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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.
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Reimagining CI/CD Pipelines as Composable Blocks with Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer at VMWare, talked at the DeliveryConf about ideas of patterns and recommendations when building CI/CD pipelines. Liles recommends thinking about CI/CD as patterns instead of implementations, like merely using Jenkins or Spinnaker. It should be possible to build a platform with composable blocks with replaceable components and agnostic to a technology stack.
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DNSSEC Signing Potentially Interrupted by Coronoavirus
The DNSSEC signing process, which has happened every three months for the last ten years, is likely to be unable to happen due to travel restrictions caused by Coronavirus. Read on to find out what the problems are, and how they plan on keeping DNSSEC running after summer 2020.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.