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Building Scalable and Reliable IoT Apps with MQTT and HiveMQ 4
HiveMQ is an MQTT-based messaging platform designed to power IoT applications. Recently released HiveMQ 4 adds support for MQTT 5, improves its extension system, and integrates better with Docker and Kubernetes, and AWS EC2. InfoQ has spoken with Dominik Obermaier, CTO of dc-square GmbH, maker of HiveMQ.
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ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP
At their annual Scylla Summit conference, ScyllaDB released version 3.0 of their flagship product, ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0. New features include: concurrent OLTP and OLAP; materialized views; secondary indexes; and compatibility with the Cassandra 3.x file format. Dor Laor, CEO at ScyllaDB, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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DockerCon EU 2018 Summary: Migration Tooling, Docker Desktop Enterprise and More
At DockerCon Europe 2018, core announcements included the preview of container-based migration tooling for .NET and Java applications, support for digital transformation efforts and technology integration projects, the launch of Docker Desktop Enterprise, the open sourcing of Docker Compose on Kubernetes, and the announcement of the CNAB specification in collaboration with Microsoft.
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Microsoft Announces New Features and Integrations for Azure Pipelines
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced several new features and integrations with Azure Pipelines. The new features and integrations include an Azure Pipelines extension for Visual Studio Code, management of GitHub Releases, support for IoT projects, and ServiceNow integration.
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Beaker Browser Offers Electron-Based Peer-to-Peer Web Browser
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser based on Electron, Chromium, and Node.js. Beaker includes new Dat-based APIs for building hostless applications while retaining compatibility with the traditional Web.
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KubeCon 2018: The Return of SQL
Like many conferences, KubeCon 2018 has a variety of distributed database vendors. But what is unusual this year is every single one of them InfoQ talked to emphasized their support for SQL
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Amazon Announces an AWS Well-Architected Tool to Review Workloads Against Best Practices
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new Well Architected tool - a self-service tool that helps customers review AWS workloads at any time without the need for an AWS Architect. Moreover, this new tool uses the AWS Well-Architect Framework launched back in 2015.
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InfoQ's New Desktop Design Launched
We've made a number of changes to InfoQ's desktop site, the third major overhaul of our design since we got started in 2006. You can switch to the new design now to try it out.
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AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond Officially Supported Runtimes
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including Lambda Layers, to centrally manage code and data shared across functions, and the Lambda Runtime API, expanding Lambda beyond JavaScript to any programming language.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Kubernetes Service Updates
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Kubernetes Service, their managed Kubernetes offering. The announcements include features around AKS virtual nodes, GPU support for Azure Container Instances, and the donation of the Virtual Kubelet project to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.0 Open Sources Auto-Unseal, Adds Batch Tokens
HashiCorp has released version 1.0 of Vault, their secrets management tool that open-sources the auto-unseal feature needed to continue using Vault server after a failure or a restart. In this version, a new type of token called batch is now available for ephemeral workloads. Another new feature is that service account tokens are now supported in Kubernetes auth to inject tokens into a pod.
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Microsoft Introduces New API Management Consumption Tier for Serverless Architectures
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This tier allows for micro-based billing and aligns to serverless architecture principles including automated scaling, built-in high availability, per action billing and no infrastructure to provision or manage.
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GitHub Desktop 1.5 Simplifies Merge Conflict Resolution
The lastest version of GitHub official client app for macOS and Windows, GitHub Desktop 1.5, makes it easier to resolve merge conflicts and to create, add, or clone a repository. InfoQ has spoken with Neha Batra, GitHub Desktop engineering manager.
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Scaling Apache Kafka at Pinterest
Apache Kafka is used at Pinterest for transporting data for real time streaming applications, logging and visibility metrics for monitoring. Hosted on AWS, Pinterest’s Kafka installation uses the MirrorMaker and DoctorKafka tools for replication and high availability.
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Rust 1.31 Brings the First Rust 2018 Features, Non-Lexical Lifetimes and Module Improvements
Rust 1.31 is the first release that implements new features exclusive to Rust 2018 and does not guarantee source compatibility with existing code bases. Rust 2018 is a work in progress and Rust 1.31 only marks the beginning of a three year development cycle that will significantly extend the language.