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Infer# Brings Facebook's Infer Static Analyzer to C# and .NET
With Infer#, Microsoft extends the choice of static analyzers available within the .NET ecosystem by bringing Facebook Infer's inter-procedural static analysis capabilities to it.
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AWS Lambda Updates from re:Invent - Cost Savings, More Memory Capacity and Container Image Support
At the annual re:Invent, AWS announced several updates to its Function-as-a-Service offering Lambda. These newly announced features evolve around billing, memory capacity, and container image support.
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TCMalloc, Google's Customized Memory Allocator for C and C++, Now Open Source
Google's TCMalloc can be used as a replacement for C and C++ default memory allocators to provide greater efficiency at scale and better support for parallelism, says Google.
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Spring Boot 2.2 Reaches First Milestone Release with Performance and Memory Improvements
The Spring Boot team recently released v2.2.0 M1, the first milestone release of Spring Boot 2.2. It includes performance and memory improvements, Kubernetes-detection, and third-party library updates. Over 140 issues were resolved with this release. Starting with this release, JMX is now disabled by default.
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Microsoft Explores Manual Memory Management in .NET with Snowflake
A number of researchers from Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge, and Princeton University have forked .NET, adding an API to the runtime to support manual memory management, and published details of their approach and performance improvements obtained in the paper Project Snowflake: Non-blocking Safe Manual Memory Management in .NET.
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Dani Traphagen on Next Phase of Distributed Systems with Apache Ignite
Dani Traphagen from GridGain spoke at OSCON 2017 Conference about Apache Ignite platform. She talked about the paradigm shift in viewing the disk as a bottleneck, the decreasing costs of memory and how to optimize toward the cache, leveraging it for microservices architectures with the open source project Apache Ignite.
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Nikita Ivanov on Apache Ignite In-Memory Computing Platform
Apache Ignite is an in-memory computing platform with transactional support, that supports both key-value persistence as well as streaming and complex-event processing. Ignite was open-sourced by GridGain in late 2014 and accepted in the Apache Incubator program. InfoQ interviewed Nikita Ivanov, CTO of GridGain, to find out more about Apache Ignite.
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Gil Tene: Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory
In his presentation "Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory" at QCon New York 2016, Gil Tene introduces hardware transactional memory (HTM). Whereas the concept of HTM is not new, it is now finally available in commodity hardware. The purpose of HTM is to be able to write to multiple addresses in memory in an atomical way so that there cannot be inconsistencies in cooperation other threads.
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C++ Core Guidelines will Help Writing Good Modern C++
As announced at CppCon, Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter have started working on a set of guidelines for modern C++. The goal of this effort is improving how developers use the language and help ensuring they write code that is type safe, has no resource leaks, and is as much as possible free of programming logic errors.
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AnyPresence Soups up Enterprise MBaaS Platform- Part 1 of 2
Mobile Backend as a Service provider AnyPresence continues to hone their chops. Launching the fifth update to their self-titled platform geared for the enterprise. Co-founder Rich Mendis provides some insights for InfoQ readers…
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.NET Memory Profiling in Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2013 comes with a better memory profiler for .NET applications, but it is still far behind the other commercial offerings.
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JavaScript Memory Analyzer in Visual Studio 2012 Identifies Leaks in Windows Store Apps
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 includes a new JavaScript Memory Analyzer for Windows 8 which identifies potential memory leaks to enable developers to fix their apps before submission to Windows Store.
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Google Open Sources Leak Finder, a JavaScript Tool for Detecting Memory Leaks
Google has open sourced Leak Finder, a tool inspecting the heap of JavaScript applications in order to find memory leaks.
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Weak Events in WPF 4.5
.NET 4.5 brings with it a generic version of WeakEventManager for WPF developers. In addition to not needing the event-specific subclass, this version also dispenses with the need for listener interfaces.
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Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks
Windows Presentation Foundation is quickly becoming well known for the ease in which memory leaks are introduced. Most of these leaks seem to come from the use or misuse of weak references, upon which WPF’s data binding technology is based. In the recent set of hotfixes many of these leaks are fixed.