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Vlingo Joins the Reactive Foundation
Vlingo, creators of a platform designed to simplify building reactive systems using an actor model, has joined the Reactive Foundation. Launched in September, the Reactive Foundation was formed under the Linux Foundation to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. Vlingo is a new charter member, joining Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Predicting the Future of the Web: Richard Feldman at ReactiveConf 2019
At ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague, Richard Feldman drew on his 12 years of professional Web development experience, and history of being an early adopter of technologies like React in 2013 and Elm in 2014, to make and justify some concrete predictions about the future of the Web in both 2020 and 2025.
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Open Source CNCF CloudEvents Specification Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
CloudEvents is an open-source specification for describing event data in a standard way and is intended to ease event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. The driving force behind the specification is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which recently announced that the specification had reached a version 1.0 milestone.
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Alternatives to RViz for Visualising Robotics Data Presented: Summary from ROSCon 2019
During ROSCon 2019 two interesting tools for visualising and interacting with ROS were demonstrated. The first tool which was demonstrated is Webviz, an online web-based replacement for RViz. Another interesting option which gives you more options for interaction is using Jupyter notebooks to visualise and interact with your robot.
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PyTorch and TensorFlow: Which ML Framework is More Popular in Academia and Industry
An article that was recently published on the gradient is examining the current state of Machine Learning frameworks in 2019. The article is utilizing some metrics to argue the point that PyTorch is quickly becoming the dominant framework for research, whereas TensorFlow is the dominant framework for applications in the industry. In this article we will dive into their differences.
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iRobot’s Experience in Running ROS2 on Linux-Based Embedded Platforms
During ROSCon 2019, Alberto Soragna, Juan Oxoby, and Dhiraj Goel from iRobot presented their experience in using ROS 2 on a low-cost embedded platform. By experimenting with different Data Distribution Service (DDS) implementations they reduced the CPU and memory usage of their application, which improved performance.
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NetBeans Celebrates 20 Years of Guidance
NetBeans recently celebrated their 20th year since the company was acquired by Sun Micrososystems. Former members gathered to celebrate the journey from student project, into Sun, then Oracle, finally ending up in the Apache Software Foundation.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.
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Gutenberg – a Publish-Subscribe Service for Datasets Created by Netflix
To propagate datasets from a single producer to multiple consumers, Netflix has created Gutenberg, a service using a publish-subscribe technique to propagate versioned datasets between their microservices. In a blog post, Ammar Khaku, senior software engineer at Netflix, describes an overview of the design as well and some use cases for Gutenberg.
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Microsoft Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the conclusion of the .NET Framework API porting project for .NET Core 3.0. That means the official development team won't port any other APIs from the .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0. Microsoft also stated their intention to open-source more of the .NET Framework code, allowing the creation of community-driven porting projects in the future.
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Migrating Two Large Robotics ROS1 Codebases to ROS2
In 2018, the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) was launched as a successor to ROS1. At ROSCon 2019, several speakers shared their experience in moving from ROS1 to ROS2. Lessons were shared in two separate talks: the Autoware project, and the demo porting by Rover Robotics.
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GRIT Protocol Enables Distributed Transactions across Multi-Database Microservices
At the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2019, eBay engineers presented a paper introducing a protocol for distributed ACID transactions using multiple databases, GRIT. Support for multiple databases is key to enabling GRIT's use across microservices, which are usually implemented in different languages and may use multiple underlying databases.