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The Next Phase in DevOps
The next phase of DevOps will involve collaboration between engineering and non-engineering teams.
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RC2 Available for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Microsoft has released the second release candidate (RC2) for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core along with the .NET Core SDK. New commands, and the addition of RyuJIT JIT compiler are among the many changes found in this release.
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Major CoreOS Linux Alpha Vulnerability Patched
A major vulnerability in CoreOS Linux Alpha has been patched, with the security team saying the issue was limited to versions 104x.0.0 of the Linux distribution. Principal security engineer for CoreOs, Matthew Garrett, said users needed to be confident that CoreOS were not "shipping alpha releases with gaping security issues, it is a big deal when we fail in that respect."
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GitLab Container Registry Integrates Docker Containers
GitLab has recently introduced its integrated Docker container registry, which aims to integrate the use of Docker container images within GitLab's continuous integration tools, writes Mark Pundsack, head of product at GitLab.
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Amazon Releases Kinesis Service Update
Amazon has recently announced an update to their Amazon Kinesis Service. In this update, three new features have been added to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose including support for Elasticsearch Service Integration, Shard-Level Metrics and Time-Based Iterators.
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Agile is Dead – Again
Matthew (Ford) Kern and Miko have both recently written posts on the topic "Agile is Dead". Matthew relates it to the saturation of agile consulting and the speed of hype cycles. Miko links it to a need to go faster than the approaches embodied in the agile movement and replace agile with DevOps.
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Google Details New TensorFlow Optimized ASIC
The machine learning and engineering communities weigh in on news of Google's new TensorFlow optimized processor, the TPU and possibly influence several industry leaders in the hardware space like Intel and Nvidia.
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Android Developers Invited to Get Ready for Chrome OS
Google is close to bring Play to Chrome OS, making Android applications and media available to Chromebook users.
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Vaughn Vernon: Challenges in Software Development of Today
Projects and development teams are struggling with poorly designed systems, with many developers dedicated to patching systems just to keep them alive. Largely the software development culture is broken, Vaughn Vernon claimed in his presentation at the Domain-Driven Design Europe conference earlier this year, talking about problems he has encountered but also about solutions to these problems.
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Rustup Aims to Make Cross-Compiling Rust Much Easier
Rustup, introduced with Rust 1.8, is a toolchain manager for Rust that aims to make it much easier to cross-compile Rust code. Mozilla engineer Brian Anderson has recently shared more details about it.
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Porting Win32 Applications to Windows 10 with VS15
Project Centennial represents one of Microsoft's efforts to make the migration of existing Win32 applications to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform easier. A new extension makes this tool easier to use under Visual Studio "15".
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Google Firebase - a Complete Back-End Solution for Mobile and Web
Google has introduced a new version of Firebase at I/O 2016, the platform offering a comprehensive solution for creating a back-end infrastructure for mobile (iOS and Android) and the web.
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Apprenda Offers Commercial Distribution of Kubernetes and Enterprise Support
Apprenda have announced the offering of a commercial Kubernetes distribution alongside enterprise support subscriptions for running Kubernetes in production. These two offerings have been added to Apprenda’s PaaS portfolio primarily via the acquisition of Kismatic Inc, a company that specialises in the deployment and management of Kubernetes within enterprise organisations.
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WebKit, V8, and Edge Improve JavaScript Implementations
WebKit, V8, and Microsoft Edge have each gotten a little closer to supporting the full ES2015 (ES6) spec and beyond. WebKit was the first browser engine to reach 100% on the Kangax Compatibility Table while V8 and Edge each added more features to their implementations.