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Azure DocumentDB is Available in More Regions with Increased Account Limits
Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s NoSQL cloud database service is available in newer regions within Asia and US. The account limits are enhanced to support increased capacity units and document size.
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Microsoft Enhances Azure SQL Database, Active Directory and Media Services
Microsoft announced new features to Azure SQL Database, Azure Active Directory, Azure RMS and Azure Media Services.
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DuoCode Uses Roslyn to Transpile C# into JavaScript
DuoCode is a C# to JavaScript compiler that promises to allow developers to build HTML5 applications using C# and the .NET framework inside of Visual Studio. InfoQ has interviewed its creators to learn more.
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Microsoft Open Sources Cross-platform Serialization Library – Bond
Last month, without any official announcement, Microsoft open sourced Bond - a performant serialization system developed and deployed across dozens of mission-critical, high-scale infrastructure projects internally at Microsoft.
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Facebook Enables Native App Development in JavaScript with React Native
Announced at last week’s React Conf, React Native is a version of the popular React JavaScript library targeted solely at mobile developers. On the surface React Native looks very similar to React, with JavaScript declarations of reactive user interfaces; but behind the scenes React Native interfaces are backed by platform specific native controls rather than DOM elements.
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Next-gen JavaScript Framework "Aurelia" Brings Adaptive Databinding Engine
Rob Eisenberg, formerly of AngularJS, has released for early previews Aurelia: his next-generation JavaScript framework -- promising a first of its kind "adaptive" databinding engine allowing rich two-way databinding between vanilla JavaScript and DOM (including Web Components).
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Raspberry Pi 2 Brings More Power, Memory and Windows Support
The Raspberry Pi foundation has announced a new upgrade for the Raspberry Pi, including a quad-core ARM A7 processor and 1G of memory. Additionally, Microsoft have been involved and Windows 10 for devices will be available for free as part of the Widows on Devices programme. Read on for more details.
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Amazon DynamoDB gets Online Indexing and Reserved Capacity Improvements
Amazon DynamoDB, the NoSQL database service of AWS now supports online indexing. Along with this, customers can now buy reserved capacity for long term usage.
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AWS Release Experimental AWS SDK for the Go Programming Language
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have released an experimental Go programming language AWS SDK via their AWS Labs Github account, which currently supports 43 AWS services including EC2, S3 and RDS.
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A Service View of Business Driven DevOps
Over the years Steve Jones has had a lot to say about Business SOA. Recently he's turned his attention to DevOps and believes there are some important lessons that DevOps can learn from SOA and Business Architecture.
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Microsoft Uses Cloud Platform System to Run Internal Production Workloads
According to an official blog post, Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System (CPS) is running Microsoft’s internal IaaS private cloud codenamed “Nebula”.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Two-Minute Warning for Spot Instance Termination
Amazon EC2 recently gained two-minute warnings before Spot Instances are reclaimed, a feature "formally known as a Spot Instance Termination Notice". The goal is to "allow more types of applications to benefit from the scale and low price of Spot Instances" by giving them time to save state, upload log files, or deregister from other components such as load balancers or cluster managers.
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Aggregates, Entities and Value Objects in Domain-Driven Design
Move as much as possible of the behaviour away from the Entities into Value Objects when working with Aggregates, As more behaviour is needed this is added as new value objects, Paul Rayner recommends in a series of blog posts covering aggregates, entities and value objects, all concepts from Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
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Twitter Open Sources R Programming Anomaly and Breakout Detection Packages
Twitter recently announced open sourcing an anomaly detection package in R. Anomaly detection is a major study field as it can denote different things. A major spike in followers or favorites around a topic can happen because something major is happening and this may be something that needs to be broadcast around the network. But this same spike can also happen because of bots and spammers...
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CoreOS Shipped the First Stable Version of etcd
CoreOS announced the availability of etcd 2.0, the first stable version of the open source distributed key-value store.