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Dapr Aims to Simplify the Creation of Resilient and Portable Microservices
Microsoft Dapr is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. Dapr encapsulates the best practices for building microservices, Microsoft says, and allows developers to focus on the business logic of their application.
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PARSEC Is a New Platform-Agnostic API for Secure Systems
Backed by Arm and Docker, Platform AbstRaction for SECurity aims to define a universal software standard to handle secure object storage and cryptography services. It focuses on modern system architectures made of containerized services and strives to make security technology easy to access. InfoQ has spoken with Justin Cormack, security lead at Docker and PARSEC maintainer, to learn more.
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Improving Blockchain Performance Off-Chain, Hyperledger Announces Avalon
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced a new project, called Hyperledger Avalon, that addresses some of the scalability and privacy challenges that are currently associated with many blockchain projects. The projects seek to address these scalability and privacy challenges through the use of trusted off-chain processing, while ensuring the transactions are secure and resilient.
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Open-Source Build and Test Tool Bazel Reaches 1.0
Derived from Google's internal build tool Blaze, Bazel is a build and test tool that offers a human-readable definition language and is particularly aimed at large, multi-language, multi-repositories projects. Originally open-sourced in 2015, Bazel has now reached 1.0.
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Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software
At the inaugural Open Core Summit (OCS) the key takeaways and opinions from the event included: the relationship between cloud computing and commercial open source software is an “and” relationship, rather than “versus”; open core is a business model, and should not be confused with open source software; and open core companies extract a small amount of the total value they create.
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Facebook Open-Sources Hydra to Simplify Configuration Management in Python Programs
Facebook Hydra is a new open-source framework aimed to speed up the creation of Python applications by simplifying the implementation of common functionality such as command-line argument handling, configuration management, and logging.
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Eclipse Foundation Proposes Vulnerability Assessment Tool
The Eclipse Foundation is evaluating a proposal to incorporate a Vulnerability Assessment Tool that would help identify libraries with known security issues. The possible result would help inform developers when their application faces a downstream risk from using vulnerable components.
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Exploring the Motivations for the Inaugural Open Core Summit: Q&A with Founder Joseph Jacks
The inaugural Open Core Summit will be running September 19-20th in San Francisco. InfoQ recently sat down with the founder of the event, Joseph Jacks, and explored his motivations for running this event and discussed why he believes new open source businesses should focus on creating the maximum level of value possible, but aim to capture only a small amount of that value.
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ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: James Gosling's Journey to Open Source
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, James Gosling delivered a keynote talk on his personal journey to open-source. Gosling's Key takeaways were: open source allows programmers to learn by reading source code, developers must attention to intellectual property rights to prevent abuse, and projects can take on a life of their own.
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20 Years of the Apache Software Foundation: ApacheCon 2019 Opening Keynote
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, the opening keynote session celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, with key themes being: the history of the ASF, a strong commitment to community and collaboration, and efforts to increase contributions from the public. The session also featured a talk by astrophysicist David Brin on the potential dangers of AI.
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Reactive Foundation Launched under the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation, a community of leaders established to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. The foundation is made up of Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal as initial members, and includes the successful open source Reactive Streams and RSocket specifications.
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Python 2 End of Life Announced as January 1st 2020
After spreading the news at conferences, on the Python announcement list, and on countless blog posts and books, the Python Software Foundation has finally taken the step to formally announce Python 2 will reach end of life (EOL) on January 1st, 2019.
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Google Introduces Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop Big Data Workloads
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. This new capability allows organizations to substitute their traditional HDFS with Google Cloud Storage. Columnar file formats such as Parquet and ORC may realize increased throughput, and customers will benefit from Cloud Storage directory isolation, lower latency, increased parallelization and intelligent defaults
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Npm Bans Packages Which Display Ads via Its Command Line Interface
npm, Inc., the company behind the popular eponymous JavaScript package manager, will no longer allow packages which display ads. Developers will be able to silence terminal messages which push ads or call for donations, and which stem from the regular use of the npm command line interface.
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Contributing to the Kubernetes Community: Getting Started Q&A with Contributor Nikhita Raghunath
InfoQ caught up with Nikhita Raghunath, a contributor to the Kubernetes community. She outlines some quick tips or tricks especially for the impatient to get started and to move up the contributor ladder. She talks about the organization of the community, the tools, etc. to enable a better understanding of how and where to contribute.