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Objective-C Introduces Zero-Runtime-Cost Direct Methods
Since Swift was launched in 2014, Objective-C has known only minor changes, mostly aimed at improving its interoperability with Swift. Far from being a fringe language, though, Objective-C has recently added support for "direct" methods, which look like ordinary class methods but behave more like a C function.
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GraalVM 19.3 Brings JDK 11 Support
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, C, Python, and JavaScript, has released version 19.3 with support for JDK 11. Previous versions of GraalVM were based on JDK 8.
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Microsoft Announces .NET Support for Jupyter Notebooks
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of .NET Core support to Jupyter Notebooks, allowing the use of code written in C# and F#. This release is part of the Try .NET project, an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core.
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Machine Learning on Mobile and Edge Devices with TensorFlow Lite: Daniel Situnayake at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Daniel Situnayake presented "Machine learning on mobile and edge devices with TensorFlow Lite". TensorFlow Lite is a production-ready, cross-platform framework for deploying ML on mobile devices and embedded systems, and was the main topic of the presentation.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Online: Distributed Development for Visual Studio
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of Visual Studio Online (VSO) at its Ignite conference. The service provides managed development environments that can be used with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. It also features an online code editor with IDE capabilities such as debugging, code completion, and collaborative sessions.
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Microsoft Edge 79 to Use the Chromium Browser Engine
With the release of Edge 79, Microsoft will transition from its proprietary EdgeHTML engine to Chromium, the popular open-source engine that powers Chrome.
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Fully-Managed Serverless Platform Google Cloud Run is Now GA
Google Cloud Run is Google's fully managed solution for running containerized, serverless applications. After a six-month beta phase, Cloud Run is now generally available, along with Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables running your Google Cloud Run application on premises using a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Synapse for Data Warehousing and Analytics
During Microsoft's annual Ignite conference the company announced a new analytics service called Azure Synapse. The service, which is a continuation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, focuses on bringing enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics into a single service.
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Low Latency Profiling Now Available in Java 8
Java Flight Recorder is now publicly available in OpenJDK 8, enabling developers to monitor performance in production with under 2% overhead, without cost.
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The Future of Data Engineering: Chris Riccomini at QCon San Francisco
At QCon San Francisco 2019, Chris Riccomini presented “The Future of Data Engineering”. The key takeaway of his talk is about reaching an end goal with data engineering, which is having a fully automated decentralized data warehouse.
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Unlocking Market Data, Amazon Introduces AWS Data Exchange
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new market data publisher/subscriber service called AWS Data Exchange. This service is an add-on to the existing AWS Marketplace and contains more than 1000 licensable data products from more than 80 data providers. These data feeds include both free and paid offerings that span industries such as financial services, health care, weather and mapping.
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Docker Enterprise Business and Team Move to Mirantis While Docker Gets New Funding
Mirantis, a Cloud consulting company focused on Kubernetes and OpenStack, has acquired Docker Enterprise. While Mirantis will focus on the enterprise segment, the part of Docker which is not being acquired will return to the company's original goal of improving developers' workflows.
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Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More: Yevgeniy Brikman at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Yevgeniy Brikman presented "Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More". Key takeaways from the talk included the recommendation to use an appropriate mix of all testing techniques discussed, such as static analysis, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
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Dart 2.6 Goes Native on Linux, Windows, and MacOS
The latest version of Google programming language Dart, numbered 2.6, extends support for native, ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation with the addition of dart2native, which enables the creation of command-line programs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
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Stateful Programming Models in Serverless Functions: Chris Gillum at QCon San Francisco
Chris Gillum, principal engineering manager at Microsoft, presented at QCon San Francisco on Serverless Programming Models in Azure Functions. In his presentation, he discussed two stateful programming models, workflow and actors on Azure Functions - Microsoft’s implementation of serverless compute.