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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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JetBrains Releases Rider, ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3
Earlier this week, JetBrains announced the last releases of 2019 for Rider and ReSharper Ultimate. The new IDE features include support for T4 Templates, cross-platform .NET Core profiling, multi-container Docker debugging, and Unity testing. ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 includes a new Localization Manager, support for multiple C# 8 features, and dependency search for NuGet packages.
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Gremlin Releases Native Kubernetes Chaos Testing
Chaos engineering platform Gremlin released native Kubernetes support for identifying, targeting, and experimenting on Kubernetes objects in order to proactively identify service weaknesses.
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How Deploying Every Feature Branch Enables Fast Product Feedback
Pushing the boundaries of continuous delivery, you can fundamentally change the way people collaborate while building software. Christian Uhl presented at DevOpsCon Munich 2019 how deploying every feature branch using GitLab and Kubernetes helps them to get fast feedback from product owners and stakeholders.
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Payara Server: the Latest Product Certified as Jakarta EE 8-Compatible
With the release of Payara Server 5.193.1, Payara joins the Eclipse Foundation, IBM and Red Hat to offer products that are certified as Jakarta EE 8-compatible since the formal release of Jakarta EE 8 on September 10, 2019. Patrik Duditš, Java software engineer at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this milestone.
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AWS IoT Day Recap: Eight New Powerful Features
As part of AWS re:Invent pre-event announcements, Amazon shared eight new features available within their Internet of Things platform. These new features include: secure tunneling, configurable endpoints, custom domains for configurable endpoints, enhanced custom authorizers, fleet provisioning, Alexa Voice Services (AVS) integration and AWS IoT Greengrass enhancements.
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How Monzo Isolated Their Microservices Using Kubernetes Network Policies
Monzo's security team shared their story about implementing Kubernetes network policies using Calico APIs to provide isolation among 1500 microservices.
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Oxide Computer Company Launch
Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck have announced the launch of Oxide Computer Company to deliver ‘hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us’. The company aims to tackle the ‘infrastructure privilege’ presently enjoyed by hyperscale operators by developing ‘software to manage a full rack from first principles’, including platform firmware.
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Amazon Announces AWS Firelens – a New Way to Manage Container Logs
Recently, Amazon announced a new log aggregation service called AWS Firelens. The service unifies log filtering and routing across all AWS container services including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
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AWS Announced Braket, a Fully-Managed Quantum Computing Service
Now in preview, Amazon Braket is a new service AWS will be offering to make it possible to build, test, and run quantum algorithms. Braket includes a development environment, support for testing quantum algorithms on simulated quantum computers, and the ability to run them on existing quantum processors.
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Kubernetes the Very Hard Way with Large Clusters at Datadog
Laurent Bernaille from Datadog talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about the challenges of operating large self-managed Kubernetes clusters. Bernaille focused on how to configure resilient and scalable control planes, why and how to rotate certificates frequently, and the need for using networking plugins for efficient communication in Kubernetes.
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Pulumi: Cloud Infrastructure with .NET Core
Earlier this month, Pulumi announced the addition of .NET Core to their supported languages. Pulumi is an open-source tool that allows the creation, deployment, and management of infrastructure as code on multiple cloud providers, similarly to HashiCorp Terraform.
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How Shopify Implements Custom Autoscaling Rules in Kubernetes
Andy Kwiatkowski from Shopify talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about why they had to create a custom autoscaler in Kubernetes. Existing solutions for autoscaling didn’t fulfill Shopify’s needs, mainly because of the large and sudden influx of traffic requests they receive. Also, they needed a cost-efficient solution when scaling down or configuring complex scaling conditions.
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Microsoft Announces 1.0 Release of Kubernetes-Based Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
Microsoft has announced the 1.0 version of the Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) component, an open-source project that can run in a Kubernetes cluster to provide "fine grained autoscaling (including to/from zero)" for every container. KEDA also serves as a Kubernetes Metrics Server and allows users to define autoscaling rules using a dedicated Kubernetes custom resource.
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JakartaOne 2019: Livestream 7am to 1pm Summary
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream global virtual conference, scheduled in conjunction with the formal release of Jakarta EE 8, went live on September 10th, 2019 at 7am EDT with the first of 19 one-hour sessions. Focused on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions included keynotes, demos and panel discussions delivered by an all-star cast of Java luminaries.