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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Jupyter Notebooks Support for Cosmos DB
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of Jupyter notebooks support for Cosmos DB, providing integrated support for running queries directly against all data models. As these notebooks run directly inside Cosmos DB; this allows for analyzing and visualizing the data directly from the Azure portal, without the need to extract the data.
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Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
Distributed SQL database NuoDB 4.0 supports Kubernetes Operator and indexing improvements. NuoDB released the latest version of the database that also supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform certification.
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Reducing the Friction in Multi-Cloud Deployments, Pulumi Launches 1.0 Platform
In a recent blog post, Pulumi has announced the release of Pulumi 1.0, an Infrastructure as Code platform that allows organizations to reduce the challenges associated with managing multiple cloud deployments. Their solution includes using consistent tooling based on popular programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Go.
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Facebook Open-Sources Hydra to Simplify Configuration Management in Python Programs
Facebook Hydra is a new open-source framework aimed to speed up the creation of Python applications by simplifying the implementation of common functionality such as command-line argument handling, configuration management, and logging.
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Sense and Nonsense in Event Thinking and Microservices
Modularity in the systems we are building is very important, but there are anti-modularity forces that we must deal with to be able to achieve this modularity. In a presentation at the recent Event-driven Microservices Conference, held by AxonIQ, Allard Buijze shared his thoughts and experience building systems based on DDD, CQRS, microservices and event sourcing.
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Google Enables Continuous Testing Using the Android Emulator
The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools.
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React-Based Site Generator Gatsby Raises $15M
Gatsby, the open-source React-based site generator framework, has raised $15M in a Series A funding round, led by CRV. Gatsby plans to grow its team, invest over $3 million yearly in open-source software (including Gatsby itself), and develop a cloud services offering.
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The benefits and Challenges of Bringing Infrastructure as Code into a CD Pipeline: Honeycomb Q&A
Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems. The team has been a long-time pioneer of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and is currently using Terraform for their configuration-as-code management. They recently made a push to bring the rigor from their binary release process to their infrastructure configuration releases.
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Running WASI in the Browser and Node.js with Wasmer-JS
Aaron Turner, developer relations at Wasmer, announced that the recently released Wasmer-JS allows developers to run WASI modules in both Node and the browser. Turner provides wasm-terminal as an example of a terminal application built with Wasmer-JS, which allows to fetch and run WASI modules.
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C++ is Coming to .NET Core for Windows
Microsoft has announced plans to offer C++/CLI in .NET Core 3.1. This would only be offered for Windows applications; you won’t be able to use C++/CLI for Linux or OSX.
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Becoming Outcome Focused: Q&A with Jeff Patton
We need to become focused on outcomes and adapt our way of thinking and our processes to continuously release small changes to our products and services, argued Jeff Patton in the closing keynote at the Agile Greece Summit 2019.
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F# 4.7 Enables Preview of New Language Features and Relaxes Syntax
The latest release of F# introduces a new LangVersion configuration option which makes it possible to choose which language version you would like the F# compiler to target. Additionally, it introduces a number of syntax relaxations that are aimed to remove a few idiosyncrasies of the language.
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Google Releases Two New NLP Dialog Datasets
Researchers from Google AI released two new dialog datasets for natural-language processing (NLP) development: Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1. The datasets contain thousands of conversations as well as labels and annotations for training digital assistants to better determine users' preferences and intentions.
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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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Leadership in an Agile Environment
We would like agile leaders to stop being in the fire fighting mode. They should be there to help and empower, instead of taking over, argued Leonoor Koomen at Experience Agile 2019. She suggested replacing traffic light reporting with Obeya and showed leaders how they can focus on the deltas instead of covering and wanting to know everything.