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EE4J Code Begins the Journey to Open Source
Enterprise Java source code is beginning the Open Source journey to the Eclipse EE4J project
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Bootstrap 4 Released, But It May Be Unnecessary
After three years in development, the front-end framework Bootstrap 4 has been released. But it emerges into a world with a dramatically different web than existed when Mark Otto made the first commit, leading some developers to question if it's even necessary.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Go for Serverless Applications
Amazon has announced Go support for AWS Lambda, which opens the way to writing Go serverless applications running on AWS.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of PowerShell Core 6.0
Microsoft has announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0, a new edition of PowerShell. Version 6.0 supports various platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux), is open-sourced, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud.
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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Two Conferences to Attend in 2018
The IEEE publishes an annual list of the Top 10 Technology Trends for each upcoming year. Making the list for 2018 are multiple topics surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning. Deep learning comes in as the IEEE hottest trend for 2018.
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Improving The Adoption of Agile
We should use an agile approach to adopt agile instead of adopting agile in a waterfall way, and have leaders who are willing to empower their teams and build an organization that supports them. The industry needs more practices on incrementally rolling agility out.
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Q&A on Istio, Microservices and Kubernetes with Lachie Evenson of Microsoft from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Lachie Evenson, program manager at Microsoft, who delivered an introductory talk on the Istio platform at Kubecon. In addition to Istio, he talked about microservices, Kubernetes and how it's relevant to enterprise developers and architects.
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Universal Vue.js Application Framework Nuxt.js Reaches 1.0
Nuxt.js, an open source framework for creating universal Vue.js applications, just reached their 1.0 release. Nuxt.js claims to make it simple and fast to create a Vue.js application that can be run as a server side rendered application, as a single page application, or a statically generated website.
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Latest Advances in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview
Microsoft's latest preview of Visual Studio 2017, version 15.6, adds several new features for code diagnostics, debugging and source control. Foremost among these is greatly expanded support tags when using Git source control.
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No JCP for Java EE
Oracle does not support or recommend the use of the JCP (Java Community Process) for future Java EE enhancements. "Oracle recommends and supports the use of EE4J-driven processes for functional enhancements to Java EE 8 specifications, and does not recommend or support use the JCP process for any future Java EE 8 functional enhancements."
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DigitalOcean Revamps Compute Plans and Pricing Structure
After spending 2017 adding ancillary services to their virtual machine-centric cloud, DigitalOcean kicked off 2018 with some product and pricing changes. Last year, DigitalOcean added support for firewalls, monitoring, load balancers, and object storage. Today's announcement highlights three new classes of servers, some with upgraded CPU, memory and storage.
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The Brief Lifespan of a JavaScript Framework
The lifecycle of a JavaScript framework is extraordinarily limited, according to a new analysis by Stack Overflow. But the data may also show how the lifespan of a major framework differs from those that satisfy a specific niche.
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Microservices Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Using Istio and Kubernetes
Animesh Singh and Tommy Li from IBM spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about the microservices resiliency and fault tolerance leveraging Istio framework. They also showed how to configure and use circuit breakers and other resiliency features using Istio.
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Last Npm Incident Uncovers Security Vulnerability
Last week, the npm registry had an operations incident that caused a number of highly depended on packages, such as require-from-string, to become unavailable. While the incident was relatively straightforward to solve, it uncovered a major security vulnerability that could have been exploited to inject malicious code in projects using npm.
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PCF 2.0 Expands Platform to Include Containers and Serverless
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) version 2.0 sees a significant expansion of the platform. As well as the original Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, PCF 2.0 now also includes a Kubernetes-based container service and an upcoming Function/Serverless service alongside a marketplace of add-on services that extend the capabilities of the platform.