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Bitbucket Pipelines Provides Continuous Delivery within Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud
Atlassian released Bitbucket Pipelines beta at AtlasCamp 2016 in Barcelona to provide a Continuous Delivery pipeline within Bitbucket Cloud. At the same time, Atlassian announced the end-of-life for their current cloud based CI/CD solution Bamboo Cloud by 31 January 2017, while emphasizing that Bamboo Server continues to be their on-premise CI/CD offering for Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash).
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Q&A with Baruch Sadogursky on the Challenges of Managing Docker Containers Lifecycle
InfoQ interviewed Baruch Sadogursky, developer advocate at JFrog, to better understand some of the challenges in managing the lifecycle of Docker containers, namely controlling and tracking the flow of Docker images from development to production.
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Elixir 1.3 Brings New Language Features, APIs, and Improved Tooling
Elixir 1.3, recently announced by José Valim, deprecates imperative assignments and adds new types and accessors, improves its Mix build tool and the ExUnit unit testing framework.
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DockerCon 2016: A Summary of Announcements and Key Takeaways
At DockerCon 2016, held in Seattle, the latest 1.12 beta version of Docker Engine was announced that includes the integration of Docker Swarm to provide container orchestration. Additional announcement included: the Docker for Mac and Windows has now been made public; a private beta for Docker for AWS and Azure has been opened; and the release of a 'DAB' file format for packaging artifacts.
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Stop Over-Engineering, Build What the Customer Really Needs
After working with many different teams, Greg Young has found that they often are drastically over-engineeringing in their projects. Teams start to work on 9 month projects, but by thinking on the problem from another perspective they may be able to deliver 95% of the value in just a few weeks, Young claimed in his keynote at the recent DDD eXchange conference in London.
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FaaS, PaaS, and the Benefits of the Serverless Architecture
This article discusses what serverless is, comparing it with PaaS and SPaaS, the benefits and costs of a serverless architecture and the need for a framework.
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Lessons Learned from the #api360 Microservices Summit 2016
At the API Academy #api360 Microservice Summit event, held in New York City, a collection of microservice experts presented their thoughts on the current state-of-the-art of microservices and associated architectural and organisational issues, process and technology.
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GitLab 8.9 Adds File Locking, Hardware U2F Support
The release of GitLab 8.9 brings a file locking, a refreshed UI, and hardware-based two-factor authentication. Teaming up with Yubico, developers can now use a hardware YubiKey to automatically authenticate a GitLab session without having to type in a 6-digit TOTP code. In addition, file locking will keep binary assets from getting destroyed during a merge.
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Cloud Identity Summit Pushes Change in Identity and Security
The theme of the 2016 Cloud Identity Summit (CIS) was r/evolution of enterprise security, using identity as the security perimeter rather than the border of the corporate network. In this story, we look at the keynote messages presented here.
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Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters, and How to Drive It
Leveraging and harnessing different ideas, perspectives and experiences from a talented and capable workforce regardless of their organizational position and background drives effectiveness in organizations. Diversity and inclusion matters to reach business objectives and be seen as a social responsible organization.
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C# 7 and Beyond with Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen, program manager of C#, presents the upcoming C# 7 at QCon New York 2016. He also explains briefly the evolution of C# and introduces some features being developed for future versions.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Neon
Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Neon, the eponymous IDE which provides support for Java, JavaScript, C/C++, PHP and Fortran, amongst others. This release marks the eleventh release of the combined release train, with contributions from 779 developers (of which 331 are committers) and totalling 69 million lines of code. Read on to find out what's new in this release.
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Microsoft Boasts Power Efficiency of Edge
Microsoft boasts that users of its Edge web browser see improved battery performance over other browsers. In addition, the new Windows 10 Anniversary Edition will bring even greater battery efficiency improvements in the browser.
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A Look at APFS, Apple’s New File System for iOS and macOS
Among the announcements Apple made at WWDC 2016, its new file system, called APFS, raised a lot of developer interest. APFS brings strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, and more to macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS.