PROGRAMMING & DATABASES
RESTier: A New Framework for Building OData Services. The Microsoft OData Team has made available the preview version of RESTier, a middleware development framework for building OData 4.0 RESTful APIs. RESTier is based on ASP.NET Web API. Read more
[INFOQ.COM]
VISUAL STUDIO: SoftFluent announced that CodeFluent Entities and its graphical editor supports Visual Studio 2015 Preview, which contains many new and exciting features to support cross-platform mobile development, web & cloud development and more. Read more
[SDTIMES.COM]
PostgreSQL: Introduces New Features for Flexibility, Scalability and Performance. According to the
group, the latest version of the open source database system adds new features to enhance PostgreSQL’s flexibility,
scalability and performance for different types of database users, including improvements to JSON support, replication and index performance. Read more
[DBTA.COM]
SSAS: Starting Your Modeling Career with Analysis Services Tabular Models. Microsoft’s introduction
of the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine in 2010 is a significant game-changer for business intelligence and data
management. The availability of this impressive technology and its future application in new product features will change the way you store and consume data, and it’s at the heart of SSAS Tabular. Read More
[SQLMAG.COM]
CLOUD COMPUTING
2015 PREDICTIONS: Cloud technology, the way we use it, and even the way we talk about it, has matured hugely over the past year. Read More
[TECHVIBES.COM]
FLEXIBILITY AND THE CLOUD: It is pretty easy to see how you can make money moving clients to the
cloud. After all, it is simply a service that mirrors a new server installation very well. Your talented team does the work, and you have a client that is all smiles. Read More
[TALKINGCLOOUD.COM]
FEDERAL AGENCIES
ARMY: MicroTech Protests $5B ITES-3H Contract in Federal Court. A $5 billion Army contract program for information technology that’s almost two years behind schedule could be delayed even longer, as at least one company excluded from the competition files a protest in a federal court. Read more
[BIZJOURNALS.COM]
GSA: Wants To Make It Easier For Agencies To Buy Agile. Federal agencies are increasingly looking
for ways to shake up the often sluggish process of buying information technology. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
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