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  • Windows 10 uses Chakra to Provide JavaScript For All Applications

    Microsoft has expanded the role of its Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10-- giving developers to use it for scripting support in their own applications. Formerly focused on a server-side role, these new APIs are suitable for a variety of applications to use JavaScript.

  • Security Vulnerabilities in Docker Hub Images

    BanyanOps have published a report stating that ‘Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities’, which include some of the sensational 2014 issues such as ShellShock and Heartbleed. The analysis also looks at user generated ‘general’ repositories and finds an even greater level of vulnerability.

  • Breaking Changes in Android M

    Android M Preview comes with several breaking changes, related to Permissions, Dozing, WiFi, ART, and several others.

  • Applying Continuous Integration at Thales Naval Systems

    Continuous Integration can help to find integration issues earlier and to visualize the status of the build to all involved. Integration problems can be detected at build-time in stead of run-time during testing and teams can get immediate feedback on changes that they made and on the impact on components that are developed by other teams.

  • SQL Server 2016: JSON Support

    SQL Server 2016 will finally see native support for JSON.

  • The CRM Landscape as Viewed by Teamleader

    Last month, Teamleader won the HenQ award of the Boost competition at The Next Web Europe 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Benny Waelput from Teamleader discusses about the present and future of CRM systems.

  • How to Descale an Organization

    There are many frameworks available for scaling Agile. In contrast to the concept of scaling Agile, there is a belief of descaling the organization.

  • Founder of API Blueprint Discusses Progress

    API languages are in their infancy and API developers are actively using API Blueprint, RAML, and Swagger. Together, as a community, developers are defining the standards that will be used in the future. InfoQ recently had the opportunity to talk to Jakub Nesetril, creator of the API Blueprint project and CEO of Apiary.

  • Surviving Success

    Teams rarely consider success as a mode of failure, but not preparing for exceeding their goals can be just as dangerous as ignoring basic software and infrastructure needs. Mark Simms and Mark Souza discuss anti-patterns they've seen and some of the best ways to architect to win in spite of your own success.

  • Q&A with Project Lead for Microservices-infrastructure at Cisco

    Cisco is currently working on an open source ‘microservice-infrastructure’ project, which will support the continuous deployment of microservice-based applications, and is built upon technologies such as Mesos, Consul and Docker. Development is occurring primarily in the open, via the CiscoCloud Github account.

  • Introducing IODA Architecture

    For Ralf Westphal common architectural patterns like Layered architecture, Hexagonal architecture and Clean architecture all look very similar giving a very crude idea of the structure of an application. Looking for another way of describing architecture Westphal has defined an architectural style, IODA Architecture, built on three formal responsibilities: Operation, Data and Integration.

  • Mozilla Releases Major Update to CSS Animation Inspector in Firefox Developer Edition

    Mozilla has released Firefox Developer Edition 40, with major updates to CSS Animation Inspector. Dave Camp, director of engineering for Firefox, told InfoQ these changes allow developers to see all CSS animations applied to the selected node and any child nodes, with it being common for several Web animations to be combined to get a single effect.

  • Tabris.js: Native Mobile Apps in JavaScript Without Web Views

    Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and support for thrid-party plugins including Cordova’s, according to EclipseSource. InfoQ has spoken with EclipseSource’s Holger Staudacher.

  • Deep Convolutional Networks for Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction at Flipboard

    Flipboard recently reported on an in-house application of deep learning to scale up low-resolution images that illustrates the power and flexibility of this class of learning algorithms.

  • Underscore and Lodash Discuss Merging

    The Underscore and Lodash JavaScript libraries have started discussions on how to merge the projects into a single project.

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