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First Look at Visual Studio 2017 15.8 with ARM64 Support
The first preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.8 has been released, and includes the first support for the ARM64 platform.
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Google Release "gVisor", a Lightweight Container Runtime Sandbox Used to Provide Secure Isolation
Google has released gVisor, a new kind of sandbox that can be used to provide secure isolation for containers that is less resource intensive than running a full VM. At its core gVisor is an open source user-space kernel, written in Go, that implements a substantial portion of the Linux system surface. The project includes an OCI runtime called “runsc” that integrates with Docker and Kubernetes.
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PyTorch 1.0 Announced for Research and Production AI Projects
In a recent blog post, Bill Jia announced a new 1.0 version of PyTorch. PyTorch is an open source AI framework package for Python with Tensor computation and Deep Neural Networks. The importance of this new release is the reduction in time required to move an AI-driven project from the research phase to production while improving the accuracy and performance of these applications.
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Q&A with Bob McWhirter on WildFly Swarm Rename to Thorntail
In early 2015, Red Hat released Wildfly Swarm, which allows Java EE based applications to run as microservices. The approach allowed developers to migrate Java EE monolith applications to microservices by creating an uber-JAR that not only contains the Java program but embeds its dependencies as well. Wildfly Swarm was recently renamed to Thorntail.
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Terratest - an Open Source Go Library for Automated Infrastructure Testing
Gruntwork open sourced their Go framework Terratest which can be used to write automated tests for testing infrastructure. The library comes with support for Terraform and Packer.
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AWS EC2 Fleet: Manage Thousands of On-Demand and Spot Instances with One Request
Amazon announced EC2 Fleet, a new feature that gives customers a unique ability to create fleets composed of a combination of EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances, by using a single API. Moreover, the customer can specify what capacity and instance-wise VM's it requires, and AWS will launch, manage, monitor and scale instances that they need, without writing any scaffolding code.
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Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Brings Full C++17 Compliance
Microsoft has released a seventh update to Visual Studio 2017. Notable additions in this release include full C++17 compliance, an improved installer, and general quality of life changes that should benefit most developers.
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Android Studio 3.2 Canary Brings Better Traces Support, Lint Checking, and More
Google has released Android Studio 3.2 Canary in the Canary and Dev channels. This version comes with improvements on core Android Studio IDE, as well new Android Profiler, Android Jetpack, Import/Export CPU traces, record CPU activity during startup, Lint checking and more.
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Google App Engine to Support Node.js 8.x Using the Recently Open Source gVisor Sandbox
Google App Engine (GAE), Google's PaaS offering, is now offering a preview of support for the Node.js 8.x runtime within the standard environment, with a full release promised soon.
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Google Overhauls the Android Support Library into AndroidX
The new Android extension library (AndroidX) is a replacement for the seven-year old Support library, aiming to streamline things and provide a solid foundation for the further evolution of the library.
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Finding Talented People and Building Sustainable Teams
Meetups, hackathons and conferences are fantastic opportunities to promote your company's work and ethos and meet talented people. You can learn a lot more about a person if you let them drive the conversation initially in a job interview. Having room to grow professionally and psychological safety are key to building sustainable teams, and establish a collaborative, cohesive engineering culture.
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What’s New in Azure Machine Learning?
Matt Winkler delivered a talk at Microsoft Build 2018 explaining what is new in Azure Machine Learning. The new improvements come in several areas: making development easier, single container deployment to make the dev/test loop faster, using the SDK from the Azure Notebook for control, as well as helping people get started solving a particular problem.
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GitHub Checks API Enables Apps for Advanced Continuous Integration
GitHub Checks API aims to make it possible to integrate code checks into a continuous integration workflow. For example this could mean linting a source file and present the results directly in the pull request view. The feedback can be so detailed as desired, e.g., showing the line of code causing a problem, thus allowing the commit author to fix the issues and run a new check on the code.
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Google Upgrades Its Speech-to-Text Service with Tailored Deep-Learning Models
A month after Google announced breakthroughs in Text-to-Speech generation technologies, the company followed through with a major upgrade of its Speech-to-Text API cloud service. The updated service leverages deep-learning models for speech transcription that are tailored to specific use-cases: short voice commands, phone calls and video and includes adding punctuation to the transcribed text.
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Google I/O Opening Keynote Featured ML Kit, Google Assistant, TPU 3.0 & Host of Other Announcements
For the third time in as many years, Google I/O kicked off yesterday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Nearly perfect weather greeted the 7,000 attendees who met to learn from Google’s Annual flagship developer conference.