New Updates to Google's Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable Databases
The Google Cloud Platform offers various cloud-native database services, and recently Google updated two of them. The updates affect the Cloud Spanner database service, a managed relational database offering and Cloud Bigtable, a managed NoSQL key value and wide-column database.
High Volume Space Exploration Time-Series Data Storage in PostgreSQL
The European Space Agency Science Data Center (ESDC) switched to PostgreSQL with the TimescaleDB extension for their data storage. ESDC’s diverse data includes structured, unstructured and time series metrics running to hundred of terabytes, and querying requirements across datasets with open source tools.
Azure Content Delivery Network Is Now Generally Available
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure CDN, allowing customers to deliver content from Microsoft’s global CDN network. The release was a follow up on the public preview last May.
Spotify Open Sources cstar: its Cassandra Orchestration Tool
Spotify recently open sourced cstar, its Cassandra orchestration tool. Cstar is a command line tool to runs scripts on all hosts in a Cassandra cluster.
New Git Submodule Vulnerability Patched
The Git community has disclosed a security vulnerability affecting the clone and submodule commands that could enable remote code execution when vulnerable machines access malicious repositories. The vulnerability, which has been assigned CVE–2018–17456 by Mitre, has been fixed in Git 2.19.1.
Oracle Introduces Helidon - A Lightweight Java Microservices Framework
Oracle recently introduced a new open-source framework, Project Helidon, a collection of Java libraries designed for creating microservices-based applications. Helidon joins the MicroProfile family and implements the MicroProfile 1.1 specification. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to infoQ about this new project.
Microsoft Announces Several Updates to Azure Cosmos DB Features
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Cosmos DB, their globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. The announcements include features around support for globally scaled multi-master, the addition of a Cassandra API, and price-lowering options with reserved capacity.
An Evolution of Chaos Experimentation: Kolton Andrus at ChaosConf 2018
At the inaugural ChaosConf, held in San Francisco, USA, Kolton Andrus presented an evolution of chaos experimentation over the past eight years. He argued that the human and organisational aspects of dealing with failure should not be ignored, and also suggested that tooling should support application- and request-level targeting of failure injection tests in order to minimise the blast radius.
Gremlin Releases Application Level Fault Injection (ALFI) Platform for Targeted Chaos Experiments
Gremlin Inc has released their second product offering in the “Failure-as-a-Service” domain– Application-Level Fault Injection (ALFI). Building upon their initial platform that facilitated engineers in creating and running chaos experiments at the infrastructure level, ALFI enables failure injection at the application level via a native language library.
Kubernetes 1.12 Brings Volume Snapshots, TLS Improvements, and More
The Cloud Native Community Foundation has announced Kubernetes 1.12. This version brings Snapshot and restore volumes, improvements on TLS, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), topology-aware dynamic provisioning, Advanced Auditing, topology support for Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin, and more.
QCon SF 2018 (Nov 5-7) International Software Conference: Tracks, Workshops and Highlights
QCon San Francisco, the 12th annual software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns to the Silicon Valley area November 5-7, 2018. With 32 days before the conference, 75% of the individually curated talks have been confirmed. The remaining talks are expected to be finalized over the next few weeks.
Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Functions 2.0
Microsoft announced the general availability of the second version of Azure Functions, an event-driven, compute-on-demand service on the Azure platform. This new version release of Azure Functions includes several capabilities to let developers build scalable serverless applications more easily than with version one.
How Continuous Delivery Impacts Testing
With continuous delivery we need to focus on quality as we write the code. Not every team will have testers, but if there are testers then they will work closely with developers, writing code to automate the small number of tests that cannot be covered by unit tests while helping developers creating unit tests.
Tracks Announced! QCon London 2019 (March 4-8, 2019)
QCon returns to London for the 13th annual software conference March 4-6, 2019. The topics for this year’s conference have been announced: Architecture, Chaos, JavaScript, Performance and many more.
Google Announces Task Queue Service Cloud Tasks
Google has announced Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for Google Cloud Platform’s App Engine service. Cloud Tasks enables asynchronous execution of tasks from applications, decoupling services and supporting the implementation of long-running and background activities.
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