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CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support
CoffeeScript 1.9 has finally introduced support for long awaited generators, which promise to prevent callback hell and help writing async code.
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Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility
Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving. It can help enterprises to be more able to deal with and even gain from uncertainty and disorder, making them more flexible and adaptive to events that happen.
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New Task Parallel Library Features in .NET 4.6
.NET’s Task Parallel Library is seeing a tune-up in the soon to be released .NET 4.6. In addition to some helper methods that reduce code, and possibly memory usage, TPL is gaining a solution to a tricky problem with SetResult.
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CoreOS Release Rocket and App Container Specification v0.3.1.
CoreOS have released v0.3.1. of the Rocket container runtime and associated App Container (appc) specification, which includes new user-facing features and several important implementation changes that contribute to the stated goals of security and composability.
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Using Cost of Delay to Quantify Value and Urgency
Joshua Arnold facilitated a workshop about Cost of Delay at the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference. InfoQ did an interview with Arnold in which he talks about the cost of delay: what it is, why it matters, the importance of quantifying it and some tips for getting started.
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Udi Dahan on Defining Service Boundaries
Udi Dahan, a SOA consultant, held the presentation Finding Service Boundaries – Illustrated in Healthcare at NDC London 2014, providing advice on establishing the service boundaries in a SOA or microservice architecture.
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JUniversal: A Microsoft Tool for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone and iOS
Microsoft has open sourced JUniversal, a tool for writing cross-platform mobile applications in Java.
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Java's JDK Repository Now Builds Warning-Free
The cleanup programme for OpenJDK has reached a major milestone - the main OpenJDK jdk repository is now free of build warnings.
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SAP Launched New Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA
At an event hosted at the New York Stock Exchange, SAP launched its flagship Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA, which includes a new user interface, mobile capabilities and HANA in-memory analytics.
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FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Containers in Foreman and LXD
Daniel Lobato, software engineer at Red Hat, presented the new Foreman features to manage Docker containers, and Serge Hallyn, member of Ubuntu server team, introduced the new LXD project, the Linux container daemon, at the FOSDEM virtualization developer room.
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Mobile Security and Team Collaboration: How to Combine It
Mobile devices often contain both personal and corporate data. When these devices use cloud services with an "always on" internet connection the risk of security breaches increases says Jeff Crume. An interview on mobile security threats, increasing adherence to security policies, using mobile devices to collaborate efficiently, effectively and secure, and deploying enterprise mobile security.
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FOSDEM Virtualization: Under the Hood of Containers
Vincent Batts, senior software engineer at Red Hat, talked about Linux containers and Docker, covering the different storage drivers pros and cons, the image format and signing of images, at the virtualization developer room at FOSDEM.
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.NET CoreCLR Open Sourced
Continuing with it's plans to open source the .NET platform, Microsoft has released the CLR and RyuJIT as part of the CoreCLR package. It is fully open source and available today on GitHub.
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Immutability Changes Everything Including Microservices
As computation and storage are cheap today, keeping immutable copies of lots of data becomes affordable, and by doing this, the coordination challenges can be reduced.
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Infinispan Release JCache Compatible Version
Infinispan release their first JCache compatible version. Does this signal the start of maturity in the distributed Java caching market? InfoQ talk to Galder Zamarreño from Red Hat to find out more.