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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.
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Allegro Launches Hermes 1.0, a REST-based Message Broker Built on Top of Kafka
Allegro has launched version 1.0 of Hermes, a rest API based message broker built on top of Apache Kafka. Whilst not containing any new features, this first major version release is given to the current stable codebase.
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CRI-O: An Open Source Container Runtime for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted CRI-O as an incubation-level hosted project on April 8th. CRI-O, created by Red Hat, is an Open Container Initiative container runtime for Kubernetes that provides an alternative to Docker.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Brendan Burns about GA of OpenShift on Azure
The general availability (GA) of OpenShift on Azure was included alongside several other Kubernetes-related announcements at Microsoft Build 2019 and Red Hat Summit 2019, which recently concluded in Seattle and Boston, concurrently. InfoQ caught up with Brendan Burns, a co-founder of the Kubernetes platform and a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, regarding the announcement.
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QCon San Francisco 2019: Registrations Open & Top Videos from QCon SF 2018
QCon San Francisco, the software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns November 11-13, 2019, for the 13th year. QCon is organized by the people behind InfoQ & is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators & early adopters to share their story in the global epicenters of software development: Beijing, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and San Francisco.
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Micronaut 1.1 Features Enhanced Support for Building Cloud-Native Applications
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced the release of Micronaut 1.1 featuring support for gRPC, GraphQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), RabbitMQ and Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is also a new Bean Introspection API that replaces the JDK Introspector class and new templates for the Micronaut Test project.
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Microsoft Brings SQL to the Edge, Announces Azure SQL Database Edge
At the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced a new database offering, which brings SQL Server capabilities to edge computing. Officially called Azure SQL Database Edge, the service runs on ARM64 and x64 processors and provides capabilities such as data streaming, time series data, graph support and in-database machine learning. The supported platforms include Linux and Windows.
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Improving the .NET Docker Experience: DockerCon 2019 Overview
During the latest edition of DockerCon, Microsoft shared multiple improvements made in the .NET Core over the past year, all aimed at enhancing the experience of using .NET and Docker together.
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Q&A on New App Hosting Cloud Provider, Render
Render is a new provider of web and app hosting, described by Render’s CEO as the “best of both worlds” between full scale cloud providers, such as AWS, and PaaS providers, such as Heroku.
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Canonical Brings Infrastructure Offerings Under One Roof
Canonical has released a consolidated offering for open source infrastructure, called Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure (UA-I), covering its existing services like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph and Swift. The solution offers three levels of support - Essential, Standard and Advanced - with the per-node pricing remaining uniform regardless of the software running on it.
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Critical Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability Discovered in Oracle WebLogic Server
Security researchers have discovered a new remotely exploitable vulnerability in Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS). CVE-2019-2725 is remotely exploitable without user authentication and has an overall CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10, making it a critical vulnerability. Oracle released a security alert noting that versions of the server affected by this flaw include 10.3.6.0 and 12.1.3.0.
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Kuberhealthy: Synthetic Testing for Kubernetes Clusters
Kuberhealthy, an open source solution developed by Comcast, detects Kubernetes issues by performing synthetic tests within Kubernetes clusters and reports metrics to monitoring systems such as Prometheus.
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Bringing Hybrid Automation to Serverless Computing, Microsoft Previews PowerShell in Azure Functions
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerShell support in Azure Functions 2.x runtime, in preview. This release focuses on bringing custom logic scenarios to administrators and developers who prefer to script in PowerShell. Azure Function event triggers and bindings bring new capabilities to PowerShell scenarios by supporting on-demand execution in addition to schedule support.