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How DevOps Complements Agile at Nokia Entertainment
Agile has the manifesto and principles, it focuses on people, clarity for the stakeholders, faster delivery, and happier customers, so why would you need DevOps? John Clapham from Nokia Entertainment in Bristol talked at the Agile Methods in the Finance Sector and Complex Environment conference about what DevOps is and what it has brought to their business.
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Previewing Riak 2.0
At RICON West Basho announced the first technical preview of Riak 2.0. Continuing the work on Russell Brown’s RFC, this version brings with it new distributed data types for maps and sets, strong consistency, and deeps ties with Apache Solr.
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The Human Aspects of API Design: An Interview with Apiary's Jakub Nesetril
API Design and description is more than just a technical interface contract between machines. Apiary's Co-Founder and CEO Jakub Nesetril points out that the real consumer of an API description is the developer, with all the concerns of engagement, usability and communication that entails. We spoke with Jakub recently about Apiary's approach to API design and emerging API tools and workflows.
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GenMyModel: An Online Real-time Collaborative UML Designer
This article contains an interview on GenMyModel’s architecture, technology used and future.
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Xamarin’s Rough Transition to 64-bit iOS/OSX
In order to support 64-bit iOS and OSX, Xamarin has to make some breaking changes to the way it implements the mapping between C# and Objective-C libraries. Rather than being mapped to 32-bit types, NSInteger and CGFloat are now mapped to the new platform-specific data types nint and nfloat.
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Google Releases Dart 1.0
Two years after its initial announcement and preview release, Lars Bak announced the first stable release of Dart at Devvox in Belgium today. Dart is Google’s new web programming language and platform for developing modern web applications.
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Android Gets Better with App Translation Service
Google has officially released its translation service for Android app which enables developers to localize the apps in various languages based on the guidelines in the localization checklist document.
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Project Monaco Brings Visual Studio to the Web
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Online which brings a form of the its popular software development IDE to the web. As part of this release small teams of developers can use this service for free, and use it from non-Windows based clients.
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Pivotal's Reactor Goes GA
This week, Pivotal released version 1.0 of its project Reactor for general availability. Reactor provides low-level abstractions for an event-driven, reactive programming model, and is a component member of the Spring IO Platform in its "IO Foundation" layer.
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Developing iOS & Android Apps with C# in Visual Studio
Xamarin partnerships with Microsoft to let developers build iOS and Android applications in Visual Studio. Xamarin University teaches developers how to do that.
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Windows/Windows Phone Takes a Step Towards Unification
Microsoft has taken the first step towards unifying the Windows 8 and Windows Phone stores. Developers no longer have to register for each platform separately. Those already registered for both will be receiving a free renewal for one year in compensation.
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Pivotal Announces Pivotal CF Based on CloudFoundry
Today, Pivotal announced the availability of Pivotal CF, an enterprise cloud platform based on Cloud Foundry, along with a number of Pivotal One services such as an Apache Hadoop and Analytics service. A reply of the announcement is available from gopivotal.com
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Presto: Facebook’s Distributed SQL Query Engine
Facebook has open-sourced Presto, their distributed SQL query engine. Presto uses a pipelined architecture rather than the Map/Reduce design found elsewhere. In production since early this year, Facebook has since “deployed in multiple geographical regions and [they] have successfully scaled a single cluster to 1,000 nodes”.
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Testing Resiliency at PagerDuty Without a Simian Army
Doug Barth, from PagerDuty, talked at DevOps Days London about their approach to start resiliency testing their systems without dedicating a lot of automation effort upfront. The goal was to quickly start learning about failure points and openly discuss how to fix them with only one hour per week of effort.
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Apigee Now Supports Node.js and Open Sources Volos
Apigee Edge now supports Node.js and has open sourced Volos, a project containing a set of API management modules.