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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.
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Huawei Firmware Analysis Reveals Security Problems
Finite State located significant security issues in Huawei firmware images, including memory corruption, hardcoded encryption keys, and unsafe functions used in place of the secure alternatives.
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Slack Shares Strategy Used to Load-Test New Encryption Service
Slack’s engineering team has revealed the load-testing strategy that has become a critical part of their continuous delivery pipeline, and suggests it promotes greater ownership by engineers. While the Slack engineers stated they had minimal load-testing experience, they built it from scratch using Go and used a methodical approach that offers a roadmap for engineers facing similar challenges.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Security Center for IoT
Initially introduced in March 2019, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT, which enables end-to-end threat protection and security management of IoT environments. The solution helps in identifying threats, insecure settings, and misconfigurations, allowing to mitigate before attackers can take advantage of them.
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Scaling Graphite for Metrics Collection on AWS at Teads Engineering
Teads Engineering shared their story of scaling Graphite deployment from a single server, trying out various approaches like BigGraphite, and finally settling on the go-graphite stack and a custom HA architecture on AWS.
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Latest Kubernetes Release Focuses on Continuous Improvement and Stability
The latest release of Kubernetes focuses on continuous improvement and extensibility. Highlights of Kubernetes 1.15 include several enhancements to custom resources, cluster lifecycle stability and usability improvements, and additions to the container storage interface.
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Microsoft Releases a Preview of the Integration of Prometheus with Azure Monitor for Containers
Recently Microsoft announced the integration of Prometheus, a popular open-source metric monitoring solution and part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation, with Azure Monitor for containers. This integration is currently available in a preview stage for testing.
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Cloudflare Releases Free Time Service That Supports NTP and NTS
Cloudflare released time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both NTP (Network Time Protocol) and the emerging NTS (Network Time Security). NTP is an Internet protocol for synchronizing time between remote computer systems. Cloudflare’s new service provides NTP services over their anycast network of over 180 locations worldwide.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7
Last week Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This release marks the beginning of the freezing period for .NET Core. From this point on, no more new features will be added and the development team will focus on polishing the existing code.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ about Proposed Hyphenated Keywords in Java
On his continuing quest for productivity and performance in the Java language, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, along with Alex Buckley, specification lead for the Java language and Java Virtual Machine at Oracle, proposed a set of hyphenated keywords to evolve the language as new features are added. Goetz spoke to InfoQ about these proposed hyphenated keywords.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.6 with Layer 7 Dynamic Traffic Management and Cross-Network Connectivity
Hashicorp released version 1.6 of Consul, their service mesh application and key-value store. This release builds on the features added in version 1.5 by introducing layer 7 routing and traffic management. It additionally delivers a new feature, mesh gateway, to route service traffic across regions, platforms, and clouds.