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QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year
In the recent Stack Overflow 9th annual survey of over 90,000 software developers, we learned that non-development work remains a productivity challenge for software managers and leaders. At QCon New York, the conference for senior software developers, we have many sessions to help you learn how others have overcome those challenges.
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The Zero Server Web Framework Allows Developers to Create Web Applications with No Configuration
The Zero Server web framework allows developers to create, build and develop web applications with server-side rendering and no configuration. Zero 1.0 accepts a mix of Node.js, React, Vue, HTML, MDX, and static files, with support for Svelte poised to follow suite. Zero 1.0 features automatic configuration, file-system based routing, automatic dependency resolution, and more.
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Google Announces Cloud Code: Extending IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code to Kubernetes Apps
Recently at Google Cloud Next 2019, Google introduced a new developer tool called Cloud Code. With Cloud Code, developers will get a set of plugins for development environments like JetBrains IntelliJ Idea IDE and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor.
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Google Releases New Java Logging Framework
Google announced the release of a new open-source Java logging framework called Flogger that improves upon existing logging frameworks by reducing the cost of disabled log statements, increasing overall readability, and allowing extensibility.
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DockerHub Breach Exposes Usernames, Hashed Passwords, and GitHub Tokens of 5% of Hub Users
Docker disclosed one of their Hub databases was hacked and a subset of non-financial data, including usernames, hashed passwords, and GitHub and BitBucket tokens, was stolen.
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Teaching the Computer to Play the Chrome Dinosaur Game with TensorFlow.js Machine Learning Library
A simple, yet entertaining and useful for educational purposes application of machine learning, was recently made available on Fritz's HeartBeat Medium publication. Google's machine learning TensorFlow.js library is leveraged in the browser to teach the computer to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game.
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Rust Evolution in 2019 Will Aim for Maturity
This year's roadmap for Rust was the result of an open call for blog posts from the community to set out major priorities for the language development throughout 2019, including reshaping the governance model, bringing to light new language features, and improving the compiler.
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Salesforce Adds Intelligence to its Einstein Services Offering
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced additions to their Einstein platform that target bringing AI solutions to Salesforce developers and admins using a low code, point and click configuration-based solution. The recent additions to the platform include Einstein Translation and Einstein Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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Kotlin 1.3.30 Brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT Improvements, and More
JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.3.30. This version is mainly a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin 1.3.30 brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT improvements, support for more operations for unsigned types and arrays, debugging improvements on IntelliJ IDEA, and more.
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Eoin Woods on Democratising Software Architecture at ICSA 2019
Last month in ICSA 2019 in Hamburg, Germany, Eoin Woods, CTO at Endava, gave a speech about how we can democratise software architecture. Starting from a historical perspective, Woods described how software systems have evolved in the past three decades. In the 80’s we were all using monolithic architectures, which evolved into distributed monoliths in the next decade...
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Q&A with Google VP Eyal Manor about Anthos, Kubernetes, and Multicloud
InfoQ caught up with Eyal Manor, VP of product and engineering, Google Cloud, as a follow-on to his appearance at the Google Next keynote to deep dive into the Anthos architecture.
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How the Sequence of Characters in a Name Can Predict Race and Ethnicity
Gaurav Sood, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft, recently spoke at the AnacondaCon 2019 Conference on how to use the sequence of characters in a person's name to predict that person's race and ethnicity, using machine learning techniques.
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HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together
Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.
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W3C Publishes WebXR Draft Specification for Direct Web Interaction with Immersive Hardware
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published draft specifications for WebXR. The WebXR Device API seeks to provide "the interfaces necessary to enable developers to build compelling, comfortable, and safe immersive applications on the web across a wide variety of hardware form factors".
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Summary of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
Javascript, MySQL and Linux have retained their places as most popular technologies, according to the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey. Public cloud providers- AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform - make the list for most popular platforms again. The survey of almost 90,000 developers also collated demographic information, with huge imbalance of genders and ethnicities in the industry.