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Alcide's New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files
Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines.
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Report Validates Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation
Empirical data from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries provide insight and credibility behind a report demonstrating the benefits of Visual AI in the field of test automation. The report comes from Applitools, a company that sells functional and visual testing tools using visual AI.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Java 15: the Story So Far
Java 14 has just been released, but attention is already turning to the next release, with some features already confirmed for the September 2020 release.
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oneinfra : Platform to Manage Multiple Kubernetes Clusters as a Service
oneinfra is an open source project to manage and run multiple Kubernetes clusters across different public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal.
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Q&A with Amazon's Deepak Singh Regarding Bottlerocket, Containers and EC2
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding technical details about Bottlerocket and its roadmap.
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Monolith to Microservices: Migrating Snap’s Architecture Using a Service Mesh
Snap's two-year evolutionary architectural shift from monolith to cloud-hosted microservices has led to a 65% reduction in compute costs along with reduced redundancy and increased reliability for customers, all of this keeping security and privacy compliance requirements.
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Containers Running on ECS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic, fully-managed shared file system. Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate are now able to use EFS.
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Managing Infrastructure from Kubernetes with the HashiCorp Terraform Operator
HashiCorp has released the alpha version of the Terraform operator for Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code from Kubernetes. After installing the operator, users can synchronize Terraform workspaces using Kubernetes manifests. Then, applications running in Kubernetes can reference Terraform outputs using ConfigMaps. For now, this operator only works for Terraform Cloud.
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Instana Launches Context Guide: Enabling Visual Navigation of Infrastructure & Services
Provider of automated application performance management (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana, has launched the Instana Context Guide, providing GUI-based access to the company’s underlying system model called the Dynamic Graph. Instana’s solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability with Improved Update Process
Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via standard Windows Updates.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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Rancher 2.4 Adds Scalability, Management and Security Capabilities
Kubernetes management platform creator, Rancher Labs, has released Rancher 2.4 in line with their ‘Run Kubernetes Everywhere’ strategy. Rancher is a heterogeneous, multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes management platform. The new release is focused on providing the scalability, management and security capabilities required to support Kubernetes at edge scale.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of New Security Service: Amazon Detective
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Detective. This new security service in AWS allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
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Periskop: SoundCloud's Exception Monitoring Service
SoundCloud's engineering team wrote about their exception monitoring software called Periskop, which collects and aggregates exceptions across servers and reports to a central server for analysis.