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Incident Management During Remote Work
Michael Fisher, a technology enthusiast and group product manager at OpsRamp, recently blogged about how IT operations and DevOps teams can take a problem-first approach towards the incident management process. On the same lines, Dr. Laura Maguire and Nora Jones wrote about similar challenges as the world reacts to COVID-19.
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CNCF Accepts Contour, a Kubernetes Ingress Controller, as an Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced that they have accepted Contour as an incubating project. Contour is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that uses the Envoy Layer 7 (L7) proxy as a data plane.
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Google Donates Trademarks to New Foundation
On Wednesday, Google created a new Open Usage Commons Foundation for the purpose of hosting trademarks relating to open source projects under its control; Istio, Angular and Gerrit trademarks were moved over. Not everyone approves of this move, and the benefits are questionable. InfoQ looks behind the story to find out what it means for developers everywhere.
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QCon San Francisco Announces 2020 Tracks
The Program Committee behind QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-18), the software conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leads, announced the tracks for the 2020 edition of the conference.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.
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Chaos and Resilience Engineering: Mental Models, Tools and Experiments
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Nora Jones, co-founder and CEO at Jeli, explored the differences between chaos engineering and resilience engineering, and provided advice for planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning effectively from incidents.
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Metrics Collection at Scale: Learning from Uber's M3
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, shared his experience and opinions on the topic of observability in modern distributed systems. Key topics covered: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, the importance of the developer experience, and the value of open standards, such as OpenMetrics.
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AWS Open-Sources CloudFormation Compliance Analyzer
AWS has announced the preview release of CloudFormation Guard, an open-source CLI tool to enforce compliance policies against CloudFormation templates. cfn-guard provides a lightweight, declarative syntax for defining rules. It supports lists, wildcards, regex,and declaration of variables, and can work with CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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Pylance Is a New Python Language Server for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has announced Pylance, a new language server for Python aimed to help programmers write better Python code and improve IntelliSense and Visual Studio Code support for the language. Pylance will eventually replace Microsoft Python Language Server.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: DevOps Dojo Stories from DOES London 2020
Dojos were a popular topic at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020, appearing initially in Gene Kim’s opening remarks on the first day of the three-day virtual conference when he referred to Target’s dojo framework as shared in the IT Revolution Forum ebook. The concept went on to feature in talks from adidas, Virgin Atlantic, Comcast, Sky, Verizon, US Bank and Walmart.
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Disabling Google 2FA Doesn't Need 2FA
A developer's machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation. Read on to find out what happened, and what you should do to protect your assets.
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Security as a Product - a Coordination Game between DevOps and InfoSec
Kelly Shortridge, a product and strategy expert in information security, has described how security should be treated as a product. Analyzing the "we mindset" and game theory she puts forth DevOps and InfoSec as a coordination game.
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Couchbase Announces the General Availability of Its Cloud Database on AWS
Recently Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The Cloud NoSQL service is currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure and Google will follow by the end of the year.
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Jakarta EE 9 - Milestone 1 Released by Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation celebrated the first milestone release of Jakarta EE 9 with a Jakarta EE 9 Milestone Release Party. The event, hosted by Eclipse’s Tanja Obradovic, Shabnam Mayel and Ivar Grimstad, featured short presentations by Java luminaries Will Lyons, Kevin Sutter, Scott Marlow, Steve Millidge and BJ Hargrave. The event was attended by 155 developers representing 20 countries.