Agile Epics in GitHub with ZenHub Epics

GitHub-based project management solution ZenHub has recently introduced “Epics”, a new tool that provides a complete re-work of GitHub issues and issue management that aims to make it possible to fully manage product roadmaps inside of GitHub.

GitHub’s DGit Improves Reliability, Performance, and Availability

GitHub has been quietly rolling out DGit, short for “distributed Git”, a new distributed storage system built on top of Git with the aim of improving reliability, availability, and performance of using GitHub.

Rust 1.8 Introduces New Cargo-based Build System and more

Rust 1.8 adds a couple of new language features and a number of improvements to the standard library. Additionally, it introduces a new Cargo-based build system for rustc which can be seen as the first step towards bootstrapping Rust.

Go 1.7 to Improve Compilation Speed and Generate Faster Code

When Go 1.7 development cycle has still about a couple of weeks to go, Go committer Dave Cheney has reported on the team efforts to improve the toolchain for the coming release.

Microsoft Experimenting with Using Synthetic DNA for Digital Data Storage

Microsoft is carrying out experiments with synthetic DNA for digital data storage and has recently agreed to purchase ten million strands of DNA from genetics startup Twist Bioscience.