The open-source programming language Julia is getting a boost from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The foundation has announced a U.S.$600,000 grant to help bring the programming language out of beta and to version 1.0. Julia is designed to eliminate the need for researchers to use multiple programming languages to perform computational analyses and … continue reading
Software teams for decades have hoped to build platforms in which they can construct software like Legos. Block upon block, infrastructure piece upon infrastructure piece, it is said, the future will enable us to piece together programs from smaller primitives and link them together as easily as clicking blocks into place. This, of course, is … continue reading
Yelp has open-sourced its code on GitHub for developers to use. Named PaaSTA, it’s a highly available distributed system for building, deploying, and running services using containers and Apache Mesos, according to its GitHub site. Yelp also wrote that PaaSTA has been running in production at Yelp for more than a year, and there are … continue reading
The Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK) was put on GitHub this week by researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab, according to an Inside Microsoft Research blog post. The toolkit is designed for distributed machine learning, and it contains a parameter server-based programming framework that makes machine-learning tasks scalable, according to the blog. It … continue reading
Microservices are becoming increasingly popular in the software industry as a way for developers to break down their monolithic applications into smaller components, so today we are featuring a microservices toolkit for Node.js. Seneca aims to take dependencies out of a developer’s workflow so they just have to worry about writing clean and organized code. … continue reading
Google is releasing and open-sourcing TensorFlow, a machine-learning system. According to the company, the new system is greatly improved from Google’s previous machine-learning systems, and makes it easier to integrate in new products and research. “It’s a highly scalable machine-learning system—it can run on a single smartphone or across thousands of computers in datacenters,” wrote … continue reading
Babel 6.0.0 has been released for the JavaScript community, adding tools for the entire community to build upon. According to its blog, the biggest change is that Babel has been restructured to be as “modular as possible,” and its transformers have been rewritten as plug-ins using the same API. Overall, the language processing is easier … continue reading
Google is planning to bring its personal computer operating system, Chrome OS, to its mobile operating system, Android. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new operating system will be unveiled in 2017, but users can expect a preview of the early version by next year. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, recently told analysts that … continue reading
Tomorrow is Halloween, and to honor the holiday, we are featuring this creepy animation in our GitHub Project of the Week. Halloween eyes is a motion-sensitive animation that makes electronic eyes go from sweet and friendly to mean and spooky when you get closer. “For Halloween this year, some friends did a sort of ‘mini … continue reading
The Ceph Community, an open-source object and file cloud storage stack, has formed an advisory board that will work in governance with the community. The Ceph Advisory Board will assist the community in driving open-source software-defined storage technology, and in collaborating with the community’s technical and user committees. (Related: Why open-source storage is worth looking … continue reading
Razer has announced its open-source virtual reality (OSVR) kit is now available for preorder. The OSVR kit is a head-mounted virtual reality display that features a faceplate module, a mainboard with integrated sensors, a display module, an optics module, an head-mounted display mechanical module, and a belt box module. According to the company, there was … continue reading
A new Kickstarter project wants to create a global network for the Internet of Things (IoT). The Things Network Foundation’s mission is to provide a crowdsourced, open, free and decentralized IoT network. “The Internet was created by people that connected their networks and allowed traffic from, to and over their servers and cables to pass … continue reading
