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J2CL: A Java-to-JavaScript Transpiler
J2CL is a source-to-source compiler that converts Java to Javascript. It attempts to solve a different problem than similar Java-to-Javascript frameworks such as GWT. Likewise, J2CL is not meant to compete with or replace existing JavaScript frameworks; J2CL is about interoperability and cross-platform code reuse.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm Powering Bing
Microsoft's latest contribution to open source, Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG), is an implementation of the approximate nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithm that is used in Microsoft Bing search engine.
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CRI-O: An Open Source Container Runtime for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted CRI-O as an incubation-level hosted project on April 8th. CRI-O, created by Red Hat, is an Open Container Initiative container runtime for Kubernetes that provides an alternative to Docker.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Brendan Burns about GA of OpenShift on Azure
The general availability (GA) of OpenShift on Azure was included alongside several other Kubernetes-related announcements at Microsoft Build 2019 and Red Hat Summit 2019, which recently concluded in Seattle and Boston, concurrently. InfoQ caught up with Brendan Burns, a co-founder of the Kubernetes platform and a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, regarding the announcement.
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Microsoft Open-Sources CCF Framework to Improve Blockchain Ledgers Throughput and Latency
Microsoft Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is an open-source framework aiming to enable the creation of blockchain ledgers that can execute transactions with throughput and latency similar to those of a centralized database, says Microsoft.
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QCon San Francisco 2019: Registrations Open & Top Videos from QCon SF 2018
QCon San Francisco, the software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns November 11-13, 2019, for the 13th year. QCon is organized by the people behind InfoQ & is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators & early adopters to share their story in the global epicenters of software development: Beijing, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and San Francisco.
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Open Source Testware for Systematic IoT Testing: Eclipse IoT-Testware
The project Eclipse IoT-Testware is delivering free open-source test tools and programs for the industry and companies developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. At TestCon Moscow 2019 Axel Rennoch, senior scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS, spoke about quality assurance for IoT.
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Porting JQ, Command-Line JSON Processor, to the Browser with WebAssembly - Q&A with Robert Aboukhali
jq, the command-line JSON processor, originally written in C, has recently been ported to WebAssembly, and is now available in a browser JavaScript environment. InfoQ talked with Robert Aboukhalil, bioinformatics software engineer at Invitae, about the challenges of porting existing software to WebAssembly and the ensuing benefits for developers.
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Xipeng Shen on a New Technique to Reduce Deep-Learning Training Time
Researchers at North Carolina State University recently presented a paper at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019) on their new technique that can reduce training time for deep-neural-networks by up to 69%.
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Micronaut 1.1 Features Enhanced Support for Building Cloud-Native Applications
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced the release of Micronaut 1.1 featuring support for gRPC, GraphQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), RabbitMQ and Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is also a new Bean Introspection API that replaces the JDK Introspector class and new templates for the Micronaut Test project.
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Investigating Near Misses to Prevent Disasters: QCon London Q&A
Investigating near misses by gathering data from the field and exploring anything that looks wrong or is a bit odd can help to prevent disasters, said Ed Holland, software development manager at Metaswitch Networks. At QCon London 2019 he gave a talk about avoiding being in the news by investigating near misses.
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GitHub Package Registry Integrates Source Code and Packages
GitHub launched a limited beta of its new Package Registry, aiming to simplify publishing public or private packages under the same user interface as source code. GitHub Package Registry supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker images, and support for more package management tools is already on its roadmap.
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Microsoft Brings SQL to the Edge, Announces Azure SQL Database Edge
At the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced a new database offering, which brings SQL Server capabilities to edge computing. Officially called Azure SQL Database Edge, the service runs on ARM64 and x64 processors and provides capabilities such as data streaming, time series data, graph support and in-database machine learning. The supported platforms include Linux and Windows.
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Improving the .NET Docker Experience: DockerCon 2019 Overview
During the latest edition of DockerCon, Microsoft shared multiple improvements made in the .NET Core over the past year, all aimed at enhancing the experience of using .NET and Docker together.
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Q&A on New App Hosting Cloud Provider, Render
Render is a new provider of web and app hosting, described by Render’s CEO as the “best of both worlds” between full scale cloud providers, such as AWS, and PaaS providers, such as Heroku.