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Java One - Final Day and Community Keynote
Summary of the JavaOne 2014 Community Keynote, including material dropped from the opening keynote.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Java EE and IoT
Oracle execs discuss developments and roadmap in Java EE and Internet of Things
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Emerging Languages: A Look at The Last Five Years
In a recent article, Alex Payne, organizer of the Emerging Languages Camp, provides insight on how the language landscape has changed in the last five years and how it might change in future. InfoQ has talked with him.
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Xen Bug Forces Amazon and Rackspace to Reboot Their Services
Last week Amazon Web Services and Rackspace notified customers that their servers would be rebooted as a part of Xen hypervisor patching. This is the second time that AWS has scheduled reboots as a part of its cloud infrastructure maintenance, and AWS published guidance for building applications resilient to reboots and restarts.
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Version Numbers, Backwards Compatibility, and Windows 10
There is a lot of speculation as to why the next version of Windows will be called “Windows 10”. And while we’ll probably never know what happened behind the closed doors of the marketing department, there are solid technical reasons why it can’t be called “Windows 9”.
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Kickstart Agile the Kanban Way
Successful adoption of agile is related to the approach that is used to introduce changes in the organization. Organization can do a top down “mandated” implementation or use a different approach. Kanban can be used as a way to kick start agile, allowing teams to opt-in to agile practices when they feel ready for it to create a sustainable new way of working .
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Stack Overflow Adds Live JavaScript to Answers
Developers have a new browser-based code editor to play with, but this time, it's embedded in another tool. Stack Overflow, the popular question and answer site for software developers, announced the release of a new tool that lets users run JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code right in the question page.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Community and Java SE
Oracle execs hail community involvement in success and adoption of Java 8, announce better security features, but small number of new features.
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New Google APIs Client Libraries for Dart
Dart Engineer Søren Gjesse, has this week announced to the community new packages for accessing Google APIs. Gjesse says the API generator has been built to create Dart client libraries enabling access to Google services, including YouTube, Analytics, Google+, and Drive from Dart. However, not everyone in the Dart community is on board with the one package approach.
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The Basics of Event Sourcing and Some CQRS
State transitions are an important part of our problem space and should be modelled within our domain, Greg Young states in a recent presentation focusing on basic event sourcing and how CQRS fits in.
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AWS Adds Hooks Into Expanded Auto Scaling Lifecycle
Amazon Web Services recently added several features to its Auto Scaling service to improve control over the managed Amazon EC2 instances. It is now possible to hook into the pending and terminating lifecycle state transitions to perform custom operations, which is also available for in service instances via a new standby state. The DetachInstances API now allows to remove instances from a group.
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JavaOne 2014 - Day One and Eclipse IoT Announcement
Late running caused considerable disruption of JavaOne's opening keynotes. Eclipse have made a major IoT announcement.
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Apache Drill Included in MapR Latest Distribution Release
MapR recently announced including Apache Drill in its latest release of MapR distribution. Apache Drill is the open source version of Google’s Dremel. Dremel is the infrastructure on which BigQuery is based upon. Drill is offering a low latency SQL-on-Hadoop interface. While this puts it in the same space as several other technologies around Hadoop, Drill has some unique characteristics setting it
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Amazon Releases Official AWS Mobile SDK 2
After a few months spent in Developer Preview, the Amazon Web Services Mobile SDK version 2 is ready for general development. According to Amazon, the final release takes into account feedback received from developers during the preview in order to improve the SDK with some new features.
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MySQL Offers a REST API
A prototype of MySQL 5.7 is shipping with an optional component called the MySQL HTTP Plugin. This plugin allows direct access to MySQL via a REST over HTTP interface, eliminating the need for a middle-tier server or database specific drivers.