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Jay Simons on Acquisition of Trello
As announced by Atlassian, a solutions provider for team collaboration and productivity, on January 9th, 2017, the company has reached an agreement to acquire Trello, a visualization tool that makes use of boards to help teams and people manage their projects and tasks.
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Bitbucket Introduces Required Two-Factor Authentication and IP Whitelisting
Atlassian has announced two new features aimed to make Bitbucket more secure: IP whitelisting and required two-factor verification.
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Q&A with Eric Bottard Regarding Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry
InfoQ's Rags Srinivas caught up with Eric Bottard of Pivotal regarding the latest release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.
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Google Launches Cloud Spanner Public Beta
Google has launched the public beta for Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database service. Part of Google Cloud Platform, it delivers both ACID transactions and high availability, appearing to violate CAP theorem.
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The Importance of Patterns in DDD
There are lots of patterns outside of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) that are important to know, and they will help you design better systems, Cyrille Martraire claimed in his presentation at the recent DDD Europe Conference in Amsterdam when discussing the importance of patterns.
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New DevOps Tools Aid Visual Studio 2017 Deployments
The changes made to the Visual Studio 2017 installer mean that traditional methods of querying the system registry to determine the state of the build environment are not going to be useful. A new API, PowerShell module, and standalone set of utilities have been released to provide developers and build engineers the tools needed to better automate their build environment.
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microXchg Microservices Conference Day One Summary: DDD, Platforms, and Organisational Impact
At the microXchg conference in Berlin, a group of software development practitioners shared their latest learnings about the microservice architectural style. Topics discussed included functional service design, integrating DDD and REST, creating microservice-powered websites using transclusion, choosing a microservice platform, and the organisational and people impact of microservices.
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Node 7.6 Brings Default Async/Await Support
Node.js 7.6 has shipped with official support for async/await enabled by default and better performance on low-memory devices.
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Common Reasons for Failed Kubernetes Deployments
A recent series of articles highlighted the 10 common reasons for failed Kubernetes deployments. These range from missing and incorrect inputs, to exceeding resource limits. In most cases, the kubectl describe command can help to pinpoint the underlying reason.
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.NET Core Debugging Support Returns to Rider IDE
EAP18 of JetBrains' Rider features the return of .NET Core debugging support for Windows platforms. The previous preview of Rider saw this support removed in order to comply with the licensing terms of a subcomponent. An otherwise small release, EAP18 is crucial for .NET Core developers.
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Cloudbleed - Cloudflare Proxies Memory Leak
A buffer overflow bug has caused a small number of requests to Cloudflare proxies to leak data from unrelated requests, including potentially sensitive data such as passwords and other secrets. The issue, which has been named ‘Cloudbleed’, was discovered by Google Project Zero vulnerability researcher Tavis Ormandy.
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Civility at Work and Elsewhere
Google and Microsoft have published their studies on civility at work and the internet at large. Here we summarize some of the main ideas depicted from their work.
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Microsoft Releases Managed Disks, Scale Sets
In an effort to simplify virtual machine (VM) storage and scaling in Azure, Microsoft released two new capabilities. Managed Disks eliminate the need to configure "storage accounts" for holding VM disks. Scale sets make it possible to deploy hundreds of identical VMs at once.
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GitHub Invites Developers to Contribute to the Open Source Guides
GitHub has recently launched its Open Source Guides, a collection of resources addressing the most common scenarios and best practices for both contributors and maintainers of open source projects. The guides themselves are open source and GitHub is actively inviting developers to participate and share their stories. InfoQ spoke with Brandon Keepers, GitHub’s Head of Open Source.
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Open Office Layouts Bad for Productivity and Memory
A recent BBC article revived the discussion about the "best" office layout for productive knowledge work - how spaces impact culture, productivity and collaboration.