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Saturday, 24 December 2016

Scanamo: simpler, safer DynamoDB access for Scala
Phil Wills

DynamoDB provides a completely managed key-value store with some querying capabilities, but AWS’s Java client from Scala can be cumbersome and error-prone. The Guardian’s open-source library, Scanamo, provides a simpler alternative that reduces the scope for runtime errors.

AWS   Advent developer blog 2016   DynamoDB   Scala  

A supermassive black hole in the core of galaxy named MCG 6-30-15. Scientists for the first time have seen energy being extracted from a black hole. Like an electric dynamo, this black hole spins and pumps energy out through cable-like magnetic field lines into the chaotic gas whipping around it, making the gas - already infernally hot from the sheer force of crushing gravity - even hotter.