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MongoDB 4.0 Released with Support for Multi-Document ACID Transactions
MongoDB recently announced the latest version 4.0 of the popular NoSQL database. Undoubtedly, the major feature of this announcement is the support for multi-document ACID transactions. MongoDB Stitch, MongoDB Mobile and Mobile Sync, new type conversions in aggregation pipeline and Kubernetes integration are just some of the features of the new version.
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Q&A with Saumitra Buragohain on Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0
InfoQ caught up with Saumitra Buragohain, senior director of Product Management at Hortonworks, regarding Hadoop in general and HDP 3.0 in particular.
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Axon Framework 3.3 with a Subscription Query API and Kafka Support
Version 3.3 of the Axon framework was recently released with a subscription query API for subscribing to query model updates, a manager for scheduling the publishing of deadline messages, and an Axon-Kafka module allowing for the use of Kafka to send and receive events. An updated version, 3.3.2, has also been released, and for those on version 3.3 an upgrade is strongly recommended.
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Microsoft Previews Windows 10 IoT Core Services
Microsoft is previewing a new paid service for its Windows 10 IoT Core OS that enables managed device updates and device health assessment. Additionally, the new service will guarantee a 10 year support lifespan for each version of the OS after its release.
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Spark the Change: Building Tomorrow’s Company
Tomorrow’s company has to invest in well being, should move away from individual silos to team delivery, needs to have psychological space and safety, and must be able to deal with uncertainty. To build such companies we can use gamification, pretotyping, IoT, artificial intelligence, robots, chatbots and other conversational interfaces. We should focus on teams and question how we work together.
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Shippable and Packet Collaborate on Native Arm CI/CD
DevOps automation platform, Shippable, and bare metal cloud provider, Packet, have jointly announced a new hosted continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capability for developers working on software applications for Arm®v8-A architecture. The solution allows open source and commercial software projects to build and validate their software on-demand on Arm-based machines from Packet’s cloud.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Dev Spaces for AKS
Microsoft announced a public preview of Dev Spaces for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), which provides a rapid, iterative Kubernetes development experience for teams. The release is a follow up after a private preview of Dev Spaces during Build 2018 in May.
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Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix - Susheel Aroskar at QCon NY
Susheel Aroskar from Netflix's Engineering team spoke at the recent QCon New York 2018 Conference about Zuul Push, a scalable push notification service that asynchronously pushes data like personalized movie recommendations from cloud to devices.
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MongoDB Database Tool, dbKoda, Offers Enhanced User Experience and Performance Lab in Version 1.0
Less than a year after its initial release, Southbank Software recently released a milestone version 1.0 of their flagship product, dbKoda, an open source database development tool for MongoDB. Based on user feedback, the user interface was redesigned to include a variety of new features. Guy Harrison, CTO at Southbank Software, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Spectre 1.1 and 1.2 Vulnerabilities Disclosed
Two new vulnerabilities exploiting flaws in CPUs speculative execution have been recently disclosed. Dubbed Spectre 1.1 and 1.2, both are variants of the original Spectre (Spectre-v1) vulnerability and leverage speculative stores to create speculative buffer overflows which can escape Spectre-v1 mitigations.
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Designing Microservice Architectures the Right Way: Michael Bryzek's Lessons Learned at QCon NY
At QCon New York 2018, Michael Bryzek discussed how to design microservice architectures “the right way”. Key takeaways included: engineers should design schema first for all APIs and events, as this allows the automated code generation of boilerplate code; and investment should be made in automation, such as deployment and dependency management.
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Why Segment Returned to a Monolith from Microservices
Alexandra Noonan, from Segment, describes how they moved their original monolithic architecture to microservices and then found problems with that approach which required them to rethink and move back to a (different) monolithic architecture with far more appreciable benefits.
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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Now Supports Simple Queue Service (SQS) as an Event Source
Amazon announced an update to their Simple Queue Service (SQS) – developers can now use SQS to trigger AWS Lambda Functions. Moreover, no longer are developers required to run a polling service or create an SQS to SNS mapping.
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Android Studio 3.2 Beta 3 Brings Navigation Editor, Android App Bundle and More
Google has released Android Studio 3.2 Beta 3 in the Beta channel. This version brings a new Assistant panel and Navigation Editor, Android Jetpack, AndroidX migration, Android App Bundle, new Android Profiler, Lint checking, and more.
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Entity Services Increase Complexity: Tareq Abedrabbo Discusses Microservices Antipatterns
Entity services are a microservices anti-pattern, writes Tareq Abedrabbo, independent software consultant. The core reason for this is that they form shallow modules, where the interface is complex in relation to the functionality it provides.