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Microsoft Updates Azure Stack Hub with New Management Features, Container Support and More
During this year's digital Build conference, Microsoft announced several new incremental updates to its private and hybrid computing offering Azure Stack Hub. The public cloud vendor will add various significant features on Azure Stack Hub in private previews such as an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Resource Provider, and Fleet Management.
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Micronaut Servlet - a New Micronaut Project for Servlet API Developers
Object Computing has introduced Micronaut Servlet, a new Micronaut project that runs applications on traditional servlet containers. This provides an alternative for Micronaut’s built-in HTTP server for developers who are already familiar with traditional servlet containers and have a significant investment in the servlet ecosystem. Micronaut Servlet supports Tomcat, Jetty and Undertow.
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Windows Terminal 1.0 Released with Support for Profiles, Multiple Panes, and Unicode Characters
Microsoft has moved Windows Terminal out of preview and announced the release of version 1.0. Windows Terminal includes multiple tabs, panes, customizable shortcuts, support for Unicode and UTF-8 characters, and custom themes and styles. The terminal can support PowerShell, cmd, WSL, and other command-line tools.
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GitLab 13.0 Released with AWS ECS for AutoDevops, Gitaly HA Cluster and Vulnerability Management
GitLab announced their 13.0 release with AWS ECS support for AutoDevops pipelines, Gitaly highly available cluster support, vulnerability management and improvements in viewing Epics. It also adds features in security scanning, support for Terraform state storage, and a reduced memory footprint.
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Elasticsearch 7.7 Brings Asynchronous Search, Secure Keystore and More
Elastic, the search company, has released Elasticsearch 7.7.0. This release introduces asynchronous search, password protected keystore, performance improvement on time sorted queries, two new aggregates and first release of packaging for ARM(non x86) platform.
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Ambassador Edge Stack Seeks Shortening of the Inner Development Loop
Datawire, provider of Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, has released a new version of Ambassador Edge Stack designed to accelerate the inner development loop. The new Service Preview capability uses Layer 7 (L7) control to allow multiple developers to code locally and preview changes as if the changes were part of the live cluster.
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Pulumi Releases Version 2.0 with New Policy as Code Tool
Pulumi announced the release of version 2.0 of their open source infrastructure as code platform. This release includes a new policy as code system called CrossGuard. Also included are improvements for moving pre-existing systems into Pulumi.
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QCon San Francisco 2020 Announces Program Committee
The QCon team has finalized the Program Committee for QCon San Francisco 2020 (Nov 16-18). The committee works on all aspects of software development. At QCon topics, track hosts and speakers are handpicked to guarantee relevant and timely content.
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AWS Releases its Machine Learning Powered Enterprise Search Service Kendra into General Availability
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of its enterprise search service Kendra on AWS. With the GA release of Amazon Kendra, the public cloud provider added a few new specialized features and improved service accuracy.
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Microsoft Build 2020: Highlights
Last week Microsoft held the 10th edition of Build, its annual conference aimed at developers using Microsoft technologies. The online event included multiple important announcements and releases, such as the general availability of Blazor WebAssembly, updates on the upcoming .NET 5, Azure Static Web Apps, and new projects related to IoT and Artificial Intelligence.
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Microsoft Introduces App Service Static Web Apps in Preview at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced it had expanded Azure App Service with a new hosting offer explicitly tailored for static web apps. The hosting offering is called App Service Static Web Apps and is currently in preview.
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Docker Q&A on the New Compose Specification Community
Docker released a community for developing the Compose specification to help developers build cloud-native applications using compose. There've been different implementations of Docker compose to make it work in platforms like Kubernetes or AWS ECS. But Docker wants to work with the community to provide better support and define the future of Compose.
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Secure Multiparty Computation May Enable Privacy-Protecting Contact Tracing Solutions
The current COVID-19 pandemic has fueled several efforts to implement contact tracing apps, based on a number of different cryptographic approaches. InfoQ has spoken with HashiCorp principal product manager for cryptography and security Andy Manoske to learn more about Secure Multiparty Computation and how it can enable privacy-protecting analysis on private data from different sources.
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Khan Academy's Scaling Story to 2.5x Traffic Using a Serverless Architecture and CDN
Khan Academy’s engineering team shared their story of scaling to 2.5x their usual traffic by leveraging a serverless architecture on Google App Engine and their static content delivery providers Fastly and Youtube.
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OverOps for .NET: Tal Weiss Q&A
In January, OverOps announced that it is expanding its support to the .NET ecosystem. OverOps is a continuous reliability platform that allows developers to analyze and optimize code at runtime. InfoQ interviewed Tal Weiss, co-founder, CEO, and CTO at OverOps, about how engineers can benefit from using OverOps and the future of automating the production debugging process for .NET.