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Helidon 2.0 Features New Web Client, DB Client and Command-Line Tool
Oracle has formally released Helidon 2.0 with a host of new significant features such as: support for reactive messaging and streams; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client. Dmitry Kornilov, director of software development at Oracle, spoke to infoQ about this latest release.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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Twitter Hack Was Inside Job
Yesterday, a number of tweets were posted from a number of high profile accounts advertising a 2-for-1 scam on Bitcoin. What happened and why? InfoQ investigates.
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C# 9: New `and`, `or`, and `not` Keywords for Pattern Matching
Though it may sound like our occasional April Fools Day joke, C# 9 is looking to add `and`, `or`, and `not` to its list of keywords. Specifically, for use in pattern matching.
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Refactoring Large Haskell Codebases Using Facebook Retrie
Facebook has open-sourced the tool they use to refactor their own Sigma anti-abuse rule engine. Named Retrie, this tool allows developers to describe rewrites as equations in Haskell syntax rather than regular expressions.
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MSMQ and .NET Core
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is currently not available for .NET Core. While other message queuing systems are generally preferred, many enterprise applications were based on MSMQ and this creates a problem for teams looking to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or the upcoming .NET 5. But a recent pull request for Reference Source may change the situation.
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Haskell Web Framework IHP Aims to Make Web Development Type-Safe and Easy
Created at digitally induced, the Integrated Haskell Platform aims to be an opinionated framework bringing Haskell type-safety to server side rendering combined with fast development. InfoQ has spoken with digitally induced CEO Marc Scholten.
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Faster, Smaller Vue3 Coming Soon - Evan You, State of the Vuenion 2020
Evan You, creator of Vue.js, recently discussed the Vue 3 release. After more than two years of development, Vue 3 targets a release in Q3 2020. Vue 3 brings a faster renderer, a new composition API, a new template compiler, and server-side rendering support. With TypeScript, and a more modular architecture, Vue 3 strives to be smaller, more maintainable and make it easier to target native.
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Vue 3 Reactivity Internals - Sarah Drasner at Vue.JS Amsterdam
Sarah Drasner, Vue.js core team member, gave an overview of Vue 3 reactivity internals. Vue’s reactivity functionality is isolated in a separate package and can be used standalone.
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Smart APIs Require Reactive Business Processes and Technology - Bernd Ruecker at QCon London
Implementing smart APIs, with circuit breakers, async communication, and reactive services, requires changes to business processes, not just buzzword technology. At QCon London, Bernd Ruecker talked about the challenges and tradeoffs to consider when moving beyond simple, request/reply APIs.
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Return of the OpenJDK Developers' Guide
A new version of the OpenJDK Developers Guide is now available, targeted at new and returning contributors and updated for the current reality of the project.
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AWS Open-Sources CloudFormation Compliance Analyzer
AWS has announced the preview release of CloudFormation Guard, an open-source CLI tool to enforce compliance policies against CloudFormation templates. cfn-guard provides a lightweight, declarative syntax for defining rules. It supports lists, wildcards, regex,and declaration of variables, and can work with CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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Pylance Is a New Python Language Server for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has announced Pylance, a new language server for Python aimed to help programmers write better Python code and improve IntelliSense and Visual Studio Code support for the language. Pylance will eventually replace Microsoft Python Language Server.
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Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation
Databricks, the company behind big data processing and analytics engine Apache Spark, contributes open source machine learning platform MLflow to The Linux Foundation. The announcement was made at the recent Spark AI Summit 2020 Conference which was held as a global virtual event.