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A First Look to .NET Core
Microsoft announced at connect() that .NET Core would be open sourced and it would provide a single code base to support all platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Recently, Immo Landwerth, Program Manager at Microsoft, has given more details about what .NET Core is and how it will provide "the foundation for all future .NET platforms."
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Typesafe survey: Java 8 Adoption Strong, Users Anxious for Java 9
InfoQ reviews the results of the recent Typesafe survey of Java developers, focusing on the adoption of Java 8, and talks to Typesafe co-founder Jonas Bonér about the impact on Scala adoption for Java developers.
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What is the Web?
Mark Nottingham, chair of the HTTP Working Group, asks the question What is the Web? As he mentions, this simple question has some complex and perhaps unexpected answers depending upon your perspective. A common approach would be to say that it has to be rooted in the Web browser, but that has some interesting consequences, not all of which are useful for non-browser stakeholders.
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Learn OpenStack with Free Developer Edition from Mirantis
Mirantis released a free developer edition of Mirantis OpenStack Express with tutorials.
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Docker Gets Orchestration Services and Enterprise Hub at DockerCon Europe
Docker, Inc. announced orchestration services and enterprise hub making it more attractive for enterprises to use container technology.
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MapR-DB NoSQL Database Integrated into MapR Community Edition for Unlimited Production Use
MapR Technologies, provider of the Apache Hadoop distribution, has open sourced their MapR-DB NoSQL database for unlimited production use. MapR-DB is a Wide Column NoSQL database with native integration to Hadoop and support for strong consistency and ACID transactions.
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Amazon releases AWS Key Management Service
At their re:invent 2014 show Amazon launched AWS Key Management Service (KMS), “a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of your keys”. At launch the service supported EBS, S3 and Redshift. Additional support for Elastic Transcoder was added in late November.
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JetBrains Updates All Their .NET Tools Starting with ReSharper 9
JetBrains has announced new RTM versions for their .NET tools, including ReSharper 9, dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2, dotPeek 1.3 and TeamCity Add-in 9.0. JetBrains has created a single installer and platform for these tools. When attempting to install ReSharper, developers are presented with the option to install other .NET tools which will share the platform.
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QCon London '15: Microservices, Docker, Engineering Culture; 53% of Speakers Confirmed (Mar 2-6)
53/100 speakers and 2 keynotes have been confirmed for QCon London 2015, (Mar 2-6, 2015). The 9th annual conference will feature talks from language pioneers, project leads, and practitioner case studies from companies like IBM, The Guardian, SoundCloud, ThoughtWorks, JetBrains, and more. Registration is open and new speakers and sessions are being posted to the conference site every week.
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Jack & Jill: New Android Compilers for More Performance
Eric Lafortune, Technical Director of Saikoa, maker of DexGuard, has discovered new tools in the SDK for Android 5.0 Revision 1 (API 21.1), namely two compilers called Jack and Jill. These tools are meant to streamline the compilation process for Android.
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Netflix Burned by Express.js
Yunong Xiao, a Software Engineer at Netflix, recently wrote in the company's official tech blog about the latency problems that his team faced while working to move Netflix website UI to Node.js. In the post, he described the complex engineering process used to find out the root cause and how it lead to the decision of substituting the underlying API framework.
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VS Tools for Unity 2 Preview Shows Improved Debugging
Unity developers using Visual Studio will see several improved debugging features in the latest preview of Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0. Alongside the enhancements is added support for VS2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Community.
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Google Cloud Platform Gets PCI DSS Certification
Just in time for holiday shopping, Google is getting its cloud platform ready to host eCommerce workloads.
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GridGain Becomes Apache Ignite
GridGain's In-Memory Data Fabric entered Apache Incubator last October under the name of Apache Ignite. The company donated its flagship in-memory computing platform to the Apache Software Foundation with the intention of attracting external developers and growing a viable community around its core technology.
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Service Workers Promise to Make Web Apps Feel Native
The service worker browser feature holds promise for developers looking to make their web apps feel more like native apps. Running in the background and without user interaction, service workers enable advanced scenarios such as offline functionality, cache, background sync, geofencing, and push notifications.