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The Register | June 21, 2016
Intel Chips in with Blockchain Code for Hyperledger
The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project has another big name on board: Intel.
The project was announced in December, but got its first serious impetus back in February when IBM slung its blockchain code into the effort.
During this month, the project has coalesced further, and is on the prowl...
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Softpedia | June 21, 2016
Fedora 24 Linux Distribution Officially Released, Available for Download Now
Today, June 21, 2016, Fedora Project has announced the general availability of the final release of the Fedora 24 Linux operating system for desktops, servers, cloud, and embedded devices.
Delayed four times during its development cycle, the Fedora 24 distribution is finally available to download...
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The New Stack | June 21, 2016
With Cloud Foundry, Cloud.gov Provides a Federally-Compliant Cloud for Government Work
Ensuring U.S. government agencies have a compliant cloud-based infrastructure is the task of the General Services Administration’s 18F digital services, which created cloud.gov, a Cloud Foundry-based hosted cloud service specifically for federal agencies.
In this episode of The New Stack Makers ...
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Ian Murphy | June 21, 2016 shuttleworth_h.jpg
Mark Shuttleworth delivers a keynote at Apache Big Data in Vancouver in May.
Removing Operational Friction Will Free Big Data To Do Big Things, Says Mark Shuttleworth
Good code is cheap; it’s operational knowledge that’s holding back big data from solving the great problems of our time.
Solving those operational difficulties with a modular, easy-to-use system was the solution Mark Shuttleworth laid out in his keynote entitled “More Fun, Less Friction” at Apache...
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D Zone | June 21, 2016
Selecting an Open Source License for Your Project
So, you’ve just written some kick-ass code that you want to give out to the community as an open source project. You get a GitHub repo and push your code up for everyone to consume, your website and blog are looking slick, and you have managed to obtain the appropriate Twitter handle, so the last...
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SDx Central | June 21, 2016
Weave Cloud Integrates Docker Containers with AWS
Weaveworks announced the public beta of its Weave Cloud hosted cloud product. It combines versions of Weaveworks’ container networking and management software.
Of particular interest: Weave Cloud offers native Docker container integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC),...
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Martin Fowler.com | June 21, 2016
Serverless Architectures
Like many trends in software there’s no one clear view of what ‘Serverless’ is, and that isn't helped by it really coming to mean two different but overlapping areas:
Serverless was first used to describe applications that significantly or fully depend on 3rd party applications / services (‘in the...
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Travix Engineering | June 21, 2016
Deploying your Application to Kubernetes
At Travix we run about half of our 100 in-house developed applications in Google Container Engine, Google’s hosted version of the Kubernetes container management cluster. We started using it in May 2015 when Kubernetes was still in Alpha, and since then embraced it and use it as our default hosting...
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D Zone | June 21, 2016
Why I Prefer Merge Over Rebase
There are many ways to work with Git. The workflows vary depending on the size of the team, organization, and on the way of working — is it distributed, is it sprint-based, is it a company, or an open-source project, where a maintainer approves pull requests?
You can use vanilla-Git, you can use...
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Yuri Bykov | June 20, 2016 top-app-developer-skills.jpg
Big Data, cloud, mobile, and JavaScript skills are in demand by employers looking for open source applications developers.
What Employers Want in an Open Source Applications Developer
As an applications developer, you are a problem solver. You design, implement and support next-generation applications that are utilized to meet company needs. You offer solutions to drive overall business performance and success. It should come as no surprise then that you are a hiring priority,...
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