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Android NDK r21 Is the First NDK Release with Long Term Support
The latest NDK for Android, version r21, now available in beta, brings a number of significant changes, including Fortify being enabled by default, and newer versions of GNU Make and GDB. Additionally, starting with r21 Google will manage a new release process with a yearly Long Term Support (LTS) guarantee to provide users more stability.
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Blazor: Client-Side Web UI With .NET Core 3.0
Last month, together with the .NET Core 3.0 release, Microsoft announced the new features of ASP.NET Core 3.0. While there were significant changes in the new release, the official announcement of Blazor took the spotlight. Blazor is a new framework in ASP.NET Core that allows developers to write client-side web UI using .NET and C# instead of JavaScript.
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Smartphone-based VR at a Dead-End With Google's Demise of Daydream VR
Google's decision to stop supporting its Daydream VR headset seemingly marks the end of phone-based virtual reality, a vision that attempted to combine the use of smartphones with "dumb" VR headsets to bring VR experiences to the masses. Google's decision is accompanied by the BBC disbanding its VR content team after two years of successful experimentation.
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Ray Tsang on Tools and Best Practices for Kubernetes Adoption
Ray Tsang, developer advocate at Google, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference last week about the tools and best practices developers can use in Kubernetes adoption in their organizations.
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PARSEC Is a New Platform-Agnostic API for Secure Systems
Backed by Arm and Docker, Platform AbstRaction for SECurity aims to define a universal software standard to handle secure object storage and cryptography services. It focuses on modern system architectures made of containerized services and strives to make security technology easy to access. InfoQ has spoken with Justin Cormack, security lead at Docker and PARSEC maintainer, to learn more.
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The Ethical Role Testers Can Have
Testers should step up outside of only doing quality level verification and be the ambassadors of ethical change, said Michal Buczko at TestCon Europe 2019. Ethics and integrity are becoming more and more important. Ensuring that employees understand appropriate ways to address daily ethical issues can have a major impact on your project outcome and your relationship with customers.
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Atomist Adds Drift Management Features to Minimize Process and Code Divergence
Atomist recently released Drift Management as a new feature within their Software Delivery Machine. This tool helps to track and control drift within repositories, libraries, and Docker images. Drift Management is open source and available in Atomist subscription plans, including the free tier.
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Accessibility Testing: Convincing Your Product Owner
Accessibility testing is just the right thing to do; the internet and e-services are a place for people to feel and interact equally, so our software should not exclude people, argued Martin Tiitmaa at TestCon Europe 2019.
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Managing Microservice "Deep Systems": Q&A with Ben Sigelman
InfoQ interviewed Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep, about managing microservice "depth" at scale.
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Minimizing Backend Complexity with Dark: A New Language with Integrated Editor and Infrastructure
Dark aims to simplify the development of backends by minimizing complexity. Dark is a programming language with an integrated editor and infrastructure for developing and delivering backend applications.
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Introducing Jakarta NoSQL
Recently approved as an EE4J project, Jakarta NoSQL is a specification in Jakarta EE to help developers create enterprise-grade applications using Java and NoSQL technologies. JNoSQL is the reference implementation of Jakarta NoSQL, providing a set of APIs and a standard implementation for a series of NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, neo4J, CouchDB, and OrientDB, among others.
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QCon San Francisco: Speaker Interviews, Workshops, and Learning Paths
QCon San Francisco features 18 curated tracks with over 120 speakers presenting sessions across 3 full days of in-depth technical talks. Topics include: designing and running large-scale architectures, microservices patterns, languages of infrastructure, practices of DevOps, building high-scale effective teams, managing the software supply chain and the latest in machine learning for developers.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Sentinel, a Cloud Native SIEM, to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Sentinel, a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service in Azure, providing customers with intelligent security analytics across their enterprise. With the GA of Azure Sentinel, Microsoft now enters the SIEM market.
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Improving Blockchain Performance Off-Chain, Hyperledger Announces Avalon
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced a new project, called Hyperledger Avalon, that addresses some of the scalability and privacy challenges that are currently associated with many blockchain projects. The projects seek to address these scalability and privacy challenges through the use of trusted off-chain processing, while ensuring the transactions are secure and resilient.
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Open-Source Build and Test Tool Bazel Reaches 1.0
Derived from Google's internal build tool Blaze, Bazel is a build and test tool that offers a human-readable definition language and is particularly aimed at large, multi-language, multi-repositories projects. Originally open-sourced in 2015, Bazel has now reached 1.0.
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