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How External IT Providers Can Adopt DevOps Practices
IT suppliers can follow the “you build it, you run it” mantra by working in small batches, using an experimental approach to product development, and validating small product increments in production. The supplier has to find out what his client’s goal is, and it has to become the supplier’s goal as well to work in a collaborative way.
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Google Releases Its Certificate Authority Service into General Availability
The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation and managing public key infrastructure (PKI). And last month, Google announced the general availability (GA) of this service.
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Java News Roundup: Project Loom, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Kotlin 1.5.30, Micronaut 3.0-RC1
This week's Java roundup for August 9th, 2021, features news from Project Loom, OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK Mission Control, Spring Data, Quarkus 2.1.2.Final, Micronaut 3.0.0-RC1, Kotlin 1.5.20-RC, Piranha 21.8.0, JDKMon 16.0.8, and the EclipseCon 2021 Community Day agenda.
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Microsoft Renames Its Azure for FHIR API to Azure Healthcare APIs
Recently Microsoft announced the renaming of its Cloud for Healthcare's Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) to "Azure Healthcare APIs." In addition to the renaming of the APIs, the company also expands support for healthcare data to include patient health data via FHIR, medical imaging data via DICOM - and medical device data via the Azure IoT Connector for FHIR .
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Amazon Introduces Cloudwatch Cross Account Alarms to Consolidate Management
Amazon CloudWatch recently announced cross account alarms, a new feature that enables customers to set alerts and take actions based on changes to metrics across different AWS accounts.
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AWS Announces Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for Conversation Insights
Recently, AWS announced Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a new feature of Amazon Transcribe. AWS customers can extract valuable insights from customer conversations like customer and agent sentiment, and conversation characteristics such as non-talk time, interruptions, loudness, and talk speed with this new feature.
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Google Introduces Unattended Project Recommender to Cut Cloud Costs
Recently Google introduced unattended project recommender, a new feature of Active Assist that provides customers with a one-stop shop for discovering, reclaiming, and shutting down unattended projects. In addition, the feature includes actionable and automatic recommendations to reduce costs or mitigate security risks presented by idle resources.
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Experiences from Measuring the DevOps Four Key Metrics: Identifying Areas for Improvement
Measuring the four key metrics of IT helped a company to assess the performance of their software delivery process. Continuous observation of these metrics supports decisions on where to invest and guides performance improvements.
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ARM Releases PlasticARM, a Plastic-Based Flexible Microchip
ARM takes another step forward towards powering a real IoT revolution: PlasticARM, its newly announced plastic based microchip, brings 18000 logic gates, 12 times more than previous models, and is the most complex flexible microchip to date.
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AWS Releases Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller into General Availability
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, an additional new set of capabilities in Amazon Route 53. With the capabilities, it will be easier for customers to continuously monitor their applications’ ability to recover from failures and control their recovery across AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and on-premises infrastructure.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 17 Initial RC, OpenJDK, Updates to Open Liberty, Hibernate ORM, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for August 2nd, 2021, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 17 initial release candidate, JDK 18, Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-M1, Quarkus 2.1.1, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8, WildFly 24.0.1 S2I Docker images, Hibernate ORM 5.5.6, JReleaser 0.6.0, Apache Camel 3.11.1 and MicroStream 5 is now open-source.
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Linkerd Showcases Rust in Cloud-Native Infrastructure
The Linkerd project has recently become a graduated project in the CNCF. One of the most interesting aspects of Linkerd that differentiates it from other service mesh products is the Rust-based Linkerd2-proxy. Rust has made Linkerd significantly faster and lighter than other service mesh solutions.
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Explore the Software Engineering Trends That Matter in 2021 at QCon Plus in November
This November at the QCon Plus software development conference, senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will learn from their peers and discuss emerging software trends and practices. Join them to develop your technical and non-technical skills and get valuable insights that you can take home to your team and implement right away.
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Quarkus 2.0 Delivers Continuous Testing, CLI and Supports Minimal JDK 11
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.0 with new features such as continuous testing, a new CLI, and developer services. This version upgrades its core as well, moving to JDK 11, Vert.x 4.0 and MicroProfile 4.0, promising to have a seamless upgrade experience. InfoQ reached out to the Quarkus’ core team members to provide a brief description on the benefits of each newly-added feature in Quarkus 2.0.
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Envoy Proxy is Generally Available on Windows
The CNCF-graduated project Envoy Proxy was recently announced as generally available on Windows. Starting with version 1.18.3, engineers can use the Envoy proxy on Windows for production workloads.