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Oracle to Deprecate Java Browser Plugin in 2017
Oracle has announced that it will deprecate the Java browser plugin as part of the JDK 9 release now expected in 2017. The deprecated technology will be completely removed from the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in a future Java release, but Oracle is yet to indicate which one.
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How Database Administration Fits into DevOps
InfoQ interviewed Dan North about the activities that are performed by database administrators and how they are related to those done by developers and by operations, how database administration is usually organized, how the database fits into DevOps or Continuous Delivery, and what he expects that the future will bring for database administration when organizations adopt DevOps.
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Clojure 1.8 Improves Performance and Development Experience
Earlier this month, Alex Miller, one of the main developers behind the Clojure Community, announced the latest version of Clojure. The flagship new features of Clojure 1.8 are Direct Linking, String Functions and Socket Servers, although it also includes a few minor enhancements and more than thirty bug fixes.
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Interview with Henrik Feldt on Suave 1.0
Suave 1.0 was recently released after several years of active development. InfoQ reached out to Henrik Feldt, maintainer of Suave and CEO of qvitoo, to learn more about its capabilities and development history.
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Release 1.0 of Suave, a Web Server and Development Library for F#
Suave 1.0 was recently released, bringing a new web development library to .NET. Suave packs a light, fully async web server and a semantic model to describe HTTP processing pipelines. Suave runs on multiple platforms and operating systems, including Windows, OSX, Linux, .NET and Mono. While it could be used from any .NET language, Suave combinators and types are designed to be used from F#.
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Yelp Releases dumb-init, a Minimal init System for Docker Containers
Yelp released a minimal init system for Docker containers called dumb-init which acts as a proxy and performs other init functions by registering signal handlers and forwarding signals to the actual process running in the container.
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Father of AI Marvin Minsky Dies
The father of AI, Professor Marvin Minsky, died on Sunday of a brain haemorrhage. InfoQ looks back at the contributions he made in inspiring a whole new field.
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Git 2.7: a Major New Release with Many New Features and Improvements
Two months after the release of version 2.6, Git 2.7 has been announced, bringing many new features as well as performance improvements.
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Technical Debt and Team Morale when Maintaining a Large System
Thomas Bradford talked about his experience with maintaining a monolith Java based system with zero test coverage and large technical debt at the Agile Testing Days 2015. InfoQ interviewed him about the problems that they had maintaining the system and the technical debt that had been build up, why they decided to take a different approach and how they improved team morale.
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Software Industry Pioneer Ed Yourdon Dies
Software industry pioneer, prolific author, researcher, consultant and photographer Edward Yourdon died on January 20, 2016
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Ember.js 2.3 Release Brings Significant Changes
The Ember.js team has released the stable version of Ember 2.3, and the first beta of 2.4. Ember contributor Matthew Beale modestly describes the update as a "minor release," nonetheless 2.3 comes with several significant changes, including the ability to use Ember FastBoot with the latest stable release.
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Hazelcast Version 3.6 Features Performance Improvements and Cloud Management
Hazelcast has released version 3.6 of their flagship in-memory grid and caching software, featuring numerous performance improvements and new cloud management and container deployment options.
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Rust 1.6 Brings Stable Support for OS and Embedded Development
In keeping with their release model, the Rust development team has announced the first Rust release of 2016, 1.6. The biggest new feature that Rust 1.6 brings is libcore stabilization, which aims to make it possible to use stable Rust for OS and embedded software development.
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Introducing ‘Gizmo’, a Golang-based Microservices Toolkit from The New York Times Development Team
The New York Times development team have released ‘Gizmo’, an open source Golang-based microservices toolkit, which provides standardised configuration and logging, health check and metric endpoints with configurable strategies, and basic interfaces to define service expectations and vocabulary.
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Docker, Inc Acquires Unikernel Systems Ltd with the Goal of 'Democratising Unikernel Technology'
Docker, Inc., the organisation behind the Docker platform, has acquired Unikernel Systems, a Cambridge, UK-based company focused on unikernel development. Docker Inc. have stated that this acquisition will enable the incorporation of unikernel-based software deployment on a ‘continuum with Linux and Windows containers’, and the company plans to ‘democratise unikernel technology’.