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Instana Pipeline Feedback for Release Performance
Application performance management service provider Instana launched Pipeline Feedback for release performance tracking and analysis. Pipeline Feedback provides automatic tracking of application releases, feedback on release performance, and integration with Jenkins.
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QCon San Francisco '19: Track Hosts from WeWork, Microsoft, Tesla Focus on Architecture, ML, Culture
Registrations for the 13th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 11-15, 2019) are off to a great start. With less than 15 weeks until the conference, and savings of $645 before the early bird ends on August 24th, there is no better time to reserve your spot for this professional software development conference.
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Design Sprints at LEGO: Q&A with Eik Thyrsted Brandsgård
Design sprints have led to a high level of energy and motivation at LEGO. You need to discuss the ideas and learnings coming out of each sprint to decide if there’s a solution or if you need to go deeper in the next sprint. Design sprints have created a sense of pride; a belief that teams can tackle any challenge, and the feeling that individuals can add value that exceeds their expected roles.
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CloudBees Releases Official Jenkins X Distribution
CloudBees has released its official Jenkins X distribution, a CI/CD tool for cloud-native Kubernetes applications based on the GitOps approach. CloudBees will take the essential features from the open-source code with a monthly release cadence. This initial release supports GKE, pipelines, vault integration, and preview environments; additional features like DevPods will come in a future version.
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Progress Announces NativeScript 6 Release
The NativeScript 6 release adds support for Vue.js and Angular 8 for creating native mobile applications with web technologies. NativeScript now also supports Progressive Web Apps (PWA), increasing the level of code reuse between web and mobile apps created with NativeScript.
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GeckoView and the New Firefox Preview for Android
Mozilla has recently released Firefox Preview to the Android Play store. It's a new iteration of the Firefox Mobile web browser that was built from scratch around GekcoView, an open-source web browsing component that is based on the Gecko browser engine
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Next.js 9 Released: Q&A with Co-Author Tim Neutkens
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9, featuring improved developer and user experience. The new Next brings built-in zero-config TypeScript support, file system-based dynamic routing, automatic static optimization, API routes, important production optimizations, and miscellaneous developer-oriented productivity features. InfoQ interviews Next.js co-author Tim Neutkens.
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Facebook and University Researchers Developing Mind-Reading System
As part of a Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) brain-computer interface (BCI) research program called Project Steno, a team of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) described their work on converting brain waves into a text transcription of speech. The goal of Facebook's project is a device that allows users to "type" by imagining themselves speaking.
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Microsoft to Consolidate .NET Repositories on GitHub
Microsoft has announced they will transform their fine-grained repository structure for .NET Core to consolidate a number of foundational .NET Core repositories, including dotnet/coreclr and dotnet/corefx. Microsoft also plans to further consolidate ASP.NET repositories.
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The Inaugural JakartaOne Virtual Conference Goes Lives with the Release of Jakarta EE 8
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, scheduled with the release of Jakarta EE 8, will go live on September 10th, 2019 with the first of 19 one-hour sessions at 7:00am EDT. Focused on Jakarta EE- and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions include keynotes, demos and panel discussions. Reza Rahman, principal program manager at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about this event.
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14th State of Agile Report Open
The 14th State of Agile survey is now open and software professionals are invited to take the survey.
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Google and VMware Establish Partnership, Enabling VMware Migrations to Google Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing VMware investments.
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Git 2.23 Adds Switch and Restore Commands
Git 2.23 introduces two new commands meant to replace two common uses of git checkout: git switch to switch to a new branch after creating it if necessary, and git restore to restore changes from a given commit.
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Heather VanCura, Director of the JCP, Speaks to InfoQ on the JCP 20th Anniversary
Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process (JCP) and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee (EC), recently visited the campuses of BNY Mellon in Pittsburgh and New York City to present in honor of the 20th anniversary of the JCP. This event was held in partnership with the NYJavaSIG and the ACGNJ Java Users Group. VanCura spoke to InfoQ about the JCP and the 20th Anniversary.
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Introducing CircleCI Windows Support, a CI/CD Pipeline on a Windows Virtual Machine
CircleCI has recently announced Windows support, expanding its current set of supported execution environments that already support Linux, Docker, and macOS. CircleCI Windows support enables users to run their CI/CD pipeline on a Windows virtual machine.