Software Development Special Report

June 2017 [InfoQ] Software Development Special Report Sponsored by [InfoQ] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Software Development on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. Latest Content on InfoQ [C# 7.2 and 8.0 Roadmap]( (news, Jun 07, 2017) [Real-World Java 9]( (presentations, Jun 09, 2017) [Distributed Systems Theory for Practical Engineers]( (presentations, Jun 06, 2017) [From Concurrent to Parallel]( (presentations, Jun 09, 2017) [Apple Announces Core ML: Machine Learning Capabilities on Apple Devices]( (news, Jun 09, 2017) [Simple OAuth With MongoDB & MySQL]( Don Omondi, Campus Discounts' founder and CTO, discusses securing applications with OAuth and shows you how to securely store authentication data using MySQL and MongoDB. [Learn More](. Sponsored content [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Microsoft Announces Draft .NET Architecture Guidance]( (news, May 12, 2017) [IBM and Red Hat to Vote No on Java Modules (Jigsaw)]( (news, May 01, 2017) [The Last Frontier in Java Performance: Remove the Garbage Collector]( (news, Mar 01, 2017) [In Defence of the Monolith, Part 1]( (articles, Mar 16, 2017) [ASP.NET Core Drops Support for .NET Framework]( (news, May 09, 2017) [] Top News [Building a Bank with Golang, Microservices and Containers: Matt Heath at QCon London]( At QCon London, Matt Heath, Distributed Systems Engineer at Monzo Bank, presented “Building a Bank with Golang”. Key takeaways included: Golang’s focus on simplicity and readability in combination with excellent concurrency primitives making this a language well-suited for creating “high volume, low latency, distributed applications”. [An Early Look at C# 7.1: Part 1]( Yesterday we looked at Async Main and Default Expressions. Our tour of C# 7.1 continues with the proposals titled Infer Tuple Names and Pattern-matching with Generics. [MongoDB: Production Ready, Cloud Hosted - Try FREE for 30 Days]( Compose brings out the best in MongoDB by stripping away the stress of deploying, administering and scaling your databases. We provide a stable, elegant and powerful auto-scaling deployment platform to build your applications upon. [Try FREE for 30 Days](. Sponsored content [Google Announces Tensorflow Lite: A Neural Network Library for Mobile Phones]( Dave Burke, VP of engineering at Google, announced a new version of Tensorflow optimised for mobile phones. This new library, called Tensorflow Lite, would enable developers to run their artificial intelligence applications in real time on the phones of users. The library is designed to be “fast and small while still enabling state-of-the-art techniques”. [Node 7.6 Brings Default Async/Await Support]( Node.js 7.6 has shipped with official support for async/await enabled by default and better performance on low-memory devices. [GitHub Rewrites its Desktop Client Using Electron]( GitHub moved away from the native implementations of its macOS and Windows clients and replaced them with a complete rewrite based on Electron, announced GitHub’s director of client applications Phil Haack. Along with GitHub Desktop Beta, GitHub has also introduced a new beta of Atom sporting out-of-the-box Git and GitHub Integration. InfoQ has spoken with Haack. [] Top Articles [Patterns and Practices in C# 7]( C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. Using the principles found in the FDG, we’re going to look at strategies for getting the most from these new features. [Self Contained Systems (SCS): Microservices Done Right]( Everybody seems to be building microservices these days, and Self-contained Systems (SCS) are an opinionated approach to building services. Each SCS is effectively an autonomous web application. [Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance]( In this article, the authors explore how we can build a machine learning model to do predictive maintenance of systems using NASA engine failure dataset. [Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS - Part 2]( A novel approach to developing microservices using DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS is able to overcome the challenge of using a microservice architecture for transactional business applications. [Troubleshooting Memory Issues in Java Applications]( Troubleshooting Java memory problems can be tricky. In this article, we discuss the proper approach for locating them, and we take a look at a wide range of tools we can use to eradicate them. [Faster Operations with the JSONB Data Type in PostgreSQL]( Lucero Del Alba takes a look at how to get better performance out of jsonb data types in PostgreSQL. [Learn More](. Sponsored content [] Top Presentations [Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!]( Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning. [Speedup Your Java Apps with Hardware Counters]( Sergey Kuksenko discusses how Performance Monitoring Unit works, what Hardware Counters are, which tools have friendship with Java and how to use HWC for speeding up our Java applications. [Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C]( Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it. [Async or Bust!?]( Todd Montgomery discusses several questions related to the asynchronous vs synchronous designs debate. [Our Concurrent Past; Our Distributed Future]( Joe Duffy talks about the concurrency's explosion onto the mainstream over the past 15 years and attempts to predict what lies ahead for distributed programming, from now til 15 years into the future. [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Google Plus]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please click on the following link: [Unsubscribe]( C4Media Inc. (InfoQ.com), 2275 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Suite #325, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M8V 3Y3