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IBM, Databricks, GraphLab Present Notebooks as Unified Interfaces for Building Prediction Apps
At the StrataHadoop conference in Barcelona last week, Rod Smith, Vice President of the IBM Emerging Internet Technologies organization, presented work on an internal product they have been developing in their consulting work with clients that integrates data sources, and data analysis.
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The Future of Microservices
Microservices are not new ideas and we will over the course of 3-5 years end up rebuilding WS-* the same way Web Services did rebuild all from CORBA unless we learn from our mistakes and improve to prevent them from being made again, Greg Young stated in a presentation at the Microservices Conference in London.
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Flyway 3.1 Extends Schema Evolution to DB2 z/OS, Redshift and Vertica
Last week Boxfuse announced the availability of a new release of Flyway, its open source database migration tool. Highlight is the addition of IBM DB2 z/OS, Amazon Redshift and HP Vertica to Flyway's list of supported databases, a move that expands the coverage of the "big data and big iron space." The new release also features SQL callbacks and packaged DB drivers for ease of use.
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New Java Version - it's not JDK 1.9
JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 223 is a new JDK versioning scheme to make it easier to distinguish major, minor, and security releases. It's simpler, more intuitive, easier to parse, and aligns with current industry practices, in particular Semantic Versioning. For example, if JDK 1.7.0_65-b20 (7u65) used this new versioning scheme, the version string would be JDK 7.6.15+20 (7.6.15).
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Microservices as a Service-Oriented Delivery Model
Microservices are valuable, but to break things up properly creating the right boundaries we need to understand our business and its processes Jeppe Cramon stated in a presentation at the Microservices Conference in London.
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Java EE 8 Security JSR will have Cloud Improvements
The Java Community Process published details of JSR 375, a redesigned Java EE Security API that includes improvements for implementing security in a cloud environment.
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A Critical Look at Microservices for the Enterprise
Udi Dahan describes how looking for highly cohesive, loosely coupled microservices, not within a system but over the enterprise, we can end up with a focus on organising services around business capabilities spanning the whole organisation since this is what the business care about.
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45,000 Signed Up for Next Week's For-Charity Hack.Summit() Virtual Conference
Hack.Summit is running next week Dec 1-4 - the largest virtual conference ever put on in the software development space. The conf is a donation-only and all proceeds go directly to programming related non-profits. Over 37 keynote speakers will be presenting next week including DHH, Tim O'Reilly, Matei Zaharia (Apache Spark), Gilad Bracha (Java lang spec), Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and others.
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Developing Microservices for the Cloud
When working with Microservices pushing them to the cloud, people often find it difficult to understand the new architecture, it’s a paradigm shift, Daniel Bryant explains in a presentation at the Microservices Conference in London. As a help when designing and implementing cloud microservices Daniel has created the DHARMA principles, the idea being to use them as a checklist.
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Open-source Functional Language Extensions to C# 6
Lang Ext, an open-source library for C# written by London-based Paul Louth, provides a set of helper functions and types that aim to "bring some of the functional world into C#" while trying to look like extensions to the language itself.
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Apple Releases SDK for Apple Watch
Apple last week announced the release of WatchKit, the SDK for its upcoming Apple Watch device. The SDK will allow developers to begin adding watch support to their iOS apps ahead of the device's release in early 2015.
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Google's Recipe to Code Sharing across Android, iOS, and the Web
Garrick Toubassi, Google Inbox engineering director, has recently explained how his team could get to "sharing roughly two-thirds of their client code" across three platforms: iOS, Android, and the web. The key is a clear separation of concerns between UI code and UI-independent logic, and a couple of tools that Google developed through the years.
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Spark Sets New Record in Sort Performance
Databricks has recently announced a new record in the Daytona GraySort contest using the Spark processing engine. The Daytona GraySort contest is a 3rd party benchmark measuring how fast a system can sort 100 Terabytes of data. Databricks posted a throughput of 4.27 TB/min over a cluster of 206 machines for their official run.
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Restlet Launches APISpark, PaaS for Web APIs
Restlet, creators of the most widely deployed framework for APIs, today announced the general availability of APISpark, a cloud service for developers seeking to quickly publish and manage APIs, and businesses that want to give application and website developers around the world access to their data.
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IBM Announced Bare Metal PaaS and Private API Catalog
IBM is offering a Cloud Foundry based PaaS called Bluemix on SoftLayer's bare metal infrastructure. The service is integrated with other products including MQ Series, IBM Watson and Cloudant NoSQL.