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DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020: a Diversity and Inclusion Q&A with Shaaron A Alvares
Shaaron A Alvares gave a talk at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 London Virtual titled ‘Accelerate Your DevOps Culture of Innovation with Everyday Inclusion and Belonging’. She began with presenting research data on the benefits of diverse teams, showing that diverse teams outperform their peers by 80%.
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MicroProfile GraphQL 1.0 - a New API in the MicroProfile Family
The MicroProfile community has released MicroProfile GraphQL 1.0, a new standalone API. Joining the three existing standalone APIs - Reactive Streams Operators, Context Propagation and Reactive Messaging - the intent of the MicroProfile GraphQL specification is to “provide a ‘code-first’ set of APIs that will enable users to quickly develop portable GraphQL-based applications in Java.”
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Apache Netbeans 12 LTS Released
The Netbeans Java IDE has released its first long-term support (LTS) version a year after the Apache Software Foundation promoted it to a top-level Apache project.
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Oracle Open Sources Coherence In-Memory Data Grid
Oracle has released the core of their Coherence in-memory data grid (IMDG) product as free and open source software.
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Fathym Low-Code Platform Now Available in Public Beta
Now available as a public beta, Fathym is a low-code framework that aims to enable the creation of Azure-based data-driven applications. Fathym also provides support for application orchestration and automated infrastructure management.
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Pandemic Programming Survey Results Show Negative Impact of COVID-19 Changes
The Pandemic Programming survey looked at the ways that developers' lives have been impacted by the lockdowns and changes caused by COVID-19. Over 2200 people from 52 countries answered the questionnaire to assess their wellbeing and productivity before and while working at home. The results show that wellbeing and productivity are suffering with some groups more impacted than others.
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AWS Launches a No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder in Beta: Amazon Honeycode
Recently, AWS announced the beta release of Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service allowing customers to build mobile and web applications without writing any code quickly.
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Spring Boot 2.3.0 Focuses on the Cloud
Spring Boot has released version 2.3.0 which adds support for latest Java versions, Docker with buildpacks, layered images, graceful shutdown support, liveness, and readiness probes.
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Web Animations API Now Supported in All Evergreen Browsers
With the release of Safari 13.1, the Web Animations API now ships with all evergreen browsers.
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Microsoft Releases gRPC-Web for .NET
Last week, Microsoft released a production-ready implementation of the gRPC-Web protocol for .NET. Initially supported as an experimental feature, the component is now part of the grpc-dotnet project. The new component makes gRPC usable in the browser, allowing web applications to communicate directly with gRPC services without using an HTTP server as a proxy.
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Flutter Now Runs in Codepen Code Playgrounds
Zoey Fan, product manager for Flutter, recently announced that Codepen, a popular online code playground, is now supporting Flutter. Flutter developers interested in sharing code snippets, or developers interested in quickly trying Flutter out without installation nor setup, can interactively write Flutter code in a Codepen window and observe the web output in another one.
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Collecting Performance Data - Jonathan Fielding at HalfStack
Jonathan Fielding, lead engineer at RVU, explained at HalfStack this year how developers may measure and analyze the performance of their sites. Synthetic data and real user metrics give a complementary vision of the site performance.
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Making Distributed Organizations More Effective
An autonomous team model with teams organized around geographical or time-zone proximity can make a distributed organization more effective. With the Reverse Conway Maneuver you can deliberately add or remove bottlenecks to better support the designs you are trying to build.
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Beyond Responsive Design, Responsive Websites - Kilian Valkhof at HalfStack
Kilian Valkhof, creator of the web-developer-focused Polypane browser, presented at the HalfStack conference new ways that web developers and designers can provide better user experience by going a step beyond responsive design. Using recent additions to browsers, developers and designers can also respond to user preferences, the user environment, the network condition, and device capabilities.
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MAUI: a Multi-Platform App UI for .NET
Last month, during the 2020 edition of Build, Microsoft announced the roadmap for .NET MAUI, a multi-platform framework for building native device applications. The new framework comes as an evolution of Xamarin.Forms, providing native features for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.