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With its latest product, Apple wants your money. But it also wants to be your personal finance coach. The company is pitching the Apple Card as a way to "help customers lead a healthier financial life," mostly through an intuitive app interface, a la...
28 March 2019InfoQ - Development
Swift 5 has recently moved out of beta with the release of Xcode 10.2, including new language and standard library features, stricter memory exclusivity access guarantees, ABI stability, and more. By Sergio De Simone
28 March 2019Apple World Today
Apple has released Swift 5 for use in Xcode 10.2. The big feature is Application Binary Interface stability across Apple platforms (macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS).
27 March 2019Apple World Today
Apple has updated Shortcuts, its free iOS productivity app, to version 2.2. A free download at the Apple App Store, it contains over 300 built-in actions and works with a variety of apps. According to Apple’s release notes, version 2.2 has these changes:
26 March 2019Engadget
When you roll up to a McDonald's drive-thru in the near future, you might notice the menu changing while you're ordering to persuade you to buy a few more items. The fast food giant is buying machine learning startup Dynamic Yield for a reported $300...
26 March 2019InfoQ - Development
Jessica Kerr talks about some of the great things in TypeScript, like the flexible type systems and the possibility to test before compilation, but also things that make TypeScript painful. She shows how Node and npm work differently from the JVM (or CLR),…
24 March 2019InfoQ - Culture & Methods
Charity Majors talks about testing in production, about the tools and principles of canarying software and gaining confidence in a build, and also about the missing link that makes all these things possible: instrumentation and observability for complex…
20 March 2019InfoQ - Cloud Computing
Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative. By K Jonas
19 March 2019Percona Database Performance Blog
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to test Kubernetes locally on OSX/macOS. Testing Kubernetes without having access to a cloud operator in a local lab is not as easy as it sounds. I’d like to share some of my experiences in this adventure. For…
19 March 2019InfoQ - DevOps
The Next.js team recently released version 8 of their static site generation framework, improving reliability and scalability through splitting applications into smaller parts for use with cloud services such as AWS lambda and ZEIT Now lambdas. By Dylan…
18 March 2019