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CoreOS Propose Modification to Docker for Supporting appc ACIs
CoreOS have opened a pull-request to Docker which contains a proof-of-concept modification to enable Docker to run appc app container images (ACIs). At the same time CoreOS have also released a new version of Rocket that supports the native running of Docker images.
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Project Pachyderm Aims to Build a "Modern" Hadoop on Docker
Project Pachyderm Aims to Build "Modern" Hadoop using Docker and CoreOS.
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Reapp - Hybrid Mobile App Development Using React
Over the past two weeks much hype has surrounded Facebook’s announcement of React Native, an extension to React.js that enables native mobile app development using JavaScript. Amidst the hype Reapp has launched , offering React enthusiasts an alternative approach to developing mobile apps.
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What is so Special about Microservices? An Interview with Mark Little
Mark Little discusses the anatomy of microservices, how they can be used, and why you may want to temper your enthusiasm to get them to production.
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Project Myriad: Mesos and YARN Working Together
An article by Jin Scott - A tale of two clusters: Mesos and YARN – describes hardware silos created by using different resource managers on different hardware clusters, most popular being Mesos and Yarn and introduces Myriad – a solution allowing to run a YARN cluster on Mesos.
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Amazon CloudWatch Supports JSON Logs and Integrates AWS CloudTrail
Shortly after releasing the AWS CloudTrail Processing Library (CPL), Amazon Web Services has also integrated AWS CloudTrail with Amazon CloudWatch Logs to enable alarms and respective "notifications from CloudWatch, triggered by specific API activity captured by CloudTrail". The implied support for monitoring JSON-formatted logs has recently been officially released as well.
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Step by Step Improvement Needs Relative Safety
At the OOP 2015 conference Colin Hood talked about bridging the gap between requirements engineering process definition and successful iterative roll-out. He presented how the introduction of improvements to requirements engineering can be done better when done step by step, and how relative safety is needed to enable people to take the steps.
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Apache Hive 1.0 Released, HiveServer2 Becomes Main Engine, Stable API Defined
Apache Hive has released version 1.0 of their project on February 6th, 2015. Originally planned as version 0.14.1, the community voted to change the version numbering to 1.0.0 to reflect the amount of maturity the project has reached.
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Twitter Unveils Digits Login for Web
Twitter has officially released Digits Login for Web, the latest interaction of Digits that extends the SMS-based login system to mobile app's sites powered by Digits.
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iOS 8 Day by Day: Free Book on iOS 8 Programming
iOS 8 Day by Day is a free book made of 39 short chapters highlighting the key features of iOS 8. Each chapter comes with an Xcode project demonstrating how to use the corresponding feature, either through a standalone app or a playground. The book is aimed at developers who already know the basics of iOS programming in Objective-C and Swift. InfoQ has interviewed book’s author Sam Davies.
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Cloud Foundry Foundation is Born and Gets a New Lead
Cloud Foundry Foundation that was formed recently to advance an open source PaaS gets a new lead, Sam Ramji as the CEO. InfoQ talks to James Watters, VP for Product at Pivotal, Christopher Ferris, CTO Open Cloud at IBM and Dr. Nic Williams, CEO of Stark and Wayne.
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Introducing Behaviour-Driven Development
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) can help in overcoming the gap between the developer’s understanding of what needs to be built and the business’ understanding of the technical challenges caused by the requirements. The reason is improvement in communication between the two groups, Alistair Stead and Konstantin Kudryashov explains in their Beginner’s guide to BDD.
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CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support
CoffeeScript 1.9 has finally introduced support for long awaited generators, which promise to prevent callback hell and help writing async code.
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Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility
Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving. It can help enterprises to be more able to deal with and even gain from uncertainty and disorder, making them more flexible and adaptive to events that happen.
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Using Cost of Delay to Quantify Value and Urgency
Joshua Arnold facilitated a workshop about Cost of Delay at the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference. InfoQ did an interview with Arnold in which he talks about the cost of delay: what it is, why it matters, the importance of quantifying it and some tips for getting started.