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Apple’s Chris Lattner Looks Back at Swift 3 and Ahead to Swift 4
While Swift 3 is nearing its late 2016 release, Apple’s Developer Tools Department senior director Chris Lattner provided a retrospective on its development and set expectations for Swift 4 in a long message to the Swift-evolution mailing list.
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Facebook Open-Sources Deep Learning Project Torchnet
Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research laboratory open-sources the Torchnet project to package and optimize boiler plate deep learning code for reuse and plugin-ability.
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WSO2 MSF4J Adds Support for Spring and Swagger
WSO2 MSF4J 2.0 has added support for Spring, Swagger definition generation, ExceptionMapper and StreamingOutput.
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Stack Overflow Launches Documentation Beta
Stack Overflow has launched a new website called Documentation, enabling developers to create documentation on various software development topics for developers.
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LokiJS 1.4 Release Brings Performance Improvement, NativeScript Adapter
Version 1.4 or LokiJS, the in-memory database that prioritises performance, has been released, bringing a NativeScript adapter.
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Google BigQuery Now Allows to Query All Open-Source Projects on GitHub
A full snapshot of more than 2.8 million open source project hosted on GitHub is now available in Google’s BigQuery, Google and GitHub announced. This will make it possible to query almost 2 billion source files hosted on GitHub using SQL.
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Apple Open-Sources its New Compression Algorithm LZFSE
Apple has open-sourced its new lossless compression algorithm, LZFSE, introduced last year with iOS 9 and OS X 10.10. According to Apple, LZFE provides the same compression gain as ZLib level 5 while being 2x–3x faster and with higher energy efficiency.
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Applying Supply Chain Management to Deliver Faster with Higher Quality
Supply chain management can raise the bar with continuous development, argues Joshua Corman, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative and co-founder of Rugged Software. Our dependence on IT and software is growing faster than our ability to secure it, and applying supply chain approaches to software development helps to address complexity which reduces risks and increases quality.
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LinkedIn Details Open-Sourced Kafka Monitor
LinkedIn recently detailed open-sourced Kafka Monitor service that they're using to monitor production Kafka clusters as well as extensive testing automation, leading them to identify bugs in the main Kafka trunk and contribute solutions to the open-source community.
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Swift 3 Will Not Have a Stable ABI
Apple’s Chris Lattner, original creator of the Swift language, has recently announced on the Swift Evolution mailing list that ABI stability, one of the goals originally planned for Swift 3, will be postponed.
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Nest Has Open Sourced Thread
Nest has made the source code of their Thread protocol available on GitHub.
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Oracle to Close Java.net and Kenai.com Forges
Oracle has announced that the Kenai.com and Java.net forges will be closed in approximately one year; project administrators have been advised to request all their project data so they can continue to operate elsewhere. The move seems to be aligned to other similar decisions in the market, after sites like Codehaus and Google Code also announced previous closures.
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CareKit is Apple’s New Open-source Health-oriented Mobile App Framework
Following on from the announcement at the March 2016 “Let us loop you in”, Apple has open sourced its new CareKit framework, aimed to make it easier for developers to create apps that help people manage their medical conditions. Along with the new framework, Apple has also made available four iOS apps that use it.
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GitLab and DigitalOcean Offer Free Hosting for GitLab CI to Open Source Community
GitLab, maker of the homonymous Git-based code management and continuous integration platform, and Y Combinator cloud platform provider DigitalOcean have partnered to provide free hosting to the open source community to move their continuous integration to the cloud.
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Google Cloud Machine Learning and Tensor Flow Alpha Release
Late last month Google released an alpha version of their TensorFlow (TF) integrated cloud machine learning service as a response to a growing need to make their Tensor Flow library to run at scale on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google describes several new feature sets around making TF usage scale by integrating several pieces of the GCP like Dataproc, a managed Hadoop and Spark service.