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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.
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WhiteSource Launches Free Open Source Vulnerability Checking
WhiteSource, an open source security and license compliance management solution provider, has launched Vulnerability Checker; a new, free and standalone CLI tool that provides alerts on critical open source vulnerabilities.
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Continuous Delivery Implemented with Event Sourcing at eBay
Using an event-centric approach, the Continuous Delivery team at eBay has built an orchestrator for continuous delivery, which is able to scale to handle the increasing amount of work in their build pipelines, John Long and Nataraj Sundar write in two blog posts describing their view on the overall benefits of event sourcing and the advantages they have seen in their application development.
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O11ycon Discusses Benefits and Challenges of Observability
The first o11ycon provides a comprehensive look at the emerging concept of observability in software and systems which allow people to understand if things are working as expected, and to diagnose problems and identify solutions.
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GitHub Expands Its Learning Offerings with Four New Online Courses
GitHub Learning Lab is an initiative launched earlier this year to help people of all skill levels use GitHub. GitHub has released four new courses, Uploading to GitHub, Migrating to GitHub, Community Starter Kit, and Introduction to HTML.
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Terraform 0.12 Releasing This Summer with for Loops and First-Class Expressions
HashiCorp will be releasing Terraform 0.12 later this summer. This release includes a number of new, heavily requested improvements to Terraform based on community feedback and input. Most notably among the changes are: first-class expressions, the for expression, and conditionals. Upgrading to the new version may cause breaking changes for some users of Terraform.
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"Docker Application Guides" Demonstrate How to Deploy Enterprise Apps to Swarm and Kubernetes
Docker recently announced Docker Application Guides, which demonstrates how to deploy applications on Docker Enterprise Edition and Docker Desktop, providing architectures and guidance examples for selecting container images and deploying prototype applications, orchestrated by Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
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Istio v1.0 Service Mesh Released with Feature “Ready for Production Use”
At the Google Cloud Next 2018 event, the release of Istio 1.0 service was announced. Key new features include cross-cluster mesh support, fine-grained traffic flow control, and the ability to incrementally roll out mutual TLS across a mesh.
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Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600+ Integrations
Plaid.com has integrations with over 9600 financial institutions, and their monitoring challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of these integrations and as well as their large number. They rebuilt their monitoring system on Kinesis, Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana to solve the challenges of scalability and low latency.
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Google Updates Key Cloud Database Services
Google unveiled new database capabilities and partnerships at the recently-concluded Google Cloud Next conference. This included expanded beta access for Cloud Firestore, new functionality for Cloud Bigtable, and highly-requested features for Cloud Spanner. There were also announcements around expanded support for SAP and Oracle workloads.
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How SendGrid Scales Its Email Delivery Systems
SendGrid, a cloud based email service, has seen its backend architecture evolve from a small Postfix installation to a system hosted on their own data-centers as well as on the public cloud. Rewriting of services in Go, a gradual move to AWS, and a distributed Ceph-based queue allows the team to hand over 40 billion emails per month.