture is a Swarm of Swarms, running Docker in Docker instances.

Running on pretty beefy hosts r3.4xlarge on AWS – Play with Docker is able to run about 3500 containers per host, only running containers as needed for a session. Play with Docker is completely open source, so you can run it on your own infrastructure. And they welcome contributions on their GitHub repo.
FaaS (Function as a Service)
The second Cool Hack was Functions as a Service (FaaS) by Alex Ellis. FaaS is a framework for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm with first class support for metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boilerplate coding. Each function runs as a container that only runs as long as it takes to run the function.

FaaS also comes with a convenient gateway tester that allows you to try out each of your functions directly in the browser.

FaaS is actively seeking contributions, so feel free to send issues and PRs on the GitHub repo.
Check out the video recording of the cool hack sessions below:

Congratulations to DockerCon Cool Hacks winners @marcosnils, @xetorthio, and @alexellisuk for Play…Click To Tweet

Learn more about our DockerCon 2017 cool hacks:

Check out Play with Docker
Check out and contribute to FaaS
Contribute to Play with Docker

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Amazon Lex Now Generally Available

Amazon Lex is now generally available for all customers. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into your application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa are now available to developers, enabling you to quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language conversational bots.
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Sorry, Celebs, Using #Sp On Instagram Ads Isn’t Gonna Cut It

The Federal Trade Commission, the government organization that regulates advertising, just announced that it has started a crackdown on Instagram sponsored posts. It sent 90 letters to various influencers #and brands reminding them #of the FTC guidelines for social media endorsements. Basically: #saying #sp or “Thanks [@BRAND]” doesn’t cut it.

This is the first time the FTC has sent this kind of letter, which is not an official warning but rather a sort of nudge-nudge educational message, reminding them of the rules. The letters were sent in response to the advocacy group Public Citizen, which had sent a petition to the FTC about celebrities, athletes, and models doing ambiguously labeled Instagram #ads.

The FTC has not released the names of who got these letters, and Public Citizen does not know who exactly received a letter, either. Some of the people mentioned specifically in the complaint from Public Citizen include Bella Thorne, David Beckham, Mark Wahlberg, Scott Disick, Jenny McCarthy, Chris Pratt, Kendall Jenner, and Gigi Hadid.

Instagram: @markwahlberg

According to the FTC’s announcement today, the letters reminded people what does NOT meet their requirement for a clear disclosure, including…

These commonly used visual tricks that hide the disclosure:

  • Putting the disclosure at the end of a long caption, so that it’s cut off and you have to click “more” to read the full thing. Most people won’t ever click and see it.
  • #Using #tons of #hasgtags and #only saying #ad #last

And these three common tricks that are half-assed disclosures that simply aren’t clear to the average person that the person either got paid or got a freebie:

Instagram: @emrata

The FTC is careful to say that it doesn’t have specific wording requirements. If you use sp, you’re not going to jail immediately, but let’s just say there’s a good chance that this is not what the FTC considers a full, transparent disclosure to your audience of a material connection between you and a brand.

The idea here is that a normal person should be able to immediately understand that someone was paid (that includes getting free shit!) to post. I’ve been doing a column for BuzzFeed where I investigate whether various celebrity social media posts are ads or not, and one thing that’s clear is that even those of us who are pretty savvy about this kind of stuff are often truly confused about celebrity Instagram posts.

For now, Bachelor contestants hawking teeth whiteners don’t have to worry about getting arrested for not using the right hashtag. The FTC historically only goes after the brands, not the influencers, for cases of unclear social media ads. And there have only been a few of these actually brought to lawsuits – the most recent one was last summer, when the agency charged Warner Bros. for paying PewDiePie to review their latest video games without proper disclosure. But these reminder letters mean that the FTC is taking Instagram #spon more seriously — and that pressure from consumer advocacy groups can be effective.

Quelle: <a href="Sorry, Celebs, Using Sp On Instagram Ads Isn’t Gonna Cut It“>BuzzFeed

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Sorry, Celebs, Using #Sp On Instagram Ads Isn’t Gonna Cut It

The Federal Trade Commission, the government organization that regulates advertising, just announced that it has started a crackdown on Instagram sponsored posts. It sent 90 letters to various influencers #and brands reminding them #of the FTC guidelines for social media endorsements. Basically: #saying #sp or “Thanks [@BRAND]” doesn’t cut it.

This is the first time the FTC has sent this kind of letter, which is not an official warning but rather a sort of nudge-nudge educational message, reminding them of the rules. The letters were sent in response to the advocacy group Public Citizen, which had sent a petition to the FTC about celebrities, athletes, and models doing ambiguously labeled Instagram #ads.

The FTC has not released the names of who got these letters, and Public Citizen does not know who exactly received a letter, either. Some of the people mentioned specifically in the complaint from Public Citizen include Bella Thorne, David Beckham, Mark Wahlberg, Scott Disick, Jenny McCarthy, Chris Pratt, Kendall Jenner, and Gigi Hadid.

