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React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS
The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17.
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Amazon Redshift Data Sharing Now Generally Available
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of the Amazon Redshift Data Sharing functionality to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. This allows the use of a single data warehouse cluster for multi-cluster deployments and sharing data instantly without the need to copy or move them.
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Component Explorer Storybook for Svelte Auto-Generates Playground and Documentation
Storybook for Svelte, the Svelte version of the Storybook component explorer, recently announced major upgrades that strive to improve the developer experience around authoring, maintaining, and documenting components’ stories. The new beta release auto-generates controls and documentation from a new Svelte-native story format that captures component states.
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Amazon Redshift Cross-Database Queries and Data Sharing Are Now GA
Users of Amazon Redshift can now run cross-database queries and share data across Redshift clusters as AWS released these enhancements to general availability.
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Hazelcast Jet 4.4 Released - the Four-Year Anniversary Release as Seen by Scott McMahon
Hazelcast Jet recently celebrated its four-year anniversary with the release of version 4.4. Besides the normal bug fixes and performance enhancements, this new version ships with new features such as the unified file connector and the first beta version of the SQL interface. InfoQ spoke to Scott McMahon, technical director of field engineering at Hazelcast, about this new release.
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SPACE, a New Framework to Understand and Measure Developer Productivity
A recent paper by researchers at GitHub, University of Victoria, and Microsoft delves into developer productivity to propose a new approach to defining, measuring and predicting it. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with the paper lead author, GitHub vice-president of research & strategy Nicole Forsgren.
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Using Machine Learning in Testing and Maintenance
With machine learning, we can reduce maintenance efforts and improve the quality of products. It can be used in various stages of the software testing life-cycle, including bug management, which is an important part of the chain. We can analyze large amounts of data for classifying, triaging, and prioritizing bugs in a more efficient way by means of machine learning algorithms.
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Visual Basic 16.9 in .NET 5
Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. But Microsoft has been quietly working on extending the life of the language.
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Web Almanac Mega Study Reveals That Popular Front-End Frameworks Are Still a Small Part of the Web
The HTTP Archive finalized the Web Almanac 2020, an annual report on the state of the web. The report gathers its conclusions in 22 chapters organized in four sections (e.g, page content, user experience, content publishing and distribution): jQuery is still 80% of the web; CSS Houdini is seldom used; the median website ships 400 KB of JavaScript in 2020, 14% more than in 2019; and many more.
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Java 16 Released
Oracle has released version 16 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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AWS Announces Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Recently AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes, which deliver the same features and benefits as the existing Amazon EFS storage classes yet reduce storage costs by 47%. With One Zone storage classes, customers can redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).
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Linux Foundation Sigstore Aims to Be the Let's Encrypt of Code Signing
Backed by the Linux Foundation, Sigstore aims to provide a non-profit service to foster the adoption of cryptographic signing by open source projects to make the software supply chain more secure.
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Google Cloud Releases Its Healthcare Consent Management API to General Availability
Google Cloud recently announced it would release its Healthcare Consent Management API to general availability to provide healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals' consent over health data use. The Healthcare Consent Management API is part of the Cloud Healthcare API offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Stanford Publishes AI Index 2021 Annual Report
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has published its AI Index annual report. This underlying data for this year's report has been expanded compared to the previous year's, and the report includes several perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on AI research and development.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 8th, 2021
A quick roundup of stories from around the Java ecosystem in the week of March 8th.