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Splunk Releases Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow
Data analytics organisation, Splunk, recently released Splunk Connected Experiences which delivers insights through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices like Apple TV, and mobile applications. They also released Splunk Business Flow which enables business operations professionals to gain insights across their customer journeys and business processes.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Enhancements: Upgrade Channels, Windows Container Support and Stackdriver
At the recent KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Google announced that it will offer three new release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular, and Stable. With these channels, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users can choose whether they want the freshest release or the most stable one — or quickly evaluate the latest updates in a development environment.
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Vendors Argue over AWS’ Open Distro for Elasticsearch
AWS announced the release of their Open Distro for Elasticsearch back in March. However, the release has not come with support from all members of the community. While AWS states that they have released Open Distro in order to ensure that Elasticsearch remains fully open source, other members of the tech community claim this is another move by Amazon to further solidify their strong customer base.
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CircleCI Adds Additional Partner Integrations to Support Kubernetes Workloads
CircleCI has announced new partner integrations as part of their Technology Partner program. CircleCI previously introduced a package management solution called Orbs. Orbs bundle common CI/CD tasks into reusable, shareable packages. With this announcement, CircleCI has added partner-supported orbs for AWS, Azure, VMware, Red Hat, Kublr and Helm.
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Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at the Edge
What sits between your application and the client's browser? When the answer is "the internet", Cloudflare wants their Workers platform to play a part. They recently expanded that platform with Workers KV, a distributed, eventually-consistent key-value store available in 180+ edge locations.
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GitKraken Founder Hamid Shojaee Shares Experiences on Building a Git GUI
Git is historically a tool limited to those with a strong love of the command-line. GitKraken strives to improve on the status quo by providing a powerful GUI for working with Git.
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Google's Cloud TPU V2 and V3 Pods Are Now Publicly Available in Beta
Recently, Google announced that its second- and third-generation Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) Pods — its scalable cloud-based supercomputers with up to 1,000 of its custom TPU — are now publicly available in beta. With these Pods, Machine Learning (ML) researchers, engineers, and data scientists can speed up the time needed to train and deploy machine learning models.
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Kubernetes Future: VMs, Containers, or Hypervisor?
In competing visions of the future of Kubernetes, Paul Czarkowski, principal technologist at Pivotal, predicts that VMs will replace containers, and Joe Fernandes, a VP at Red Hat, considers that VMs usage is evolving for Kubernetes rather than replacing containers. In addition, Chris Short, Red Hat's principal product marketing manager, said that Kubernetes is close to replacing the hypervisor.
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Infrastructure Automation Company Chef Commits to Open Source
Chef, an infrastructure automation company, has committed to developing all of their software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Expo: Real Time A/B Testing and Monitoring with Spark Streaming and Kafka at Walmart Labs
The WalmartLabs engineering team developed a real time A/B testing tool called Expo that collects and analyzes user engagement metrics. It uses Spark Structured Streaming to process the incoming data and stores the metrics in KairosDB.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.5.0 with Layer 7 Observability and Centralized Configuration
Hashicorp released version 1.5.0 of Consul, their service mesh application and key-value store. These are the first features released on their new roadmap for Consul, including support for L7 observability and load balancing via Envoy, centralized configuration, and ACL authentication support for trusted third-party applications.
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Databricks MLflow Integration Now Generally Available
Databricks recently made MLflow integration with Databrick notebooks generally available for its data engineering and higher subscription tiers. The integration combines the features of MLflow with those of Databrick notebooks and jobs. MLflow provides the following three main capabilities: experiment tracking, projects, and MLflow models.
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Microsoft Launches Several New Machine Learning Services and Extends Its Cognitive Services
Before its Build Developer Conference, Microsoft released several new Machine Learning services and Cognitive Services updates, ranging from no-code tools to hosted notebooks, with several new APIs and other services in-between.
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How GitLab Managed to Migrate from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
Recently GitLab.com was migrated from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it more suitable to mission-critical workloads requiring the lowest error rates and the highest availability. InfoQ has spoken with Brandon Jung, VP of Alliances at GitLab, and Andrew Newdigate, Staff Engineer, Infrastructure, to learn more.
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Node.js 12 Release Improves Security, Performance, and Modules
The Node.js project recently released Node.js version 12, adding improvements through its underlying V8 JavaScript engine, startup performance, ES6 modules, and more.