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Defining Bounded Contexts — Eric Evans at DDD Europe
A bounded context is a defined part of software where particular terms and rules apply in a consistent way, Eric Evans explained in his keynote at DDD Europe earlier this year; it should have a refined model and a language with unambiguous definitions. In a recently published presentation, he describes different kinds of bounded contexts, including some that involve microservices.
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Payara Tour of Japan 2019
Payara recently completed a one-week tour of Japan in which they visited prominent Java Users Groups. Featured speakers were Kenji Hasunuma, service engineer at Payara, Ondrej Mihályi, senior service engineer at Payara, and Yusuke Yamamoto, Java Champion, creator of Twitter4J, and president of Samuraism, a Japanese company providing development tools and training.
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Ionic Capacitor: Creating Native Applications with JavaScript
Capacitor is a new development framework by Ionic for hybrid application creation. Capacitor provides an alternative to Apache Cordova, a well-established solution first released in 2009.
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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft's Lachlan Evenson
InfoQ caught up with Lachlan Evenson, principal program manager at Microsoft, regarding the recent announcement at KubeCon of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI). Topics also discussed included the ecosystem of service meshes on Kubernetes.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Bastion, Eliminating the Jumpbox Virtual Machine
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of a secure remote desktop solution, called Azure Bastion, which does not require organizations to expose virtual machines using public IP Addresses. The platform as a service (PaaS) extends virtual machine connectivity using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) inside a modern web browser.
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.NET Core: Past, Present, and Future
During the latest edition of Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s .NET program manager Scott Hunter published an article stating that .NET Core is the future of .NET .
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Experience Building Distributed Systems and Microservices — Jeppe Cramon at Micro CPH
We must understand the business domain we are working in, identify the bounded contexts and the business capabilities, and design our services using this knowledge. In a presentation at Micro CPH, Jeppe Cramon talked about his experience working with distributed systems, microservices and the principles and patterns he sees as beneficial for successfully creating microservices based systems.
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Google Cloud Scheduler is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog, Google announced that customers can now securely invoke HTTP targets on a schedule using Cloud Scheduler – a fully managed cron job service that allows any application to invoke batch, big data, and cloud infrastructure operations.
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Azul Systems Discuss Java's Present and Future
InfoQ caught up with Simon Ritter, deputy CTO of Azul Systems, to talk about their JVM products and the current status and future of Java.
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TypeScript 3.5 Adds Omit Type, Smarter Union Type Checking
The TypeScript team has announced the release of TypeScript 3.5, including type checking performance improvements and a new Omit type.
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GraalVM 19.0: the Anticipated GA Release
More than a year of numerous release candidates, Oracle has released the GA version of GraalVM 19.0, a polyglot virtual machine and platform created by Oracle Labs. Features added in the RC releases include: migrating Nashorn to GraalVM, integration with Python’s numpy library, and a managed mode LLVM interpreter. Oracle Labs have also included the formal release of GraalVM Enterprise Edition.
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Eclipse Introduces New IDE-Agnostic Tools for Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Applications
Eclipse Codewind is a new developer-centric project from the Eclipse Foundation that aims to assist developers by providing ways to quickly and consistently accomplish tasks that are common to cloud-native application development.
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Java 13 Enters Feature Freeze and Rampdown
The final feature list for Java 13 (due in September) has been confirmed, as the project enters testing and rampdown. No major new features are part of this release.
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Microsoft Evolves Azure Event Grid: New Telemetry Events, Advanced Filters, and Event Domains
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced several new updates to its cloud service Azure Event Grid, ranging from new telemetry events from IoT Hub to the general availability of advanced filters and Event Domains.