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 This series of articles touches on many of the key aspects of designing and delivering a solution that uses edge computing. We hope you enjoy it, and that it sparks new ideas and debates with your colleagues. (eMag) |
 In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Harry Brumleve who was the track chair for Optimizing Yourself Human Skills for Individuals Track. (Podcast) |
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| Rasa, the customizable open source machine learning framework to automate text and voice-based AI assistants, has released version 2.0 with significant improvements to dialogue management, training data format, and interactive documentation. In addition, the latest release reduces the learning curve to get started while expanding configuration options for advanced users. (News) |
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 InfoQ caught up with chair of Network SIG, principal software engineer at Google, speaker of the upcoming Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2020 session, and a Kubernetes maintainer even before it was announced, Tim Hockin, about the history of Kubernetes Networking and the roadmap. (Article) |
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| The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how object-oriented languages such as C# and Java are evolving by becoming more functional. (News) |
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| New Relic has released a continuous profiler that measures performance of production Java applications with low overhead. The platform incorporates additional data from other sources to help application teams better understand problems that appear across more than just the application alone. (News) |
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| Earlier today, at .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5. The new release focuses on improvements of .NET Core 3.1: smaller single-file applications, support for Windows ARM64, and more capable JsonSerializer APIs are among the key features of .NET 5, along with many considerable performance improvements. New major language versions (C# 9 and F# 5) are also featured as part of this release. (News) |
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| Microsoft released (in preview) a dedicated test runner for Playwright, its test automation tool. The Playwright test runner provides zero-config cross-browser end-to-end testing for web apps, Jest-like assertions, and built-in support for TypeScript. The new test runner leverages Folio, a customizable test framework to build higher-level test frameworks. (News) |
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