Facebook’s AI Research (FAIR) team is expanding its fastText machine learning capabilities and making it available to more devices in its latest release. The research team announced a new and improved fastText with pre-trained vectors in 294 languages and an enhanced model to reduce memory usage. Facebook first released fastText into open source last summer. … continue reading
Salesforce is giving developers a new program and solution for building artificial intelligence systems. The company launched the Salesforce AppExchange Partner Program, which provides the latest advancements in AI from Salesforce Einstein and the Salesforce Trailhead guided learning platform. The AppExchange Partner Program will replace the company’s previous ISV Partner Program. Features include a new … continue reading
Making what it says is the first major upgrade to a Java compiler in 20 years, Azul Systems today is launching Falcon, a new just-in-time compiler that leverages LLVM technology to improve performance of Java applications. Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul, said the Falcon compiler used inside the company’s Zing 17.03 Java runtime replaces the … continue reading
Atlassian is reinforcing the flexibility of its deployment options with several new updates. This includes advancements to its self-hosted products, tighter integrations, and a new feature in Bamboo 6.0. At Atlasssian’s first end-user conference in Europe today, the company announced that its suite of self-hosted products and all major platforms are available in Data Center … continue reading
Getting great software products to market quickly is tough when there’s no way to get timely feedback from all stakeholders. Once a product has been released in beta or in production, features may not perform as they’re supposed to, and there’s no easy way to customize who gets access to which features at a granular … continue reading
Despite taking an extra week with Release Candidate 8, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux kernel 4.11 with numerous features and fixes. In his release announcement, Torvalds said that he is “much happier” with releasing a final 4.11. He added that there were a few smaller fixes in Linux 4.11 within the last … continue reading
Getting to cloud today is not difficult. If you’re an individual looking to spin up a test environment in the cloud, for instance, the barrier to entry is quite low. But when you have an application that calls on numerous services to perform, and allows access to multiple users in multiple roles – not to … continue reading
Researchers from MIT CSAIL have been working on a system called WiGait, which accurately monitors walking speed in a way that is both continuous and unobtrusive. The researchers’ paper presented the device, saying it measures the walking speed of multiple people, with 95 to 99 percent accuracy using wireless signals. Professor Dina Katabi at MIT’s CSAIL says … continue reading
The way organizations build software has changed dramatically. The software development lifecycle is morphing from a series of independent steps – gather requirements, write code, test code, build, fix, build, and ultimately deploy to production — into a series of interconnected, continuous loops that bring all stakeholders in from beginning to end. Why has this … continue reading
“Ops-life without containers is difficult.” This is a common feeling for many enterprises looking for the benefits from containers. However, once customers look to migrate to containers, what are the main issues they will have and how are successful companies making the transition? This can include developing new cloud native development as well as leveraging … continue reading
Interviews are often awkward and stressful situations, which make it difficult to communicate or clearly get your point across. Stack Overflow is providing developers with a few tips on how to talk about themselves in their technical interviews, and keep the conversation flowing. “Preparing to talk isn’t about filling up time; it’s about prioritizing … continue reading
Interacting with Git and Mercurial repositories just got easier for Windows developers. After reviewing developer feedback, Atlassian announced SourceTree for Windows 2.0 this week. It comes with a new UI, improved design, faster performance, and Microsoft Git Virtual File System support. One major change developers will see in SourceTree is its new design. Atlassian changed … continue reading
Microservice architectures are all the rage these days, and with good reason. In a nutshell, microservices is a software architecture pattern which decomposes monolithic applications into smaller single-purpose services that are built and managed independently. The benefits of a microservices architecture are: Quality: separation of concerns minimizes the impact of one service’s bugs on another … continue reading
Google is giving developers the ability to build their own prototypes that use Google Assistant with the introduction of its latest SDK. The Google Assistant SDK is being released as a developer preview right now, and it’s designed to enable voice control and natural language understanding in devices. Currently in development are features like hotword … continue reading
