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Linode Announces DDoS Protection Across Its Global Network
Linode announced the availability of its DDoS protection service across its network for detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks.
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Bazel 2.0 Released with Performance and Stability Improvements
Bazel, the build and test tool that is based off of Google's internal build tool Blaze, recently released version 2.0. This release introduces a few flagged changes that will be incompatible with past versions as well as a number of other stability and performance improvements.
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Instana Performance Provider Adds vSphere Support
Microservice application performance management provider, Instana, has released new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure. Instana correlates infrastructure and application performance metrics and the latest release includes the ability to discover, map and monitor components running on VMware’s vSphere suite.
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Zero Server Framework Creates Web Apps from Node, React, HTML, MDX, Vue, Svelte and Python Files
The Zero Server web framework allows developers to create, build and develop web applications with server-side rendering and little to no configuration. Zero Server now accepts a mix of Node.js, React, HTML, MDX, Vue, Svelte, Python, and static files. Zero Server also now supports TypeScript.
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Security Predicted by Gartner to Improve in DevOps Teams
DevOps teams have improved software velocity by incorporating development, testing, and operations into a unified team. In the coming years, many teams are set to incorporate security testing as part of this process, rather then delegating verification to unpredictable gates of experts.
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CircleCI Introduces New Orbs to Simplify Deployment Activities
CircleCI recently announced the availability of Deployment Orbs which focus on streamlining and simplifying the integration of deployment workflows into CircleCI jobs. This release includes orbs for deploying into common environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and Salesforce.
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Logz.io Survey Finds Tool Sprawl and Complex Architecture Key Challenges for Observability
Logz.io released their annual survey of the DevOps industry with the spotlight this year on observability. The key findings include that DevOps and observability tool sprawl is becoming an issue and complex architectures present the key challenge in implementing an observability solution. In the next year, they predict greater investment in observability with a focus on distributed tracing.
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Npm, Inc. Announces Npm Pro for Independent JavaScript Developers
npm, Inc. recently announced the launch of npm Pro, designed for independent JavaScript developers. npm also rebranded its existing npm Orgs, which caters to teams of developers, as npm Teams.
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How Twitter Improves Resource Usage with a Deterministic Load Balancing Algorithm
Twitter recently shared the details of why their RPC framework Finagle implements a client-side load balancing using a deterministic aperture algorithm for their microservices architecture. Twitter ran different experiments but confirmed that with a deterministic approach, requests are better distributed, connections count reduces drastically, and they even need less infrastructure.
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The Distributed Data Mesh as a Solution to Centralized Data Monoliths
Instead of building large, centralized data platforms, corporations and data architects should create distributed data meshes.
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Amazon Elastic File System New Features: IAM Authorization and Access Points
Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS) Service (EFS) offers a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Recently Amazon announced updates for this service by adding two new features, namely Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization for Network File System (NFS) and EFS Access Points.
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Yelp Open-Sources Fuzz-Lightyear, A Swagger-Based IDOR Vulnerability Detector
Business directory and crowd-sourced review service, Yelp, has open-sourced their in-house security testing framework, fuzz-lightyear, that identifies Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities.
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Microsoft Announces Playwright Alternative to Puppeteer
Playwright is an open-source Node.js library started by Microsoft for automating browsers based on Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API. The primary goal of Playwright is improving automated UI testing.
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Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer
Rust Analyzer is an experimental IDE/latency-oriented Rust compiler. This is an emerging endeavour within the Rust ecosystem, which is aimed at improving the IDE experience with Rust.
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The Java EE Guardians Rebrand as the Jakarta EE Ambassadors
Under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation, the rebranding of the Java EE Guardians to the Jakarta EE Ambassadors has been completed. They were a driving force that ultimately led to Oracle open-sourcing Java EE and transferring ownership to the Eclipse Foundation. Reza Rahman, program manager, Java on Azure at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about this rebranding.