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AppDynamics Launches New European Software-as-a-Service Offering
Application intelligence vendor, AppDynamics, has launched a new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region.
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Microsoft Announces Support for CloudEvents through Its Azure Event Grid Service
Microsoft announced it would provide support for CloudEvents, a new open specification, and standard for consistently describing event data. This open standard was created by the Serverless Working Group of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF), who partners with many cloud services and cloud providers.
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Understanding Production with DevOps Archeology
Lee Fox spoke at Continuous Lifecycle London about tools and methods to help make sense of today’s complex systems and infrastructure; he calls it DevOps archeology.
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AWS Releases Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
In 2017 at re:Invent, AWS previewed a Kubernetes-based container service. Now six months later, the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is generally available. It joins a crowded space of managed Kubernetes cloud services, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
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Building Observable Distributed Systems
Today's systems are more and more complex; microservices distributed over the network and scaling dynamically, resulting in many more ways of failure, ways we can't always predict. Investing in observability gives us the ability to ask questions to systems, things we never thought about before. Some of the tools that can be used for this are metrics, tracing, structured and correlated logging.
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Studio 3T: SQL Exploration for MongoDB
Studio 3T offers an SQL-based user interface for MongoDB. This includes in-place data editing, query performance information, and a SQL to code converter for JavaScript (node.JS), Java, Python, and C#.
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Instana Extends AI Application Monitoring to AWS Lambda
Instana, a cloud-native provider of artificial intelligence based monitoring tools for dynamic containerized microservice applications, has extended support to include AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform and also announced availability through the AWS Marketplace.
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Thanos - a Scalable Prometheus with Unlimited Storage
The Improbable engineering team open sourced Thanos, a set of components that adds high availability to Prometheus installations by cross-cluster federation, unlimited storage and global querying across clusters.
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Amazon Neptune, a New Cloud Graph Database, Is Now Generally Available
A new cloud graph database, Amazon Neptune, is publically available after its limited preview launch last year. With Amazon Neptune, customers can manage their bits of data in a graph model – a semantic structure in nodes, edges, and properties.
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Q&A with the Creator of Dockly, a Console-Based UI for Managing Docker Containers
Dockly is an open-source alternative to the Docker CLI, which helps you manage and monitor all your Docker containers from the command line. To get a better understanding of how Dockly improves working with Docker, InfoQ spoke with the developer behind Dockly, Liran Tal, about his experience building Dockly and creating terminal-based applications.
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Microsoft to Acquire GitHub for $7.5 Billion
Microsoft has announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the software development platform and web-based hosting service for version control using Git. The deal should close later in the year, and both parties have stated that GitHub will remain an open platform that is committed to supporting developers using any tools and deploying to any platform.
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Gradle Releases Version 4.7 with Support for Java 10
Gradle has released version 4.7 of their polyglot build tool with a host of new features including support for Java 10, incremental annotation processing, improved console logs, and new pre-compiled script plugins for Kotlin DSL.
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AppDynamics Extends Business Transaction Tracing to SAP Environments
AppDynamics, an application intelligence and performance management vendor owned by Cisco, has announced the availability of AppDynamics for SAP. New ABAP code-level monitoring provides visibility of customer experiences, from digital touch-points through mission-critical SAP business applications, from code-level insights to customer taps, swipes and clicks.
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Atlassian Releases Escalator, an Autoscaling Tool for Kubernetes Nodes
Atlassian released their in-house tool Escalator as an open source project. It provides configuration-driven preemptive scale-up and faster scale-down for Kubernetes nodes.
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Unified Service Discovery Announced by OpsRamp
At the May 2018 Gartner IT Operations Strategies and Solutions Summit in Orlando, Florida, OpsRamp announced a new solution, Unified Service Discovery, and a 48-hour IT Asset Visibility Challenge for hybrid environments.