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eBay Replatforming to Kubernetes, Envoy and Kafka: Intending to Open Source Hardware and Software
eBay has discussed how they are conducting a replatforming initiative across their entire technology stack, including building and releasing as open source both the hardware and software. Open source is fueling the software transformation of eBay’s infrastructure with cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Envoy, MongoDB, Docker and Apache Kafka.
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Pinterest Switches from OpenTSDB to Their Own Time Series Database
The Pinterest engineering team has used OpenTSDB for storing and querying metrics since 2014. Recently, they developed and switched to their own time series database called Goku to mitigate various performance issues in OpenTSDB caused by a growth in the amount of metrics data.
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Microsoft Pushes New Azure Offerings into the High-Performance Computing Market
Microsoft is entering the high-performance computing (HPC) market with their announcement of the general availability of Azure CycleCloud, a tool for creating, managing, operating, and optimizing HPC clusters of any scale in Azure. Furthermore, Microsoft announced it would support NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC).
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Compliance in an Agile World
Compliance is about making sure that you are doing the right thing and being able to prove it. With agile and frequent deliveries, you need to build compliance into the process of delivery. Making compliance obligation part of the thing that DevOps teams own increases the likelihood of success.
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Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool
Pivotal has released version 1.6 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building and orchestrating real-time data processing pipelines to runtimes such as the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes and Mesos. New features include an app hosting tool, a scheduler for PCF, and an app repository. Mark Pollack, senior staff engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture
To manage systems at scale you must push your system almost to the breaking point, but still be able to recover – and embrace failures, Adrian Hornsby writes in two blog posts sharing his experiences from working with large-scale systems for more than a decade, and the patterns he has found useful.
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Git 2.19 Improves Diff, Branch, Grep, and More
The latest release of Git brings a wealth of new features and internal changes, including improved diff, branch and grep, better command line completion, a new range-diff command, and more.
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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.