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Gremlin Announces General Availability of Status Checks
Gremlin recently announced the general availability of Status Checks. This new feature automatically validates systems that are healthy and ready for running chaos experiments in production.
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Microsoft Introduces the Azure Well-Architected Framework
In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced the Azure Well-Architected Framework, which provides customers with a set of Azure architecture best practices to help them build and deliver well-designed solutions.
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64).
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AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Step Functions State Machines
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) recently gained support for AWS Step Functions state machines. The new AWS::Serverless::StateMachine resource type enables developers to define state machines within a SAM template or in a separate file so that they can provision workflow orchestration as an integrated part of serverless applications.
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Amazon Announces New Command Line Interface Tool AWS Copilot
Recently, Amazon announced a new command-line interface tool called AWS Copilot, which allows customers to develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, customers can create all the infrastructure and artifacts necessary to run a service on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate.
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Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on Microservices
Yesterday, the third edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series took place, this time featuring microservices development with .NET. The event targeted developers of all stripes, with live coding demonstrations and comprehensive coverage on related concepts and tools. The focus conferences are free, one-day livestream events featuring speakers from the community and .NET product teams.
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Micronaut Foundation Established to Advance Adoption of Micronaut Framework
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has announced the creation of the Micronaut Foundation, a not-for-profit company established to advance innovation and adoption of the Micronaut framework. The foundation will receive initial funding of $2M from OCI for development and evangelism. Jeff Scott Brown, Grails and Micronaut practice lead at OCI, spoke to InfoQ about the formation of the foundation.
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GitHub Public Roadmap Will Give Users More Visibility into Upcoming Features
GitHub has started publishing a public roadmap for its future releases. GitHub's public roadmap will provide more information about what features GitHub is working on and when it will ship them.
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Infinite Storage & Retention for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
Confluent, Inc. recently announced the Infinite Storage option for its standard and dedicated clusters. This offering is a part of the Project Metamorphosis initiative, which is focused on enabling Kafka with modern cloud properties. Organizations can have a centralized platform for all event data for real-time actioning and historical analysis with limitless storage and retention.
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How Amazon Teams Do Continuous Delivery
An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don't actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.
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Cloudflare Announces a New Class of Workers Called Workers Unbound
Cloudflare announces an expanded version of Cloudflare Workers called Cloudflare Workers Unbound.
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Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.
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Google Launches Confidential VMs in Beta on Its Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.
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Bare-Metal Kubernetes Load Balancer Porter Included in CNCF Landscape
The CNCF has accepted Porter, a load balancer meant for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, in the CNCF Landscape. Porter uses the Border Gateway Protocol with ECMP to load balance traffic in self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
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Cloud Development Kit Can Now Generate Terraform Configurations Using TypeScript and Python
AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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