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Web Application Firewall Causes Outage
The CloudFlare outage from June 2nd was caused by high CPU consumption of a backtracking regular expression, defending against a Sharepoint CVE.
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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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HAProxy EBtree: Design for a Scheduler, and Use (Almost) Everywhere
At QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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Blameless Post-Mortems and On-Call Gamification at 1st DevOpsDays Portugal (Day 2)
Ten years after the first DevOpsDays conference in Ghent, the evolution of DevOps and organizations trying to adopt it was at the forefront of the first DevOpsDays conference in Portugal. On the second day, a mix of local and international speakers covered topics such as learning from incidents without blame, gamifying on-call, modern pipelines, and more.
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Using Helm Charts Tools to Manage Kubernetes Deployments at Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero’s engineering team uses Helm and related tools to simplify management of multiple Kubernetes environments, sensitive data, and configuration.
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Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.
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Sonic: A Lightweight, Schema-Less Search
Sonic is an open source, lightweight, schema-less search backend promoted as an alternative to full-feature search systems such as Elasticsearch. Sonic can normalize natural language search queries, provide auto-complete, and return the most relevant results for a search query.
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Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.
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Introduction to Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Brendan Burns at QCon New York
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification provides an abstraction layer on top of different service mesh implementations so it'll be easier to swap the implementations w/o changing the processes. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and currently Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, spoke recently at the QCon New York 2019 Conference, about the new specification and its future roadmap.
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A Single Pane of Glass for Compliance and Security with AWS Security Hub GA
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Security Hub, a new security service that provides customers with a central place to manage security and compliance across their AWS environment.
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DOES London: Team Topologies and Cognitive Load
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London this year, authors of the soon-to-be-published 'Team Topologies', a book that aims to offer a practical, adaptive model for organisational design, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, took to the stage to share their thoughts with the audience.
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Oliver Gould on Linkerd Service Mesh and Traffic Management
Oliver Gould, Linkerd product lead and CTO of Buyont, spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Linkerd service mesh, with a focus on traffic management capabilities.
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Autonomy and Accountability: Randy Shoup’s Advice for Moving Fast at Scale
Randy Shoup, VP of engineering at WeWork, presented "Moving Fast at Scale" at CraftCon 2019, and discussed how he has organized teams for speed at scale without sacrificing innovation, business value, quality or team autonomy.