Instagram: @markwahlberg

According to the FTC’s announcement today, the letters reminded people what does NOT meet their requirement for a clear disclosure, including…

These commonly used visual tricks that hide the disclosure:

  • Putting the disclosure at the end of a long caption, so that it’s cut off and you have to click “more” to read the full thing. Most people won’t ever click and see it.
  • #Using #tons of #hasgtags and #only saying #ad #last

And these three common tricks that are half-assed disclosures that simply aren’t clear to the average person that the person either got paid or got a freebie:

Instagram: @emrata

The FTC is careful to say that it doesn’t have specific wording requirements. If you use sp, you’re not going to jail immediately, but let’s just say there’s a good chance that this is not what the FTC considers a full, transparent disclosure to your audience of a material connection between you and a brand.

The idea here is that a normal person should be able to immediately understand that someone was paid (that includes getting free shit&#033;) to post. I’ve been doing a column for BuzzFeed where I investigate whether various celebrity social media posts are ads or not, and one thing that’s clear is that even those of us who are pretty savvy about this kind of stuff are often truly confused about celebrity Instagram posts.

For now, Bachelor contestants hawking teeth whiteners don’t have to worry about getting arrested for not using the right hashtag. The FTC historically only goes after the brands, not the influencers, for cases of unclear social media ads. And there have only been a few of these actually brought to lawsuits – the most recent one was last summer, when the agency charged Warner Bros. for paying PewDiePie to review their latest video games without proper disclosure. But these reminder letters mean that the FTC is taking Instagram #spon more seriously — and that pressure from consumer advocacy groups can be effective.

Quelle: <a href="Sorry, Celebs, Using Sp On Instagram Ads Isn’t Gonna Cut It“>BuzzFeed

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Tesla Settles Lawsuit Against Former Head Of Autopilot

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Tesla settled a lawsuit against its former head of Autopilot, Sterling Anderson, on Wednesday, after alleging he breached his contract by poaching engineers for his new self-driving startup and downloading confidential company information to personal devices.

Anderson was head of Autopilot, the company’s driver assistance technology team that is working on self-driving cars, for more than a year. He led the unit as it dealt with a federal investigation over whether the technology was at fault for a fatal Model S crash last June. But after he left to start a company called Aurora Innovation with Chris Urmson, the former head of Google’s self-driving unit, Tesla sued him in January.

Tesla said in its complaint that Anderson recruited three Autopilot engineers to join Aurora, though one later changed his mind and remained at Tesla.

According to the terms of the agreement, neither party will admit to the validity of either’s claims, and Aurora will pay Tesla $100,000 as reimbursement for legal expenses related to the lawsuit. Anderson and Aurora agreed to not recruit any Tesla employees for one year following February 1, 2017. Aurora also agreed to do an audit to determine whether its employees have any confidential Tesla information, and send the results of that audit to Tesla within 30 days.

“Under the settlement, Mr. Anderson’s contractual obligations to Tesla will remain in place and will also be extended to Aurora, with additional specific protections being added to ensure there are no further violations,” a Tesla spokesperson said. “The settlement also establishes a process to allow Tesla to recover all of the proprietary information that was taken from the company, and it provides for Aurora’s computer systems to be subject to ongoing audits to monitor for any improper retention or use of Tesla’s property.”

Tesla confirmed it had received the $100,000 payment for legal expenses from Aurora. In Tesla’s original complaint, its prayer for relief asked for the company to abide by the one-year time frame before Aurora recruits Tesla employees, and return or cease use of proprietary Tesla information.

Aurora did not provide a comment by publication time.

Quelle: <a href="Tesla Settles Lawsuit Against Former Head Of Autopilot“>BuzzFeed

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Amazon EC2 F1 Instances, Customizable FPGAs for Hardware Acceleration Are Now Generally Available

Amazon EC2 F1 is a compute instance with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that you can program to create custom hardware accelerations for your application. F1 instances are easy to program and come with everything you need to develop, simulate, debug, and compile your hardware acceleration code, including an FPGA Developer AMI and Hardware Developer Kit (HDK). Once your FPGA design is complete, you can register it as an Amazon FPGA Image (AFI), and deploy it to your F1 instance in just a few clicks. You can reuse your AFIs as many times, and across as many F1 instances as you like. You can offer AFIs you develop on the AWS Marketplace for other customers to purchase.
Amazon EC2 F1 instances are now available in two different instance sizes that include up to eight FPGAs per instance. F1 instances include the latest 16 nm Xilinx UltraScale Plus FPGA with local 64 GiB DDR4 ECC protected memory, with a dedicated PCI-e x16 connection to the instance. For F1.16xlarge instances, the dedicated PCI-e fabric lets the FPGAs share the same memory space and communicate with each other across the fabric at up to 12 GBps in each direction. The FPGAs within the F1.16xlarge share access to a 400 Gbps bidirectional ring for low-latency, high bandwidth communication.
F1 instances are available now with the following specifications:
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Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), Delivering up to 10X Faster Query Performance

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that delivers up to a 10x performance improvement – from milliseconds to microseconds – even at millions of requests per second. DAX does all the heavy lifting required to add in-memory acceleration to your DynamoDB tables, without requiring developers to manage cache invalidation, data population, or cluster management. Now you can focus on building great applications for your customers without worrying about performance at scale. You do not need to modify application logic, since DAX is compatible with existing DynamoDB API calls. You can enable DAX with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or using the AWS SDK. Just as with DynamoDB, you only pay for the capacity you provision.
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AWS X-Ray Now Generally Available

AWS X-Ray is now available for all customers. AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. You can use X-Ray to analyze both applications in development and in production, from simple three-tier applications to complex microservices applications consisting of thousands of services.
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