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Q&A with Greg Kurtzer from the GPU Technology Conference
Rags Srinivas talks to Greg Kurtzer, a serial Open Source contributor at the GPU Tech Conference.
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Stack Overflow Becomes HTTPS by Default
Nick Craver, architecture lead at StackOverflow, has published a blog announcing StackOverflow's migration to HTTPS. Some of the technical challenges along the way included supporting hundreds of domains, migrating URL’s, user generated content, and meeting the sites stringent performance requirements.
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An Early Look at C# 7.1: Part 2
Yesterday we looked at Async Main and Default Expressions. Our tour of C# 7.1 continues with the proposals titled Infer Tuple Names and Pattern-matching with Generics.
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An Early Look at C# 7.1: Part 1
For the first time since 2003, Microsoft is considering a point release for C#. Currently marked as C# 7.1, the next version of the language is expected to include Async Main, Default Expressions, Infer Tuple Names, and Pattern-matching with Generics.
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How GitHub Revamped its DNS Infrastructure
GitHub moved from a fairly simple DNS infrastructure that served its requirements fairly well for many years to a new architecture that better supports working at GitHub scale, writes GitHub senior infrastructure engineer Joe Williams.
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GitHub Surveys Open Source: Documentation, License, Usage at Work
GitHub has conducted a survey on open source projects, publishing the results they found analyzing the data collected. They were interested in how developers relate to open source, what the role of documentation is and the level and impact of negative interactions appearing in projects.
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Node.js 8.0 Released, New LTS Version Later This Year
Node.js 8.0 has been released, setting up the future Long Term Support (LTS) version for late 2017 and 2018. This new version contains a number of new features as well. Once 8.X LTS releases later this year, it will be the first LTS release that contains async/await.
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Cockroach DB Reaches 1.0
Cockroach DB, the distributed SQL database that follows the pattern of software products being named after animals, announced earlier this month the release of its first production ready version, 1.0. In this article we take a look in Cockroach, how it compares to Google Spanner and how we can start using it in development and production based systems.
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Atlassian Announces Bamboo 6.0 and Bitbucket Server 5.0
Atlassian annouced new versions of Bamboo and Bitbucket Server, two tools aimed to support DevOps in enterprises. New functionalities include configuration as code, enhanced build control, and build progress monitoring.
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Details on F# Support in Rider
JetBrains’s developer evangelist Marteen Balliauw recently published more details about the F# support in Rider. Features are explained into more details than the general EAP announcement and also contains the plan for the next releases.
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Zero Runtime Exceptions in Production with Elm
At QCon London 2017, Richard Feldman, software engineer at noredink and author of “Elm in Action” from Manning, explained how their decision to switch to Elm led to a 100,000 LOC system running in production with zero runtime exceptions since 2015. Here, we provide a brief summary of Feldman’s key points.
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Google Is to Remove Support for PNaCl
After de-staffing the PNaCL/NaCl team last year and adding default support for WebAssembly in Chrome in March of this year, Google has officially announced the retirement of PNaCl in favor of WebAssembly.
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Red Hat to Acquire Codenvy to Extend DevOps Tools Capability
Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Codenvy, an Agile and cloud-native tools provider. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed.
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Npm 5.0 Boosts Common Sense Performance
Npm 5.0 is a highly anticipated release that has been years in coming. The new version of the JavaScript package manager has a completely rewritten cache and has performance that is more in-line with its most direct competitor.