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Distributed Systems Theory for Practical Engineers
Alvaro Videla, distributed systems engineer and co-author of RabbitMQ in Action, reviewed distributed systems theory at QCon London 2017. This involved breaking distributed systems into different classifications and then discussing the trade-offs between each of them. These included timing models, failure modes and more.
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WebKit Now Has Full Support for WebAssembly
Apple Safari has full support for WebAssembly including preparation for future integration with ECMAScript Modules and threads.
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Jake Wharton, Android Engineer at Square, Speaks to InfoQ at ETE
Jake Wharton, Android engineer at Square, spoke to InfoQ at the 2017 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) Conference about his work at Square and his thoughts on reactive systems, RxJava, and Kotlin.
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Apple Announces Core ML: Machine Learning Capabilities on Apple Devices
At WWDC 2017 Apple announced ways it uses machine learning, and ways for developers to add machine learning to their own applications. Their machine learning API, called Core ML, allows developers to integrate machine learning models into apps running on Apple devices running iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Models run on the device itself, so data never leaves the device.
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GitHub GraphQL API is out of Early Access
GitHub GraphQL API has recently become generally available. InfoQ has spoken with GitHub senior engineering manager Kyle Daigle.
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ARKit Sets the Foundations for Augmented Reality on Apple’s Platform
At WWDC 2017, Apple unveiled ARKit, a framework to build augmented reality (AR) apps for iOS. ARKit aims to allow for accurate and realistic immersion of virtual content on top of real-world scenes.
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C# 7.2 and 8.0 Roadmap
Features are already being lined up for C# 7.2 and 8.0 including nullable reference types and limited multiple inheritance.
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Kiki Carter, Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, Speaks to InfoQ at ETE
Kiki Carter, enterprise architect at Lightbend, spoke to InfoQ at the 2017 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) Conference about her thoughts on microservices, reactive systems, Scala vs. Java, and the SMACK stack.
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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.