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TypeScript 3.1 Adds Mappable Tuple and Array Types
The TypeScript team recently announced version 3.1 of TypeScript, adding mappable tuple and array types and several other refinements.
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Tracks Announced! QCon London 2019 (March 4-8, 2019)
QCon returns to London for the 13th annual software conference March 4-6, 2019. The topics for this year’s conference have been announced: Architecture, Chaos, JavaScript, Performance and many more.
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Robot Operating System Comes to Windows
Robot Operating System (ROS), a meta-operating system for robot development, is now available on Windows 10. Microsoft’s initial, experimental build, dubbed ROS1, is integrated within Visual Studio and includes a full port of ROS Core and several modules. According to Microsoft, ROS on Windows will evolve to include full integration with GPU-based machine learning and Azure IoT Hub.
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ASP.NET SignalR 2.4 to Add Azure Support
For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been developing two forms of the SignalR – the original ASP.NET SignalR library and the newer ASP.NET Core SignalR. This fall will see the last major update to the legacy ASP.NET SignalR library.
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Google Announces Task Queue Service Cloud Tasks
Google has announced Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for Google Cloud Platform’s App Engine service. Cloud Tasks enables asynchronous execution of tasks from applications, decoupling services and supporting the implementation of long-running and background activities.
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Readable Code - Why, How and When You Should Write It
Most people would say they want readable code, and may even prefer readability over functionality. But when it comes down to asking people to define readability, opinions will start to diverge. At Explore DDD 2018 , Laura Savino covered why we want readable code, what it really means to be readable, and when readability absolutely must take priority over other considerations.
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Experimental Reactive Relational Database Connectivity Driver, R2DBC, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, R2DBC is an experimental API designed from the ground up for Reactive programming against relational databases. The end goal is try to influence the ADBA specification.
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RSocket, a New Application Network Protocol for Reactive Applications, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, RSocket is a new layer 7, language-agnostic application network protocol. It is a bi-directional, multiplexed, message-based, binary protocol based on Reactive Streams back pressure.
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Kotlin Q&A with Christina Lee of Pinterest
InfoQ recently sat down with Christina Lee, an Android engineer on the Core UI team at Pinterest, and discussed adoption of Kotlin at Pinterest, organizational challenges Pinterest faced during the adoption, the biggest lesson learned, helpful tips for transitioning to Kotlin from Java, and the topic of her upcoming talk, Representing State: the Kotlin Edition, at KotlinConf 2018.
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Netflix Keystone Real-Time Stream Processing Platform
Netflix recently published a post in their tech blog discussing the design considerations and insights of Keystone, their Real-time stream processing platform. Keystone has been operational since December 2015 and has grown significantly over the years as Netflix subscribers have grown from 65 to over 130 million in the past 3 years. This article follows on the latest state of Keystone platform...
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A New Era for GlassFish: Source Code Migrated, and the Java EE TCK Released as Open Source
The Eclipse Foundation recently announced two milestones in September 2018: the migration of GlassFish source code from Oracle has been completed; and the Java EE TCK is now open-sourced. Considered a major milestone for the advancement of Jakarta EE and a new era for GlassFish, “this is another step in making Jakarta EE a vehicle for innovation in cloud-native application development.”
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Russ Miles: Ignored Architects and Chaos Engineering
At the recent Event-Driven Microservices Conference in Amsterdam, Russ Miles claimed that the biggest challenge for an architect is that you get ignored. You have great ideas like event-driven microservices, but the reaction too often is that it sounds good, but that it’s overly complicated for the needs at hand.
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Implementing Privacy by Design in Hyperledger Indy
Centralized identity providers, such as social media sites and consumer email services, provide convenience to users. But this approach creates data privacy and security risks. Hyperledger Indy, an open source blockchain project, is being built to address the current issues that exist in centralized identity providers by taking a 'Privacy by Design' approach to deal with these risks.
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Facebook Open Sources LogDevice - a Distributed Data Store for Log Storage
Facebook open sourced their internal distributed log storage project called LogDevice. It offers high write availability using replication, durable log storage and recovery from failure.
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Next.js 7 Released with 40% Faster Builds
The Next.js team has announced version 7 of their open-source React framework. This release of Next.js focuses on improving the overall developer experience with 57% faster boot times and 40% faster builds in development, improved error reporting and WebAssembly support.