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AWS Release ‘SAM Local’ to Facilitate Local Build and Test of AWS Lambda Serverless Applications
AWS have released a new tool in beta, SAM Local, that makes it easy to build and test serverless AWS Lambda applications on a local dev machine. Core features provided by SAM Local include: the ability to test AWS Lambda functions locally running within Docker, a simple CLI to start a local API Gateway, and the generation of sample payloads for testing the handling of various AWS event sources.
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Facebook Transitioning to Neural Machine Translation
Facebook recently announced the global rollout of NMT. Switching from phrase based translation models to NMT has been rolled out for more than 2,000 translation directions and 4.5 billion translations per day. According to Facebook this provides an 11% increase in BLEU score. We will discuss how it was achieved, what it means for machine generated translation and how it fares against competition.
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Microsoft Ships Azure Event Grid for Unified Event Processing
Today, Microsoft released a novel service for ingesting and processing cloud events. The Azure Event Grid takes events generated from Azure services, or custom apps, and routes them to chosen handlers.
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Introducing the Diversity Section
Whilst InfoQ has long covered diversity we have decided to give the topic greater prominence on the site with a new section on diversity within the Culture and Methods area. We, the editors, are looking at different ways that companies and others are promoting diversity within organizations.
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.NET Core 2 Released, Supports .NET Standard 2.0
.NET Core 2 has been released, bringing with it the highly anticipated support for .NET Standard 2.0. This release adds support for over 19,000 additional .NET API calls, significantly increasing the usefulness of .NET Core: expanded platform support, improved performance, VB support, and .NET Framework reference compatibility.
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Visual Studio 2017 15.3 Released, Adds .NET Core 2 Support
Microsoft has released production ready Visual Studio 2017 15.3 and it is packed with features that include frontline support for .NET Core 2. Several stability and performance fixes, and increased accessibility support are among several new additions.
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State of Elm 2017 Survey Results Are In
The 2017 State of Elm Survey results are in and the data shows that the language and community are growing at a healthy clip. However, the language is probably still too new for many enterprises to rely on.
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Java Still Number One, But What’s Taking Over?
The TIOBE index for August 2017 shows Java as the world’s most popular programming language. But among the top 20, it seems that is the same trend with all of the major programming languages. So where are developers going?
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.NET Standard 2.0 Has Been Finalized
Microsoft has announced the final version of .NET Standard 2.0 which includes over 32k APIs, a 140% increase over .NET Standard 1.6 and 400% compared to .NET Standard 1.0.
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Azure with Scott Guthrie: Azure Security Center and Role Based Access Controls
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk Azure with Microsoft executive vice president, Scott Guthrie. For our second and concluding segment we will discuss using Azure Security Center and Role Based Access Controls.
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Azure with Scott Guthrie: Custom Dashboards and Azure Monitor
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk Azure with Microsoft executive vice president, Scott Guthrie. Today we will discuss using Azure Monitor and Custom Dashboards.
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The Open API Initiative Announces the OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0
The Open API Initiative has announced the release of OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0.
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Technical Excellence, Organisational Design for CD, and Container Security: Agile on the Beach 2017
At the Agile on the Beach 2017 conference, run in Cornwall, UK, several hundred speakers and attendees gathered to discuss the latest developments within the field of agile and post-agile software development methodologies. Key takeaways from the second day included: cultivating technical excellence; organising for continuous delivery; and container security.
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Function-Oriented Programming with Spring Cloud Function Framework
Spring Cloud Function is a new project that aims to promote the function as the primary unit of development. The project provides a common model for deploying function-based software across a variety of deployment platforms, including FaaS (Function as a Service) platforms like Amazon’s AWS Lambda.
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Visual Studio 2017 15.3 Preview Nears Final Release
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 appears to be nearing release as the latest preview focuses on bug fixes. Developers interested in the latest C# 7.1 features and those working with C++ will still find lots to use in the latest Preview 7 release.