Our regular programming pub quiz series continues this week with Sauce Labs. Do you know everything there is to know about this continuous testing cloud provider?

Every Monday we take a step back and take a look at all the cool stuff that went down during the previous week. Last week was packed with news about OpenJFX 11 and JDK 11, we had a look at Kotlin 1.2.50 and Angular v6.1.0 beta.1, and more!

Joining companies such as eBay and Google, Twitter now uses TensorFlow as its machine learning framework. TensorFlow continues to be a fan favorite in the framework wars and it’s no wonder why more and more companies are adopting the technology.

Open source has a lot of benefits, no one can argue that. However, it is also uniquely positioned to face the threats of today’s security concerns. We talked with Yossi Weinberg, software developer at WhiteSource about how WhiteSource is making sure users’ projects are secure, why open source management is essential and the impact Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub will have on the open source community.

What’s going on with JDK 11? Time to take a look and check in on its progress, including a sneak peek at the latest JEP proposal.

The six-month Java release cycle has gained a lot of critics and caused some controversy. Will it affect the popularity of Java though? We look at some surveys to see if Java’s popularity has changed.

Time to check in on IntelliJ IDEA 2018! The IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.5 is now available! This update is something of a bug fix and targets a number of unpleasant regressions. We take a look at what else this update has in store for developers.

Starting with JDK 11, JavaFX will be available as a separate module but the good news is that both OpenJFX 11 and JDK 11 will be released in September; in theory, one week apart. Let’s have a look at the proposed milestone dates for OpenJFX 11.

Elasticsearch version 6.3.0 is out now and has some new updates that are worth downloading. Take a look through the release notes and see what’s fresh and up to date.

An in-memory computing platform with continuous learning capabilities enables a range of real-time decision making use cases. What might some of these cases be and how will they affect the future of machine learning and deep learning?

Kotlin 1.2.50, the newest bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2 brings a lot of goodies, including updated Kotlin support in the Eclipse IDE plugin, improved experimental scripting support, Runnable Kotlin scratch files in IntelliJ IDEA and more. Let’s take a look at what’s in this update.

Is Swift the future for server applications or is it just a passing trend? In this session, Ian Partridge gives an introduction to server-side Swift applications for Java developers.

We’re still excited about the recent Angular v6 release but the show must go on. The current release focuses on the toolchain and on making it easier to move quickly with Angular in the future so we’re excited to see what Angular v7’s “theme” will be. But until then, let’s focus on what we do know – the beta season for 6.1.0 has begun.

Actix is a powerful, ultra-fast, lightweight framework for Rust with a few tricks up its sleeve. What are its features out of the box and what can it do for you?