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Wildfly 16: Improvements to Messaging and Clustering
Continuing with its quarterly delivery model, Wildfly 16 was released last month, closing or resolving almost 200 issues, feature requests, and bugs. Included in this release was Galleon, a provisioning tool for constructing custom-tailored Wildfly servers, compatibility with JDK12, as well as several enhancements to messaging, and clustering support.
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Microsoft Expands the Availability of Its Cognitive Services: Anomaly Detector and Custom Vision
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Anomaly Detector and general availability of Custom Vision. With both services, Microsoft further expands its Cognitive Services offering for its customers.
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Effectively Using Jira with an Overarching Vision
Dzmitry Hryb of Atlassian partner DevInit has recently published an article responding to a TechCrunch story that claimed using Jira's issue-centric model could result in a myopia, which misses the "macro-vision." Recent writing by architect Eltjo R. Poort and DevOps lead Matt Saunders also offers patterns for using Jira with other best-fit tools to capture vision and architectural direction.
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MicroProfile Releases Reactive Streams Operators 1.0
MicroProfile released the Reactive Streams Operators 1.0 API, a specification that defines a set of operators for Reactive Streams that allow developers to: create Reactive Streams; process the data transiting in the streams; and accumulate results. James Roper, architect and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, spoke to InfoQ about the Reactive Stream Operators API.
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TypeScript 3.4 Supports Incremental Builds and globalThis
The TypeScript team announces the release of TypeScript 3.4, including faster incremental builds, improvements for higher order type inference of generic functions, and support for ES.Next 'globalThis'.
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Windows Virtual Desktop Public Preview on Azure: Q&A with Microsoft's Scott Manchester
InfoQ caught up with Scott Manchester, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows Virtual Desktop, regarding the public preview on Azure announcement.
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Kubernetes 1.14 Moves Windows Nodes to Production Support and Enhances Kubectl
The latest release of Kubernetes, version 1.14, was released with production-level support for Windows nodes. The release also includes the addition of kustomize in kubectl, the kubectl plugin mechanism being moved to stable, and improved documentation for kubectl. This first release of 2019 has 10 features in total being moved into stable.
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Q&A on Condé Nast's Natural Language Processor and Content Analysis
Beginning in 2015, Condé Nast created a natural-language-processing and content-analysis engine to improve the metadata around content created across their 22 brands. The new system has led to a 30% increase in click-through rates. InfoQ spoke with Antonino Rau, a software engineer and technology manager at Condé Nast US about the evolution of their NLP-as-a-service system named HAL.
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Q&A with Akara Sucharitakul on Squbs: Akka Streams & Akka HTTP for Large-Scale Production Deployment
Squbs (rhymes with “cubes”), an open-source project enabling standardization and operationalisation of Akka applications on a large scale, adheres to the reactive principles, allowing applications to process billions of transactions per day with minimal resource consumption while being more resilient to failure.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.1 Adds Secret Caching and Transit Auto Unseal
HashiCorp has released version 1.1 of Vault, their secrets and identity management tool. With this release there is now support for secret caching by Vault Agents, authentication to Vault via OpenID Connect, and using a Vault cluster to auto unseal another Vault cluster via transit encryption.
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Autonomous Analytics: Driving the Future of Data in Business Analytics
Autonomous data analytics will be the driver of business analytics in the future. and will be seamlessly integrated into our lives. John Thuma, from Arcadia Data, spoke at Enterprise Data World 2019 Conference in Boston about self-driving analytics.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.
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TriggerMesh Releases Open Source Knative Event Sources for Multi-Cloud Environments
TriggerMesh has released their latest open-source project, Knative Lambda Sources (KLASS). KLASS are event sources that can be used to trigger Knative functions in Kubernetes clusters. This enables AWS events to be consumed within a multi-cloud or on-premise environment. This release follows the release of Knative Lambda Runtimes which further enhance the TriggerMesh cloud platform.
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Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.
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JUnit Project Moves to Azure Pipelines for Builds
JUnit, a unit testing framework for Java, is one of the most popular libraries used by Java developers. The JUnit team recently announced they've adopted Azure Pipelines for continuous integration (CI).