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QCon San Francisco: Speaker Interviews, Workshops, and Learning Paths
QCon San Francisco features 18 curated tracks with over 120 speakers presenting sessions across 3 full days of in-depth technical talks. Topics include: designing and running large-scale architectures, microservices patterns, languages of infrastructure, practices of DevOps, building high-scale effective teams, managing the software supply chain and the latest in machine learning for developers.
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Facebook Releases AI Code Search Datasets
Facebook AI released a dataset containing coding questions paired with code-snippet answers, intended for evaluating AI-based natural-language code search systems. The release also includes benchmark results for several of Facebook's own code-search models and a training corpus of over 4 million Java methods parsed from over 24,000 GitHub repositories.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Sentinel, a Cloud Native SIEM, to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Sentinel, a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service in Azure, providing customers with intelligent security analytics across their enterprise. With the GA of Azure Sentinel, Microsoft now enters the SIEM market.
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Improving Blockchain Performance Off-Chain, Hyperledger Announces Avalon
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced a new project, called Hyperledger Avalon, that addresses some of the scalability and privacy challenges that are currently associated with many blockchain projects. The projects seek to address these scalability and privacy challenges through the use of trusted off-chain processing, while ensuring the transactions are secure and resilient.
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Open-Source Build and Test Tool Bazel Reaches 1.0
Derived from Google's internal build tool Blaze, Bazel is a build and test tool that offers a human-readable definition language and is particularly aimed at large, multi-language, multi-repositories projects. Originally open-sourced in 2015, Bazel has now reached 1.0.
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JavaScript Private Class Fields and Methods: Three New Draft Specifications
Private class fields are finally coming to JavaScript with no less than three separate TC39 proposals that define the new capabilities.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.
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Introducing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
Continuing the effort to decouple Microsoft products from .NET Core itself, Microsoft is spinning off their SQL Server drivers into a separate deployment stream. This new package will be called Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and is intended to be a drop-in replacement for System.Data.SqlClient.
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Advanced IoT Application Support in .NET Core 3 with System.Device.Gpio
System.Device.Gpio is a new open-source library for .Net Core that aims to enable IoT applications to interact with sensors, displays, and input devices through their GPIO pins or other I/O control hardware. The library is augmented by a community-maintained collection of bindings for a number of devices.
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A Proposal for IDisposable and Static Analysis: DisposeUnused Attribute
When .NET was first created, there was uncertainty about how IDisposable should be used. As a result, IDisposable was applied in an overly aggressive fashion with many categories of classes requiring empty Dispose methods. This has led to problems with static analysis tools that cannot separate real cases of missing Dispose calls from false positives.
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How to be Creative and Remain Focused in the Digital Distraction Era
The way we use digital devices has a strong impact on our cognitive skills. The main skills impacted are creativity and focus; both are very much needed in future jobs and they are very much influenced by our digital habits, said Monica Bormetti. She spoke about focus and creativity in the digital distraction era at Agile Business Day 2019.
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QCon San Francisco Learning Paths: Practical and Intensive AI/ML Two-Day Training
To help develop your artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) knowledge and skills, the team behind InfoQ and QCon Conferences has launched the AI and ML Learning Paths. These practical and intensive two-day focused sessions are designed to help you understand and use Machine Learning by writing and executing code, instead of listening to passive lectures.
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Release of Open Liberty 19.0.0.9 Completes Support of MicroProfile Standalone Reactive Streams APIs
In keeping with IBM’s commitment to their four-week release cycle of Open Liberty, version 19.0.0.9 was recently made available. Open Liberty’s ongoing support for MicroProfile includes the new standalone reactive APIs: MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators (version 19.0.0.4); MicroProfile Context Propagation (version 19.0.0.8); and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging (version 19.0.0.9).
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Databricks' Unified Analytics Platform Supports AutoML Toolkit
Databricks recently announced the Unified Data Analytics Platform, including an automated machine learning tool called AutoML Toolkit. The toolkit can be used to automate various steps of the data science workflow.
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IoT Visual Programming Environment Node-RED Hits 1.0
At the end of a two-year development cycle, Node-RED has finally reached version 1.0, bringing plenty of changes. Among the major new features in Node-RED 1.0 are a new asynchronous message passing model, new completion API, and message cloning by default. Additionally, the visual editor got a revamp.