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Grady Booch on the Future of AI
According to Grady Booch, most current AI systems are about pattern matching of signals at the edge and inductive reasoning, not true Artificial Intelligence. During his second day keynote at the 2018 QCon San Francisco, "Building the Enchanted Land", he explained his view that AI today is a "system engineering problem with AI components."
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New API Management Solution from NGINX Optimized for Internal and External APIs
The NGINX API Management Module announced at the NGINX Conference in October last year is now generally available. Liam Crilly, director of product management at NGINX, describes the new module together with NGINX Plus and NGINX Controller, as a next generation API management solution optimized for handling both external and internal APIs.
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Docker Announces Support for Windows Server 2019 within Docker Enterprise
Docker announced support for Windows Server 2019 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) and the Server 1809 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) release within the Docker Enterprise platform. Server 2019 brings a number of improvements from previous SAC releases into the LTSC, including ingress routing, virtual IP service discovery, and named pipe mounting.
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Capital One Banks on Open Source to Scale Innovation
In 2012, Capital One was 100% Waterfall, had manual processes and out-sourced their commercial technology. In six years, the bank realized their DevOps transformation supported by their open source adoption. They established a rigorous open source strategy that enabled them to transform their technology and innovation DNA.
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XebiaLabs DevOps Platform Provides New Risk and Compliance Capability for Software Releases
XebiaLabs, a provider of DevOps and continuous delivery software tools, has launched new capabilities for custody, security and compliance risk assessment tracking for software releases via their DevOps Platform.
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Adopting Envoy as a Service-to-Service Proxy at Reddit
Reddit introduced Envoy into their backend framework as service-to-service proxy to support their ongoing architectural improvements. By adopting Envoy as a service-to-service Layer 4/Layer 7 proxy, they discovered significant improvements in observability, ease of adoption, and performance.
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Microsoft Azure Government Cloud: New Online Training Material Available
Microsoft recently expanded its Microsoft Learn platform with an introductory class on Azure Government. Azure Government is Microsoft’s solution for hosting United States government solutions on its cloud. In this article we will discuss what the Azure Government offers and how it pans against AWS GovCloud US offering.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of OpenAPI Specification V3 in Azure API Management
Recently Microsoft has announced support for OpenAPI specification v3 in Azure API Management, their service allowing to set up, publish, monitor and maintain APIs. Employment of the OpenAPI specification is done through the OpenAPI.NET SDK and supports in abstracting the definition of APIs from their implementation.
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Server and Network Operations Automation at Dropbox
Dropbox's engineering team wrote about their network and server provisioning and validation automation tool called Pirlo. Pirlo has a pluggable architecture based on a MySQL backed custom job queue implementation.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Data Box Disk
In a recent blog post, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Disk, an SSD-based solution for offline data transfer to Azure. Furthermore, Microsoft also announced the public preview of Azure Data Box Blob Storage – a feature allowing customers to copy data to Blob Storage on a Data Box.
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Rust 1.32 Improves Tracing, Modules, Macros, and More
Rust 1.32 includes a number of new language features meant to improve developer experience when tracing the execution of programs for debugging purposes. Additionally, it now uses the system allocator by default, completes work on the module system to make it easier to use, and more.
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Google Announces Support for Go Language on Cloud Functions
In a recent post, Google has announced support for Go 1.11 on Cloud Functions, which is their Function as a Service offering. With this announcement, Go joins the line as a supported programming language for Cloud Functions besides the previously available Node.js and Python.
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Homebrew 1.9 Adds Linux Support, Auto-Cleanup, and More
The latest release of popular macOS package manager Homebrew includes support for Linux, optional automatic package cleanup, and extended binary package support. InfoQ has spoken with Mike McQuaid, current maintainer of the project.
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IBM Releases Open Liberty 18.0.0.4 with Support for MicroProfile 2.1 and Reactive Extensions
IBM’s fourth quarter 2018 release of Open Liberty 18.0.0.4 features full support for MicroProfile 2.1, reactive extensions, and connection pool metrics. Kevin Sutter, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE (EE4J) architect for WebSphere at IBM, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release and what we can expect from Open Liberty in 2019.
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Inner-Sourcing as Catalyst for DevOps Transformation at Verizon
Verizon successful scaled their DevOps execution at enterprise level by focusing on three key areas: migrating to the cloud, modernizing their technologies and transforming their culture. Verizon transformed into an inner-sourcing culture based on participation, empowerment, rapid prototyping and meritocracy.