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Q&A with New Relic Regarding Open Sourcing Agents and a Future of Open Instrumentation
InfoQ caught up with New Relic's principal software engineer, Ben Evans, director of software engineering, Sharr Creeden, and group VP of engineering, Greg Unrein regarding the open sourcing of New Relic's agents and the future of open instrumentation.
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RavenDB 5 Improves Distributed Time-Series, Document Compression, and Indexing
RavenDB, a NoSQL document database with multi-document ACID transactions, adds distributed time-series support, smart document compression, and enhanced indexing in the RavenDB version 5 release.
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64).
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AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Step Functions State Machines
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) recently gained support for AWS Step Functions state machines. The new AWS::Serverless::StateMachine resource type enables developers to define state machines within a SAM template or in a separate file so that they can provision workflow orchestration as an integrated part of serverless applications.
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The AWS Serverless LAMP Stack: the Future of PHP or Vendor Lock-in?
In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently introduced the new "Serverless LAMP stack". But not everyone in the open-source community believes that the successor of the LAMP stack is proprietary technologies from a single vendor, and alternative approaches have been suggested.
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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available for Linux
A few weeks after becoming available for macOS, iOS, and Android, the IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit can be now installed on various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS for x86 platforms, and Ubuntu for IBM's own Z architecture.
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Svelte Adds Official TypeScript Support
The Svelte JavaScript framework leverages TypeScript, but until recently, it was challenging to use TypeScript to create Svelte web apps. The latest Svelte updates add official TypeScript support to Svelte.
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Amazon Announces New Command Line Interface Tool AWS Copilot
Recently, Amazon announced a new command-line interface tool called AWS Copilot, which allows customers to develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, customers can create all the infrastructure and artifacts necessary to run a service on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate.
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Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on Microservices
Yesterday, the third edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series took place, this time featuring microservices development with .NET. The event targeted developers of all stripes, with live coding demonstrations and comprehensive coverage on related concepts and tools. The focus conferences are free, one-day livestream events featuring speakers from the community and .NET product teams.
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The New Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Build 2020
Melanie Richards recently presented new and upcoming features for users and web developers that are being incorporated into the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Since moving to Chromium, Edge has been slowing gaining user share, passing Firefox to become the second browser on desktop/laptop devices (according to netmarketshare).
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Q&A about New Governance for Redis after Maintainer Salvatore Sanfilippo Steps Down
InfoQ caught up with Redis core team members and chief architect at Redis Labs, Yossi Gottlieb, and senior software architect at Redis Labs, Oran Agra, about the new governance board and the future of Redis.
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Ionic Capacitor 2 Improves Mobile Authentication and Cross-Domain HTTPS
The recent Ionic Capacitor 2 release updates the underlying Swift, XCode, and Android versions, adds Face Unlock and Iris Unlock, improves the core Capacitor plugins, and simplifies cross-domain HTTPS requests.
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Using a Team Game for Richer Retrospectives
Games can bring freshness to retrospectives and enable rich discussions about how things are going. Patterns emerging from the discussions provide insight into the team’s strengths and weaknesses. Considerate coaching or facilitation can allow everyone to contribute.
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Micronaut Foundation Established to Advance Adoption of Micronaut Framework
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has announced the creation of the Micronaut Foundation, a not-for-profit company established to advance innovation and adoption of the Micronaut framework. The foundation will receive initial funding of $2M from OCI for development and evangelism. Jeff Scott Brown, Grails and Micronaut practice lead at OCI, spoke to InfoQ about the formation of the foundation.
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Thorntail Reaches Tail End
The Thorntail project has come to an end, as more Java frameworks add support for embedding application server capabilities into applications.