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Microsoft Releases .NET for Apache Spark 1.0
Last month, Microsoft released the first major version of .NET for Apache Spark, an open-source package that brings .NET development to the Apache Spark platform. The new release allows .NET developers to write Apache Spark applications using .NET user-defined functions, Spark SQL, and additional libraries such as Microsoft Hyperspace and ML.NET.
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Microsoft Edge Made Available on Linux
Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel for Linux (initial preview release). The Edge browser is now available on all major operating systems, desktop and mobile. Enterprise developers, many of which use Linux, may now build and test web applications in their preferred platform. The move seeks to further position Edge as the browser for business.
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Using Agile with a Data Science Team
Agile helped a data science team to better collaborate with their stakeholders and increase their productivity. As priorities became clear, the team was able to focus and deliver. Buy-in of the data science team by taking them through a journey of agile was crucial to making it work.
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 Now Generally Available
After publishing last year a preview release of WebView2, a Chromium-based control to host web content within native Windows applications, Microsoft recently announced the general availability of WebView2 for production Win32 C/C++, .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET 5 applications. WebView2 provides two distribution models (evergreen/fixed) with a different update policy (automatic/manual).
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AWS Announces New Service: Amazon S3 Storage Lens
AWS announces a new service called Amazon S3 Storage Lens, which can provide customers with organization-wide visibility into their object storage usage and activity trends. With the service, they can understand what happens across their S3 Object Storage installations.
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BBC Online Going Serverless
In a recent article, the BBC engineering team describes the work done moving BBC Online to the cloud and to a serverless deployment. Half of the BBC’s website is now rendered serverlessly with AWS Lambda.
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Bazel Will Be the New Build System for the Android Open Source Project
Google has announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which provides the foundations for all Android-labelled OSes available in the market and more derivative OSes, will transition to use Bazel as its new build tool.
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Deno 1.5 Sees 3x Bundling Performance Improvement Due to Rust-Based JavaScript/TypeScript Compiler
The team behind the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript recently released Deno 1.5. Deno 1.5 improved bundling time by using Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript compiler swc. Deno further reduces bundle size with tree-shaking and implements the alert, confirm, and prompt web platform APIs. The latter may allow developers to write simple interactive applications in the terminal.
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Apple's ML Compute Framework Accelerates TensorFlow Training
As part of the recent macOS Big Sur release, Apple has included the ML Compute framework. ML Compute provides optimized mathematical libraries to improve training on CPU and GPU on both Intel and M1-based Macs, with up to a 7x improvement in training times using the TensorFlow deep-learning library.
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How Dropbox Created a Distributed Async Task Framework at Scale
Engineers at Dropbox designed a distributed async task framework (ATF) that can handle tens of thousands of async tasks scheduled per second. ATF's main feature is its ability to enable developers to define callbacks and schedule tasks that execute against these pre-defined callbacks.
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Next.JS 10 Brings Automatic Image Optimization, Internationalized Routing, and Web Vitals Analytics
Vercel, the creator of the Next.js React framework, recently announced Next.js 10 at the first annual Next.js Conf. Next.js 10 features automatic image optimization, internationalized routing, continuous web vitals analytics.
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Xamarin.Forms 5.0: Debugging Improvements, New Features, and Controls
Last week at the .NET Conf 2020, Scott Hunter, Maddy Leger, and David Ortinau presented the latest Xamarin debugging improvements about Hot Reload and Hot Restart. Also, Xamarin.Forms 5.0, which is expected for the end of this year, will introduce new features and controls, such as brushes, shapes, drag-and-drop, control templates for any control, CarouselView, and SwipeView.
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What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
Oracle recently released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. We take a look at what's known about the contents of the upcoming next releases, Java 16 and 17.
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New Electron Release Supports New Apple Silicon Chips
The Electron team recently released the 11th iteration of the popular cross-platform native desktop application framework. Electron 11 introduces support for the new Apple silicon hardware (Darwin arm64). Electron 11 also updates the versions of Chromium, Node, and its JavaScript engine.
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Puppet Releases Its 2020 State of DevOps Report
The State of DevOps Report 2020 released by Puppet reveals that internal platforms for self-service and effective change management practices were key for organizations to move up the DevOps evolution ladder. Security integration in the software delivery pipeline also plays a key role.