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Release of Open Liberty 19.0.0.9 Completes Support of MicroProfile Standalone Reactive Streams APIs
In keeping with IBM’s commitment to their four-week release cycle of Open Liberty, version 19.0.0.9 was recently made available. Open Liberty’s ongoing support for MicroProfile includes the new standalone reactive APIs: MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators (version 19.0.0.4); MicroProfile Context Propagation (version 19.0.0.8); and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging (version 19.0.0.9).
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Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software
At the inaugural Open Core Summit (OCS) the key takeaways and opinions from the event included: the relationship between cloud computing and commercial open source software is an “and” relationship, rather than “versus”; open core is a business model, and should not be confused with open source software; and open core companies extract a small amount of the total value they create.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Jupyter Notebooks Support for Cosmos DB
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of Jupyter notebooks support for Cosmos DB, providing integrated support for running queries directly against all data models. As these notebooks run directly inside Cosmos DB; this allows for analyzing and visualizing the data directly from the Azure portal, without the need to extract the data.
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Google Enables Continuous Testing Using the Android Emulator
The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools.
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React-Based Site Generator Gatsby Raises $15M
Gatsby, the open-source React-based site generator framework, has raised $15M in a Series A funding round, led by CRV. Gatsby plans to grow its team, invest over $3 million yearly in open-source software (including Gatsby itself), and develop a cloud services offering.
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The benefits and Challenges of Bringing Infrastructure as Code into a CD Pipeline: Honeycomb Q&A
Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems. The team has been a long-time pioneer of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and is currently using Terraform for their configuration-as-code management. They recently made a push to bring the rigor from their binary release process to their infrastructure configuration releases.
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Running WASI in the Browser and Node.js with Wasmer-JS
Aaron Turner, developer relations at Wasmer, announced that the recently released Wasmer-JS allows developers to run WASI modules in both Node and the browser. Turner provides wasm-terminal as an example of a terminal application built with Wasmer-JS, which allows to fetch and run WASI modules.
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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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CircleCI Adds New Sumo Logic Integration to Provide Build Pipeline Analytics
CircleCI and Sumo Logic have released an integration to allow developers to view analytical data about CircleCI jobs from within a Sumo Logic dashboard. This integration is packaged using the CircleCI package management solution, Orbs. The integration includes real-time pipeline data such as number of failed builds, average run time, and job status.
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Gremlin Introduces Scenarios, Enabling Real-World Chaos Experiments
The Gremlin team announced the addition of Scenarios that allow for simulation of real-world outages. Scenarios allow for planning and tracking complex chaos experiments that more closely mimic a real-world outages. The release includes prepared Scenarios that can be run out of the box or used as a starting template to build custom incidents.
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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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AdoptOpenJDK Introduces Quality Assurance Program
AdoptOpenJDK has created a comprehensive set of over 30,000 tests designed to ensure compatibility, performance, and reliability of their JRE distributions. The test suites are small enough to be run regularly by those working on the project, and also benefit those who simply use the project.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 3.0 simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new release includes support for Windows Desktop apps using Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), new JSON APIs, support for Linux ARM64, and overall performance improvements. F# 4.7 and C# 8.0 are also featured as part of this release.