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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems at InfoQ Live (Virtual Event on Feb 16th)
InfoQ Live, the one-day virtual event designed for the modern software practitioner, returns on Feb 16th, 2021. The focus of this edition is to explore and discover practical ways you can use and integrate observability into your distributed system architecture. Join us on Feb 16th from 9 am EDT / 3 PM CEST. Register for only $19.95.
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Microsoft Announces Support for Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview for support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones. The Zone redundancy provides resiliency and high availability to a registry or replication resource (replica) in a specific region.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
In one of the latest announcements of re:Invent 2020, AWS introduced the preview of Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, a managed Grafana that automatically scales compute and database infrastructure, with automated version updates and security patching. AWS also introduced a preview for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.
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K8ssandra: Production-Ready Platform for Running Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a “production-ready platform”, and this includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.
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Google Releases Monitoring Query Language for Cloud Monitoring into General Availability
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of Monitoring Query Language (MQL) in Cloud Monitoring.
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AdoptOpenJDK Welcomes Dragonwell
AdoptOpenJDK and Alibaba announced that the Dragonwell JDK will be built, tested, and distributed using AdoptOpenJDK's infrastructure. This means users have more options and can opt to use Dragonwell because of its unique features such as coroutine and warmup support.
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Uber Implements Disaster Recovery for Multi-Region Kafka
In a recent blog post, Uber engineers highlight how they use a replication platform to implement disaster recovery at scale with a multi-region Kafka deployment. Uber has a large deployment of Apache Kafka, processing trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day. Uber's engineers provided business resilience and continuity in the face of natural and human-made disasters.
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What's New in MicroProfile 4.0
Delivered under the newly-formed MicroProfile Working Group, the much anticipated release of MicroProfile 4.0 was made available to the Java community. Features include alignment with Jakarta EE 8 and updates to all APIs. The standalone APIs remain unchanged. MicroProfile 4.0 was delivered with incompatible changes to five of the APIs, namely Config, Fault Tolerance, Health, Metrics and OpenAPI.
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Cloudflare Introduces a Way to Build and Host Jamstack Sites with Cloudflare Pages
In a recent blog post, Cloudflare announced a fast, secure, and free way to build and host JAMstack sites with Cloudflare Pages. It seamlessly integrates with a Git repository and existing JAMstack frameworks and is in beta now.
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Security Vulnerability Detection with Vulnture
Airbnb’s information security team wrote about their internal security vulnerability reporting tool called Vulnture. It utilizes the CVE, NVD and other vendor databases and scans infrastructure and the software stack for discovered vulnerabilities.
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AWS Introduces Batch Support for AWS Fargate
During the first week of the annual re:invent, AWS introduced the ability to specify AWS Fargate as a computing resource for AWS Batch jobs. With the AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers will have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully-managed from job submission to completion.
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Google Phases out Android Things
Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022.
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AWS Announces a New Version of AWS Iot Greengrass
Recently, AWS announced a new version of its IoT Greengrass edge runtime and cloud service during the annual re:Invent. The latest version 2.0 comes with pre-built software components, local software development tools, and new features for managing software on large fleet devices.
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AWS Announces Cloudshell, a Browser-Based Shell to Interact with AWS Resources
During the annual re:Invent, AWS introduced a Linux terminal available from the AWS console called AWS CloudShell. With CloudShell, operation teams and developers at customer organizations can access AWS resources with AWS-enabled shell prompt in a browser.
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AWS Announces Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering
AWS has announced the upcoming release of their chaos engineering as a service offering. The Fault Injection Service (FIS) will provide fully-managed chaos experiments across a number of AWS services. The service includes pre-built templates that generate disruptions mimicking common real-world events. It can be integrated into CI pipelines via API.