- RoboVM 1.1 released – Interface Builder Support – Hot on the heels of our 1.0 milestone release, we are very excited to bring you RoboVM 1.1! Let’s run through the new goodies. Make sure to read until the bottom, a special surprise awaits!
- Virtualization Giant VMware Takes On Cloud-Native Microservices – Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system that VMware built from the ground up to specifically support various container formats. The idea is, which CoreOS and Red Hat have done with their own Linux distributions, is to cut out all of the unnecessary
- Microsoft Announces Azure Service Fabric, A New Framework For Building Highly Scalable Cloud Services – Microsoft today announced Azure Service Fabric, a new Azure service that aims to make it easier for developers at startups and ISVs to create highly scalable cloud applications.
- Layzr.js – A small, fast, modern, and dependency-free library for lazy loading images. – Lazy loading boosts page speed by deferring the loading of images until they're in (or near) the viewport. This library makes it completely painless – maximizing speed by keeping options to a minimum.
- RethinkDB 2.0 Is Amazing — Rob Conery – As you can tell, I really like RethinkDB and for good reason. It’s fun as hell to use and it took very little time to get up to speed with ReQL. Administration is simple and I feel like I have complete command over what’s going on.
- Why You Should Start Using Microservices – If you're building applications that make a lot of API calls—to APIs you control—you may want to reexamine how you've clustered your services. Even if you don't need to consider this to scale, you may want to consider this to ease maintenance and deployment
- Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework for the Job – John Hannah weighs the pros and cons of four popular front-end frameworks – Backbone, AngularJS, Ember, and React – and sums up the bottom line for each of them.
- Would you go see a full stack doctor? – This has become a popular topic over the last couple of years. Do you want a team of generalists who can jump on anything that is needed? Or do you need a team of specialists who go deep on a particular topic?
- Starting a modern Java project with JHipster – JHipster is a Yeoman generator that will create a modern AngularJS application with a Spring Boot backend which you can use as a starting point for your own application.
- Quasar is an open source JVM library for lightweight threads & actors for the JVM – Quasar is an open source JVM library that greatly simplifies the creation of highly concurrent software that is very easy to write and reason about, performant, and fault tolerant.
Links for April 7th through April 22nd
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