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Windows Virtual Desktop Public Preview on Azure: Q&A with Microsoft's Scott Manchester
InfoQ caught up with Scott Manchester, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows Virtual Desktop, regarding the public preview on Azure announcement.
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Kubernetes 1.14 Moves Windows Nodes to Production Support and Enhances Kubectl
The latest release of Kubernetes, version 1.14, was released with production-level support for Windows nodes. The release also includes the addition of kustomize in kubectl, the kubectl plugin mechanism being moved to stable, and improved documentation for kubectl. This first release of 2019 has 10 features in total being moved into stable.
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Q&A on Condé Nast's Natural Language Processor and Content Analysis
Beginning in 2015, Condé Nast created a natural-language-processing and content-analysis engine to improve the metadata around content created across their 22 brands. The new system has led to a 30% increase in click-through rates. InfoQ spoke with Antonino Rau, a software engineer and technology manager at Condé Nast US about the evolution of their NLP-as-a-service system named HAL.
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Mashreq Bank’s Lean Agile Journey
After having seen and evidenced the tangible benefit of lean at Mashreq Bank, agile was seen as a natural progression, an evolutionary step. Agile and lean are well-linked; you still need to identify waste, and remove non-value add activities so you can spend more time doing what the customer needs, argued Steve Snowdon. Together with Ed Capaldi he spoke about Mashreq Bank’s Lean Agile Journey.
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Swift 5 Now Officially Available
Swift 5 has recently moved out of beta with the release of Xcode 10.2, including new language and standard library features, stricter memory exclusivity access guarantees, ABI stability, and more.
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Babel 7.3: Smart Pipelines, Private Instance Accessors and More
The recently released Babel 7.3 can now parse and compile private instance accessors and the 'smart' pipeline operator. Babel 7.3 additionally supports named capturing groups in regular expressions, and much more.
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Q&A with Akara Sucharitakul on Squbs: Akka Streams & Akka HTTP for Large-Scale Production Deployment
Squbs (rhymes with “cubes”), an open-source project enabling standardization and operationalisation of Akka applications on a large scale, adheres to the reactive principles, allowing applications to process billions of transactions per day with minimal resource consumption while being more resilient to failure.
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Gremlin Announces Free Tier for Their Chaos Experimentation Platform
Gremlin has announced “Gremlin Free”, which provides the ability to run chaos engineering experiments on a free tier of their failure-as-a-service SaaS platform. The current version of the free tier allows the execution of shutdown and CPU attacks on hosts or containers, which can be controlled via a simple web-based user interface, API or CLI.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.1 Adds Secret Caching and Transit Auto Unseal
HashiCorp has released version 1.1 of Vault, their secrets and identity management tool. With this release there is now support for secret caching by Vault Agents, authentication to Vault via OpenID Connect, and using a Vault cluster to auto unseal another Vault cluster via transit encryption.
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Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis of Audio from Brain Activity
Research teams use deep learning neural networks to synthesize speech from electrical signals recorded in human brains, to help people with speech challenges.
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Autonomous Analytics: Driving the Future of Data in Business Analytics
Autonomous data analytics will be the driver of business analytics in the future. and will be seamlessly integrated into our lives. John Thuma, from Arcadia Data, spoke at Enterprise Data World 2019 Conference in Boston about self-driving analytics.
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The Role of Executives and Managers in Value Stream Management: Insight from Al Shalloway
As organizations are transitioning to agile, executives' role is to design and communicate the vision of an effective organization that best aligns with its culture and performance goals. In the most effective organizations, managers have the responsibility of reducing the cost of delay, by removing any organizational blocker impeding the flow of value.
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QCon New York 2019 (June 24-28) Tracks Announced & Registrations off to a Fast Start
The 8th annual QCon New York returns to the Marriott Marquis June 24-26, 2019. QCon, organized by the people behind InfoQ.com, is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators and early adopters to tell their story in hotbeds of software development like Beijing, London, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and New York.
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Pika Brings Zero-Configuration Bundling and Publishing for NPM Packages
Pika revisits the discovery, bundling, packaging, and publishing of modern web applications. Its discovery module exposes an online search interface retrieving exclusively ECMAScript module-based packages (ES Module or ESM) published on npm. Its configuration-free packaging module builds, bundles and packages applications optimized for consumption in modern browsers and Node.js environments.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.