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Microsoft Announces the Availability of the MongoDB Atlas Free Tier on Azure
Microsoft announced the usage of MongoDB Atlas for free on Microsoft Azure. A free tier known as M0 is available on Azure, which grants users 512 MB of storage to allow learning MongoDB, prototyping, and early development.
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Swift Adopts the Language Server Protocol
Apple’s Swift team announced they are going to provide support for using Swift with the Language Server Protocol (LSP). This will open up the possibility for developers to use Swift in any editor that supports LSP with code-completion, syntax-highlighting, etc. Apple has just opened the Swift LSP GitHub repository to contributions.
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Google Adds Android Support for Kotlin 1.3 and Optimizes for Foldable Devices
Google has presented a series of news at the Android Dev Summit, including new features of kotlin 1.3 supported on Android, support for foldable phones, In-app Updates API, improvements on Android Studio, and more.
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Q&A with Katrina Clokie on Testing in DevOps for Engineers
Wellington's DevOpsDays NZ recently closed with a keynote by Katrina Clokie on the Testing Skills and Superpower which engineers can utilise in a DevOps setting. The author of A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps spoke with InfoQ to discuss the changes she's seen in the testing landscape and how this is further impacted by the move to embrace DevOps principles.
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Google Announces a Managed Cron Service: Google Cloud Scheduler
Google announced a new Service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Cloud Scheduler, a fully managed cron job service that allows any application to invoke batch, big data and cloud infrastructure operations. The service is currently available in beta.
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Babylon.js 3.3 Improves Particle System and WebVR Support for 3D Games
The Babylon.js 3.3 release leverages features from the Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) to improve WebVR development and revamps its particle system controls.
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Apache Releases TomEE 7.1 with Support for Java 8 and MicroProfile 1.2
The Apache TomEE community has released TomEE 7.1, a significant upgrade featuring support for Java SE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. TomEE 7.1 serves as a gateway release for TomEE 8 that will be compliant with Java EE 8/JakartaEE and MicroProfile 1.3. David Blevins, founder and CEO of Tomitribe, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Building Production-Ready Applications: Michael Kehoe Shares Lessons Learned from LinkedIn
At QCon San Francisco, Michael Kehoe presented “Building Production-Ready Applications”. Drawing on his experience with site reliability engineering (SRE), he introduced the tenets of “production-readiness” that all engineers across the organisation should focus on as: stability and reliability; scalability and performance; fault tolerance and disaster recovery; monitoring; and documentation.
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Face-api.js: JavaScript Face Recognition Leveraging TensorFlow.js
Face-api.js is a JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser implemented on top of the tensorflow.js core API, which implements a series of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), optimized for the web and for mobile devices.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Event Grid with Event Domains, Advanced Filtering Features and More
With Event Grid, customers can manage all their event in one place in Azure. Recently, Microsoft announced enhancements to this service with two new features, advanced filters, and Event Domains. Furthermore, the team responsible for Event Grid has been working to improve the developer experience, and has made Event Grid available in more regions.
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Justin Cormack Explores the Changes, Limitations, and Opportunities within Modern OSs at QCon SF
At QCon San Francisco, Justin Cormack explored “The Operating System in 2018”. The biggest changes in this space include: performance driven improvement, such as eBPF and userspace networking; the changing role of operations, and how operators use and deploy operating systems; and emulation and portability.
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Building Resilience in Netflix Production Data Migrations: Sangeeta Handa at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Sangeeta Handa discussed how Netflix had learned to build resilience into production migrations across a number of use cases. Key lessons learned included: aim for perceived or actual zero downtime, even for data migrations; invest in early feedback loops to build confidence; find ways to decouple customer interactions from your services; and build independent checks and balances.
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Apollo Launches GraphQL Platform and VS Code Extension
Apollo, the company behind GraphQL, just launched their flagship product, the Apollo GraphQL Platform, described as "a complete solution for companies aiming to do GraphQL the right way."
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Customers will get the best of both worlds—the ecosystem and tools of Kafka, along with Azure’s security and global scale.
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Data Lakes and Modern Data Architecture in Clinical Research and Healthcare
Dr. Prakriteswar Santikary, chief data officer at ERT, spoke at Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference last month about data lake architecture his team developed at their clinical research organization. He discussed the data platform deployed in the cloud to streamline data collection, aggregation and clinical reporting and analytics, using concepts like serverless computing and data services.