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Oracle Makes Major Cuts to Solaris and SPARC Teams
Whilst Oracle has committed to support Solaris until the 2030s, the firm appears to have made substantial cuts to the Solaris and SPARC teams this weekend, potentially signalling a silent end-of-life for both products.
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TypeScript 2.5 Released, Adds Language Level Refactoring
Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.5. The release is light on new language features, but has some new abilities including basic refactoring built into the language service itself.
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QCon New York 2017: Migrating Speedment to Java 9
Dan Lawesson, CSO at Speedment, presented “Migrating Speedment to Java 9” at this year’s QCon New York. Lawesson spoke to InfoQ about Speedment and how they are addressing the challenges of migrating Speedment to Java 9.
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Microsoft Explores Manual Memory Management in .NET with Snowflake
A number of researchers from Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge, and Princeton University have forked .NET, adding an API to the runtime to support manual memory management, and published details of their approach and performance improvements obtained in the paper Project Snowflake: Non-blocking Safe Manual Memory Management in .NET.
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Spring Boot 2.0 Will Feature Improved Actuator Endpoints
The upcoming release of Spring Boot 2.0.0 M4 will feature an improved actuator endpoint infrastructure featuring new mapping, easier creation of user-defined endpoints, and improved security. Stéphane Nicoll, principal software engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about these actuator endpoints.
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ThoughtWorks Sold to Private Equity Firm Apax Partners
Global software development and digital transformation company ThoughtWorks is to be acquired by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and it is expected to close in Q4 2017.
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Tackling Awesome Superproblems with Collaborative Games
Awesome superproblems are large, complex and enduring problems which can only be solved through collaboration. The key to making collaboration work is serious games, where participants voluntarily agree to follow the rules of the game to create a better and more durable result.
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Initial Metropolis Ethereum Hardfork Expected in September
The Ethereum Foundation released additional details about the upcoming update to the Ethereum network called Metropolis. The Metropolis hard fork is set to be divided into two core releases: Byzantium and Constantinople. Byzantium will be the first of the two releases, and is targeting a late September release and includes updates on transaction anonymity and predictable gas charges.
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Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance Released
Four application architecture guides are available from Microsoft's Developer Division and the Visual Studio product teams. This guidance covers four areas: Microservices, Docker, Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Azure, and Enterprise Applications Using Xamarin Forms. Each guidance is contained in an eBook. There are two end-to-end reference applications that the guides use as examples.
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Apache OpenWebBeans Releases Meecrowave Server Version 1.0 for Java EE-Based Microservices
Apache OpenWebBeans recently released version 1.0.0 of their Meecrowave project, a microservices server built on top of existing Apache projects utilizing servlets, CDI, JSON-P and JSON-B, and JAX-RS. Meecrowave may be used for microservices and standalone applications.
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ASP.NET Core 2 Gains Razor Pages
ASP.NET Core 2 brings a multitude of new features, including Razor Pages, new templates, and a series of changes intended to make development easier. By combining sensible defaults with detailed configuration options for those seeking more power, ASP.NET Core 2 intends to appeals to projects of all sizes.
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Go 1.9 Introduces Type Aliases, Improves Runtime and Tooling
The biggest change in recently released Go 1.9 is improved support for gradual code repair through the use of type alias declarations. Go 1.9 also improves the garbage collector and the compiler.
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Volkswagen Engineer Sentenced to 40 Months Prison
An engineer who helped design the system which concealed high levels of pollutants from Volkswagen diesel engines has been sentenced to 40 months imprisonment and a $200,000 fine. This reopens the discussion about ethics and professionalism in software engineering.
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IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2: Smarter, Neater, and Faster
JetBrains recently released IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, the quarterly release of its flagship Java IDE. Trisha Gee’s blog post about this release notes that there are many usability enhancements; new classes of warning like if you are creating empty collections or Strings or if a number is out of range on an array. It also has improved analysis around nulls.
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Google Researcher Invented New Technology to Bring Neural Networks to Mobile Devices
Recently, many companies released applications that use deep neural networks. For applications that should run without internet access, must be fast and responsible, or in which privacy is a concern, using networks on servers is not possible. Google researcher Sujith Ravis invented a novel way to train two neural networks, of which one efficient network can be used with mobile applications.