Tech news digest #16
New open source database, more opportunities to learn coding, Google tries to fix Android’s messaging mess
FoundationDB is Open Source
Apple released FoundationDB to the Open Source community. Here is a quote from hackernews comments:
The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast transactional distributed database with some of the best testing and fault-tolerance on earth. It’s in widespread production use at Apple and several other major companies. — wwilson
Google employees want to teach you to code for free with their cute new app
Grasshopper embeds a Javascript engine. It guides you through visual puzzles to help you learn coding, with in-app feedback along your learning steps.(thenextweb.com)
GitHub launches bot-powered learning lab for budding developers
GitHub wants you to know everything about GitHub, so they created the perfect set of courses for you to learn the tool. Choose between the following set of course, and get a course right from within the GitHub interface:
- Introduction to GitHub
- Communicating Using Markdown
- GitHub Pages
- Moving Your Project to GitHub
- Managing Merge Conflicts
Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess
Google is pausing their work on the Allo app, to focus instead on a new app called Chat. (www.theverge.com)
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