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GitLab 11.11 Brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor, and More
GitLab 11.11, recently released, brings Multiple Assignees for Merge Requests, Windows Container Executor for GitLab Runners, Guest Access to Releases, instance-level Kubernetes cluster, and more.
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Pixi.js, HTML5 Alternative to Adobe Flash, Adds WebGL Support for Cross-Platform, Interactive Apps
PixiJS, a standard-based alternative to Adobe Flash, released its fifth major version with faster rendering and lower GPU utilization. PixiJS v5 abstracts WebGL features behind a new API which falls back to HTML5’s canvas if needed. Developers thus need not dive into the WebGL API or deal with device compatibility to create rich, interactive graphics, cross-platform applications, and games.
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Electron 4 and 5 Releases Add Security and Modern Web APIs
The Electron team recently announced the release of version 4 and version 5 of Electron. Electron maintains an aggressive release cycle to stay current with the latest updates from Chromium, V8, and Node.js. Significant updates in these versions include better control over remotes and requests, and an in-progress initiative to update Electron's callback-based APIs to use promises.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Enhancements: Upgrade Channels, Windows Container Support and Stackdriver
At the recent KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Google announced that it will offer three new release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular, and Stable. With these channels, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users can choose whether they want the freshest release or the most stable one — or quickly evaluate the latest updates in a development environment.
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Vendors Argue over AWS’ Open Distro for Elasticsearch
AWS announced the release of their Open Distro for Elasticsearch back in March. However, the release has not come with support from all members of the community. While AWS states that they have released Open Distro in order to ensure that Elasticsearch remains fully open source, other members of the tech community claim this is another move by Amazon to further solidify their strong customer base.
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CircleCI Adds Additional Partner Integrations to Support Kubernetes Workloads
CircleCI has announced new partner integrations as part of their Technology Partner program. CircleCI previously introduced a package management solution called Orbs. Orbs bundle common CI/CD tasks into reusable, shareable packages. With this announcement, CircleCI has added partner-supported orbs for AWS, Azure, VMware, Red Hat, Kublr and Helm.
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Experience Building a QA Team in a Growing Organization
Shifting the test team to the left brought the whole team closer together, enabled faster learning, and improved collaboration, claimed Neven Matas, QA team lead at Infinum. He spoke at TestCon Moscow 2019 where he shared the lessons learned from building a QA team in a growing organization.
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Microsoft Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity System
Recently launched in preview by Microsoft, ION is a Decentralized Identifier (DID) network that runs on top of Bitcoin and aims to provide a decentralized identity system and PKI at scale.
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Writing Web Applications in Java - a Study of Alternatives
Developers familiar with the Java Virtual Machine languages and who want to develop web applications without the difficulties of a JavaScript development stack, have an increasing array of alternatives to JavaScript to choose from. The performance penalty vs. native JavaScript web applications is shrinking.
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Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at the Edge
What sits between your application and the client's browser? When the answer is "the internet", Cloudflare wants their Workers platform to play a part. They recently expanded that platform with Workers KV, a distributed, eventually-consistent key-value store available in 180+ edge locations.
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Capacitor 1.0 Aims to Improve the Creation of Hybrid, Web, and Native Apps
Capacitor, Ionic's new native API container aimed at creating iOS, Android, and Web apps using JavaScript, hit version 1.0. It attempts to bring a new take on how to build cross-platform apps that access native features.
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GitKraken Founder Hamid Shojaee Shares Experiences on Building a Git GUI
Git is historically a tool limited to those with a strong love of the command-line. GitKraken strives to improve on the status quo by providing a powerful GUI for working with Git.
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Google's Cloud TPU V2 and V3 Pods Are Now Publicly Available in Beta
Recently, Google announced that its second- and third-generation Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) Pods — its scalable cloud-based supercomputers with up to 1,000 of its custom TPU — are now publicly available in beta. With these Pods, Machine Learning (ML) researchers, engineers, and data scientists can speed up the time needed to train and deploy machine learning models.
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Recent Appian Survey Unveils Worst Aspects of IT Developer Jobs
Low-code provider Appian released a survey among IT developers to gauge their satisfaction at work. According to the survey, the three worst aspects of IT jobs are time spent troubleshooting application issues, pressure due to time constraints and deadlines, and time wasted on repetitive coding task. InfoQ has spoken with Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian, to learn more.
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Microsoft Launches Several New Machine Learning Services and Extends Its Cognitive Services
Before its Build Developer Conference, Microsoft released several new Machine Learning services and Cognitive Services updates, ranging from no-code tools to hosted notebooks, with several new APIs and other services in-between.