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Miki Szikszai on Growing Technical Talent at Snapper
At the JAFAC conference Snapper CEO Miki Szikszai gave a talk on how the company overcame some of the challenges of growing their technical team in an environment of perceived skills shortage. Their approach of employing teams of graduates and giving them real customer facing work to do rather than interspersing them into existing teams results in better outcomes and enabled rapid growth.
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Git 2.18 Adds Support for Git Protocol Version 2
Support for the Git wire Protocol version 2 is now available in the latest official version of the Git client, Git 2.18, along with other new features aimed at improving performance and UI.
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Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Private Endpoints
Amazon announced a new feature with their API Gateway service that will provide customers with private API endpoints inside their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). These API endpoints are only accessible from within the customers Amazon VPC using VPC Endpoints.
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Business Processes, Long-Running Services and Microservices
During recent years domain events are increasingly being discussed, but we should be discussing commands just as much, Martin Schimak explained at the recent DDD eXchange 2018 conference, where he covered events, command and long-running services in a microservices world, and how process managers and similar tooling can help in running core business logic.
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Flaw in .NET Core 2.1 Postpones .NET Core 2.0 End of Life
Microsoft has announced that the .NET Core 2.0 will be considered “end of life”, and thus no longer supported as of October 1, 2018. Since .NET Core 2.0 is considered a non-LTS release, Microsoft only commits to its support for three months after a successor has been released. In this case, with .NET Core 2.1 having been released May 31 of this year, .NET Core 2.0’s end has come.
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Chatbots 101 for Developers: Q&A with Anamita Guha
Chatbots are becoming more critical to developers in their daily lives – from understanding how the technology operates, to creating better code. Developers tend to have a natural curiosity about bots and the tech behind it. Artificial intelligence tools exist to address emotional intelligence with chatbots in conversational interfaces.
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Google Released Cloud IoT Core Client Library for Android Things
Google has released a client library to make it easy for developers to use Google Cloud IoT Core from Android Things devices. Developers can connect to the IoT Core MQTT bridge, authenticate a device, publish device telemetry, subscribe to configuration changes, and handle errors and network outages.
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Microsoft Edge Now Supports W3C WebDriver Recommendation
Microsoft Edge now supports the recently ratified W3C WebDriver recommendation, making it easier to automate unit and functional tests with Edge. WebDriver is also now an Edge Feature on Demand, providing automatic WebDriver updates for each release of Edge.
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TLBleed Can Leak Cryptographic Keys from CPUs Snooping on TLBs
A new side-channel vulnerability affecting Intel processors, known as TLBleed, can leak information by snooping on Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs), writes VUsec security researcher Ben Gras.
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Distributed Messaging Framework Apache Pulsar 2.0 Supports Schema Registry and Topic Compaction
The latest version of open-source distributed pub-sub messaging framework Apache Pulsar enables companies to move “beyond batch” by acting on data in motion. Streamlio recently announced the availability of Apache Pulsar 2.0 streaming messaging solution. The new version supports Pulsar Functions, Schema Registry and Topic Compaction.
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Chaos Engineering at LinkedIn: The “LinkedOut” Failure Injection Testing Framework
The LinkedIn Engineering team has recently discussed their “LinkedOut” failure injection testing framework. Hypotheses about service resilience can be formulated and failure triggers injected via the LinkedIn LiX A/B testing framework or via data in a cookie that is passed through the call stack using the Invocation Context (IC) framework. Failure scenarios include errors, delays and timeouts.
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Rust 1.27 Adds Support for SIMD
SIMD support is the most notable new feature in Rust 1.27, along with a more explicit syntax for traits.
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The MicroProfile Community Influence on Jakarta EE
James Roper, senior developer and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, was recently named a committer for Eclipse MicroProfile. As the first committer to represent Lightbend, Roper shared his journey and the MicroProfile community influence on Jakarta EE. InfoQ spoke to Roper about his experiences and reached out to fellow MicroProfile committers for their input.
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.NET Core Completes Move to RyuJIT
The .NET Core CLR team has announced that their next-generation just-in-time compiler RyuJIT is now completely powering the .NET Core platform. This change makes four architectures available (x86, x64, ARM32, and ARM64) to .NET Core developers. Furthermore, all will benefit from a fast modern compiler design.
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Oracle Announces New Support Pricing Structure for Java
Oracle has announced a new pricing model for commercial support for Java. Considerably simpler, it seems to be of most interest to enterprise deployments.