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Realm Launches New Database for React Native
Realm has launched a new database for React Native, Facebook's platform for building React apps with JavaScript.
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Microservices Ending up as a Distributed Monolith
Services requiring an enterprise platform built of 100s of shared libraries to be able to run and only allowing approved network clients for talking to services are two anti-patterns, Ben Christensen explained at the recent Microservices Practitioner Summit sharing his experiences from building distributed systems and the trend he sees in increased coupling with binary dependencies.
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GitHub Introduce Issue and Pull Request Templates, Direct File Upload
GitHub introduced a new, highly requested feature that will allow project maintainers to define custom templates for issues and pull requests. Additionally, GitHub’s web UI now supports the possibility of uploading files.
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AlphaGo: Google and DeepMind Publish Seminal AI Work
A game simulation at Google's Deep Mind defeated expert humans at Go last month in a breakthrough for AI. Go is considered one of the great unsolved problems in AI.
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Particle.io Ships the Electron, a Small Cellular IoT Board
Particle.io has begun shipping the Electron, an Arduino-compatible cellular Internet of Things (IoT) board geared for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. The Electron enables remote IoT devices to communicate with the cloud in situations where no Wi-Fi connectivity is available, but 2G or 3G mobile wireless connectivity exists. The Electron is a followup to Particle's Photon.
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Building an Empathy Driven Product Vision
Savita Pahuja and Mirana Kerner, agile coaches at Palo-IT in Singapore, ran a workshop at the Agile Tour Singapore conference on the importance of creating an emotional connection when preparing a product vision, and how visualisation techniques can help. The talk covered Empathy Driven Product Vision – the art of creating an impactful product vision using emotions and magic of visual effects.
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InfoQ Security Disclosure - User Emails Copied
InfoQ recently became aware that an attacker gained access to our email list management system and the email addresses of some of our readers were illegally copied. We also know that some readers have subsequently received spam to their email accounts as a result of this breach.
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Project Kratos Enables AWS Lambda Code to Run on Multiple Clouds
Iron.io announced Project Kratos which can run AWS Lambda functions on multiple clouds by introducing a container layer in between the code and the infrastructure.
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Microsoft Launches Azure PaaS Services and DevOps Tools Preview for Azure Stack
Following their Technical Preview 1 release of Azure Stack, Microsoft has launched Azure PaaS Services and DevOps tools, in preview, for Azure Stack.
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RxSwift Brings Native Reactive Functional Programming to Swift
RxSwift project aims to port Rx programming model to Swift, including as many of its abstractions as possible. InfoQ has spoken with Krunoslav Zaher, maintainer of the project.
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Apple Backdoor iOS Case Develops
Apple continues to resist providing a backdoored version of iOS for the FBI, while technology companies come out in support of Apple's stance. Political candidates capitalise on the stance leading to polarised advice. InfoQ provides an update to the situation as it currently stands.
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Building Microservice Infrastructure with Cisco's Mantl 1.0
At Cisco Live 2016, held in Berlin, the latest version of Cisco’s open source microservice platform, Mantl, was released. New features include multi-data center configuration via tooling like Project Calico, simplified version control of a developer's entire infrastructure configuration, and blue/green testing as part of a service upgrade process.
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JetBrains Releases Kotlin 1.0
JetBrains has announced the first stable release of Kotlin, their new JVM-based language compatible with Android. As the maker indicates, the language is meant to be a "good tool", driving design decisions towards pragmatism and interoperability. The language promises to address many of the issues that can only be fixed in Java through libraries and external tools.
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Q&A with Andrey Breslav on the Kotlin 1.0 Release
After three months in beta, the Kotlin team has announced the release of Kotlin 1.0, which aims to stabilize both API and ABI of the language. InfoQ has spoken with Andrey Breslav, lead Kotlin designer at JetBrains.
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Netflix Spinnaker: Enabling Global Deployments
Netflix has released Spinnaker, their continuous delivery platform, as an open source project. Spinnaker allows you to build pipelines that represent a delivery process and execute them to produce a deployment. It's a compatible replacement for Asgard, so an all-or-nothing migration to Spinnaker isn't required.