* client code to signal to the compiler that statements after the call are unreachable. Example
   * usage:
   *
   * <pre>
   * T doSomething() {
   *   try {
   *     return someMethodThatCouldThrowAnything();
   *   } catch (IKnowWhatToDoWithThisException e) {
   *     return handle(e);
   *   } catch (Throwable t) {

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

*   Performance improvements for gRPC
*   Improved support for fp16
*   New high-level ops in tf.contrib. {layers,metrics}
*   New features for TensorBoard, such as shape display, exponential smoothing
*   Faster and more stable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) filesystem support
*   Support for zlib compression and decompression for TFRecordReader and
    TFRecordWriter
*   Support for reading (animated) GIFs