Amazon API Gateway now supports importing Swagger API definitions. Previously, you would use the Swagger importer tool to import Swagger definitions into API Gateway. Now, you can import your Swagger API definitions into API Gateway through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK. This allows you to easily create and deploy new APIs as well as update existing APIs in Amazon API Gateway.
Amazon Route 53 Announces Metric Based Health Checks, DNS Failover for Private Hosted Zones, and Configurable Health Check Locations
We are excited to announce the launch of three new health checking features for Amazon Route 53:
Metric Based Health Checks let you perform DNS failover based on any metric that is available within Amazon CloudWatch, including AWS-provided metrics and custom metrics from your own application. When you create a metric based health check within Amazon Route 53, the health check becomes unhealthy whenever its associated Amazon CloudWatch metric enters an alarm state.
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, April 4, 2016
Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.
CAN bus design kit has Arduino headers
Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a design kit for its PSoC programmable system-on-chip devices incorporating Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) slave communications. The CY8CKIT-026 CAN and LIN Shield Kit features two CAN transceivers for high-accuracy, high-speed transmissions, two LIN transceivers and Arduino compatible headers. Additionally, the kit includes five example projects that …
Backplane connector carries 56Gbit/s in basestations
TE Connectivity says that its Strada Whisper direct plug orthogonal (DPO) connectors are designed to eliminate mid-plane connectivity to improve airflow in basestations and other types of communications equipment. The backplane connector supports 25Gbit/s data rates and is scalability up to 56Gbit/s (PAM4 and NRZ). The DPO connectors are designed to offer alignment and installation …
Huawei enjoys bumper 2015
Huawei grew revenue 37% to $62 billion for a profit of $5.7 billion. It expects revenues of $75 billion this year. Sales of consumer goods, including 108 million smartphones, rose 73% to $19.9 billion. Sales of networking equipment rose 21% to $35.8 billion propelled by investment in 4G. Huawei spent $9 billion on R&D. In …
BlackBerry still struggling
Q1 sales (to the end of February) at BlackBerry fell by almost $200m to $464 million. The company made a loss of $238 million in the quarter compared to a profit of $28 million for the same quarter last year. The company blamed delays caused by negotiations with the network operators about its Priv handset. …
Lighting industry gets “world-class” test lab
The Lighting Industry Association’s new testing laboratory has been opened in Telford, the LIA Laboratory. The 12,500 sq ft purpose built facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe and will create a national testing asset for the UK’s lighting industry. This is an ISO 17025 test laboratory dedicated to lighting and …
UK firm develops wireless system to monitor tyres
A London-based firm called Silent Sensors has developed a new approach to tyre pressure and temperature measurement which it says will allow transport firms to track, manage and monitor tyres on vehicles. The system uses passive RFID sensor technology and can monitor tyres using drive-over mats, hand held readers or whilst on the road. It …
Arduino writes IoT manifesto
Arduino Day took place in California at the weekend and founder Massimo Banzi unveiled the embedded development board community’s most powerful IoT platform to date. The launch of the MKR1000 joined a new Project Hub and Iot website as the Arduino community looks to embrace IoT in a big way. According to Banzi, the release …