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Hazelcast Change CEO, Pledge Continued Open-Source Commitments
Hazelcast, makers of open-source developer-focused infrastructure components, including an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and a stream processing engine (Hazelcast Jet), have been through a management change. The incoming CEO, Kelly Herrell (Vyatta), has pledged Hazelcast's continued strong commitment to open source and spoke to InfoQ.
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Heroes Are Expensive - Extinguishing the Firefighting Culture
Sue Johnston gave a talk at the recent Agile2018 Conference in San Diego titled "Heroes Are Expensive - Extinguishing The Firefighting Culture". She identified how to spot a hero, what leads team members and leaders to heroics, what the impact is, what we can do about it, and how we can redefine what a Hero is.
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13th Annual State of Agile Survey is Open
The 13th annual State of Agile survey has been announced by CollabNet VersionOne. This yearly survey explores the worldwide adoption of agile.
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Airbnb Open-Sources MvRx for Android App Development in Kotlin
MvRx (pronounced “mavericks”) helps Android developers implement common features and integrate their apps properly with the OS. MvRx is written in Kotlin and powers all Android development at Airbnb, writes Airbnb engineer Gabriel Peal.
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Eclipse Releases Versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile
The Eclipse Foundation recently released versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile featuring relevant updates to the APIs, including comprehensive Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs), Maven coordinates, Javadocs, and Git tags. These versions are fully aligned with Java EE 7 and Java EE 8. The synergies between MicroProfile and Jakarta EE have sparked some speculation that the two platforms could merge.
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Agile Stalwart David Hussman Passed away on 18 August
Product development expert and agile practitioner, community builder and stalwart David Hussman ("The Dude") passed away on 18 August, 2018. Hussman was the founder of DevJam, known among many things for devising Dude's Law to succinctly express the value in a product or idea. He was a musician, father, entrepreneur and community builder who will be sorely missed.
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IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 Supports Java 11, MacBook Touch Bar and More
JetBrains recently released the IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2. This version brings support for the upcoming Java 11, breakpoints intentions, MacBook Touch Bar, enhancements for Spring Boot, Scala and Docker plugin, and more.
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What’s inside Visual Studio 2017 15.8
Visual Studio 2017 15.8 is now available, bringing a large collection of bug fixes and usability enhancements to the editor. Notably, this includes support for F# 4.5 and TypeScript 3.0.
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Q&A with IBM's Lin Sun on Istio 1.0 and Microservices
InfoQ caught up with Lin Sun, a senior technical member at IBM and also a participant in the open source Istio project release team, regarding Istio in general and the 1.0 release in particular.
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Uber Open Sources JVM Profiler for Tracing Distributed JVMs
Uber open sourced a distributed profiler called JVM Profiler in late June. They built JVM Profiler to solve resource allocation issues they had with Apache Spark. Apache Spark is a popular framework for processing large data streams, of which Uber has many. JVM Profiler was built for Spark, but it's applicable to any JVM-based service or application.
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QCon New York 2018: Better Developer Experience at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
Mike McGarr, manager of developer productivity at Netflix, recently presented Better DexEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers at QCon New York 2018. He described how Netflix evolved from operating as a Java shop to supporting developer tools built with multiple languages. This has ultimately provided a better development experience. McGarr spoke to InfoQ about centralized teams at Netflix.
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Go 1.11 Adds WebAssembly, Experimental Module Support, and More
The two main features of Go 1.11 are WebAssembly and modules, although both are still in the experimental stage.
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Auth0's Move to a Single-Cloud Architecture on AWS
Auth0, a provider of authentication, authorization and single sign on services, moved their infrastructure from multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) to just AWS. An increasing dependency on AWS services necessitated this, and today their systems are spread across four AWS regions, with services replicated across zones.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service
Microsoft has released the public preview of Windows container support in Azure App Service, which provides more control over what gets installed into the App Service environment. This announcement extends the capabilities of the web app for containers service not only to run Linux based, but now Windows-based containerized environments as well.
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Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
Amazon Aurora, a custom built MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database in AWS, has a new capability generally available – Aurora Serverless MySQL. Amazon first showed a preview of this serverless ability at AWS re:Invent last year.