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Microsoft Introduces Flow for Citizen Cloud Workflow
On April 27, 2016 Microsoft announced a new personal workflow tool called Flow. The platform is an “IFTTT like” tool that focuses on the automation of personal tasks by orchestrating work across popular SaaS based services.
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Log4j 2.6 Goes Garbage-Free
Log4j, the popular logging library for Java, will include a number of configuration options that allows it to run in a completely garbage-free manner. The release follows previous attempts to improve the performance of logging libraries, and has been positively received by the industry. Further changes to increase the number of scenarios in which log4j can run garbage-free are expected.
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OSRAM Sylvania Opens Lightify REST API to Developers
OSRAM Sylvania recently announced that it is now offering the developer community an open REST API for Lightify that developers can integrate into their own iOS and Android apps and web sites. Lightify is an Internet of Things (IoT) combination of hardware, the cloud, and your mobile device. Using OSRAM's free iOS and Android apps, you can control the light settings of your Lightify LED lights...
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Q&A with Mark Stoodley, Architect of Eclipse OMR Toolkit for Creating Language Runtimes
Mark Stoodley, Architect at IBM talks to Rags Srinivas about Eclipse OMR project, an open-source virtual machine toolkit to help create runtime environments for any language.
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Comparison of Event Sourcing with Stream Processing
Event sourcing and CQRS are two patterns that has emerged in the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) community. Stream processing builds on similar ideas but has emerged in a different community, Martin Kleppmann noted in his presentation at the Domain-Driven Design Europe conference earlier this year comparing event sourcing with stream processing.
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Amazon Releases Kinesis Service Update
Amazon has recently announced an update to their Amazon Kinesis Service. In this update, three new features have been added to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose including support for Elasticsearch Service Integration, Shard-Level Metrics and Time-Based Iterators.
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Android Developers Invited to Get Ready for Chrome OS
Google is close to bring Play to Chrome OS, making Android applications and media available to Chromebook users.
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Vaughn Vernon: Challenges in Software Development of Today
Projects and development teams are struggling with poorly designed systems, with many developers dedicated to patching systems just to keep them alive. Largely the software development culture is broken, Vaughn Vernon claimed in his presentation at the Domain-Driven Design Europe conference earlier this year, talking about problems he has encountered but also about solutions to these problems.
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Precision Medicine Modeling Demonstration with Spark on EMR, ADAM, and the 1000 Genomes Project
AWS engineers Christopher Crosbie and Ujjwal Ratan detail using Spark on EMR for precision medicine data analysis on the ADAM platform with data from the 1000 genomes project.
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Anders Hejlsberg Explains Modern Compiler Construction
The main reference in compiler construction, Compiler: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, also know as the Dragon Book, was first published in 1986. Anders Hejlsberg, known for his work on Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript, explains in a Channel 9 interview how compiler construction today is different from how it was done 30 years ago.
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3 weeks until QCon New York: New Talks, Podcasts, & Workshops
Marking its 5th anniversary, QCon New York returns June 13-15. This is QCon New York’s last year holding the event in Brooklyn. Next year, QCon moves to a new venue in Manhattan.
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Integrate 2016 Wrap-up: Microsoft Shares Azure App Service and Cloud Messaging Adoption Metrics
InfoQ attended the recent Integrate 2016 event in London, where Microsoft Integration technologies took center stage. Day 1 focused on the BizTalk, Logic Apps and API Management teams. Day 2 was focused on Azure App Service adoption and the new server-less Azure Functions. Microsoft's Cloud Messaging team also spoke about adoption metrics and their work in the OPC UA working group.
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Nest Has Open Sourced Thread
Nest has made the source code of their Thread protocol available on GitHub.
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Java Champions Receive Free IntelliJ IDEA Licenses
Being a Java Champion has its perks, and thanks to the generosity of JetBrains, a free license for IntelliJ IDEA is now one of them. The Champions are the latest in the list of groups earning this special JetBrains premium, which also includes approved open source projects, students, and teachers.
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Understanding Large Codebases with Software Evolution
InfoQ interviewed Adam Tornhill, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene, about software evolution and mining social information from code and how to use this to increase the understanding of large codebases, how to create a geographical profile of code, and the benefits that can be gained from techniques like mining social information and geographical profiling.