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Julia Schmidt previously worked as editor of devClass. Before that she reported on software development, organised conferences, and worked as an engineer and software developer.

Apache Kafka edges closer to ZooKeeper freedom, reins in overhead

Developers of the Apache Kafka distributed event streaming platform have now belatedly pushed version 2.7 out of the […]

Two more months until Go: 1.16 beta offers improved tooling up for a test-drive

With two more months until the final Go 1.16 release, the Go team has called upon developers to […]

Time for something easy: Apache Airflow hits 2.0, focuses on speed and simplicity

Just before going on their end of year break, the team behind Airbnb-bred open source project Apache Airflow […]

IDE like to get it done before Christmas: Qt Creator and Design Studio updated to ramp Qt 6 support

After pushing out Qt 6 out earlier this month, the Qt team has dragged Qt Creator 4.14 and […]

What’s the point: GTK, CUDA, PoCL, Eclipse, Spring Tools, and C++

After four years of work, the team behind the free and open source cross-platform widget toolkit GTK has […]

Rust survey 2020: Community thinks big name corporate sponsors might get adoption rolling

While last year’s Rust survey arrived a tad on the late side, 2020’s results are already in and […]

+1 for chaos engineering: AWS gets fault injection simulator, adds hosted monitoring services

AWS re:Invent still isn’t done and this week, the traditional keynote by Amazon’s CTO Dr Werner Vogels looked […]

Visual Studio Code adds extension bisect to find out what’s troubling you

The housekeeping session at Microsoft continued in November as it ironed out 5242 Visual Studio Code issues, paving […]

One for you, one for me: TensorFlow 2.4 lands with stable multi-worker strategy

After polishing release candidates for six weeks, the TensorFlow team topped off 2020 by lobbing version 2.4 of […]

What’s the point: Nomad, Waypoint, Lens, NetBeans, GitLab, cri-o, and Ansible Builder

HashiCorp has pushed v1.0 of its workload orchestrator Nomad into general availability. The latest iteration allows users to […]