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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.
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GitHub Public Roadmap Will Give Users More Visibility into Upcoming Features
GitHub has started publishing a public roadmap for its future releases. GitHub's public roadmap will provide more information about what features GitHub is working on and when it will ship them.
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Remote Collaboration Fatigue is Real, Remote Workers are More Empathic, Remote Work is Here to Stay
As the shift from in-person to remote working persists, organisations have been doing research into the impact this is having on individuals and teams. Studies by Gartner and Microsoft indicate that remote collaboration fatigue is real, remote workers are more empathic and inclusive, and remote work is here to stay.
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Infinite Storage & Retention for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
Confluent, Inc. recently announced the Infinite Storage option for its standard and dedicated clusters. This offering is a part of the Project Metamorphosis initiative, which is focused on enabling Kafka with modern cloud properties. Organizations can have a centralized platform for all event data for real-time actioning and historical analysis with limitless storage and retention.
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How Amazon Teams Do Continuous Delivery
An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don't actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.
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Google Open-Sources AI for Mapping Natural Language to Mobile UI Actions
Google has open-sourced their AI model for converting sequences of natural language instructions to actions in a mobile device UI. The model is based on the Transformer deep-learning architecture and achieves 70% accuracy on a new benchmark dataset created for the project.
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Cloudflare Announces a New Class of Workers Called Workers Unbound
Cloudflare announces an expanded version of Cloudflare Workers called Cloudflare Workers Unbound.
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Remembering Bill Shannon
William (Bill) Shannon, a renowned engineer who was instrumental in the evolution of SunOS, Solaris, and JavaEE while he worked as employee number 11 at Sun Microsystems, passed away last month after a long battle with cancer. Shannon’s contributions to the IT industry are immeasurable and he will be deeply missed within the Unix and Java communities.
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Open-Source Raspberry Tablet CutiePi Lets Developers Customize Hardware and Firmware
The Taiwanese startup CutiePi recently launched its Raspberry Pi tablet on Kickstarter. CutiePi software and hardware design are entirely open-source, and thus can be customized at will. CutiePi self-describes as the first truly usable and thinnest Raspberry Pi tablet.
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.