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    AWS Cloud Adds Java for Event-Driven Lambda Functions

    Amazon Web Services announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute resources.

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    IBM, MapR Spur Spark Big Data Development

    The amazingly active open source Apache Spark project used for Big Data analytics shows no signs of slowing down, as IBM has gone all in on the technology today by promising tons of development support and MapR Technologies Inc. announced tailored Quick Start Solutions to help get started with it.

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    Report: Swing from Native Development to Web in Mobile Arena

    Mobile Web app development tool vendor Sencha Inc. released research showing that many firms are turning to mobile Web app development tools at the expense of native approaches.

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    Spark Gets R Language API

    A new API for the R programming language -- used heavily in Big Data analytics -- heads the list of updates in the new open source Apache Spark 1.4, commercial steward Databricks Inc. announced yesterday.

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    Facebook Shares Homegrown Mobile Code Testing Tool

    Adding to the list of internally developed software projects open sourced by Facebook is Infer, a static code analyzer that uses groundbreaking, highly theoretical math to spot bugs in mobile programs before they're shipped off to serve a billion users.

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    Apple Open Sources Swift

    Apple is open sourcing the latest version of its year-old Swift programming language, the company announced at its World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco (WWDC) this week.

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    Poor performance could be caused by any number of things, like network latency or a slow database, but it could also just be that your pages are too big and loading too slowly.

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    MapR 5.0 Heads Hadoop Summit News

    Like the elephant in the room that crashed the party, MapR Technologies unveiled a new Hadoop distribution among a barrage of MapR news announcements at the ongoing Hadoop Summit, hosted by its archrival Hortonworks Inc. in conjunction with Yahoo.

  • Onno Kluyt on Java at 20

    In a postscript to his series on Java turning 20, John connects with Onno Kluyt, former chair of the of the Java Community Process, to discuss the importance of the open sourcing of the programming language and other topics.

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    MyEclipse Java EE IDE Integrates Tern JavaScript Tool

    Software development tools maker Genuitec has integrated the Tern stand-alone code analysis engine for JavaScript into the latest 2015 update of its MyEclipse Java EE IDE.

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    Corticon Java/.NET Business Rules Management System Updated

    Progress Software released the latest version of its Corticon BRMS. Dubbed the "Corticon Rules Without Limits System," version 5.5 supports the development of business rules for deployment on both Java and Microsoft .NET Framework platforms.

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    Oracle Pushes Java EE 8 Release Date

    Oracle has pushed the target release date of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 to the first half of 2017. Updates of the target dates for the Java Specification Requests "under the Java EE umbrella" reflecting this change are forthcoming, the company said.

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    Teradata Backs Presto Big Data SQL Query Engine

    Teradata Corp., a Big Data analytics vendor, today announced it was throwing development resources at the open source Presto project, which provides a SQL query engine for interactive queries.

  • Not So Fast on Death of Mobile Web Development

    Reports on the death of mobile Web development at the expense of native and hybrid approaches are greatly exaggerated.

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    New Couchbase N1QL Language Allows SQL Queries over JSON Data

    Couchbase announced a new language called N1QL that allows SQL queries over JSON data stored in its NoSQL document-oriented database.

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    Datameer Adds Governance to Tame 'Wild West' Hadoop

    Datameer today announced new data governance capabilities in its native Hadoop offering.

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    Xamarin Teams with IBM for Cross-Platform App Security Features

    Expanding upon a previous integration pact with IBM and its MobileFirst platform for mobile apps, cross-platform development specialist Xamarin Inc. is now hooking up its tooling with IBM MobileFirst Protect security features.

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    IBM Targets Specific Industries with Prebuilt Analytics

    Narrowing the focus of its predictive analytics efforts, IBM announced new prebuilt solutions targeting different industries.

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    Oracle v. Google: Solicitor General Sides with Oracle

    News that the Justice Department has urged the Supreme Court not to hear the case came as a shock to some.

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    I'm starting a Friday Afternoon Rant-as-a-Service (FARaaS) because I can't take any more "as-a-Service" acronyms.