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.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 Brings Refinements for Developers
Microsoft has released the second preview of .NET Core 2.0. Several changes have been made to increase ease-of-use for developers, but what may be most important is the ability to reference .NET Framework libraries from .NET Core code. Joining these improvements are bug fixes and several additions to its WCF support.
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A Comparison of Mapping Approaches for Distributed Cloud Applications
An application map is a topology view of the components of a distributed application and the network or interprocess interactions between them. A recent article gives an overview of application mapping approaches adopted by various tools like AppDynamics, OpenTracing and Netsil.
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Long-Awaited OpenAPI Spec 3.0 to Be Released in July
After over a year of development, the Open API Institute has announced that it will release OpenAPI Specification (OAS) v3.0.0 final in mid-July 2017. The release will follow an open comment period that ends on June 30.
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Microsoft Releases TypeScript 2.4
Microsoft has released version 2.4 of TypeScript. This version adds support for dynamic imports -- an ECMAScript 2018 feature -- and string-based enums.
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Putting Quality Back in Agile with Lean
The agile manifesto and lean practices are very complementary; lean can be a useful addition to a very strong agile process to increase quality. Interviewing real clients or client proxies to deeply understand their pain points and visualizing the process by diving into the handovers between departments helps to uncover problems faster and fix those problems more efficiently for a lower price.
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IBM and Lightbend Announce Initiative to Build New Platform for Cognitive Development
IBM has announced a strategic investment in reactive pioneer and Scala language custodian, Lightbend. The two companies will collaborate to build a new platform for cognitive development. Mark Brewer, CEO at Lightbend spoke exclusively to InfoQ about this collaboration.
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Managing Data in Microservices
Randy Shoup from Stitch Fix team spoke at QCon New York 2017 Conference about managing the data and isolated persistence in Microservices based applications. He also talked about events as a first class construct for microservices.
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QCon New York Day 1 – High Velocity Development Teams Track Summary
QCon New York was heeled this week. This is a summary of the key messages from the opening keynote and from the High Velocity Development Teams track.
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GitHub Invites Developers to Open Source Friday
GitHub invites developers to contribute to open source software, starting with a couple of hours every Friday.
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John Willis Talks DevOps Superpatterns at DOES17 London
John Willis, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, spoke about the emerging DevOps Superpattern at the 2017 DevOps Enterprise Summit June 5th and 6th in London.
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Q&A with the Developers of Obie: A Chatbot for Company Knowledge
Recently Tasytt launched Obie: a Slack chatbot for company knowledge. Teams can ask "what", "how", or "where" questions. Obie either finds the answer in one of your documents, or will ask you to provide him with the answer so he can give it next time someone asks the same question. InfoQ reached out to founder and CEO Chris Buttenham to ask him about Obie.
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Evan Leybourn of IBM on the Theory of Agile Constraints
Evan Leybourn is talking at the upcoming Agile Indonesia conference. He spoke to InfoQ about his Theory of Agile Constraints, defining value in an initiative, agile budgeting and #NoProjects.
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.NET Core Runtime and Base Class Library Performance
Microsoft has announced that performance improvements have been made to the runtime and base class libraries in .NET Core. While the performance improvements to ASP.NET Core have received more publicity, these improvements are just as important. Many are based on pull requests from the developer community.
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Cloud Migrations, Highly Regulated Environments, and Making Work Visible: DOES17 London Day Two
At the London DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017 (DOES17) conference, the second morning of keynotes discussed the role DevOps plays when migrating to cloud platforms; the creation and cultivation of effective teams that must work within high-regulatory environments; and how to improve the flow of business value by making work visible.
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Oracle Defends the Java Module System
One of the more timely presentations at the 2017 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) Conference was by Oracle JVM runtime lead Karen Kinnear - Java Futures: Modules and More. Much has happened since her presentation surrounding, namely, the events before and after the May 8, 2017 JSR 376 public review ballot vote.