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Symantec Accidentally Leaks Multiple Google SSL Certificates
Symantec’s Thawte unit admits that flawed internal practices allowed multiple Google SSL certificates to be released in an unauthorized manner.
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Google Preemptible Virtual Machines are now out of Beta
A few months after its beta launch, Google has announced the general availability of preemptible virtual machines as part of the Google Compute Engine cloud. Preemptible VMs have a lower price than other types of VMs that Google offers, but they can be shut down at any moment by Google with a 30 sec warning.
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iOS 9 Adoption Passes 50% As Content Blockers Split Views
As iOS 9 adoption crosses 50% and users experiment with content blocking, the polarised debate of whether content blockers are beneficial or harmful continues to rise. Meanwhile paid ad blockers have topped the app store charts. InfoQ looks at the rise of ad blockers and the effect that iOS 9 will have on publishers.
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Responding to Outcry, JetBrains Relaxes Licensing Terms
JetBrains upset a lot of users when it announced it was planning to move to a subscription based model. After taking some time to reconsider and review user feedback, they have provided updated terms intended to address the most common complaints.
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Luca Olivari on Multi-Model NoSQL Database OrientDB 2.1 New Features
Multi-model NoSQL database OrientDB supports storing and managing document and graph data sets. Orient Technologies, the company behind OrientDB, announced last month the general availability of version 2.1 of the database.
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Twitter Diffy Spots Bugs in Services by Comparing the Responses
Twitter has open sourced Diffy, an automated testing tool used in production for discovering potential bugs in new code running on Apache Trift and other HTTP-based services.
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High Level Plans for Spring 4.3 and 5.0 Announced at SpringOne2GX
During the opening night keynote at SpringOne2GX Juergen Hoeller, Principal Engineer at Pivotal Inc and Spring Framework project lead, outlined the company's high level plans for the Spring Framework.
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The Role of an Agile Manager
An agile transformation needs a convincing involvement and statement by top management to show that the game really has changed says Jürgen Dittmar. InfoQ asked him about how management can be an obstacle in agile transformations, changing the mindset and approach for managing organizations, how managers and leaders can enable agility in organizations, and examples from applying Management 3.0.
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Facebook Parse Adds New Platforms to its IoT SDK
Parse for IoT, the line of SDKs that Parse announced at F8 2015, has been extended to include support for four additional microcontrollers.
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ARM Open Sources mbed, an IoT OS
The ARM mbed OS has entered beta and a number of components have been or will be open sourced in the following weeks.
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Q&A with Mikeal Rogers on Node.js 4.0
Node.js and former Node fork io.js recently released their first combined in a single codebase. InfoQ sat down with Node.js Foundation community manager Mikeal Rogers to find out more.
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Google's Cloud Dataflow Enters General Availability
On August 12, Google announced that its big data processing service has reached general availability. This managed service allows customers to build pipelines that manipulate data prior to being processed by big data solutions. Cloud Dataflow supports both streaming and batch programming in a unified model.
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Facebook Launches Relay Data Framework
Facebook has announced the launch of their declarative data framework, Relay. Using GraphQL for structuring data requests, Relay lets developers and designers declare the data they need, letting the framework determine what to retrieve and how to do it.
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10th State of Agile Survey
The 10th annual state of agile survey is open through October 2, 2015. The survey explores the worldwide adoption of agile.
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React 0.14 Hits Release Candidate, Adding New Package Split, Refs Syntax, and More
Two months after entering beta, React 0.14 has reached release candidate status. React 0.14 will enforce separation of rendering and core concerns, make it easier to declare stateless components, and add new `refs` syntax.