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Strategic Partnership Announced Between Atlassian and Slack: HipChat to Be Discontinued
Atlassian announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership with Slack on July 26, 2018, and will no longer offer their own real-time communications products Hipchat Cloud, Hipchat Data Center, Hipchat Server, and Stride. The partnership enables them to extend existing integrations between their tools and co-build new ones.
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Data Artisans Announces Serializable ACID Transactions on Streaming Data
Data Artisans has announced the general availability of Streaming Ledger, which extends Apache Flink with capabilities to perform serializable ACID transactions across tables, keys, and event streams. The patent-pending technology is a proprietary add-on for Flink and allows going beyond the current standard where operations could only consistently work on a single key at a time.
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Jenkins to Focus Efforts on Stability, Ease of Use and Cloud Native Compatibility
The Jenkins project team has decided to split its efforts between focusing on stability issues and on better support for running on platforms like Kubernetes. The former, which will potentially have backward-incompatible changes, will impact the release model and provide a more pre-configured installation, whereas the latter will work on similar lines as the existing Jenkins X project.
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Azure Orchestrators Simplify the Creation of Stateful Serverless Workflows
Azure Durable Functions aim to extend the paradigm of serverless computing by introducing the concept of orchestrator functions, enabling the definition of more complex workflows. If you have ever fancied using them, Microsoft has just published a good walk-through to help developers start their journey in serverless computing and orchestrator functions.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure IoT Hub’s Integration with Azure Event Grid
Microsoft announced the general availability of the integration of IoT Hub with Azure Event Grid after a public preview period of six months. With the combination of IoT Hub and Event Grid, customers can enhance the support of device events to automate actions like database updates, ticket creation, and billing management.
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"GitOps": Weaveworks Explain Their Model for Using Developer Tooling to Implement CI/CD
Over the past year, the Weaveworks team has increasingly refined the ideas around the practice of “GitOps”, their name for how they use developer tooling to drive operations and to implement continuous delivery.
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Atlassian Expands the Jira Ecosystem: Bitbucket Integration, OpsGenie, and Jira Ops
Atlassian has announced a series of moves to expand the Jira ecosystems, including better integration between Bitbucket and Jira, acquisition of the OpsGenie company, and the release of an incident management platform called Jira Ops.
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Go 2 Gets off the Blocks: Feedback Requested on New Package Management, Error Handling, and Generics
At Gophercon 2018, Russ Cox explained what will go into Go 2, including error handling and generics, and gave a preview of what the current proposals for the new features look like.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech and Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text
Google announced the general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech, which allows developers to add natural-sounding speech to their devices or applications. Furthermore, Google also announced updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text by adding a broader set of features and enhancing the availability and reliability.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor into CNCF Sandbox
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that they have accepted Harbor, a cloud-native registry that stores, signs, and scans container images, into their sandbox. Harbor extends Docker Distribution, the Docker toolset used to work with Docker content, by adding functionalities such as security, identity, and management.
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Google Releases App Engine Second Generation Runtime Supporting Python 3.7 and PHP 7.2 Support
Google Cloud recently announced the release of its Second Generation App Engine standard runtimes, an upgrade to the web framework and cloud computing platform for building apps. This update allows users to run their web apps with up-to-date versions of popular languages, frameworks and libraries, including the Python 3.7 and PHP 7.2 libraries.
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Eclipse Releases Versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile
The Eclipse Foundation recently released versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile featuring relevant updates to the APIs, including comprehensive Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs), Maven coordinates, Javadocs, and Git tags. These versions are fully aligned with Java EE 7 and Java EE 8. The synergies between MicroProfile and Jakarta EE have sparked some speculation that the two platforms could merge.
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Q&A with IBM's Lin Sun on Istio 1.0 and Microservices
InfoQ caught up with Lin Sun, a senior technical member at IBM and also a participant in the open source Istio project release team, regarding Istio in general and the 1.0 release in particular.
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Uber Open Sources JVM Profiler for Tracing Distributed JVMs
Uber open sourced a distributed profiler called JVM Profiler in late June. They built JVM Profiler to solve resource allocation issues they had with Apache Spark. Apache Spark is a popular framework for processing large data streams, of which Uber has many. JVM Profiler was built for Spark, but it's applicable to any JVM-based service or application.
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QCon New York 2018: Better Developer Experience at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
Mike McGarr, manager of developer productivity at Netflix, recently presented Better DexEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers at QCon New York 2018. He described how Netflix evolved from operating as a Java shop to supporting developer tools built with multiple languages. This has ultimately provided a better development experience. McGarr spoke to InfoQ about centralized teams at Netflix.