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Flutter 2 is Production-Ready for the Web, Adds New Platforms
A major update to Google's cross-platform UI Toolkit, Flutter 2 stabilizes Web support and adds new platforms, including foldable, embedded, and desktop. Alongside it, new Dart 2.12 brings null safety and Dart FFI.
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2019 v16.9
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 for Windows. The new release contains multiple improvements to .NET and Git productivity features, along with updated C++, XAML, and F# tools, new memory dump analyzers, and a new dynamic instrumentation profiling tool for .NET.
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Netflix Embraces GraphQL Microservices for Rapid Application Development
Netflix engineering recently published a blog post detailing how Netflix embraced GraphQL microservices for rapid application development. In this post, Dane Avilla, a senior software engineer at Netflix, describes their key learnings in the process and how GraphQL lends itself well for proof-of-concept development.
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Software Delivery Practices Evolve Fast, So Should Your Learning: Attend QCon Plus This May 17-28
QCon Plus, the virtual software development conference, will focus this May 17-28 on emerging software trends and innovations, giving attendees the opportunity to connect with software experts from innovator and early adopter companies.
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Road to Scala 3: Release Candidate Available
Scala 3 incorporates many changes and is based on Dotty, a new compiler using the internal data structures of Document Object Types. In development for the past eight years, new features in Dotty include new types, improved enum handling and metaprogramming. The first release candidate is now available and version 3.0.0 is scheduled for release in early-mid 2021.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Attestation into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Attestation, a unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and the integrity of the binaries running inside it.
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Gremlin Aims to Reduce Kubernetes Noisy Neighbours through Chaos Engineering
Gremlin has released enhancements to its Chaos Engineering platform aimed at DevOps engineers interested in future-proofing Kubernetes clusters by isolating "noisy neighbours". On Kubernetes, the noisy neighbour issue occurs when multiple applications sharing a Kubernetes cluster compete for resources leading to degraded performance.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 22nd, 2021
A roundup of Java news from the last week, including stories from OpenJDK, Spring and Quarkus.
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New Features in Chrome 88 Devtools
The recent release of Chrome 88 includes significant updates to the Chrome DevTools that include improved network debugging, experimental CSS Flexbox debugging tools, improved frame details view, new WASM debug capabilities, and general performance improvements.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Feb 22th, 2021
InfoQ examined a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of February 22th, 2021.
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AWS Adds Distributed Tracing to Their Elasticsearch Service
Amazon has announced the addition of Trace Analytics to their Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Trace Analytics adds distributed tracing to their service with support for OpenTelemetry. This new feature also integrates with the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.
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Diablo IV: Debugging Linux in Visual Studio
Blizzard's Diablo IV team has published a blog about how they leverage Visual Studio and WSL to debug Linux core dumps on their Windows environments.
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JavaFX in AppStores and Improved UI Framework
Gluon spoke recently to discuss cross-platform JavaFX applications running on computers and mobile devices. Examples include two games. Meanwhile, the ControlsFX team has released a new update with improved UI controls.
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State of the Vuenion 2021 - Evan You at Vue Amsterdam 2021
Evan You, creator of the Vue.js front-end framework, recently presented at the Vue Amsterdam 2021 conference the latest and future Vue developments.
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C# 9 Released with Records, Init-Only Setters, and Pattern Matching Enhancements
Microsoft shipped out C# 9.0 as a part of the .NET 5 development platform release. .NET 5 is paired with C# 9.0, which brings many new features to the language. The new language features include records, init-only setters, top-level statements, pattern matching enhancements, target-typed new expressions, covariant returns and much more!