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Microservices and Stream Processing Architecture at Zalando Using Apache Flink
Javier Lopez and Mihail Vieru spoke at Reactive Summit 2016 Conference about cloud-based data integration and distribution platform used for stream processing in business intelligence use cases. Their solution is based on technologies such as Flink, Kafka and Elasticsearch.
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Next.js Offers Simple Universal JavaScript Framework Based on React
Next.js is a universal JavaScript framework based on React. It has a simple setup and uses extensions to the React component model to provide server-based component rendering with the ability to continue rendering on the client.
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Racket 6.7 Brings Android App Support, Improved REPL, and More
PLT Design has announced a new version of Racket; its Scheme-like general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language Racket 6.7 introduces support for building graphical applications on Android, improvements to the REPL and to the package manager, and extended Typed Racked.
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Where Rust is Heading in 2017
The Rust core team has settled on a roadmap proposal for Rust which aims to define where the language should be in a year’s time. Partially based on the results of a survey carried through in 2016 among Rust users, it prioritizes improving Rust’s productivity without sacrificing speed and reliability.
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Dart News: Angular 2 Dart and Flutter
Angular 2 Dart and Flutter were the most important news mentioned at the recent Dart Developer Summit 2016.
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Visual Studio 15 Improves C++ Project Loading
Visual Studio in the past has struggled with large solutions. Visual Studio 15 seeks to improve project load times for C++ developers with a new feature called Faster Project Load.
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Scaling Teams to Grow Your Startup
Once a startup becomes successful it needs to scale its teams and technology to grow. Scaling has to be done in way that the startup remains effective, and thus capable of quickly delivering products to satisfy the needs of the fast growing user base. Some of the challenges faced are hiring people and onboarding them, along with technology decisions that allow you to grow and get the right people.
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npm 4.0 Deprecates Prepublish Lifecycle Script
Npm has released version 4.0.0, its first semver major release since the release of npm 3 in 2015. The v4 release brings a bevy of breaking changes, including a rewritten npm search, as well as deprecated prepublish and changed behaviour for npm scripts.
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All Android Versions May Be Affected by Dirty COW Linux Vulnerability
Recently disclosed Dirty COW Linux privilege escalation vulnerability is likely to affect all Android versions, say security researchers.
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Wolfram Wants to Deliver “Computation Everywhere” with New Private Cloud
Wolfram, the software company behind computation-centric products like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, shipped a new private cloud appliance targeting companies that want to centralize their computational efforts.
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Netflix Engineer Lorin Hochstein on Chaos Monkey 2.0
Netflix made waves when it initially announced Chaos Monkey, a tool that would terminate normally healthy VM instances in production. The goal was to embrace failure and thereby increase resiliency. Rags Srinivas caught up with Lorin Hochstein at Netflix regarding the recent upgrade to Chaos Monkey.
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Addressing Visual Studio 15’s Memory Usage
As software projects grow in complexity and size, it has increased the resource demands imposed on programmer's toolsets. Visual Studio is no exception, and these increased demands combined with its ever-growing feature set means that it is feeling constrained. In this article we will examine how Microsoft is trying to overcome the 32-bit nature of VS15's main process.
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Google Releases .Net APIs for Google Cloud
Google recently announced .Net support for Google Cloud APIs. This includes C# bindings and PowerShell cmdlets. A Visual Studio extension is also available, allowing to browse Google Cloud resources and to deploy Asp.Net applications on Google Compute Engine.
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Angular 1.X Usage Banned in Firefox Extensions
A developer found out the hard way that they had built their Firefox browser extension on banned technology. Angular 1.X has been banned for use in Firefox extensions as long as a security vulnerability exists in the way Angular interacts with the extension and the displayed web page.
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QCon Awarded 10 Diversity Scholarships for QCon SF 2016
QCon San Francisco has provided diversity scholarships to underrepresented groups in the technology community. The Conference is committed to encouraging diversity.