Android Q

Google has officially named the next version of Android, which is due to be released this fall: Android 10. Breaking the 10-year history of naming releases after desserts.

In my view, number 10 is special and famous in history for Pele, Maradona, Tendulkar, Messi, etc.

The company is bailing on providing a codename beginning with a subsequent letter of the alphabet (in this case, Q), which is the way we’ve been referring to Android up to now. This year is Android 10, next year will be Android 11, and so on.

For the first time since 2014, Google's refreshing the Android brand's look and feel, consisting of a redesigned logo that prominently features a green robot head.  Slight rebrand of Android with the text shifting from Android Green to black, will ease the usability contrast and readability.

Top-15 Android Q features are listed at https://www.androidcentral.com/top-things-android-q

Google's Android 10 developer beta is already available at https://developer.android.com/preview/get
Market has 23 of the compatible Android 10 beta phones, including all Pixel phones to the OnePlus 6T.

.NET Roslyn

Roslyn, the .NET compiler platform, helps you catch bugs even before you run your code. One example is Roslyn’s spellcheck analyzer that is built into Visual Studio.

Let’s say you are creating a static method and misspelled the word static as statc. You will be able to see this spelling error before you run your code because Roslyn can produce warnings in your code as you type even before you’ve finished the line. In other words, you don’t have to build your code to find out that you made a mistake.

Roslyn analyzers can also surface an automatic code fix through the Visual Studio light bulb icon that allows you to fix your code immediately.

The icons next to each diagnostic in Solution Explorer correspond to the icons you see in the rule set when you open it in the editor:

• “i” in a circle indicates a severity of Info
• “!” in a triangle indicates a severity of Warning
• “x” in a circle indicates a severity of Error
• “i” in a circle on a light-colored background indicates a severity of Hidden
• “↓” in a circle indicates a suppressed diagnostic

More details are available at https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn-analyzers

Microsoft Ready 2019

Last week, Microsoft had their Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ready events in Las Vegas.

High light of the event, was demonstration by keynote speaker Microsoft Corporate VP Julia White. It was about a new HoloLens technology developed in collaboration with Azure AI services that produces a full-size hologram of an individual speaking another language.

Her voice was sampled using Azure’s AI tech which converted it to Japanese using Neural-Text-to-Speech; this allowed the Japanese version of her presentation to retain her vocal tone and delivery style.

Demo Video reference is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJJrHgG9Mc

It is a follow-up technology revealed by Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, during the core-note session at T-mobile arena on 17 Jul'19. Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KxHhAIUXc

Happy Technology Innovation from Microsoft !!

DotNet Caching

Whilst working on Caching algorithm for my research program, came across a good .NET Caching reference at http://underscorehao.net/2019/07/auto-refreshing-cache-in-dotnet/.

This article however will deal with a very specific caching problem. How can you implement a cache that is refreshing itself after a specific amount of time with the following characteristics:

• Thread safety
• Not getting any cache misses (even if that means we’re returning stale data)

If that’s what you need, keep on reading

Gartner IaaS

For the ninth consecutive year, AWS has secured the top-right corner of the Leader’s quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), earning highest placement for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision:

The full report contains a lot of detail and is a great summary of the features and factors. Ref: https://pages.awscloud.com/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Infrastructure-as-a-Service-Worldwide.html

IBM redhat

IBM and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $34 billion.

This deal accelerates IBM’s high-value business model, making IBM the #1 hybrid cloud provider in an emerging $1 trillion growth market.  Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux alone is expected to contribute to more than $10 trillion worth of global business revenues in 2019. By 2023, an additional 640,000 people are expected to work in Red Hat-related jobs.

Together, IBM and Red Hat will accelerate innovation by offering a next-generation hybrid multicloud platform. Based on open source technologies, such as Linux and Kubernetes, the platform will allow businesses to securely deploy, run and manage data and applications on-premises and on private and multiple public clouds.

Mentorship

Good article to read over the weekend; dedicated to all Mentors.

Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mentor-ship-ganesan-senthilvel/

Every great achiever is inspired by great mentor