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Amazon Location Service Generally Available with Routing and Satellite Imagery
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service, a managed solution designed to add location functionalities to applications. The service relies on location providers like Esri and HERE and now supports routing and satellite imagery capabilities.
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Xcode Cloud Brings CI/CD to iOS App Development
At WWDC21, Apple announced Xcode Cloud, a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) system to help developers build, test, and distribute apps. Still in beta, Xcode Cloud supports both releasing to TestFlight and on the App Store.
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Lightbend Announces Akka Serverless Open Beta
Lightbend today announced the launch of Akka Serverless open beta, with general availability later this year. Akka Serverless is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that aims at cloud-native application development. It is built on Lightbend's Akka Platform technology and delivered via a model similar to existing serverless offerings.
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V8 Gets a Non-Optimizing Compiler Stage to Improve Performance
The latest version of the JavaScript V8 engine, V8 9.1, introduces a new intermediate compiler stage, called Sparkplug, that improves performance on real-world benchmarks by 5-15%, says V8 engineer Leszek Swirski. It will be available in the upcoming Chrome 91.
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Async Streaming with EF Core and ASP.NET Core 6
Combining enhancements to .NET Core and EF Core, ASP.NET Core 6 has gained the ability to handle arbitrarily large JSON files via asynchronous streaming and the IAsyncEnumerable interface.
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Amazon Adds Global Clusters to DocumentDB
Amazon recently announced support for global clusters on DocumentDB, the document-oriented database compatible with MongoDB.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers to run workflows anywhere.
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.NET News Roundup: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, Windows ML, Project Tye, Oqtane
This past week was marked by the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.10, Windows ML NuGet package 1.8.0, a Visual Studio Code extension for Tye, Oqtane 2.1, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 31st, 2021.
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Three-Node Quantum Network is a Step towards the Quantum Internet
Researchers at the Delft University QuTech center created the first multi-node quantum network, which is a step in the direction of building a network of interconnected quantum computers. InfoQ has spoken with Ronald Hanson, principal investigator at QuTech, to learn more.
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Q&A with AWS VP of Compute Services Deepak Singh about AWS App Runner
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding the philosophy and design of App Runner.
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Overcome Cloud & Serverless Security Challenges. Join Security Experts at InfoQ Live - June 22
What is DevSecOps? How does it relate to DevOps? And what does it solve? Learn practical advice from world-class DevSecOps and application security professionals at InfoQ Live on Tuesday, June 22nd, about how you can overcome security challenges in the Cloud, especially in serverless architectures.
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ASP.NET Core 6 to Challenge Python and Node
ASP.NET Core 6 will allow developers to build REST APIs using a single-file model similar to basic Python and Node applications. Under this model, developers will no longer need to create a Program class, a Startup class, or Controller classes.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 31st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, initial work on JDK 18, Project Skara 1.0, JavaFX, MicroProfile GraphQL, Quarkus 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Hibernate ORM 5.5.0, Payara Platform 5, Eclipse Vert.x 4.1.0, Spring and EclipseCon 2021.
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Google Cloud Announces Managed Machine Learning Platform Vertex AI
At the recent Google I/O 2021 conference, the cloud provider announced the general availability of Vertex AI, a managed machine learning platform designed to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence models.
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Putting Arduino and the ESP32 at Work for STEM Education
Launched on IndieGogo a few months ago after 2+ years in development, Crowbits is a STEM education project that leverages both the Arduino and ESP32 boards to teach logical thinking and programming. Featuring Lego-blocks compatibility and a Scratch-like interface, the project has reached its IndieGogo backing goal and is ready to ship, says Crowbits' maker Elecrow.