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Zalando’s STUPS: Creating an Audit-Compliant PaaS on Top of AWS
At the microXchg conference 2016, Zalando talked about their journey to creating an audit-compliant Platform as a Service (PaaS) for multiple autonomous teams that runs on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Key lessons learned included: the need for autonomous teams and a supporting PaaS, alongside auditing and a clear vision, are essential to scale development as an engineering organisation grows.
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How Node Replaced Macros in Microsoft Word
Writing extensions for Word used to be handled by BASIC. Now, the language of choice is JavaScript and the platform Node.
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.NET's Future Includes an Open Sourced Mono
At Day 2 of Build, Microsoft's Scott Hunter and Scott Hanselman described the company's plans for a unified .NET library. As part of this plan, Mono has been switch to the MIT open source license.
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RAD Tool Kony Visualizer 7.0 Adds Support for Wearable and IoT Apps, Free Starter Edition
Kony Visualizer 7.0, Kony’s code-less mobile app design and development tool, introduces support for wearable and IoT apps and adds a Starter version that is free to download and use.
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Characteristics of Evolutionary Architectures
The first principle of Evolutionary architecture is support for incremental non-breaking changes. Microservices architecture is one great example of such an architecture, Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford from Thoughtworks claims when describing characteristics and principles of Evolutionary architectures.
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V.Next Announced, Use Visual C++ for Linux Today
Microsoft has announced the first preview of Visual Studio 2015's successor. Even more impressive is a new extension available now that provides VS2015 with the ability to create and develop C++ projects for Linux and UNIX based systems.
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Microsoft Build 2016 - Day 2 Keynote Quick Take
Microsoft's annual Build developer conference continued today in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Read on for InfoQ's coverage as Microsoft announced their plans for the Cloud, the fate of their Xamarin acquisition, and Office 365.
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How Code is Built at Netflix
Netflix does not require any team to use particular deployment tools, but teams are responsible for maintaining the tools they implement. Centralized teams at Netflix offer a set of tools to reduce the cognitive load of the majority of their engineers. This tool set uses Nebula, GIT, Jenkins, and Spinnaker to build Amazon Machine Images very efficiently and very quickly.
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Android N Combines AOT, Interpretation and JIT
Android N introduces a hybrid runtime using compilation + interpretation + JIT to obtain the best compromise between installation time, memory footprint, battery consumption and performance.
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Npm Updates Policy on Removing Packages
Npm has issued an updated policy on what happens when a user wants to remove one of their packages from the publishing system.
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Simplifying the Road from Win32 to Windows 10
One of the challenges Microsoft faces with Windows 10 is due to the company's own massive success in building their large library of traditional Win32 applications. Today at Build Microsoft revealed a new tool that makes porting an existing Win32 based application vastly easier.
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The 6 Main Reasons to use VS2015 for C++ Development
Today at Build, the presentation “6 Reasons Move your C++ code to VS2015” was given which discussed the new features in VS2015 that make it more useful to C++ developers. VS2015 has been evolving since its original July 2015 release and there are several new features that should increase its attractiveness to C++ developers regardless of the platforms they target.
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Microsoft Brings Linux to the Desktop
Microsoft has announced that they are providing a brand new system in Windows 10 that will enable Linux binaries to run unmodified. This means everything from the popular Bash shell to Emacs will be available as easily as Power Shell is today.
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Microsoft Build 2016 - Day 1 Keynote Quick Take
Microsoft's annual Build developer conference began today in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Read on for InfoQ's coverage as Microsoft announced their plans for the Cloud, Windows 10, and the Internet of Things.
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Type Satety for Numerics in F# Using Units of Measure
Unit of measures in F# bring the ability to add type information to basic numeric types. This leads to more safety against unit mismatch, such as using seconds where milliseconds were expected. While it is possible to deal with unit of measures using classes, having the feature built into the language leads to more concise code.