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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Immersive Reader Service on the Azure AI Platform
Immersive Reader, which is a part of the Cognitive Services suite within the Microsoft Azure AI Platform, provides help for readers to read and comprehend text. In a recent blog, Microsoft announced the general availability of the service.
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Attackers Found Building Malicious Container Images Directly on Host
Aqua’s cyber security research team, ‘Nautilus,’ has found a new attack technique targeting misconfigured Docker Daemon API ports to build an image directly on the target host container infrastructure, in order to mine cryptocurrency. Further investigation by the team uncovered an associated 330k malicious image pulls from an infrastructure of 23 container images stored in Docker Hub.
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SpringOne 2020 Conference: Running Persistent Data in a Multi-Cloud Architecture
Managing persistent data workloads in a multi-cloud architecture is critical for organizations hosting their apps on-premise and in public cloud environments. Aditya Tripathi and Judy Wang from VMware spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference on Wednesday about architectural best practices to help simplify a multi-cloud strategy.
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Multi-Cloud: Worst Practice or the Future of Public Cloud?
Corey Quinn, cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, recently argued that multi-cloud is "the worst practice to be avoided by default”. Not everyone agrees.
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Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems - Lessons Learned at InfoQ Live
A good observability strategy makes it easy for teams to share their data, and uses data from across a distributed system to identify if business goals are being achieved. These were some of the ideas discussed during the InfoQ Live roundtable discussion on observability patterns for distributed systems, held on August 25.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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Rookout CTO Discusses Understandability, Architecture Styles, and Live Debugging
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, discussed the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems. Building on the concepts introduced in his recent InfoQ article, he also discussed how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.
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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.
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ServiceMeshCon Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Located Event
Christian Posta form Solo.io discussed multi-cluster and multi-mesh patterns at the recent ServiceMeshCon event which was held as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Conference. There were also talks on Istio architecture, WebAssembly for Istio telemetry and iteratively implementing Istio service mesh with no downtime.
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New LiveRecorder for Java Enables Software Failure Replay
LiveRecorder for Java is a newly released application for software failure replay. It enables developers to record application failures and then replay them in IntelliJ to find the cause of the failure. It helps to reduce the debugging time, especially with intermittent failures.
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Snyk Releases Enhanced Vulnerability Prioritization Features
Snyk has announced the release of a number of new features to simplify prioritizing security vulnerabilities. This includes a new, proprietary algorithm to assess and provide a score for each identified issue. This approach takes into account the maturity of the exploit and can analyze if the affected code is reachable through application execution.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August. Key takeaways included: there is an increasing importance in understanding end-user adoption patterns of technologies; it is important to recognize and discuss the topics of security, observability, and energy efficiency as more organizations move to the cloud; and more.
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GitHub Availability Report: Monthly Report Examining Incidents
Going beyond publishing the post mortem of major incidents, GitHub recently introduced the Availability Report. This report will not only have a description of incidents but also highlight what is being done to advance GitHub's engineering systems and practices.
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An Open Source Chaos Engineering Library from AWS
AWS engineers recently wrote about an open source chaos engineering tool called AWSSSMChaosRunner that they used to test fault injection in Prime Video. Built using AWS Systems Manager that can execute arbitrary commands on EC2 instances, the team was able to mitigate latency related issues using it.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.