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Netflix Attempts to Reconcile Large Scale APIs with Developer Autonomy
Katharina Probst and Justin Becker, engineering managers at Netflix, recently wrote an article on maintaining developer autonomy in API environments for Netflix's tech blog. The August 23 blog post "Engineering Trade-Offs and the Netflix API Re-Architecture" explores the difficulty of reconciling developer code and process ownership with multiple team-wide shared services in API environments.
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Regular Maintenance for Bootstrap v3 Ends
The maintainers of the popular Bootstrap framework have announced that they are ending maintenance for Bootstrap v3, the current version. It's been over a year since the first alpha of version 4 was released and the project is still not in beta. To speed along development, Mark Otto (creator of Bootstrap) has decided to end all regular maintenance for version 3.
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Open-Source OCaml to JavaScript Compiler BuckleScript Hits 1.0
BuckleScript 1.0 brings almost full compatibility with OCaml features and an improved FFI with the aim of avoiding writing unsafe JavaScript stubs. InfoQ has spoken with Bloomberg’s Hongbo Zhang, BuckleScript creator at Bloomberg.
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Box Open-Sources Continuous Localization Platform Mojito
Box has open-sourced their continuous localization platform, Mojito. The product consists of a CLI that collects and integrates strings for translation and a web app that provides an interface for translators to keep track of their work.
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Simplifying Form Creation with XAML Power Toys
The routine creation of XAML data entry forms can be tedious, but thanks to a new Visual Studio extension this process can be streamlined. XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2015 provides a way for developers to quickly create data entry forms using XAML for WPF or Xamarin forms applications. With UWP app support coming, this is an all-in-one tool that supports all major WPF use-cases.
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Microsoft Releases TypeScript 2.0 RC
Microsoft has released the TypeScript 2.0 release candidate. One of the most important updates in Typescript's release candidate is its tagged unions. "Tagged unions make it way easier to get type safety using JavaScript patterns you’d write today," says Daniel Rosenwasser, Typescript program manager.
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Git 2.10 Improves Push and Worktree Commands, Adds Style Options, and More
Recently released Git 2.10 adds a few useful features to push, including more accurate progress info, support for extra options, and an improved --force-with-lease. Additionally, a few new options make working with signatures more convenient, and coloring schemes can use italic and strikethrough styles.
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Bugs and Documentation Errors in .NET's HttpClient Frustrate Developers
Due to a combination of design errors, bugs, and incorrect documentation, it is surprisingly hard to use .NET's HttpClient correctly. As a result, applications that appear to be working correctly in production can suffer from performance issues and runtime failures under load.
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Facebook Open-Sources New Compression Algorithm Outperforming Zlib
The new Zstandard 1.0 compression algorithm, recently open sourced by Facebook, is one of the few compression algorithms that is both faster and more efficient than zlib, the current “reigning standard”, write Facebook engineer Yann Collet and Chip Turner.
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Continuous Deployment at Coolblue
Continuous deployment results in a higher sense of responsibility and better quality of deployments, argues Paul de Raaij, technical pathfinder at Coolblue. Coding standards prevent your code base from becoming a mess, automated inspections are great for tedious and boring checks, and manual checks are great for checking if the logic or use of code actually makes sense.
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DevOps Enterprise Adoption at ITV with Tom Clark
Tom Clark, head of common platform at ITV, talked at the past DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 in London on how their cloud platform has served as a medium for spreading DevOps practices and way of working across the entire organization, as well as how to grow a team of "smart and kind" engineers around it. In this Q&A Clark talks about ITV's DevOps journey, challenges faced and the road ahead.
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Stormpath's Java SDK 1.0 Released
This week Stormpath released version 1.0 of their user management and authentication Java SDK. Stormpath generally provides APIs for implementing authentication, authorization and user management in web and mobile applications, including open source implementations, targeting a range of languages and frameworks.
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Gains Worldwide SMS Delivery
Amazon's Simple Notification Service (SNS) recently gained worldwide SMS delivery and can now be used in five additional Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions. AWS also added several new features such as opt-out management, direct publishing, delivery status monitoring, and spending limits.
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Mozilla's Observatory Website Security Analysis Tool Available
Mozilla has launched their website security analysis tool. Dubbed Observatory, the tool helps to spread information on best security practices to developers and sys admins in need of guidance.
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Visual Studio Code Now Supports Debugging of iOS Web Apps
A new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to allow developers to debug JavaScript web apps and sites running on iOS devices directly from their editor both on Mac and Windows, writes Microsoft program manager for JavaScript Diagnostics Kenneth Auchenberg.