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gamescom 2017: Where to watch the Age of Empires livestream

2017-08-19 KENNETH 0

gamescom 2017: Where to watch the Age of Empires livestream The livestream begins Monday, August 21 at 9 p.m. CEST, 12 p.m. PDT, you’ll be able to watch the livestream on the Windows Mixer channel and Windows Facebook. In the livestream we’ll give a first-look and hands-on preview with the recently announced Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and revealing some exciting news about the Age of Empires franchise and more! 20 years after its launch on PC in 1997, we announced at E3 2017 that Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is coming exclusively to Windows 10, with a closed beta available for registration now. Created as an homage to fans of the series and PC gamers everywhere, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition will bring back the original Age of Empires and its Rise of Rome expansion with 16 civilizations to [ more… ]

Using Packer and Terraform for High Availability of NGINX Plus on Google Cloud Engine

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

Using Packer and Terraform for High Availability of NGINX Plus on Google Cloud Engine Introduction This post describes a high availability, all-active autoscaling solution based on NGINX Plus. (You can also use the open source NGINX software, except where noted.) This solution runs on the Google Compute Engine (GCE), which is the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product for running workloads on virtual machines (VMs). High availability, all-active auto scaling solutions are increasingly becoming the norm in the current DevOps landscape. High availability deployments use active health checks to restart unhealthy instances. Combined with an all-active solution, this ensures that there will always be an NGINX Plus server available for client access. At the same time, autoscaling helps reduce deployment costs by adjusting the number of instances to the right number for the current workload, based on a wide range of [ more… ]

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nginx.conf 2017: Speakers and Sessions Are Ready!

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

nginx.conf 2017: Speakers and Sessions Are Ready! All the speakers and sessions for nginx.conf 2017 are ready to go. We have a healthy mix of experienced speakers from the NGINX community, NGINX developers, sales engineers, and senior management, and new faces sharing about brand-new solutions. Check out the nginx.conf 2017 speakers and sessions. We want our strong lineup of speakers to reach as many people in the NGINX community as possible. So we’re offering a 50% discount to make it easy for you to attend. Just enter code NGINXCONF. Highlights include: Trends in Enterprise Application Development, by Rich Sharples of Red Hat. The Business of Open Source (or, how we think about it at CoreOS), by Elsie Phillips of CoreOs. NGINX: Managing Continuous Delivery at Enterprise Scale by Jason Whittington of Equifax. Optimizing Webservers for High Throughput and Low Latency [ more… ]

Making the web smoother with independent rendering

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

Making the web smoother with independent rendering Independent rendering allows the browser to selectively offload graphics processing to an additional CPU thread, so they can be rendered with minimal impact to the user interface thread and the overall visible performance characteristics page, such as silk-smooth scrolling, responsive interactions, and fluid animations. This technique was pioneered in Internet Explorer 11, and is key to providing a fluid experience. Today, we’re excited to share major improvements to the independent rendering pipeline in Microsoft Edge which will make pages significantly faster in EdgeHTML 16 and the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Independent rendering is transformative to the user experience — but historically there have been a few elements that could disable it entirely when present on a page. <select> control <canvas> element certain <svg> elements Starting with EdgeHTML 16, we’ve enabled independent rendering [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: Minecraft, OneNote, Marvel’s The Defenders

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

This Week on Windows: Minecraft, OneNote, Marvel’s The Defenders We hope you enjoyed today’s episode of This Week on Windows! Head over here to read more about the exciting changes coming to MINECON, learn how you can turn text into timelines in PowerPoint, or, keep reading for what’s new in the Windows Store. In case you missed it: Tune in for Xbox @ gamescom Live this weekend gamescom is just around the corner and we can’t wait to kick the week off with Xbox @ gamescom Live this Sunday. Don’t forget to tune in Sunday at 9 p.m. CEST / 8 p.m. BST / 12 p.m. PDT so that you can be the first to hear the latest news on highly anticipated games coming to the Xbox family and Windows 10. We’ll have world premiere trailers and, of course, more [ more… ]