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TypeScript 3.4 Supports Incremental Builds and globalThis
The TypeScript team announces the release of TypeScript 3.4, including faster incremental builds, improvements for higher order type inference of generic functions, and support for ES.Next 'globalThis'.
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Windows Virtual Desktop Public Preview on Azure: Q&A with Microsoft's Scott Manchester
InfoQ caught up with Scott Manchester, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows Virtual Desktop, regarding the public preview on Azure announcement.
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Swift 5 Now Officially Available
Swift 5 has recently moved out of beta with the release of Xcode 10.2, including new language and standard library features, stricter memory exclusivity access guarantees, ABI stability, and more.
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Babel 7.3: Smart Pipelines, Private Instance Accessors and More
The recently released Babel 7.3 can now parse and compile private instance accessors and the 'smart' pipeline operator. Babel 7.3 additionally supports named capturing groups in regular expressions, and much more.
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Q&A with Akara Sucharitakul on Squbs: Akka Streams & Akka HTTP for Large-Scale Production Deployment
Squbs (rhymes with “cubes”), an open-source project enabling standardization and operationalisation of Akka applications on a large scale, adheres to the reactive principles, allowing applications to process billions of transactions per day with minimal resource consumption while being more resilient to failure.
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Gremlin Announces Free Tier for Their Chaos Experimentation Platform
Gremlin has announced “Gremlin Free”, which provides the ability to run chaos engineering experiments on a free tier of their failure-as-a-service SaaS platform. The current version of the free tier allows the execution of shutdown and CPU attacks on hosts or containers, which can be controlled via a simple web-based user interface, API or CLI.
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Autonomous Analytics: Driving the Future of Data in Business Analytics
Autonomous data analytics will be the driver of business analytics in the future. and will be seamlessly integrated into our lives. John Thuma, from Arcadia Data, spoke at Enterprise Data World 2019 Conference in Boston about self-driving analytics.
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QCon New York 2019 (June 24-28) Tracks Announced & Registrations off to a Fast Start
The 8th annual QCon New York returns to the Marriott Marquis June 24-26, 2019. QCon, organized by the people behind InfoQ.com, is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators and early adopters to tell their story in hotbeds of software development like Beijing, London, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and New York.
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Pika Brings Zero-Configuration Bundling and Publishing for NPM Packages
Pika revisits the discovery, bundling, packaging, and publishing of modern web applications. Its discovery module exposes an online search interface retrieving exclusively ECMAScript module-based packages (ES Module or ESM) published on npm. Its configuration-free packaging module builds, bundles and packages applications optimized for consumption in modern browsers and Node.js environments.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.
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OpenXR 0.90 Aims to Solve AR/VR Fragmentation
The Khronos Group has published the first OpenXR specification and API with version number 0.90. OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platforms and devices that aims to simplify AR/VR software development on multiple platforms and devices.
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Vector Performance Monitoring Tool Adds eBPF, Unified Host-Container Metrics Support
Vector, the open source performance monitoring tool from Netflix, added support for eBPF based tools using a PCP daemon, a unified view of container and host metrics, and UI improvements.
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TriggerMesh Releases Open Source Knative Event Sources for Multi-Cloud Environments
TriggerMesh has released their latest open-source project, Knative Lambda Sources (KLASS). KLASS are event sources that can be used to trigger Knative functions in Kubernetes clusters. This enables AWS events to be consumed within a multi-cloud or on-premise environment. This release follows the release of Knative Lambda Runtimes which further enhance the TriggerMesh cloud platform.
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Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.
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OpenLiberty Moves to Four-Week Releases
OpenLiberty, the project behind IBM WebSphere, has released version 19.0.0.1 as its first move into four-week releases.