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Rancher Labs Release Submariner to Enable Network Connectivity between Kubernetes Clusters
Rancher Labs have released Submariner, a new open-source project to “enable network connectivity between Kubernetes clusters”. This project aims to connect overlay networks of individuals Kubernetes clusters to form a “multicluster”, which in turn facilitates inter-cluster communication and synchronisation between applications and distributed data stores.
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Microsoft Opens Two New Datacenters in Africa with General Availability of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft announced its first data centers in Africa, with the general availability of their cloud service Azure. Moreover, Microsoft becomes the first public cloud provider to deliver cloud services in Africa.
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The 2019 Payara Platform 5 Roadmap
Steve Millidge, CEO at Payara, recently outlined the 2019 Payara Platform 5 roadmap describing the goals for Payara in 2019. A brief review of 2018 accomplishments was highlighted by the introduction of the Payara Platform 5 with the release of Payara 5.181 in March 2018. Payara is once-again planning to deliver quarterly releases (5.191 thru 5.194) of Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5 in 2019.
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Observability in Testing with ElasTest
In a distributed application it is difficult to use debugging techniques common in developing non-distributed applications. Bringing production observability to your testing environment helps to find bugs, argued Francisco Gortázar at the European Testing Conference 2019. He presented ElasTest, a tool for developers to test and validate complex distributed systems using observability.
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SAP Open Sources Java SCA Tool
SAP open sources a tool to detect known vulnerabilities in Java/Python applications through software composition analysis.
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DigitalOcean Announces Partner App Marketplace
DigitalOcean has announced Marketplace, a platform where third-party providers can deliver their software stacks as One-Click Apps. Initially, Marketplace offers a variety of partner offerings, including databases, visualization, and monitoring tools and developer frameworks.
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Microsoft Announces New Capabilities in Azure Firewall: Threat Intelligence and Service Tags Filters
Recently Microsoft announced two new capabilities for Azure Firewall, a cloud-native firewall-as-a-service offering, enabling customers to govern all their traffic flows using a DevOps approach centrally. The firewall service supports both application (such as *.github.com), and network level filtering rules.
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NPM Adopted Rust to Remove Performance Bottlenecks
Npm exponential growth drove the npm engineering team to switch from Node.js to Rust to handle CPU-bound tasks that were going to become a performance bottleneck. A recent white paper overviews the experience of developing the new service in Rust and running it in production for more than one year.
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Rancher Labs Release Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution "k3s" for Edge, IoT and Telco Platforms
Rancher Labs has announced a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that has been optimised towards running within resource-constrained environments, such as edge or IoT locations, or within telco and manufacturing systems.
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How Airbnb Simplified the Kubernetes Workflow for 1000+ Engineers
Melanie Cebula talked about the internal tooling and strategies Airbnb adopted to support over 1000 engineers concurrently configuring and deploying over 250 critical services to Kubernetes. One key enabler was a layer of abstraction and generation of Kubernetes configuration from higher level primitives using standardized environments and namespaces (and automated validations whenever possible).
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Java Support in Azure Functions
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Java support in Azure Functions V2.0. Developers can now write functions in Java 8 and take advantage of the Maven-powered developer experience provided by Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, and the cross-platform Functions Core Tools.
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Deliveroo Adopts Rust to Improve Performance in Core Service
Deliveroo reimplemented performance-critical components of their Dispatcher service in Rust, with an overall 4x performance improvement. InfoQ spoke with Deliveroo engineer Andrii Dmytrenko to learn more about the advantages they got from this rewrite and what it took to get there.
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Chaos Engineering Observability: Q&A with Russ Miles
In a new O’Reilly report, “Chaos Engineering Observability: Bringing Chaos Experiments into System Observability”, the author, Russ Miles, explores why he believes the topics of observability and chaos engineering “go hand in hand”. He argues that as engineers begin to run chaos experiments, they will need to be able to ask many questions about the underlying system being experimented on.
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Amazon Releases Corretto 8 GA: A Downstream Distribution of OpenJDK
Amazon recently released Corretto 8 GA, a "no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution" of OpenJDK. Corretto was introduced as a preview release last November at Devoxx Belgium by Arun Gupta, principal open source technologist at Amazon Web Services, and Yishai Galatzer, senior engineering manager at Amazon Web Services. Gupta spoke to InfoQ about this latest Corretto GA release.
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Scaling, Incident Management and Collaboration at New York Times Engineering
The New York Times Engineering Team wrote about their approach to scaling and incident management against the backdrop of increased traffic during the November 2018 US midterm elections.