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Challenges of Microservices Deployments
Recently ElectricCloud hosted a panel session on the challenges of microservice deployments and one of the panelists, Usman Ismail summarised the session, covering agreed problems the panelists had discussed as well as some recommendations based on their own experiences.
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Microsoft Gets into Serverless Apps with Azure Functions
At this month's Build conference, Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Functions, a service that runs code on-demand. Azure Functions is Microsoft's entry into the increasingly-popular space of event-driven, serverless computing occupied by Amazon, Google, IBM, and others.
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Lessons Learned at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference: Day One
This article presents a review of the first day at the O'Reilly Software Architecture conference, held in New York City 12-13th April. Sessions summarised include, ‘blah, blah... microservices...blah, blah’, ‘the evolution of evolutionary architecture’, ‘Death Star Security’, ‘Twelve Patterns for Hypermedia Architecture’, ‘Architecture Without an End State’ and 'Leading Simplicity'.
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Visual Studio Code 1.0 Released: 100+ Languages, 300+ PRs, 1,000+ Extensions
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.0, a year after its initial preview.
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Apache Storm Reaches 1.0, Brings Improved Performance, Many New Features
Version 1.0 is "a major milestone in the evolution of Apache Storm", writes Apache Software Foundation VP for Apache Storm P. Taylor Goetz, and it includes many new features and improvements. In particular, Goetz claims a 3x–16x boost in performance.
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Overview of the UWP App Model at Build 2016
Andrew Clinick, Program Manager at Microsoft, presented an overview of what’s new in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App Model at Build 2016. One of the highlights this year is the conversion of desktop applications to UWP, code-named Project Centennial.
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React v15 Released
Facebook has released version 15 of their React JavaScript framework, delivering a faster, cleaner, and more complete package. Despite some hiccups with that weren't discovered in the Release Candidate, the new major version is a solid upgrade.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1, the latest version of their most popular IDE. The new version seems to have the polyglot developer in mind, with multiple enhancements over a variety of languages and technologies; however, the most noticeable changes are aimed at Java, particularly at helping developers take full advantage of Java 8.
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Rethink DB 2.3 Brings Network Encryption and ReQL Updates
RethinkDB has released version 2.3 of its open source database, bringing updates to JavaScript drivers and network encryption. Developer evangelist Ryan Paul says by including TLS support, the update -- named Fantasia -- enables "encryption on the wire for both the client driver protocol and communication between database servers in a cluster."
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Rancher Labs Release Rancher 1.0, An Open Source Cross-Cloud Container Management Platform
Rancher Labs have released version 1.0 of their open source Rancher container management platform, which allows the deployment of Docker containers via Docker Swarm, Kubernetes or Rancher Labs’ Cattle. Rancher manages the underlying compute fabric, and can be deployed across a combination of multiple public cloud vendors, private virtualised clouds and bare metal.
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QCon NY: 4 Confirmed Keynotes, Google/NASA/Uber/And More Abstracts Posted, Final Workshops Confirmed
An annual software conference designed for software architects/tech leads/leaders who influence innovation in their teams, QCon NY strives to achieve a mission helping software development teams adopt new technologies and practices. We're expecting 800 attendees and that doesn’t include the over 100 speakers, trackhosts, and committee members who guide and direct the conference.
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New in Android Studio 2.0: Instant Run and Cloud Test Lab
Android Studio 2.0 comes with several new features and improvements: Instant Run, integration with a Google service for testing on real devices, faster emulator, faster builds, GPU profiler and debugger, support for deep linking and others.
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GitHub’s DGit Improves Reliability, Performance, and Availability
GitHub has been quietly rolling out DGit, short for “distributed Git”, a new distributed storage system built on top of Git with the aim of improving reliability, availability, and performance of using GitHub.
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Vivaldi 1.0: First Official Release
Vivaldi has released the first official release for its web browser built for – and with – the web. Launched in 2015 by the co-founder of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner, the browser is unique in being built using only web technologies.
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Capital One Launches Developer Platform
Capital One launched the DevExchange Beta developer site and initial API offering last month.