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W3C and FIDO Alliance Finalized WebAuthn, Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance recently announced that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now an official web standard. WebAuthn allows users to log in via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO security keys, with higher security over passwords alone.
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Solo.io Announces Service Mesh Hub and Chaos Engineering Tool
Solo.io, a cloud native software company, launched the first industry service mesh hub. The hub provides resources to help users adopt service mesh technology in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and features tools such as Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, AWS App Mesh, and HashiCorp Consul.
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Democratizing AI for Business Applications, Microsoft Release AI Builder Preview
At the recent Business Applications Summit in Atlanta, Microsoft announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for the Power Platform called AI Builder. The new service brings AI capabilities to low code application and workflow services: Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow which run on top of the Common Data Service (CDS), an enterprise-grade datastore.
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Google Cloud Scheduler is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog, Google announced that customers can now securely invoke HTTP targets on a schedule using Cloud Scheduler – a fully managed cron job service that allows any application to invoke batch, big data, and cloud infrastructure operations.
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GraalVM 19.0: the Anticipated GA Release
More than a year of numerous release candidates, Oracle has released the GA version of GraalVM 19.0, a polyglot virtual machine and platform created by Oracle Labs. Features added in the RC releases include: migrating Nashorn to GraalVM, integration with Python’s numpy library, and a managed mode LLVM interpreter. Oracle Labs have also included the formal release of GraalVM Enterprise Edition.
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OpenJDK Docker Image Served Mis-Labeled Vulnerable JDK
The official Docker Image for OpenJDK contained a mis-attributed version number, indicating that the JRE contained security patches that were not actually present. The issue was resolved with cross-community collaboration between OpenJDK and Debian.
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Athena: Automated Build Health Monitoring at Dropbox Engineering
Dropbox’s engineering team runs ~35,000 builds and millions of automated tests, many of which can fail either due to bad commits or due to environmental conditions. The team created a build monitoring system to minimize the manual intervention necessary to detect and quarantine flaky tests, and notify code authors.
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Microsoft Evolves Azure Event Grid: New Telemetry Events, Advanced Filters, and Event Domains
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced several new updates to its cloud service Azure Event Grid, ranging from new telemetry events from IoT Hub to the general availability of advanced filters and Event Domains.
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Sign In with Apple Touts Single Sign-On without Sharing Your Data
At the recent WWDC 2019, Apple announced its own Single Sign-On (SS) service, dubbed Sign in with Apple. Deemed "Apple's most significant new innovation" by Time, Sign in with Apple promises not to share any personal user data, including email addresses.
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Harbor 1.8 Includes OIDC Integration and Replication Enhancements
The latest version of Harbor, 1.8, was recently released. Harbor is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a cloud-native registry for storing, signing, and scanning container images. This release includes an OpenID Connect integration, the addition of robot accounts, and improvements to the replication features, among other improvements.
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Migrating from Self-Managed Kubernetes to AWS EKS Using Terraform at Blue Matador
Blue Matador migrated their self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS to take advantage of a better security model, a managed control plane, and lesser costs, using Terraform to automate the setup.
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Apache Dubbo, a Java-Based RPC Framework, Graduates to Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Dubbo as a top-level project. Apache Dubbo is an open source, remote procedure call framework based on Java. Dubbo brings key functionalities such as interface based remote call, fault tolerance and load balancing, and automatic service registration and discovery.
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Summary of Chaos Community Day v4.0: Resilience, Observability, and Gamedays
Earlier in the year, the fourth edition of “Chaos Community Day” was held at Work-Bench in New York City. Key takeaways from the day included: the topic of chaos engineering draws heavily from other domains, which software engineers can also learn from; understanding systems, and communicating and exchanging the related mental models, is vital for establishing resilience.
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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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QCon New York 2019 Is Only Weeks Away: Learn from Julia Grace, Brian Goetz, Armon Dadger and Others!
QCon New York (June 24-26, 2019) isn't just a software conference; it's the software conference where leading technology organisations like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix open their doors and share their engineering successes and failures. QCon is the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, & architects come together to learn and share innovations in the software industry.