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An Early Look at .NET 4.8
While most of the attention is on .NET Core, work continues on the classic .NET Framework. An “early access” preview of .NET 4.8 shows the areas that Microsoft is most concerned about including high DIP, accessibility, and concurrency.
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Microsoft Announces Support for CloudEvents through Its Azure Event Grid Service
Microsoft announced it would provide support for CloudEvents, a new open specification, and standard for consistently describing event data. This open standard was created by the Serverless Working Group of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF), who partners with many cloud services and cloud providers.
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How Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari Works
The latest release of Apple’s web browser, Safari 12, will provide “Intelligent Tracking Prevention” (ITP) 2.0, which aims to reduce the ability of third-parties to track web users via cookies and other methods.
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Understanding Production with DevOps Archeology
Lee Fox spoke at Continuous Lifecycle London about tools and methods to help make sense of today’s complex systems and infrastructure; he calls it DevOps archeology.
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Making Games for High Performing Teams
The gamestorming model describes a process to create games. It provides concepts like game space, boundaries, rules, artifacts and goals, for creating compelling learning experiences in an organizational setting. Such games can be used by teams to experiment, focus on outcomes, and try out disruptive patterns.
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Oracle Proposes Deprecating Java's JavaScript Engine Nashorn
Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid pace at which ECMAScript language constructs have changed, Oracle found the Nashorn JavaScript Engine challenging to maintain.
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AWS Releases Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
In 2017 at re:Invent, AWS previewed a Kubernetes-based container service. Now six months later, the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is generally available. It joins a crowded space of managed Kubernetes cloud services, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
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Google Has Released Android P Beta 2
Google has released Android P Beta 2. Android P Beta 2 includes the final Android P APIs, latest system images, display cutout support, and more.
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Facebook Sonar Is a Visual and Interactive Debugging Tool for Mobile Apps
Facebook Sonar is an open-source toolset that aims to help developers inspect and understand the structure and behaviour of iOS and Android apps in a visually rich, interactive, and extensible way.
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Privacy and Security a Top Priority in macOS Mojave and Safari 12
At their annual Developer Conference WWDC Apple previewed macOS Mojave, the latest version of the company’s desktop operating system, and Safari 12, the updated web browser. Apple has stated that enhanced privacy and security are a top priority with these releases.
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Building Observable Distributed Systems
Today's systems are more and more complex; microservices distributed over the network and scaling dynamically, resulting in many more ways of failure, ways we can't always predict. Investing in observability gives us the ability to ask questions to systems, things we never thought about before. Some of the tools that can be used for this are metrics, tracing, structured and correlated logging.
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Studio 3T: SQL Exploration for MongoDB
Studio 3T offers an SQL-based user interface for MongoDB. This includes in-place data editing, query performance information, and a SQL to code converter for JavaScript (node.JS), Java, Python, and C#.
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What it Takes to Become and Remain an Adaptive Agile Leader
Leadership at every level in an organisation and in every role, and the ability to be adaptive in leadership, are topics which have been discussed in a number of publications recently. Adaptiveness is considered to be necessary for leadership in any domain today and remaining agile in your thinking and leadership behavior is crucial to leadership success.
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Early Details about Visual Studio 2019
Microsoft’s John Montgomery has officially announced that the company is working on Visual Studio 2019. InfoQ reports on what is currently known about the successor to VS2017.
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Instana Extends AI Application Monitoring to AWS Lambda
Instana, a cloud-native provider of artificial intelligence based monitoring tools for dynamic containerized microservice applications, has extended support to include AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform and also announced availability through the AWS Marketplace.