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Amazon Introduces AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
On December 3rd, 2015 Amazon announced a new service that allows customers to provision a Microsoft Active Directory managed service in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service, also referred to as Microsoft AD, uses directory capabilities found in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2.
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SOA versus Microservices?
Microservices and SOA are often compared and contrasted, with some people suggesting they are unrelated whereas others believe they are close relatives. In a recent article Matt Braiser joins the debate on the side of the latter group and gives his reasons for believing that microservices owe their existence to the success of SOA principles.
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OpenJDK 9: Life Without HPROF and jhat
OpenJDK will decommission the HPROF agent and remove the jhat tool from JDK 9. InfoQ covers options that supersede these commandline JDK tools.
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Artfully Benchmarking Java 8 Streams and Lambdas
Benchmarking and comparing Java 8 functional-style programming with the imperative-style can be tricky at times. Takipi blogs' recent posting shows us how.
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Cellular Technologies Enabling the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is about connecting things. When the remotest of the things lie beyond the reach of WIFI networks, cellular technologies can provide a viable communications infrastructure. To this end, 4G Americas, a telecommunications industry trade organization, has published a new white paper titled "Cellular Technologies Enabling the Internet of Things."
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NUnit 3 Brings Extensibility and Parallel Execution: Interview with Charlie Poole
NUnit 3 was recently released, bringing parallel execution and extensibility to the .NET testing framework. InfoQ reached out with Charlie Poole, maintainer of NUnit for over 10 years, to learn more about this release.
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A Look at Mainframe Development with Josh Rogers of Syncsort
Mainframe development is still critical to many large companies, but the typical enterprise developer knows very little about it. So we reached out to Josh Rogers, President of Syncsort. Founded in 1968, Syncsort is one of the oldest software development companies in the world.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Backup Server
On October 7th, 2015 Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup Server was previously known as Project Venus and targets backup scenarios for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers.
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How Facebook Improved their iOS App Start Time
Facebook engineer Natansh Verma explained how they managed to reduce the launch time of the Facebook app for iOS and shave a few seconds off by streamlining their dependencies and using UDP priming.
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Google Cloud Security Scanner reaches General Availability
On October 7, 2015 Google announced its App Engine security service, Google Cloud Security Scanner, has reached general availability. This past February, Google launched a beta version of this service.
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IBM's Swift Response
IBM has committed itself to the Swift platform, with a newly launched Swift Engineering blog and a web-based Swift sandbox environment to allow users to test out Swift code remotely.
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ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC Ready for Production
Microsoft recently released .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, supported on Windows, OS X and Linux. Microsoft states this release is ready for production and will support it. Both release candidates are considered feature complete on Windows, OS X and Linux, although minor features may still be added until the final release.
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Java 9 Delayed By 6 Months?
Oracle's Java Chief Architect Mark Reinhold has proposed delaying the release of Java 9 for 6 months to allow for more complete testing of the modularity features at the heart of the release.
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Microservices and Integration from an Enterprise Perspective
Common misconceptions in large enterprises that Kim Clark meets are that microservices are fine grained WSDL operations or that APIs are microservices. A reason for this is that they are confusing interface granularity with component granularity, Clark claimed in a presentation at this year’s Microservices Conference in London.
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Introducing Microsoft PowerApps
At the Convergence EMEA 2015 conference, Microsoft introduced its latest service called Microsoft PowerApps. The service is currently in limited preview which will allow selected enterprise customers the opportunity to use the service prior to a general availability release.