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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.
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NativeScript 5.0 Brings Better Developer Experience and More Native Features
The latest release of NativeScript includes a number of changes, such as improved support for Vue.js, better developer experience, and more native features. Additionally, NativeScript 5.0 includes the new NativeScript-Schematics, an Angular extension helping developers to build web and mobile versions of an app from a single project.
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Moddable IoT JavaScript Engine: 99% ES2017 Compliance with Requirement of Less Than 32KB RAM
The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.
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Google Releases Versions 7.0 and 7.1 of V8 JavaScript Engine
The recent 7.0 and 7.1 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine improve JavaScript memory performance, add key features for WebAssembly, and introduce a few minor language improvements.
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JetBrains Introduces Datalore 1.0, an Intelligent Web Application for Data Analysis
JetBrains recently introduced Datalore 1.0, an intelligent web application for data analysis and visualization in Python. Datalore 1.0 brings an improved smart code editor, user-controlled code execution, professional subscription, and more.
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UI Development Environment "Storybook 4" Supports Six New View Layers, Including Ember and MarkoJS
The Storybook 4.0 release adds support for six new view layers including Ember, MarkoJS, and Svelte, and updates its dependencies to Webpack 4 and Babel 7.
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New Updates to Firebase: Enterprise-Grade Support, ML Kit Face Contours, Management API, and More
Firebase is a service available on the Google infrastructure, enabling developers to build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Recently, Google updated Firebase with paid enterprise-grade support, ML Kit Face Contours, a Firebase Management API, Test Lab for iOS, Performance Monitoring improvements, and Firebase Predictions.
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New R8 Android Code Shrinker Available in Android Studio 3.3 Beta
Following the migration to D8 as its new Dalvik compiler, Google has been working on a new code shrinker, R8, which is now available in Android Studio 3.3 beta. R8 promises to deliver smaller APK files in less time.
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Google Introduces Carlo, a Node.js Web Rendering Surface
Google announces an early release of Carlo, a Google Labs experiment for creating Node.js applications. Carlo leverages Puppeteer to communicate between Node.js applications and the Chrome web browser.
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DigitalOcean Announces Managed Databases
DigitalOcean has announced their new Managed Databases offering, providing fully hosted and managed database engines. This new service is currently in the beta stadium, for which access can now be requested. Currently Managed Databases offers the PostgreSQL engine, with others to come later.
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Event Sourcing to the Cloud at HomeAway
Adam Haines, Data Architect at HomeAway, recently spoke at the Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference about how his team leverages event sourcing cloud design pattern to accelerate the big data initiatives in their organization.
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JetBrains Releases React-Based "Ring UI" 1.0 Web UI Components
The RingUI 1.0 release introduces a new visual language for components within light and dark environments, adds support for CSS properties and modules, and adds new Message, Tabs, and Toggle components.
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PortSmash is the Latest Side-Channel Attack Affecting Intel CPUs
Researchers have devised a new kind of timing attack to steal information from a different process running on the same core with SMT/hyper-threading enabled. By carefully measuring port contention delays when sending instructions to a shared core, the researchers could recover a private key from a different process. Intel CPUs are probably not the only ones affected.