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Latest Roundup of EE4J Activities for Jakarta EE
There has been a recent flurry of EE4J activity as the Eclipse Foundation is positioning Jakarta EE as the new home for cloud native Java. Numerous EE4J projects have been proposed, created, or are under creation review, and Microsoft has joined the Jakarta EE working group.
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Microsoft Announces Its Own Content Delivery Network in Public Preview
Microsoft announced it would start to provide a public preview of their own Content Delivery Network (CDN) to enable customers to use and deliver content from it. With Azure CDN customers can allow their businesses to provide content on any of Microsoft’s extensive 54 global point-of-presence (POP) CDN in 33 countries.
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PyTorch 1.0 Announced for Research and Production AI Projects
In a recent blog post, Bill Jia announced a new 1.0 version of PyTorch. PyTorch is an open source AI framework package for Python with Tensor computation and Deep Neural Networks. The importance of this new release is the reduction in time required to move an AI-driven project from the research phase to production while improving the accuracy and performance of these applications.
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Q&A with Bob McWhirter on WildFly Swarm Rename to Thorntail
In early 2015, Red Hat released Wildfly Swarm, which allows Java EE based applications to run as microservices. The approach allowed developers to migrate Java EE monolith applications to microservices by creating an uber-JAR that not only contains the Java program but embeds its dependencies as well. Wildfly Swarm was recently renamed to Thorntail.
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What’s New in Azure Machine Learning?
Matt Winkler delivered a talk at Microsoft Build 2018 explaining what is new in Azure Machine Learning. The new improvements come in several areas: making development easier, single container deployment to make the dev/test loop faster, using the SDK from the Azure Notebook for control, as well as helping people get started solving a particular problem.
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Google I/O Opening Keynote Featured ML Kit, Google Assistant, TPU 3.0 & Host of Other Announcements
For the third time in as many years, Google I/O kicked off yesterday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Nearly perfect weather greeted the 7,000 attendees who met to learn from Google’s Annual flagship developer conference.
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Microsoft 365 and the Future of App Development: Microsoft Build 2018 Second Day Keynote
The second day keynote focused on how Microsoft 365 is the future of app development. Although the talk was focused on the merging of Enterprise Mobility Services, Microsoft Office, and Windows 10 in Microsoft 365, the underlying Microsoft Graph platform will have much wider use as ubiquitous computing, the union of data and AI, and multi-sense and multi-device experiences become more prevalent.
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Angular Team Releases Angular 6
On May 3, 2018, the Angular team released version 6 of Angular, a release that focused on improving the Angular toolchain. Significant updates make it easier to update application source code and dependencies, add new application capabilities, and tree shake code for better performance.
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AWS IoT Analytics Is Now Generally Available
Amazon has made the AWS IoT Analytics service, which provides advanced analysis of data collected from IoT devices, generally available. At re:Invent conference last year, Amazon released a first preview version of AWS IoT Analytics. This service is a part of a broader IoT-focused push by Amazon since this conference.
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CEO Satya Nadella Gives the First Day Keynote at Microsoft Build 2018
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, delivered the first day keynote at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle today. The first part of the keynote was about the opportunities and responsibilities facing Microsoft and the technology community today. The second part presented the focus of the conference: the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge, specifically Azure and Microsoft 365.
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Managing the Software Supply Chain with the "Grafeas" Metadata API and "Kritis" Deploy Authorization
In a recent Google Cloud Platform (GCP) blog series exploring container security, the GCP team has presented further details of Grafeas -- a common API and language to store, query and retrieve metadata about software components -- and Kritis -- a proposed framework that enables the use of metadata stored in Grafeas to build and enforce real-time deployment policies with Kubernetes.
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StackPointCloud Enhances Istio and Kubernetes Functionality in Cloud-Native Management Platform
StackPointCloud, provider of a cloud-native management platform for Istio and Kubernetes, has added a series of tools to help enterprises deploy and use microservices and containers. Users can now manage Istio service meshes across Kubernetes clusters using their preferred cloud providers and StackPointCloud has partnered with Packet Host to help customers use ARM with their Kubernetes clusters.
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Babylon.js 3.2 Release Improves 3D Rendering
The Babylon.js team has announced their 3.2 release which leverages additional WebGL 2.0 features to improve its 3D rendering, further embraces modern JavaScript and TypeScript patterns, and adds more animation options and special effects.
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US Supreme Court Declares Microsoft Case Moot, Microsoft Delivers Emails to US Government
After the United States Congress passed the CLOUD Act, the United States Justice Department dropped its previous request for a search warrant. The United States Supreme Court then declared the Microsoft email case moot. The Justice Department went back to court, however, and got a new search warrant based on the new law to replace the one it originally got in 2013.
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BDD Tool Cucumber is 10 Years Old: Q&A with its Founder Aslak Hellesøy
Cucumber was created as a way to overcome ambiguous requirements and misunderstandings, but if you think Cucumber is a testing tool you are wrong, Aslak Hellesøy, who created Cucumber in 2008, stated a few years ago. In an interview with InfoQ he described his experiences using Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Cucumber, and what he thinks about the future for a tool that’s now 10 years old.