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  • Docker Ready for Deploying Containers to Private and Public Cloud

    Docker Inc. has unveiled Docker Universal Control Plane at DockerCon EU celebrated this month in Barcelona. DUCP is a commercial solution for deploying and managing Dockerized distributed applications in production delivering Containers as a Service (CaaS).

  • IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released

    JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 15, with improved Java 8 lambda debugger support, a better user interface for running tests, enhanced JVM frameworks support (Spring 4.2, Hibernate 5.0, Grails 3.x, and Arquillian), TypeScript 1.6 and TSLint integration, and initial support for Angular 2.

  • Docker Boosts Security on Containers

    Docker Inc. has announced a new set of security enhancements at DockerCon EU, celebrated in Barcelona on 16-17th/Nov. These enhancements includes hardware signing of container images, content auditing through image scanning and vulnerability detection and granular access control policies with user namespaces.

  • Apigee Technologists Explain API Trends, Products, and Standards

    Following the “I love API” conference in San Jose, InfoQ had a chance to speak with Ed Anuff and Marsh Gardiner from Apigee to explain their view on new developments with Swagger and changes to API use in IoT, healthcare, and mobile. They also discuss open source projects like Swagger Editor, potential changes to how API security is handled, and the unrealized ideal of hypermedia.

  • Structure 2015 - State of the Cloud and Container Ecosystems

    Rising from the ashes of GigaOm the tribal gathering of cloud elders that is Structure has returned, and got off to a strong start with Battery Ventures' Adrian Cockcroft presenting on the State of the Cloud and Container Ecosystems. Cockcroft paid particular attention to the impact of containers, which wasn’t even a major discussion topic at the last Structure conference in 2013.

  • Human Refactoring: Applying Refactoring to Your Life

    Bryan Beecham gave a keynote about Human Refactoring at the Agile Testing Days 2015. InfoQ interviewed him about how Human Refactoring can help us to improve our lives, how it relates to refactoring code, why he considers eating healthy food to be important, how agile teams can benefit from human refactoring, and where people can find more information about self improvement and individual growth.

  • Linux Debugging Comes to Visual Studio

    Visual Studio 2015 continues to expand its reach into non-Windows development scenarios. A new extension enables Visual Studio to be used to debug C++ code being run on Linux-based systems.

  • Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET

    After several years of development, MBrace 1.0 was released last week. MBrace is a programming model for scalable cloud data scripting and programming with F# and C#. The project consists mainly of code libraries and cloud providers runtime.

  • Preview of New Features in Ruby 2.3.0

    Nearly one year after Ruby 2.2.0 release, the first preview of Ruby 2.3.0 has been announced. Ruby 2.3.0 Preview1 introduces new features such as immutable string literals, null coalescing operator, and more.

  • Visual Studio Code Now Extensible and Open Sourced

    Microsoft's multi-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code, now supports extensions and is fully open source. The November release of VS Code has been designated a beta release and includes a number of additional enhancements.

  • JavaOne 2015 Keynotes (Part 2)

    We continue our report of the JavaOne 2015 keynotes, with a glimpse into Brian Goetz' crystal ball on Java 10 and beyond.

  • Vulnerability Discovered in libpng

    It has been announced that the popular and widely used libpng library has vulnerabilities that make applications that rely on it for PNG image support vulnerable to exploitation. System administrators and application developers should take heed to update their systems as soon as possible.

  • Making People Feel Empowered with Intent-based Leadership

    Intent-based leadership is about giving control and decision-making power to people who have the information. When we give control to people who have the competence and clarity, we create an environment where great things happen. An interview with Jenni Jepsen about intent-based leadership, giving influence and control to people, and creating an environment where people can feel empowered.

  • Patrick Debois Shares His Experiences On Mobile Continuous Delivery

    Patrick Debois, leading light of the DevOps movement, has been working on the "mobile continuous delivery" space for the past year and recently shared what he has been learning at the Velocity conference. His talk mentioned dozens of tools, scripts, and applications that cover the full mobile software development lifecycle. InfoQ took the opportunity to talk to Debois on the subject.

  • Daniel Jacobson on Ephemeral APIs and Continuous Innovation at Netflix

    InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Daniel Jacobson about ephemeral APIs, their link to experience-based APIs and when to consider them. He also explains why generic resource-based API architectures can run into problems at scale and why he doesn’t use an API descriptor language. Finally, he describes the various tools they built to deliver those APIs including Falcor, Scryer or Nicobar.

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