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QCon London 2020 Tracks Announced! Join Us March 2 - 6, 2020
QCon London returns to the city for the 14th annual software conference March 2-6, 2020. The program committee for QCon London 2020 is pleased to announce the list of the 2020 conference tracks! Topics include evolving Java, Kubernetes and cloud, machine learning, next-generation microservices, leading distributed teams, and others.
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Microsoft Announces Open Application Model for Kubernetes and Other Platforms
InfoQ caught up with Vaclav Turecek, principal program manager at Microsoft and one of the spec leads regarding the announcement. Turecek talks about the proliferation of platforms atop Kubernetes and how OAM is aimed at distinguishing the parts that developers and operators are responsible for, respectively.
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Google Announces Updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API
In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to a part of its Vision AI portfolio: AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API. Each received updates to enhance their capabilities.
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Windows Containers on EKS
Last week Amazon announced that support of Windows containers on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now generally available. As such, this allows their users to run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same EKS environment, thus providing a consistent method of provisioning, monitoring, and logging, no matter what type of container they use to host their applications.
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CircleCI Adds Security Integrations to Streamline Securing CI/CD Pipelines
CircleCI announced the addition of new orbs that address common use cases and needs with securing your CI/CD pipelines. The orbs added to the repository with this release cover vulnerability scanning, secrets management, license scanning, and digital scanning. It includes integrations with AWS and Google Cloud.
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Simplifying ETL in the Cloud, Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of their serverless, code-free Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capability inside of Azure Data Factory called Mapping Data Flows. This tool allows organizations to embrace a data-driven culture without the need to manage large infrastructure footprints while having the ability to dynamically scale data processing workloads.
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Plaid.com Cuts Their Deployment Times on Amazon ECS with Custom Process Relaunching
Plaid's engineering team cut their deployment times on AWS ECS by 95% with a custom wrapper to relaunch their node.js processes without recreating the containers.
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Ray Tsang on Tools and Best Practices for Kubernetes Adoption
Ray Tsang, developer advocate at Google, spoke at SpringOne Platform 2019 Conference last week about the tools and best practices developers can use in Kubernetes adoption in their organizations.
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Atomist Adds Drift Management Features to Minimize Process and Code Divergence
Atomist recently released Drift Management as a new feature within their Software Delivery Machine. This tool helps to track and control drift within repositories, libraries, and Docker images. Drift Management is open source and available in Atomist subscription plans, including the free tier.
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Managing Microservice "Deep Systems": Q&A with Ben Sigelman
InfoQ interviewed Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep, about managing microservice "depth" at scale.
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Minimizing Backend Complexity with Dark: A New Language with Integrated Editor and Infrastructure
Dark aims to simplify the development of backends by minimizing complexity. Dark is a programming language with an integrated editor and infrastructure for developing and delivering backend applications.
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QCon San Francisco: Speaker Interviews, Workshops, and Learning Paths
QCon San Francisco features 18 curated tracks with over 120 speakers presenting sessions across 3 full days of in-depth technical talks. Topics include: designing and running large-scale architectures, microservices patterns, languages of infrastructure, practices of DevOps, building high-scale effective teams, managing the software supply chain and the latest in machine learning for developers.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Sentinel, a Cloud Native SIEM, to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Sentinel, a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service in Azure, providing customers with intelligent security analytics across their enterprise. With the GA of Azure Sentinel, Microsoft now enters the SIEM market.
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Open-Source Build and Test Tool Bazel Reaches 1.0
Derived from Google's internal build tool Blaze, Bazel is a build and test tool that offers a human-readable definition language and is particularly aimed at large, multi-language, multi-repositories projects. Originally open-sourced in 2015, Bazel has now reached 1.0.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.