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Rust 1.36 Stabilizes Futures, Backports Non-Lexical Lifetimes, and More

Following its roadmap to Rust 2018, Rust 1.36 most awaited new feature is support for the Future trait, which is the first step towards bringing async/await to the language. Additionally, it backports non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) to improve the borrow checker, and introduces a new alloc crate to enable the creation of memory allocation-dependent libraries that do not require std.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 18, 2019
Cloud

Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs

Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.

Richard Seroter
on Jul 18, 2019
Web Development

Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 18, 2019
Java

Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates

Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.

Dustin Schultz
on Jul 18, 2019
Java

MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0

Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.

Matt Raible
on Jul 17, 2019
Cloud

Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability

Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jul 17, 2019
Cloud

Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available

At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jul 16, 2019
Web Development

The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019

Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.

Bruno Couriol
on Jul 16, 2019 6
Architecture & Design

Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York

Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 15, 2019
Development

Git 2.22 Adds Topology-Preserving, Interactive Rebase

The most significant new feature in the latest Git release, Git 2.22, enables rebasing non-trivial branch topologies, e.g., those including merges, without flattening them while also allowing to use interactive rebase features.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 13, 2019
Cloud

Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability

Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jul 12, 2019 2
Development

restQL V3 Released

The latest version of restQL, a microservices query language, has been released, providing notable new features including content aggregation, support for additional HTTP methods, self-healing functionality, and a version for node.js apps. Comprehensive performance improvements have made the latest version up to twice as fast as its predecessor.

Thomas Betts
on Jul 11, 2019 1
Web Development

Binary AST Proposal Could Improve Performance of Large JavaScript Apps

Binary AST is a stage 1 proposal for the JavaScript language. Binary AST aims to drastically improve the load time of large JavaScript applications by adding a new, binary encoded abstract syntax tree (AST) to the language inspired in part by WebAssembly.

Guy Nesher
on Jul 11, 2019
Cloud

Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta

In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jul 11, 2019
Web Development

Chrome 74 Natively Supports Lazy Loading

Google recently released Google Chrome 74 with a new experimental flag to enable native lazy loading support for images and iframes. The img and iframe HTML tags get an additional loading attribute to configure the lazy loading behaviour of the corresponding resource. Deferring load of non-visible content may reduce data usage, memory usage, and speed up above-the-fold content.

Bruno Couriol
on Jul 11, 2019