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Azure Functions Premium Plan Goes GA, Brings Pre-Warmed Instances, VNET Integration
Announced as a public preview back in April of 2019, the Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available. This set of functionality is focused on scale, performance, and network connectivity for serverless functions. The Premium plan was released amongst a host of other Azure Functions updates meant to broaden the appeal of Microsoft's serverless computing platform.
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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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Heroku's Journey to Automated Continuous Deployment
Heroku's engineering team wrote about their journey from manual deployments to automated continuous deployments for Heroku Runtime, their managed environment for applications. They achieved this using Heroku primitives and a custom deployer tool.
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Traefik 2.0 Supports TCP, Middleware, and New Routing Features
The release of version 2.0 for the cloud native edge router Traefik introduces support for TCP routing, request middleware, canary deployments and A/B testing, and a new dashboard and web UI. The latest release provides more tools for developers to configure and manage routes, and improved cluster visibility.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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CPDoS Attacks Cause CDNs to Deliver Error Pages instead of Expected Results
Security researchers disclosed three new variants of the cache poisoning attack first discussed at the 2018 DEFCON conference. These three new attacks are being categorized as cache poisoning denial of service (CPDoS) attacks. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to inject their own malicious content to be served by the cache in lieu of the expected web pages.
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Digital Factory on a Global Scale: Scaled Agile and DevOps at UBS
UBS is rolling out a scaled agile setup globally in Switzerland, India and the APAC region. Christian Bucholdt, head IT of digital factory management at UBS, spoke at Agile Leadership Day 2019 about their Digital Factory approach and how it will change the entire delivery organization.
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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
Matthias Haeussler and Dr Nic Williams spoke at this year's SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference about different cloud platforms and how they compare in terms of features from a developer perspective.
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Open Source CNCF CloudEvents Specification Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
CloudEvents is an open-source specification for describing event data in a standard way and is intended to ease event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. The driving force behind the specification is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which recently announced that the specification had reached a version 1.0 milestone.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.
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OpsRamp Releases Improved Alert Correlation and Better Insights into Event Management Models
OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for datacenter operations management, announced its Fall 2019 release which includes a number of enhancements to its intelligent event management and correlation machine learning models. This release also includes multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring capabilities, synthetic monitoring, and a custom integration framework.
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When Deferring Decisions Leads to Better Codebases: Boris Litvinsky at ReactiveConf 2019
Boris Litvinsky, tech lead at Wix, recently presented in a talk at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague why he thinks deferring decisions taken in the software development process can result in a better codebase. He also discussed some design and coding practices which support delaying or reversing decisions.
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Mark Schwartz on DevOps, Bureaucracy and His Upcoming Book at 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES)
Mark Schwartz is speaking at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Vegas about bureaucracy. He shared some topics that will be covered in his new upcoming book about bureaucracy. Schwartz is developing a playbook for identifying bureaucracy in organizations and practical steps for addressing it.
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