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Martin Fowler on Characteristics of Microservices
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a very broad term and practically meaningless. Microservices is a subset of SOA with the value being that it allows us to put a label on this useful subset of SOA terminology, Martin Fowler stated in his keynote introducing Microservices when opening the GOTO Berlin Conference 2014.
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Facebook Open Sources Proxygen, an HTTP Framework Supporting SPDY 3.1
The idea behind Proxygen is not to replace Apache but having the ability to create a specialized high-performance web server that can be embedded into existing applications providing web services. Facebook initially started to build a proxy (hence the name) server in 2011, and now they are open sourcing it after the project evolved and has been tested in production for a number of years.
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Meteor Strikes 1.0
Matt DeBergalis has announced the Meteor 1.0 release, with new features for mobile app development and packaging improvements. Among some of the highlights in the landmark release is improved Mobile App Support. Where support for building mobile apps in Meteor was announced in September's 0.9.2 release, 1.0 brings with it significant changes relating to Cordova.
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Bootstrap 4 Will Drop IE8 Support
Bootstrap 3.3.0 was announced last week, along with a set of upcoming changes in Boostrap 4 alpha. One of the biggest changes coming soon is removal of support for IE8.
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Measuring Outcomes with the Mobius Framework
In stead of feature farming, we need to deliver better outcomes and focus on the business results that we need to deliver. Measurements should provide insight into the outcomes because that is what is important. The Mobius loop can be used to define appropriate measurements.
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Web Summit 2014 Day Two Review
Yesterday concluded the second day of the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland. We see what happened and what is new from last day at the event.
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Microsoft and Dropbox Partner to Deliver Better Experience to Office 365 Users
Microsoft and Dropbox announced a strategic partnership to integrate Dropbox service with Office 365 on phones and tablets.
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Google Announces Cloud Container Engine Using Kubernetes
Google made a number of cloud-related announcements during their Google Cloud Platform Live Event that is taking place in San Francisco these days. The most important is the availability of Google Container Engine (GKE), currently in public alpha. Others are: Managed VMs, more connectivity options, Cloud Debugger, Autoscaler, and price reductions.
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Apple TestFlight Now Allows up to 1,000 External Beta Testers
Apple announced that its TestFlight beta testing service allows now to invite up to 1,000 external beta testers via iTunesConnect. The most relevant facts about the new service.
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Immutable.js Offers JavaScript a Taste of Functional Programming
Immutable.js provides JavaScript with a set of persistent data structures allowing for a functional programming style while using natural syntax familiar to traditional JavaScript developers.
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Ember Gets Rendering Improvements, More Slated
Ember 1.8 has been announced. One of the biggest changes is use of metal-views, which improves rendering performance as well as paves the way for more rendering improvements, grouped as "HTMLBars" in the future.
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Web Summit 2014 Day One Review
Web Summit, one of the largest technology conferences in Europe opened up today. Famous people from the technology and business world are expected to talk, like Peter Thiel, Drew Houston and Anna Patterson.
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AWS Ships an add-in for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Amazon is integrating EC2 management with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Microsoft Windows administrators can use the familiar System Center user interface to provision and configure virtual machines running on Amazon EC2.
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Google Cloud Adds Support for Ubuntu Linux Distribution
Google partnered with Canonical to bring official Ubuntu images to Google Compute Engine.
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Intrinsic Agile Coaching with Storytelling
Teams can share their experiences with other teams and coaches through storytelling. Agile coaches can facilitate a process of sharing experiences to empower teams and help them becoming self-organized said Patrick Steyaert and Wim Bollen. They showed a technique based upon archetype construction to draw learning’s from team stories which teams can use to design and travel their own agile journey.