C# 6.0 is on track for release along with the upcoming Visual Studio 2015, but developers won’t see C# 7 for quite a while. That doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t already planning it out, though. C# and Roslyn compiler program manager Mads Torgersen has posted a working list of C# 7 features on GitHub detailing the … continue reading
Red Hat is looking to improve upon Docker’s software-delivery mechanism with the Atomic command feature of its Atomic Host operating system for Linux containers. Last month, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7) Atomic Host, a version of the enterprise operating system expressly designed to run containers. The “Atomic command” feature defines entry … continue reading
Microsoft has announced Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud platform for developers and ISVs to build scalable cloud services. According to a blog post from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, Azure Service Fabric has been in production for more than five years and underlies Microsoft services like Skype for Business, DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and … continue reading
Silicon Valley can turn on you in a hurry. As the show continues to remind us from episode to episode, the modern cradle of technological innovation is a comically fickle one. Not a day after every VC firm in the valley lined up with higher and higher Series A funding offers, an intimidation lawsuit from … continue reading
Normally at this time on a Friday you’d be reading about whichever interesting open-source project we decided to highlight for our GitHub Project of the Week. But this week it seemed more pertinent to take a closer look at the recently released GitHub 2014 Transparency Report. The report details every disclosure and takedown request, search … continue reading
Mobile deep linking startup URX has announced the launch of AppViews, a new type of link establishing contextually relevant connections between apps by recommending user actions. URX sees AppViews as the next step in deep linking—building on existing app-to-app pathways to increase discovery by not only facilitating users from one app to another, but also … continue reading
As standardized HTML5 ascends to Web development dominance, developers all across the spectrum are looking for ways to leverage the markup language. Now, a free extension for Visual Studio gives C# and XAML developers a way to code HTML5 apps from the comfort of Microsoft’s IDE. CSHTML5 (also known as C#/XAML for HTML5), a free … continue reading
Npm, the company behind the open-source npm package manager for JavaScript, has launched a new feature called Private Modules, allowing developers to share and reuse private and confidential code. Private Modules, a hosted version of the company’s npm Enterprise offering, is a US$7-per-month service enabling developers to host an unlimited amount of private JavaScript packages … continue reading
Hortonworks announced it has signed an agreement to acquire SequenceIQ, a startup founded in February 2014 that provides open-source Hadoop deployment tools. According to a Hortonworks blog post, the company will integrate SequenceIQ technology, including its Cloudbreak elastic and cloud-agnostic deployment Hadoop-as-a-Service API into the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The Hadoop distribution provider aims to … continue reading
Every successful tech startup begins with a great idea. The first season of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” found an unassuming software developer stumbling across his, and fighting for his vision of what it should be. The second season opens with a modern Silicon Valley phenomenon: venture capital companies lining up to give said developer piles of … continue reading
This week’s GitHub Project of the Week is Vector, a newly open-sourced tool from Netflix for host-level performance monitoring. Vector is a framework for exposing handpicked high-resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser. It implements the open-source Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) framework with a new UI and configurable cross-metric dashboards, allowing users to visualize … continue reading
Containers are changing the way developers architect, build, test and deploy cloud-based applications. At the Container Summit held yesterday in New York, the convergence of Docker, microservices and OS-level virtualization was front and center. “Containers are eating the world,” said the event’s emcee, Joyent CEO Scott Hammond, borrowing from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s famous declaration … continue reading
