InfoQ Homepage News
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Switching to GraphQL at Bustle
While GraphQL, Facebook's "query language for APIs", is heavily used within Facebook, it's still early days for the specification in the community. InfoQ sat down with Steve Faulkner, director of engineering at Bustle, to talk about GraphQL, how it's used at Bustle, and what teams looking at GraphQL should consider.
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Experimenting with Self-Organisation
Self-organising teams are much more effective, engaged and happier. Not everyone is comfortable with self-organising; people are conditioned to do what they are told and mainly to work on their own. You need modern leadership approaches like intent-based leadership, sociocracy, and holacracy, to enable self-organising teams.
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Teachable Machine: Teach a Machine Using Your Camera in Your Browser
Teachable Machine is a browser application that you can train with your webcam to recognize objects or expressions. In the demo you use your webcam as input to recognize three different classes of objects or expressions. Based on your camera input, the site shows different gifs, plays prerecorded sounds, or plays speech. The demo can be found here: teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
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Node.js Foundation Readies Official Developer Certification
The Node.js Foundation is putting the finishing touches on their new Node.js Developer Certification, with plans to release it in December.
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How Blogging Empowers Agile Teams
Moving the thinking and decisions a team makes from people’s inboxes onto a blog can make it accessible to all, findable in the future, and referenceable by everyone. Instead of writing documentation, you can use blogumentation to transfer knowledge and document the history of projects that provide context to the code.
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Apple Open-Sourced the iOS Kernel for ARM CPUs
Apple has quietly made available arm and arm64-specific files on its GitHub XNU-darwin repository. While this may not be interesting to all developers, it still enables interesting possibilities for security researchers and others.
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NPM Releases New Security Features
Today, Npm released new features that should help secure the package registry from attackers. The use of two-factor authentication and authentication token restrictions should help keep packagers more secure.
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Google Announces Firestore, a Document Database
Google has announced Cloud Firestore, a document database for mobile, web and server applications.
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Improved Accessibility is the Focus of Latest .NET Framework
Microsoft has announced the pre-release of .NET Framework 4.7.1, which includes various improvements across the board. Today we will look at the changes made to improve the accessibility of WPF applications.
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CoffeeScript 2 Released, Adding Modern JavaScript Features
After a year of intense activity, CoffeeScript has risen from the embers with CoffeeScript 2, updating the language for use in a modern JavaScript community.
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Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards Gains API and CloudFormation Support
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added programmatic creation and manipulation of CloudWatch dashboards and widgets to support use cases such as dynamic resource lifecycle tracking and consistent cross-account dashboard maintenance.
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Q&A with Aurynn Shaw on Sharing Her Personal DevOps Journey at DevOpsDays NZ
Raf Gemmail speaks with Aurynn Shaw about her upcoming DevOpsDays NZ talk and the humanist side of DevOps.
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Microsoft Updates AI Services and Tools for Data Scientists and Developers
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft released several updates related to its Artificial Intelligence (AI) services and tools. These updates include the release of the Azure ML Experimentation service, Azure ML Model Management service, Azure ML Workbench and the general availability of Microsoft Cognitive Services.
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Treating Shared Databases Like APIs in a DevOps World
Simon Sabin, principal consultant at Sabin.io, spoke at WinOps 2017 conference on how to include database changes in a continuous deployment model. A key aspect when sharing databases across multiple services or applications is to treat them as APIs, from the perspective of the database owners.
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Gradle 4.2 Is Released
Gradle recently released version 4.2 of their popular build tool, featuring some major additions.