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Microservices and Site Reliability Engineering
A recent article talks about how the complexities introduced by microservices initially seem at odds with the concept of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and how companies such as Google are tackling that to ensure that whilst development groups can continue to embrace microservices, they and their SRE teams have the necessary tools and understandings to make them work well together.
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Netflix Open Sources Its Container Management Platform "Titus"
Netflix announced the open sourcing of their container management platform called Titus. Titus is built on top of Apache Mesos and runs on AWS EC2.
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Oracle Releases GraalVM 1.0, a Polyglot Virtual Machine and Platform
Oracle has announced the 1.0 release of GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine and platform. The initial release includes the capability to run Java and JVM languages (via bytecode) as well as full support for JavaScript and Node.JS, with beta support for Ruby, Python and R code.
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Cloud Native Java Has A New Home: Jakarta EE
Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation, introduced a new Eclipse governance model and roadmap for Jakarta EE at this year’s JAX conference. Based on a recent survey of over 1800 Java developers, the new governance model will focus on support for cloud native application development and faster release cycles. Milinkovich spoke with InfoQ on the future of Jakarta EE.
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Trunk Based Development as a Cornerstone for Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley, co-author of the pivotal Continuous Delivery book, recently wrote about push-back to the practice of trunk based development, despite evidence of its role in achieving the benefits of CI and high performing teams. Jez Humble, his co-author, also commented in a twitter-thread on the cultural aspects of the practice to understand its relation to programmer psyche.
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OCI Standardizes Container Registry API Based on Docker’s v2 Protocol
The Open Container Initiative launched the container distribution specification project to standardize the API for container image registries. It’s based on the Docker Registry v2 protocol, which is used by the Docker toolset as well as by public cloud vendors.
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Oracle Replaces JavaOne with Oracle Code One
Oracle has announced the end of their flagship Java developer conference, JavaOne. In its place Oracle plans to run a broader developer-focused conference, called Oracle Code One.
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12th State of Agile Report Published
The 2018 State of Agile Report has been published by CollabNet VersionOne. Some of the conclusions from the report are that the need for customer and user satisfaction is increasing, more and more organizations are scaling agile, distributed teams are becoming the norm in agile software development, and many organization have started or plan to start a DevOps initiative in the next 12 months.
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Proposed Schedule for JDK 11
Mark Reinhold, chief architect at Oracle, recently proposed the schedule for the JDK 11 GA release in September 2018. One of the new features, JEP-320, removes Java EE and CORBA modules that may potentially break existing applications.
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GCP Release “kaniko”, a Tool to Build Container Images inside Unprivileged Containers or Kubernetes
Google has released "kaniko", an open source tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. kaniko does not depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
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Metrics Collection from Large Scale IoT Deployments at Vivint
Vivint's engineering team built their own metrics collection platform to collect and analyze metrics from their deployed devices. The key motivation behind writing their own system was to be able to store only aggregated data and focus on its analysis, which they achieve by their Rothko project.
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What It Means to Be a Site Reliability Engineer According to a Survey from Catchpoint
Site Reliability Engineering intersects software engineering with IT Operations and is an approach created at Google in 2003 and described in detail in their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, How Google Runs Production Systems. Digital experience intelligence provider, Catchpoint, surveyed 416 Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with the goal of understanding what it means to be a SRE.
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Kayenta: An Open Source Canary Analysis Tool from Netflix and Google
Kayenta is an open source canary analysis tool used to evaluate the readiness for production of a new version of a software.
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Java EE Guardians Moving Forward with Jakarta EE
Shortly after Java EE was rebranded to Jakarta EE, well-known Java EE evangelist Reza Rahman recently closed the change.org petition to declare victory in the original petition filed by the Java EE Guardians almost two years ago, in which they encouraged Oracle to move forward with Java EE 8. Rahman spoke to InfoQ about the future of the Java EE Guardians and Jakarta EE.
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Kubernetes 1.10 and Cross-Cloud CI Project Dashboard 1.3 Released, and Kubernetes Survey Announced
The Kubernetes container orchestration platform 1.10 release focuses on adding beta functionality to three core areas, including storage, security and networking. In additional Kubernetes-related news, the Cross-cloud CI project group have released the CI Dashboard v1.3.0, and the App Def Working Group have opened a survey for all users of Kubernetes to share requirements for deploying apps.