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As Banks Ban Cryptocurrencies Enterprises Start Joining the Blockchain
While controversy and value swings continue to dog Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, interest in the associated blockchain technology is rising, with major players in the financial and other industries showing signs of taking it seriously.
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Is REST the New SOAP?
The REST debate was re-ignited a few weeks ago when Pakal de Bonchamp wrote an article complaining about many aspects of the approach and likening it to SOAP. His original article went into a lot of detail and sparked a lot of comments and then WeWork's Phil Sturgeon wrote a response which essentially refuted de Bonchamp's claims. The conversation between the two continues.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Event Grid
Microsoft introduced Event Grid last year in August, and now it is generally available (GA). The Azure Event Grid is a service which enables developers to manage events in a unified way in Azure.
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Amazon Releases a Unified AWS Auto Scaling Service across Cloud Applications
Amazon has released a new service, AWS Auto Scaling, which is built on top of existing, service specific, scaling features. AWS Auto Scaling can aid customers in monitoring their applications and automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, and predictable performance. The service provides a unified scaling capability for cloud applications in AWS.
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Blockchain and Smart Contracts in a Business Process
Buying something through an internet portal, for example a car, normally involves two parties who don’t trust each other; a buyer and a seller. The portal is just a broker so either the buyer must transfer money before getting the ordered item, or the seller must send the item before getting the money. To overcome this lack of mutual trust, Bernd Rücker claims that a blockchain can be used.
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Oracle to End Free Support for Past Java Versions Much Sooner
Oracle's new support roadmap appears to have significantly curtailed the length of time that free updates to each new version of Java will be offered.
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Events Should Be a First-Class Tool for Developers
We should use events much more often in software systems, Randy Shoup declared in a recent blog post about how events should be first-class citizens in systems. He believes we often underestimate the value of events as a tool. One example is that they can help us decouple parts of a system so that we can reason about them independently.
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Public Review of Java MVC 1.0 Specification is Now Open
Public review of JSR-371, Model-View-Controller (MVC) version 1.0 specification, is now open. The latest features include support for data binding and internationalization. Eclipse Ozark, a full implementation of MVC 1.0, is expected to release version 1.0 in conjunction with the final release of JSR-371. Ivar Grimstad, principal consultant for the Cybercom Group, spoke to InfoQ about MVC 1.0.
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Ruby 2.5.0 Overview
Following the Christmas tradition for sixth year in a row, a new major release was released on December 25th. Ruby 2.5.0 features several performance related improvements improving performance by 5-10%. On library support, standard libraries have been promoted to default gems. yield_self and testing, no more require pp lines, and others are reviewed in the article.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory V2 Visual Tools in Public Preview
After releasing Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) in public preview in September, Microsoft has recently followed up with the announcement of a public preview of new visual tooling for the service.
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Kotlin 2017 Roundup and 2018 Outlook
Since the release of Kotlin 1.1 in March 2017 by JetBrains, Kotlin has made huge gains in adoption all around the world. 2017 brought many exciting announcements, and the momentum continues into 2018. InfoQ recently sat down with Hadi Hariri, the team lead for developer advocacy at JetBrains.
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With Firefox Version 58, WebAssembly Gets 10X Faster
With Firefox 58, Mozilla is shipping a 2-tiered compilation system for WebAssembly that they claim allows them to parse and compile WASM code at 30-60 MB/s, or as fast as it comes in over the wire. Benchmarks indicate around a 10X speedup from previous versions of Firefox, and over 10X faster than Chrome.
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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Two Conferences to Attend in 2018
The IEEE publishes an annual list of the Top 10 Technology Trends for each upcoming year. Making the list for 2018 are multiple topics surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning. Deep learning comes in as the IEEE hottest trend for 2018.
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Q&A on Istio, Microservices and Kubernetes with Lachie Evenson of Microsoft from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Lachie Evenson, program manager at Microsoft, who delivered an introductory talk on the Istio platform at Kubecon. In addition to Istio, he talked about microservices, Kubernetes and how it's relevant to enterprise developers and architects.
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No JCP for Java EE
Oracle does not support or recommend the use of the JCP (Java Community Process) for future Java EE enhancements. "Oracle recommends and supports the use of EE4J-driven processes for functional enhancements to Java EE 8 specifications, and does not recommend or support use the JCP process for any future Java EE 8 functional enhancements."