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Flutter Release Preview 1 Supports ML Kit and More
Google recently announced Flutter Release Preview 1. Flutter is an open-source framework for cross-platform app development for both iOS and Android. Flutter Release Preview 1 includes support for hardware keyboards and barcode scanners, video recording, ML Kit, an update to the Flutter extension for Visual Studio Code, and more.
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Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 3 Adds Multi-Caret Editing
Preview 3 of VS2017 15.8 brings a long-requested feature: multi-caret editing to the IDE, as well as new options for keyboard bindings that should help developers who are familiar with other popular editors. The editing experience in the IDE should also be improved for JavaScript and TypeScript developers.
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QCon NY: Matt Klein on Lyft Embracing Service Mesh Architecture
Matt Klein from Lyft spoke at QCon New York 2018 Conference about Envoy service mesh architecture. Facing the operational difficulties with the initial microservice deployment, Lyft team migrated to using service mesh.
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Driving Innovation at Switzerland's Largest Bank
Jelena Laketic, head of asset management SWAT (SoftWare Action Team) at UBS, spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London about some of the lessons she has learned driving innovation at the largest bank in Switzerland. InfoQ reached out to Laketic in order to get her view on the particular challenges and successes around her SWAT journey and what innovation means at UBS.
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Electric Cloud Launches Predictive Analytics for DevOps
ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight uses deep learning to identify patterns in release pipelines, gauge the likelihood of software release success and make recommendations in order to incrementally improve pipeline performance and application quality.
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Android P Will Expand its Use of Compiler-Based Security Mitigations
The upcoming Android P, which was recently released in beta, will use more compiler-based security mitigations, writes Google engineer Ivan Lozano, including control flow integrity and integer overflow sanitization.
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Challenges of Moving from Projects to Products
Carmen DeArdo, former DevOps technology director at Nationwide Insurance, and Nicole Bryan, vice-president of product management at Tasktop, recently spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London on the importance of moving from a project-based to a product-based organization.
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Google Explains Why Others Are Doing SRE Wrong
Stephen Thorne, customer reliability engineer at Google, recently spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London on what Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is and why many organizations are failing to understand its basic premises and benefits.
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Shopify’s Journey to Kubernetes and PaaS: Niko Kurtti at QCon NY
At QCon New York, Niko Kurtti presented “Forced Evolution: Shopify’s Journey to Kubernetes”, and described the Shopify engineering team’s journey to building their own PaaS with Kubernetes as the foundation.
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AWS Config Gains Cross-Account, Cross-Region Data Aggregation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added the capability to aggregate compliance data produced by AWS Config rules across multiple accounts and/or regions to enable centralized auditing and governance of AWS resources. A new aggregated dashboard view displays non-compliant rules across the organization. Users can then drill down to view details about resources that are violating any rules.
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Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5
Pivotal has released version 1.5 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building real-time data processing pipelines. New features include improvements to the user interface, metrics, and Kubernetes along with updated Spring Cloud Stream Application Starters.
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How Blockchain is Reinventing Business Process Management
In a recent Hyperledger post, Jesse Chenard discusses how blockchain is poised to reinvent traditional Business Process Management platforms. A challenge with existing BPM platforms is that data is usually stored in organizational silos and challenges exist in exchanging counterparty transactions. A blockchain solution can provide auditing across boundaries, without leaking sensitive information.
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Patterns and Practices for Cloud Native Continuous Delivery
Christian Deger, chief architect at RIO – a Brand of Volkswagen Truck & Bus, recently shared a set of patterns and practices for implementing cloud native continuous delivery at the Continuous Lifecycle Conference in London.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure SQL Data Sync
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Data Sync, a service allowing customers to synchronize data between Azure SQL Databases and any of other SQL endpoints unidirectionally or bidirectionally. Furthermore, this release includes a few new capabilities in configuration, faster database schema refresh, and a more secure data synchronization process.
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Miki Szikszai on Growing Technical Talent at Snapper
At the JAFAC conference Snapper CEO Miki Szikszai gave a talk on how the company overcame some of the challenges of growing their technical team in an environment of perceived skills shortage. Their approach of employing teams of graduates and giving them real customer facing work to do rather than interspersing them into existing teams results in better outcomes and enabled rapid growth.