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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.
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TLS Improvements Backported to Java 8
Application Layer Protocol Negotiation is now available in Java 8, enabling software owners to communicate through HTTP/2 without a higher Java version.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced new updates to its Dedicated Host service in Azure. The public cloud vendor made a few updates to the service such as cost-saving reservations, maintenance control, further options with SKUs, and Resource Health alerts.
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Grafana Labs Announces GA of Cortex v1.0 and Discusses Architectural Changes
Grafana Labs, the company behind popular open-source monitoring projects Grafana and Loki, announced the General Availability of Cortex v1.0. Cortex is a clustered Prometheus implementation that includes features such as horizontal scalability, multi-tenancy, durability, and long-term storage.
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GitHub Was down Multiple Times Last February: Here's Why
GitHub completed its internal investigation about what caused multiple service interruptions that affected its service last February for over eight hours. The root cause for this was a combination of unexpected database load variation and database configuration issues.
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What's New in MicroProfile 3.3
The Eclipse Foundation released MicroProfile 3.3 featuring updates to five APIs - Rest Client, Config, Fault Tolerance, Metrics and Health. Other improvements include clarifications and enhancements to specifications and documentation, improved integration among all the MicroProfile APIs, interoperability across different MicroProfile implementations, and a complete set of artifacts for each API.
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Spectro Cloud Launches a Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud Platform
Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company, launched a platform for managing multiple distributions of Kubernetes. The platform bearing the company name gives customers fine-grained control, flexibility and multi-cloud capabilities for their Kubernetes stack, including the ease of use and scalability of a managed SaaS platform.