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Oracle Open Sources Coherence In-Memory Data Grid
Oracle has released the core of their Coherence in-memory data grid (IMDG) product as free and open source software.
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AWS Launches a No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder in Beta: Amazon Honeycode
Recently, AWS announced the beta release of Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service allowing customers to build mobile and web applications without writing any code quickly.
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Spring Boot 2.3.0 Focuses on the Cloud
Spring Boot has released version 2.3.0 which adds support for latest Java versions, Docker with buildpacks, layered images, graceful shutdown support, liveness, and readiness probes.
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Web Animations API Now Supported in All Evergreen Browsers
With the release of Safari 13.1, the Web Animations API now ships with all evergreen browsers.
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Microsoft Releases gRPC-Web for .NET
Last week, Microsoft released a production-ready implementation of the gRPC-Web protocol for .NET. Initially supported as an experimental feature, the component is now part of the grpc-dotnet project. The new component makes gRPC usable in the browser, allowing web applications to communicate directly with gRPC services without using an HTTP server as a proxy.
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MAUI: a Multi-Platform App UI for .NET
Last month, during the 2020 edition of Build, Microsoft announced the roadmap for .NET MAUI, a multi-platform framework for building native device applications. The new framework comes as an evolution of Xamarin.Forms, providing native features for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
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Open Source Registry Harbor's Graduation: Q&A with VMware's Michael Michael
InfoQ caught up with Harbor maintainer Michael Michael, also director of product management at VMware, regarding the graduation of Harbor as a CNCF project.
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Krustlet: a kubelet Written in Rust to Run WebAssembly Workloads in Kubernetes
Deis Labs has released Krustlet, an open-source Kubernetes kubelet written in Rust to run web assembly workloads within Kubernetes. Krustlet's initial version is functional to run an essential workload as it doesn't have support for features like pod events or Init Containers yet. Applications must implement the WebAssembly system interface (WASI) as Krustlet only runs WebAssembly containers.
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Rust Breaks into TIOBE Top 20 Most Popular Programming Languages
Developers’ love for Rust has translated into real-world adoption. On 6/2/2020, TIOBE reported that Rust broke into TIOBE index top 20 for the first time.
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Quarkus 1.5 Features New Extensions and fast-jar Packaging
Red Hat has released Quarkus 1.5 featuring new extensions to support Picoli, gRPC, MicroProfile GraphQL and Hibernate ORM with Panache. There is also a new fast-jar packaging format and a Spring Cache compatibility layer. Dubbed “Supersonic Subatomic Java,” Quarkus was first introduced in March 2019 as a full-stack, Kubernetes-native, Java framework designed for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot.
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Amazon Announces Elastic File System (EFS) Support for AWS Lambda
Recently Amazon announced that AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). With the support for EFS, they can share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store.
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2nd Generation JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries: beyond Angular, React, and Vue!
In recent years, large enterprises have been open sourcing their internal JavaScript technology stacks, with an emphasis on reliability, stability, and maintainability. Geertjan Wielenga explained at FOSDEM’20 the drivers behind that move and how that benefits developers.
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ESLint 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 Releases Improve Developer Experience and ES2020 Support
The recent ESLint 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 releases introduce numerous developer experience improvements, remove support for Node.js version 8, and add support for ES2020 features. typescript-eslint also has several recent releases, aligning with ESLint releases and updates to TypeScript.
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Apollo Data Graph Platform: a GraphQL Middleware Layer for the Enterprise
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Matt Debergalis, founder and CTO at Apollo, discussed the motivations for GraphQL and the Apollo Data Graph platform. Key topics explored included data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems.
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New Report Shows "Overwhelming" Cloud Usage
The new Cloud Adoption in 2020 report from O'Reilly Media paints a picture of "overwhelming" usage of cloud computing. The survey results also revealed growing adoption of Site Reliability Engineering, high but flattening usage of microservices, and limited interest in serverless computing.