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| Dear Reader, Netflix recently introduced Hollow, a Java library and toolset for processing in-memory datasets that aren't characterised as "big data". A single producer provides datasets from which many consumers have read-only access. The communication mechanism between producer and consumer includes real-time dataset changes. Java 9 is now officially feature complete, meaning the first bug-fixing phase has started. Abraham Marin Perez notes that the "HTTP/2 Client didn't make it on time for the deadline and has been downgraded to an incubating feature. Since the objective now is to prepare Java 9 for general availability in July, it is very unlikely that any new JEP will be added at this point". Microsoft's Mads Torgersen has provided some new guidance on where Microsoft plans to take C#, Visual Basic, and F# in the future. Amongst other things, Microsoft will be decoupling VB from C#'s design, meaning that new features added to C# won't necessarily also be added to VB. Yang Bo, a Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks in China, has published the first in a series of articles exploring some of the issues he encountered building large scale applications in ReactJS. This led him to develop a new framework in Scala to compete. One of the top priorities for Apple's Swift language right now is compatibility across future Swift versions for both source-code, so that compilers can compile older versions of Swift, and binary framework and runtime compatibility enable the distribution of frameworks in a binary form that works across multiple Swift versions. Recently published on the swift-evolution mailing list, the Swift ABI (Application Binary Interface) Stability Manifesto aims to be a compilation of all concerns that need to be addressed before Swift's ABI can be declared stable, but it is still not entirely clear if ABI stability will make it into Swift 4. The Twitter Engineering team has recently provided an insight into the evolution and scaling of the core technologies behind their in-house infrastructure that powers the social media service. Without being asked to, Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System created an interlingua that translates between language pairs and phrases with no previous direct translation available, dubbed Zero-Shot translation. Cloud logging is something of an unsolved problem, although the big cloud vendors are all adding capabilities to help. AWS has CloudTrail, and Microsoft gives users an activity log for auditing. Google's equivalent, launched in the autumn of 2016, initially only covered a few services but has now been exempted to cover the majority of their services. |
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 Rob Harrop talks about the increasing automated field of operations and explores what the future might hold when machine learning and AI techniques are brought to bear on the problem of systems operations. He also shows some real examples of what is possible with today’s toolchains and compute power. (Presentation)
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