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New Relic Open Sources their Docker Deployment Tool Centurion
New Relic open sourced Centurion, a deployment tool for Docker used internally to run their production infrastructure. Centurion takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings, supporting rolling deployments out of the box.
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New Internet Explorer Focuses on Developers
A new developer-centric IE has been released, named Internet Explorer Developer Channel. This build provides an early way for developers to test webpages and can be installed side-by-side with IE.
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Q&A with Spark the Change Conference Organisers
The Spark the Change conference runs in London on 3-4 July. The theme of the conference is “Create an Organisation you can Believe in”. Aimed at leaders from across the business the conference aims to inspire attendees to build better, strong businesses, become more inspiring leaders themselves and create happier workplaces. InfoQ spoke to one of the organisers about the conference.
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Perl Advances onto Android
The veteran Perl programming language has produced release 5.20.0, which adds a myriad of refinements along with support for the Android platform.
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An Introduction to Microservices Design
Designing for simple components and systems is key when moving to microservices. The focus is on evolution of components and how we build systems that allow evolution and change, Russ Miles recently stated in an introduction to designing and building microservices.
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Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage
Speaking at QCon New York on Wednesday Jeff Johnson, from the core data group at Facebook, announced Apollo, Facebook’s Paxos-like NoSQL database. Written in C++11 on top of the Apache Thrift 2 RPC framework, Apollo is a hierarchical storage system where all the data is split into shards, very much analogous to region servers in HBase.
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PhoneGap 3.5.0 No Longer Supports iOS 5 and Won’t Support WP 7
Cordova/PhoneGap 3.5.0 no longer support iOS 5, 3.6.0+ will not support WP 7, and future updates will come through npm.
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Google Announces Development Kit for a Tablet with Advanced Vision Capabilities
Google has announced the availability of Project Tango Development Kit, which should allow developers to make applications that track full 3-dimensional motion and capture surfaces in the environment. Tango development kit, created in collaboration with NVDIA, includes the new Tegra K1 mobile processor and aims at providing a platform designed for computer vision and 3D sensing.
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Guidelines for Responsive Website Design
This article includes several guidelines for creating websites that scale for different screen sizes and form factors.
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Visual Studio "14" Sharpens Focus on Modern C++
Visual Studio "14" Plans Improved C++11/C++14 compliance. As part of the this effort big changes are being made to the Standard Template Library bundled with "14".
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DockerCon 2014 Highlights
After the launch of Docker 1.0 there was more to come. The conference t-shirts said ‘Containers everywhere!’, with plenty of evidence of that from the large Bay area service providers. There were also some additional launches - libswarm ‘a minimalist toolkit to compose network services’, libchan ‘an ultra-lightweight networking library’, and more partners getting involved with libcontainer.
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Potential for Data Loss in SQL Server 2012 SP 2
The second service pack for SQL Server 2012 was recently released with over 30 bug fixes since the last cumulative update. But according to Aaron Bertrand of SQL Sentry, one important hotfix for Enterprise customers didn’t make the cut.
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Using a Definition of Ready
Many teams use the Definition of Done to check if a user story is finished and the product is ready to be delivered. But what about the user stories that a team receives from their product owner? Teams can check the quality of the user stories using a Definition of Ready.
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Swift Might Not Be As Fast As Apple Claims It To Be: First Benchmarks
Performance is one of the benefits that Apple claims its new Swift programming language should bring to OS X and iOS developers, and being in beta hasn't prevented independent developers from running benchmarks and reporting their findings. Perhaps unsurprisingly these show that in some cases Swift performance is not yet satisfactory.
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Facebook Open-sources Haxl: Implicit, Concurrent Data Access Using Haskell
Facebook has open-sourced Haxl, a library for efficient, concurrent data-access. The library leverages the traditional strengths of Haskell such as expressive type system, correctness and safety guarantees, as well as GHC's high performance run-time to solve the thorny issue of implicit, concurrent data access.