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Auth0's Move to a Single-Cloud Architecture on AWS
Auth0, a provider of authentication, authorization and single sign on services, moved their infrastructure from multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) to just AWS. An increasing dependency on AWS services necessitated this, and today their systems are spread across four AWS regions, with services replicated across zones.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service
Microsoft has released the public preview of Windows container support in Azure App Service, which provides more control over what gets installed into the App Service environment. This announcement extends the capabilities of the web app for containers service not only to run Linux based, but now Windows-based containerized environments as well.
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Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
Amazon Aurora, a custom built MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database in AWS, has a new capability generally available – Aurora Serverless MySQL. Amazon first showed a preview of this serverless ability at AWS re:Invent last year.
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Microsoft Bing Gets Performance Boost from .NET Core 2.1
After moving Microsoft search engine Bing to .NET Core 2.1, internal server latency dropped by 34%, writes Microsoft engineer Mukul Sabharwal, mostly thanks to improvements contributed by the .NET community.
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Jib, a Java Container Image Builder from Google
Google recently announced Jib, an open-source container image builder that lets Java developers build Java containers using well-known Java tools.
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Gartner Updates Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
In 2017, Gartner replaced their study on “Application Development Lifecycle Management” with new research on “Enterprise Agile Planning Tools”. According to the analysts, by leveraging customer centric and business outcome driven practices with continual feedback, Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) tools help organizations establish agile practices at scale
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Docker Desktop Adds Kubernetes Support
Docker has released Kubernetes support in their stable channel for Docker Desktop on Windows and on Mac. Kubernetes is also supported by Docker Enterprise, allowing you to deploy the same images in both systems. This includes Docker Compose support, allowing you to use compose files to deploy to the Kubernetes cluster as an alternative to kubeconfig files.
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NATS Messaging System Gets Kafka-Like Log API via Liftbridge
Joining the hot event-driven technology space is Liftbridge, an open-source project that extends the NATS messaging system with a scalable, Kafka-like log API. InfoQ spoke to creator Tyler Treat to learn more about the project, and the changing nature of data integration.
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Prometheus Monitoring Platform "Graduates" from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
On August 9th, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced open source monitoring toolkit, Prometheus, has graduated from its incubation status. In order to achieve this rating, projects must demonstrate growth, documentation, organized governance processes, commitment to community sustainability and inclusivity.
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Uber Open Sources Its Large Scale Metrics Platform M3
Uber’s engineering team released its metrics platform M3 as open source which it has been using internally for some years. The platform was built to replace its Graphite based system, and provides cluster management, aggregation, collection, storage management, a distributed time series database (TSDB) and a query engine with its own query language M3QL.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Management Groups
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure management groups, which provide the ability to organize and apply governance to all subscriptions in a management group. Azure management groups do this by implementing centralized management of Azure policies, role-based access control and more.
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Intel Discloses New Speculative Execution Vulnerability L1 Terminal Fault
Intel has disclosed a new speculative execution side channel vulnerability, dubbed L1 Terminal Fault, that could potentially leak information residing in the processor L1 data cache. Mitigations are already available, according to Intel, based on its latest Microcode Updates and corresponding updates to operating systems and hypervisor stacks.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Linux on App Service Environment
Microsoft announced the general availability of Linux on App Service Environment (ASE), which enables customers to combine the features of App Service on Linux and App Service Environment. This release is a follow up on May's public preview, which allowed customers to deploy Linux and containerized apps in an App Service Environment.
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Rust 2018 is Approaching: Managing the Transition from Rust 2015
The first release of Rust 2018, corresponding to Rust 1.31, will be ready on December 6 2018, writes the Rust Core Team, consolidating under a new label the wealth of new features that have enriched the language since Rust 2015 was first delivered.
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How Coinbase Handled Scaling Challenges on Their Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
Coinbase, a digital currency exchange, faced scaling challenges on their platform during the 2017 cryptocurrency boom. The engineering team focused on upgrading and optimizing MongoDB, traffic segregation for hotspots to resolve them, and building capture and replay tools to prepare for future surges.