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Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface
Spring Cloud incubator has introduced a new project called Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker that provides a pluggable circuit-breaker interface. This will help systems to fail fast and prevent cascading failures and system overload.
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Svelte 3 Front-End Framework Moves Reactivity into the JavaScript Language, Q&A with Rich Harris
The recently released front-end framework Svelte 3 introduces a new syntax to express reactivity in JavaScript. InfoQ interviewed Rich Harris, Svelte creator, and discussed what Svelte 3 means and its implications for developers.
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Amazon Updates SageMaker Ground Truth with New Labeling Features, Vendor Support and Availability
Amazon announced that SageMaker Ground Truth now offers simplified labeling workflows, support for additional labeling vendors, and is available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region – bringing the total to six supported AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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Event Streams and Workflow Engines – Kafka and Zeebe
In a recent joint meeting in Amsterdam, Kai Waehner described features of Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, and how it fits in an Event-Driven Architecture. Bernd Rücker described how workflow engines can handle complex business processes, and discussed how Zeebe, a new highly scalable workflow engine, can be used with Kafka.
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Google Launches AI Platform - an End-to-End Platform to Build, Run, and Manage ML Projects
Google has recently launched AI Platform, an end-to-end platform to build, test, and deploy machine learning models. It brings together a host of products and services to help businesses solve complex challenges using AI in a way that is easier and collaborative.
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Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android
Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Framework 4.8
Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.8, the first significant .NET Framework release in two years. The new release includes improvements in multiple product areas, including Windows Forms, WCF, WorkFlow, and WPF. It also includes changes in the Base Class Library (BCL) and in the Common Language Runtime (CLR). All product areas affected by this release received bug fixes.
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NetBeans Promoted to Top-Level Apache Project
NetBeans has been promoted to a top-level Apache project following its donation to the Incubator in 2016. The community has since delivered several nominal features.
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Fully Managed Blockchain Networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain Now Generally Available
Introduced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon Managed Blockchain has left preview and reached general availability. This new service aims to simplify creating and managing scalable blockchain networks based on Hyperledger Fabric and, soon, Ethereum.
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Joseph (Joe) Armstrong: A Tribute
Some of Joe's former colleagues from Ericsson wrote a good-bye note and asked if we would publish it.
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QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year
In the recent Stack Overflow 9th annual survey of over 90,000 software developers, we learned that non-development work remains a productivity challenge for software managers and leaders. At QCon New York, the conference for senior software developers, we have many sessions to help you learn how others have overcome those challenges.
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Experiences from Getting Started as a Lead
Having a transition period to lead teams together with a mentor helped Dan Persa to have a smooth switch from senior software engineer to engineering lead. At Codemotion Amsterdam 2019 he shared some of his experiences and learnings, in order to inspire other developers to take the leadership path.
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The Zero Server Web Framework Allows Developers to Create Web Applications with No Configuration
The Zero Server web framework allows developers to create, build and develop web applications with server-side rendering and no configuration. Zero 1.0 accepts a mix of Node.js, React, Vue, HTML, MDX, and static files, with support for Svelte poised to follow suite. Zero 1.0 features automatic configuration, file-system based routing, automatic dependency resolution, and more.
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Partly Cloudy, Twitter Embarks on Their Cloud Journey
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced the start of their journey, a project known internally as "Partly Cloudy", to the public cloud. The post outlines some of the constraints that have prevented them from doing so in the past and describes why now is a good time to embark on this transformation.
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Google Scales Weak Supervision to Overcome Labeled Dataset Problem
Google recognizes that the need for labeled data in machine learning (ML) is a significant bottleneck and recently adapted the open-source Snorkel framework to overcome the problem at scale. Google enhanced Snorkel by integrating it with Tensorflow, using the file system for sharing data instead of a database, and creating separate executables for labeling functions.