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Bringing Blockchain Developer Tools to the Enterprise, Truffle and Microsoft Announce Partnership
In a recent blogpost, Microsoft and Truffle announced a partnership to bring blockchain developer tools and experiences to the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The investments the organizations are making include local blockchain nodes for testing, with test data, smart contract authoring and continuous deployment, debugging and testing.
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Interactive .NET Documentation with Try .NET
Recently Microsoft open-sourced Try .NET, an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core. Similarly to equivalent tools targeting different programming languages (such as Jupyter), it produces documentation that can contain both explanatory text and live, runnable code.
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Patterns in Distributed Systems
In a series of blog posts, Mathias Verraes describes patterns in distributed systems that he has encountered in his work and has found helpful. He currently describes 16 patterns in three areas: patterns for decoupling, general messaging patterns and event sourcing patterns. His goal is to identify, name and document the patterns together with the context in which they can be useful.
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Making 'npm install' Safe
At QCon New York 2019, Kate Sills, a software engineer at Agoric, discussed some of the security challenges in building composable smart contract components with JavaScript. Two emerging TC39 JavaScript proposals, realms and Secure ECMAScript (SES) were presented as solutions to security risks with the npm installation process.
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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio Online
Last month Microsoft announced the launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor for the web. With the new service, Microsoft wants to enable developers to work together from anywhere, on any device.
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Timescale Cloud: Managed Time Series Database on Azure, Google Cloud and AWS
Timescale announced the availability of Timescale Cloud, a fully managed version of their time series database on Azure, GCP, and AWS. It provides time series analysis functions, the ability to scale up and down, visualization integration with tools like Grafana and Tableau, and data encryption.
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DevOps Needs Continuous Improvement to Succeed
Continuous improvement is not a new thing and is often misunderstood. To be successful, we can take guidance from agile principles and apply them to the DevOps world, argued Mirco Hering, managing director at Accenture. At Agile Portugal 2019 he spoke about DevOps leadership in the age of agile.
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Benefits of Microsoft’s New Versions of Azure Application Gateway and the Web Application Firewall
In a recent blog post, Microsoft discusses the benefits of the generally available releases of Azure Application Gateway V2 Standard SKU and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 SKU's. Microsoft fully supports them with a 99.95% SLA, significant improvements and capabilities.
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Front End Architecture in a World of AI
At QCon New York 2019, front end software engineer Thijs Bernolet of Oqton explained some of the challenges in creating front end architectures influenced by machine learning.
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C# 8 Nullable Reference Types Update
Work continues on nullable refence types for C# 8, revealing edge cases that need to be addressed before the final release and new opportunities for reducing the amount of boilerplate developers have to write.
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Defining Bounded Contexts — Eric Evans at DDD Europe
A bounded context is a defined part of software where particular terms and rules apply in a consistent way, Eric Evans explained in his keynote at DDD Europe earlier this year; it should have a refined model and a language with unambiguous definitions. In a recently published presentation, he describes different kinds of bounded contexts, including some that involve microservices.
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Payara Tour of Japan 2019
Payara recently completed a one-week tour of Japan in which they visited prominent Java Users Groups. Featured speakers were Kenji Hasunuma, service engineer at Payara, Ondrej Mihályi, senior service engineer at Payara, and Yusuke Yamamoto, Java Champion, creator of Twitter4J, and president of Samuraism, a Japanese company providing development tools and training.
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Facebook PyRobot Aims to Make Robot Programming Easier
According to Facebook, PyRobot will allow developers to get up and running with a robot quickly thanks to it providing a higher-level abstraction on top of the robot operating system (ROS).
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Ionic Capacitor: Creating Native Applications with JavaScript
Capacitor is a new development framework by Ionic for hybrid application creation. Capacitor provides an alternative to Apache Cordova, a well-established solution first released in 2009.
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AWS Enhances Deep Learning AMI, AI Services SageMaker Ground Truth, and Rekognition
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced updates to their Deep Learning virtual machine image, as well as improvements to their AI services SageMaker Ground Truth and Rekognition.