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What Will the Next 10 Years of Continuous Delivery Look Like?
Dave Farley and Jez Humble talked at the DeliveryConf about their expectations for the next ten years of Continous Delivery (CD). For CD to succeed, the IT industry needs to focus on three performance aspects: technical, organizational, and cultural–all profoundly interrelated. DORA's report has shown that technical practices can lead the change, but they alone aren't enough.
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WKSctl: a Tool for Kubernetes Cluster Management Using GitOps
WKSctl is an open-source project to install, bootstrap, and manage Kubernetes clusters, including add-ons, through SSH. WKSctl is a provider of the Cluster API (CAPI) using the GitOps approach. Kubernetes cluster configuration is defined in YAML, and WKSctl applies the updates after every push in Git, allowing users to have repeatable clusters on-demand.
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HiveMQ Launches Fully-Managed, Fully-Compliant MQTT 5 Service for IoT Apps
HiveMQ Cloud aims to provide a fully-managed platform for IoT applications using MQTT to stream data out of devices. HiveMQ Clod features automatic scalabiilty and a dedicated infrastructure for each customer at a fixed hourly rate. InfoQ has spoken with HiveMQ CTO Dominik Obermaier to learn more.
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Jenkins Creator Launches ML Startup in Continuous Risk-Based Testing
Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, starts Launchable, a startup using machine learning to identify risk-based tests. Testing thought leader Wayne Ariola also writes about the need for a continuous testing approach, where targeted risk-based tests help provide confidence for continuous delivery.
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Microsoft Releases Application Inspector, a Tool for Examining Code Security
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced an open source tool that developers can use to detect security vulnerabilities in their software solutions. The tool is called Microsoft Application Inspector and is available on GitHub. As organizations try to reduce their time to market, oversights may occur. Application Inspector can be used to identify malicious code used in third-party libraries.
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New Google Cloud Config Connector Treats Cloud Services Like Kubernetes Resources
The Google Cloud team have made the Google Cloud Config Connector generally available. Once installed into a Kubernetes cluster, it allows users to configures services, such as databases and virtual machines, as if they were native Kubernetes resources.
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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.