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How Apple Does Realtime Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters
Apple details building on-device handwritten Chinese character recognition with convolutional-neural networks and image recognition.
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IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3: Enhanced Support for Java EE 8, Spring Boot, and JUnit
Just three months after their last release, JetBrains recently released version 2017.3 of their flagship product, IntelliJ IDEA, with a host of new features including enhanced support for Java, Java EE 8, Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Docker.
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SkyWalking Accepted by Apache Software Foundation as an Incubator Project
SkyWalking's proposal into the Incubator has been voted on and accepted by Apache Software Foundation(ASF) IPMC. SkyWalking is an APM (application performance monitor) tool, especially designed for microservices, cloud-native and container-based architectures. SkyWalking’s underlying technology is a distributed tracing system.
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Gremlin Releases "Resilience as a Service" SaaS Platform to Enable More Effective Chaos Engineering
Gremlin Inc has released Gremlin, a “resilience as a service” SaaS-based platform, which allows organisations to “break things on purpose” and conduct chaos experiments in order to help prevent application downtime before it happens. Gremlin allows the controlled injection of resource, network and state failure to managed infrastructure so that engineers can observe the behaviour of the system.
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Firefox Quantum Commits to Cross-Browser Extension Architecture
With the Firefox 57 “Quantum” release, Firefox now only supports extensions based on the WebExtensions API, joining Chrome and Edge in supporting extension development with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript based on a cross-browser shared extension architecture.
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KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017: An "Exciting Time for Boring Infrastructure"
At the joint KubeCon / CloudNativeCon conferences, held in Austin, USA, over 4000 engineers met to learn about and share the latest status of Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies. Core takeaways included that much of the cloud native “boring” infrastructure is starting to become mature, and many of the CNCF hosted technologies are being released as officially ready for production use.
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Devirtualization in .NET Core
Devirtualization, a technique for improving performance when working with abstract classes and interfaces, is slowly making its way into .NET Core.
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Alexa Test Simulator Simplifies Alexa Skill Testing
The new Alexa Test Simulator, now available in beta, allows developers to test most functionality in their skills without a device. Additionally, Amazon has announced improved support for automated skill testing.
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Should Teams Decouple Cadences?
Recently a Twitter discussion took place about allowing teams to have multiple cadences, for instance by using a different rhythm for planning the work and for learning and improving. Decoupling cadences gives teams room to explore and learn what works best for them; it can lead to more adaptability and autonomy and better outcomes.
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Amazon Web Services Releases IoT Analytics in Preview
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a preview release of AWS IoT Analytics. The solution was presented during a few sessions at the event.
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GitHub Takes Stance for Net Neutrality
At the beginning of December, GitHub made its stance in favor of net neutrality public. Now that the FCC has voted to repeal regulations protecting it, GitHub says the fight is not over. InfoQ has spoken with GitHub’s chief strategy officer, Julio Avalos.
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How Google Develops New Managers
Alex Langshur, host of Google Partners Podcasts, has launched the podcast Google HR secrets: identifying & developing great managers, interviewing Sarah Calderon, People Development at Google, on how Google selects, trains, and develops their managers.
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JetBrains Launches GoLand Go IDE
JetBrains has moved its Go IDE from its early access programme to market. Now branded as GoLand, the IDE extends the IntelliJ platform making its core functionality specific to Go. This follows suit with their other language-specific tools such as PyCharm for Python and RubyMine for Ruby.
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Panel on the Future of AI
An SF QCon panel on the future of AI explored some issues facing machine learning today. The areas explored: critical issues facing AI right now, how has technology changed the way people are hired, how non-leading edge companies make the best use of current technologies, what the role of humans in relation to AI is, and exciting new breakthroughs on the immediate horizon.
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Microsoft Updates Cosmos DB with Cassandra Support and Provides Better Availability Guarantees
Last month at Microsoft Connect 2017, Azure Cosmos DB received several new updates, including support for using the Cassandra NoSQL database API and increased guarantees for availability. With the Cassandra NoSQL database API, customers can run operations inside Cosmos DB on a data model. The availability guarantee moves from 99.99 percent to 99.999 percent.