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MicroProfile Becomes Eclipse MicroProfile
MicroProfile, the community initiative to provide a microservices standard for enterprise Java, has joined the Eclipse Foundation. The move is aimed at ensuring that MicroProfile remains a vendor-neutral project, and hopes to leverage the resources and momentum of the Eclipse Foundation. The decision has caused some arguments and temporarily diverted efforts from other objectives.
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MIT Extended LLVM IR to Enable Better Optimization of Parallel Programs
Researchers at MIT have been working on a fork of LLVM to explore a new approach to optimizing parallel code by embedding fork-join parallelism directly into the compiler’s intermediate representation (IR). This, the researchers maintain, makes it possible to leverage most of the IR-level serial optimizations for parallel programs.
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Introducing Portable PDB
Microsoft has taken the need to create a cross-platform PDB library as a reason to completely revamp the format. The new Portable PDB format is open source, documented, and significantly more compact. But the new format also brings with it new limitations, especially regarding legacy code.
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Rust 1.15 Brings Custom Derive
The Rust core team has released the stable version of 1.15, bringing with it the highly anticipated custom derive.
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Google Pursues Enterprise, Targets Windows and SQL Server Workloads
Google recently announced increased support for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server, in the Google Cloud Platform, by providing pre-configured images for Windows Server Core and SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Google has also added support for High Availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios using SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
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MindMeld’s Guide to Building Conversational Apps
MindMeld, a conversational AI company, has published The Conversational AI Playbook, a guide outlining the challenges and the steps to be made to create conversational applications.
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Fatigue, Spam, and Lack of Backups Take down GitLab.com
What started out as an attempt to protect GitLab.com from spammers turned sour as engineer fatigue and a lack of backups took the site down for nearly 18 hours and the loss of six hours worth of production data.
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Microsoft's Plans for the Future of .NET
Microsoft develops C#, Visual Basic, and F# in public but doesn't always share its plans for these popular languages. Mads Torgersen has provided some new guidance on where Microsoft plans to take these languages in the future.
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The Road to Swift 4 ABI Stability
Recently published on the swift-evolution mailing list, the Swift ABI Stability Manifesto aims to be a compilation of all concerns that need to be addressed before Swift’s ABI can be declared stable. Yet, it is not entirely clear whether ABI stability will make it into Swift 4.
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Applying the Teal Paradigm
Applying the teal paradigm helps organizations increase team members' engagement and allows teams to grow. Teal oriented organizations think of themselves as "living organisms"; they are human centric and liberating towards their employees, and look for the resourcefulness in humans rather than looking at humans as resources.
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Netflix Introduces Hollow, a Java Library for Processing In-Memory Datasets
Netflix recently introduced Hollow, a Java library and toolset for processing in-memory datasets that aren’t characterized as “big data.” A single producer provides datasets from which many consumers have read-only access. The communication mechanism between producer and consumer includes real-time dataset changes.
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Realm Mobile Platform Adds Horizontal Scalability, Support for Legacy Data Sources, and Replication
The Realm team has announced version 1.0 of its Realm Mobile Platform, aimed to make it possible to create mobile apps for iOS and Android with features such as automatic realtime data synchronization, realtime collaboration, live messaging, and more.
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Zero-Shot Translation with Google Neural Machine Translation System
Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System creates an interlingua and translates between language pairs and phrases with no previous direct translation available, dubbed Zero-Shot translation.
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Oracle Acquires Apiary to Strengthen its API Integration Cloud
Oracle announced plans to acquire Apiary, the API management company with a focus on API design and collaboration, on January 19. Apiary is best known for API flow, its API management platform.
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Visual Studio 2017 RC3 Adds .NET Core, Delays Python Support
Microsoft has released their third Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017. Notable in this release is full support for .NET Core & ASP.NET Core while Python support is delayed. Several bug fixes have also been made as VS2017 nears full release.