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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Ultra Disk Storage to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage - a new Managed Disks offering, which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.
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Twitter Open Sources Its Telemetry Tool Rezolus for Detection of Short-Lived Anomalies
Twitter Engineering open sourced their telemetry tool called Rezolus, which can detect anomalies in system performance metrics by sampling them at a higher rate.
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Instana Pipeline Feedback for Release Performance
Application performance management service provider Instana launched Pipeline Feedback for release performance tracking and analysis. Pipeline Feedback provides automatic tracking of application releases, feedback on release performance, and integration with Jenkins.
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QCon San Francisco '19: Track Hosts from WeWork, Microsoft, Tesla Focus on Architecture, ML, Culture
Registrations for the 13th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 11-15, 2019) are off to a great start. With less than 15 weeks until the conference, and savings of $645 before the early bird ends on August 24th, there is no better time to reserve your spot for this professional software development conference.
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CloudBees Releases Official Jenkins X Distribution
CloudBees has released its official Jenkins X distribution, a CI/CD tool for cloud-native Kubernetes applications based on the GitOps approach. CloudBees will take the essential features from the open-source code with a monthly release cadence. This initial release supports GKE, pipelines, vault integration, and preview environments; additional features like DevPods will come in a future version.
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The Inaugural JakartaOne Virtual Conference Goes Lives with the Release of Jakarta EE 8
The inaugural JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, scheduled with the release of Jakarta EE 8, will go live on September 10th, 2019 with the first of 19 one-hour sessions at 7:00am EDT. Focused on Jakarta EE- and MicroProfile-related topics, these sessions include keynotes, demos and panel discussions. Reza Rahman, principal program manager at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about this event.
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Heather VanCura, Director of the JCP, Speaks to InfoQ on the JCP 20th Anniversary
Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process (JCP) and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee (EC), recently visited the campuses of BNY Mellon in Pittsburgh and New York City to present in honor of the 20th anniversary of the JCP. This event was held in partnership with the NYJavaSIG and the ACGNJ Java Users Group. VanCura spoke to InfoQ about the JCP and the 20th Anniversary.
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Introducing CircleCI Windows Support, a CI/CD Pipeline on a Windows Virtual Machine
CircleCI has recently announced Windows support, expanding its current set of supported execution environments that already support Linux, Docker, and macOS. CircleCI Windows support enables users to run their CI/CD pipeline on a Windows virtual machine.
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Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud Security Scanner for GKE and Compute Engine
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Cloud Security Scanner for Google Kubernetes Engine and Compute Engine. This service allows scanning for vulnerabilities and threats of web apps possibly introduced during development, and act before anyone can abuse them.
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Rook v1.0 Adds Support for Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS Operator
Rook, a storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, has released version 1.0 for production-ready workloads that use file, block, and object storage in containers. Highlights of Rook 1.0 include support for storage providers through operators like Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS. For instance, when a pod requests an NFS file system, Rook can provision it without any manual intervention.
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Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
Recently, Amazon announced the opening of an AWS region in the Middle East. This new region is the first for AWS in the Middle East and located in Bahrain.
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Pulumi Crosswalk: Infrastructure as Code for AWS
Pulumi Crosswalk is an open source library of components for supporting AWS infrastructure as code. Crosswalk offers best practices around provisioning and managing AWS resources, and aims to improve the developer experience when creating applications in AWS.
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Amazon Introduces Two New Features for Polly: Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology in their Polly service in AWS, which turns text into lifelike speech. Furthermore, Amazon Polly now also offers a Newscaster speaking style.