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ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: James Gosling's Journey to Open Source
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, James Gosling delivered a keynote talk on his personal journey to open-source. Gosling's Key takeaways were: open source allows programmers to learn by reading source code, developers must attention to intellectual property rights to prevent abuse, and projects can take on a life of their own.
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20 Years of the Apache Software Foundation: ApacheCon 2019 Opening Keynote
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, the opening keynote session celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, with key themes being: the history of the ASF, a strong commitment to community and collaboration, and efforts to increase contributions from the public. The session also featured a talk by astrophysicist David Brin on the potential dangers of AI.
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Reactive Foundation Launched under the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation, a community of leaders established to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. The foundation is made up of Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal as initial members, and includes the successful open source Reactive Streams and RSocket specifications.
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Python 2 End of Life Announced as January 1st 2020
After spreading the news at conferences, on the Python announcement list, and on countless blog posts and books, the Python Software Foundation has finally taken the step to formally announce Python 2 will reach end of life (EOL) on January 1st, 2019.
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Google Introduces Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop Big Data Workloads
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. This new capability allows organizations to substitute their traditional HDFS with Google Cloud Storage. Columnar file formats such as Parquet and ORC may realize increased throughput, and customers will benefit from Cloud Storage directory isolation, lower latency, increased parallelization and intelligent defaults
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Npm Bans Packages Which Display Ads via Its Command Line Interface
npm, Inc., the company behind the popular eponymous JavaScript package manager, will no longer allow packages which display ads. Developers will be able to silence terminal messages which push ads or call for donations, and which stem from the regular use of the npm command line interface.
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Contributing to the Kubernetes Community: Getting Started Q&A with Contributor Nikhita Raghunath
InfoQ caught up with Nikhita Raghunath, a contributor to the Kubernetes community. She outlines some quick tips or tricks especially for the impatient to get started and to move up the contributor ladder. She talks about the organization of the community, the tools, etc. to enable a better understanding of how and where to contribute.
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IBM POWER Instruction Set Architecture Now Open Source
IBM has open sourced the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which is used in its Power Series chips and in many embedded devices by other manufacturers. In addition, the OpenPOWER Foundation will become part of The Linux Foundation to further open governance.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Microsoft to Consolidate .NET Repositories on GitHub
Microsoft has announced they will transform their fine-grained repository structure for .NET Core to consolidate a number of foundational .NET Core repositories, including dotnet/coreclr and dotnet/corefx. Microsoft also plans to further consolidate ASP.NET repositories.
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Google Releases Enterprise Database Options, Targets SQL Server Customers
In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to their existing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) database investments, including Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server in alpha, Federated queries from BigQuery to Cloud SQL and Elastic Cloud on GCP being available in Japan and soon to be released in Sydney, Australia.
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Baidu Open-Sources ERNIE 2.0, Beats BERT in Natural Language Processing Tasks
In a recent blog post, Baidu, the Chinese search engine and e-commerce giant, announced their latest open-source, natural language understanding framework called ERNIE 2.0. They also shared recent test results including achieving state-of-the art (SOTA) results and outperforming existing frameworks, including Google’s BERT and XLNet in 16 NLP tasks in both Chinese and English.
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The Go Language Team Rejects Its Try Proposal ahead of Schedule
At the end of quite a long public discussion, the Go team decided to reject the proposal of a built-in try statement for Go error handling. The decision came ahead of the official Go 2 schedule due to the Go community's negative reaction, writes Robert Griesemer, one of the original designers of the language.
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Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation Join Open-Source Hyperledger Blockchain Project
In a recent press release, Hyperledger, an open-source blockchain and distributed ledger project, announced eight new members have joined their consortium including Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation. These organizations join established members like Airbus, Cisco, IBM and Intel.
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Open Source Messaging Software NATS Releases 2.0
Open source messaging software NATS 2.0 has been released and offers advanced security management, global disaster recovery, and improved performance at scale. NATS is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides messaging services for cloud native systems, IoT messaging, and microservices.