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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.
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Baidu Announces "OpenEdge", an Open-Source Edge Computing Platform
Recently Baidu Inc. announced China's first open-source edge computing platform called OpenEdge - allowing developers to build light, secure and scalable edge applications. The OpenEdge platform brings processing power to "edge devices" like smart home appliances and wearables.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery Enhancements
Last week, Microsoft announced several enhancements to their Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery services. The changes in the announcement include additional geographies for storing discovery and assessment metadata, along with additional supported options for migrations.
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Ockam Brings Blockchain Serverless Identification to IoT Devices
Ockam is a serverless platform that aims to make it easier for IoT developers to add blockchain-based identity, trust, and interoperability in their IoT devices. Ockam has recently open sourced its SDK for Golang. InfoQ has spoken with Ockam CEO and founder Matthew Gregory to learn more.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.
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Amazon Updates SQS to Support Amazon VPC Endpoints Using AWS PrivateLink
Amazon announced last month that its fully managed message queuing service Simple Queue Service (SQS) supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints using AWS PrivateLink. Now customers can have with this update private access to SQS and not have to use public IPs and traverse the public internet.
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New Docker Hub Merges Together Docker Cloud and Docker Store
Docker has released a new Docker Hub experience that combines the previous Docker Store, Docker Cloud, and Docker Hub functionality into one location. This provides users with a single experience for finding, storing, and sharing container images. Verified and certified images and plugins are now available through Docker Hub. They have also released improvements to the automated build feature.
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The Guardian’s Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
The Guardian migrated their CMS’s datastore in 2018 from a self-managed MongoDB cluster to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS for a fully managed solution. The team did an API-based migration without any downtime.
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Google Announces Cloud DNS Forwarding
In a recent blog post, Google has announced Cloud DNS forwarding, allowing resources, both in the cloud and on-premises, to find each other through DNS. These capabilities deliver the option to either implement Google DNS or one’s private authoritative server as a DNS provider.
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GitHub Launches Free Private Repos with up to Three Collaborators
GitHub has just announced it will allow developers to create private repositories with up to three collaborators at no cost. Additionally, GitHub has introduced a new product for enterprise customers operating both in the cloud and on-premises. InfoQ has spoken with Kathy Simpson, senior director of product at GitHub, to learn more.
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Upbound Release Preview of "Crossplane", a Universal Control Plane API for Cloud Computing
Upbound, the creators of the Rook storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, released Crossplane, an open source multi-cloud control plane that aims to provide a “universal API for cloud computing”. Crossplane exposes workload and resource abstractions on-top of Kubernetes and existing cloud-based managed services with the goal of enabling a high degree of workload portability across cloud providers.
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The Evolution of Full Cycle Developers at Netflix: Greg Burrell at QCon SF
At QCon San Francisco, Greg Burrell talked about the journey towards “full cycle developers” within the Netflix edge engineering team. Following the principle of “operate what you build”, developers within this team chose to take on more operational responsibility for their services, and were facilitated by comprehensive tooling, training and management support.
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KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 Summary: Kubernetes 1.13, Envoy Update, and New Hosted Projects
At the recent KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America events, held in Seattle, USA, a series of updates were provided about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosted projects. Highlights included the release of Kubernetes 1.13, an overview of the progress of the Envoy Proxy project, and the inclusion of the Rook storage orchestration and Harbor image registry projects.
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Kong 1.0 GA Released with Service Mesh Support and Plugin Development Kit
Kong Inc., has released Kong 1.0., the latest generally available (GA) version of their flagship API gateway. Although typically deployed at the edge of a network for the handling of external “north-south” API traffic, Kong also be can deployed as a “service mesh” in front of any backend service.
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AWS App Mesh: Hosted Service Mesh Control Plane for Envoy Proxy
Amazon has released AWS App Mesh, a service mesh that allows developers to standardise how microservices communicate, implement rules for communications between microservices, and capture metrics, logs, and traces directly into AWS services and third-party tools. App Mesh is effectively an AWS-specific hosted control plane for Envoy, an open source service mesh data plane proxy.