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How Booking.com Uses Kubernetes for Machine Learning
Sahil Dua explained how Booking.com was able to scale machine learning (ML) models for recommending destinations and accommodation to their customers using Kubernetes, at the QCon London conference. In particular, he stressed how Kubernetes elasticity and resource starvation avoidance on containers helps them run computationally (and data) intensive, hard to parallelize, machine learning models.
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Q&A with Stuart Davidson on Scaling Continuous Delivery at Skyscanner
Stuart Davidson spoke at QConLondon 2018 about Skyscanner's mission to get from a reactive operations model to providing teams with an empowering developer experience. Davidson told the story of how, with support and a lofty-goal from their CTO, they began on a technical and cultural journey to enable their squads to deliver 10 thousand times a day. InfoQ speaks with Davidson to learn more.
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CloudBees Release "Jenkins X", a CI/CD Solution for Modern Cloud Applications Deployed to Kubernetes
James Strachan and the CloudBees team have released the open source “Jenkins X” platform as a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution for modern cloud applications that will be deployed onto Kubernetes. Strachan is sponsoring JEP 400, a formal proposal to act as a “stake on the ground”. The proposal requests that Jenkins X become a sub-project in the Jenkins Foundation.
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Payara Foundation Releases Payara Server 5 and Payara Micro 5
The Payara Foundation recently released version 5 of Payara Server and Payara Micro with a host of new features and upgrades including a fresh new admin console, improvements with clustering, a new database, and support for Java EE 8 and MicroProfile 1.2. Michael Croft, Java middleware consultant at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Community OpenJDK Build Farm Goes Live
The AdoptOpenJDK project has recently announced that its build farm is now fully operational and it is producing community binaries as free software.
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Monitoring Microservices at Scale at Crisp
Crisp’s engineering team shared their experience in monitoring their microservices stack. Vigil, their open sourced project in Rust, is a set of pull/push probes to collect health data with support for multiple languages, a status dashboard and integration with some external alerting tools.
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IBM Delivers the First Bare Metal Kubernetes in the Public Cloud
IBM offers the industries first bare metal Kubernetes as a managed service. This service will enable developers and data science teams to push containers to a managed service directly on bare metal cloud infrastructure.
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Kubernetes Founder Craig McLuckie on Going Multi-Cloud and Open Source
InfoQ caught up with Craig McLuckie, one of the original founders of the Kubernetes project and CEO of Heptio.
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New Research from GitLab Shines Light on the Value and Challenges of DevOps
The 2018 global developer report from GitLab shows that software professionals collectively recognise the value of working in highly collaborative DevOps-style environments and have experienced the benefits of doing so. 65% of respondents say that DevOps is a tremendous time saver, a figure which rises to 81% when focusing solely on managers.
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Ankyra Presents “Escape”, a Release Automation Tool That Manages Platforms as Logical Components
Over the last ten years there has been increased focus on infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling, primarily driven by the rise of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and API-driven infrastructure. InfoQ discussed the challenges of homogenising this tooling with Bart Spaans, founder of Ankyra, who is an expert in the domain of infrastructure and release engineering.
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Google Releases “Skaffold”, a Tool That Facilitates Continuous Development with Kubernetes
Google has released Skaffold, an open source command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. Skaffold is entering an increasingly crowded space of Kubernetes development automation tooling, including Azure’s Draft, Datawire’s Forge and Weavework’s Flux.
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Q&A with Marisa Fagan on Security Championship
Security lead Marisa Fagan recently spoke at QConLondon 2018 about upskilling and elevating engineering team members into the role of Security Champions. We catch up with Fagen and report on her efforts to address contention caused by a scarcity of security professionals.
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Sauce Labs Adds Analytics and Extended Debugging to Continuous Testing Cloud
At their recent user conference SauceCon, Sauce Labs introduced new capabilities for its continuous testing cloud including test analytics, featuring a dashboard that analyses test results and exposes common failures by browser and operating system, including Android and iOS.
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Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems: Tammy Butow Discusses Chaos Engineering at QCon London
At QCon London, Tammy Butow, explained why the world needs more resilient systems, and how this can be achieved with the practice of chaos engineering. Three primary prerequisites for chaos engineering were provided -- high severity “SEV” incident management, monitoring, and measuring the impact -- and a series of guidelines, tools and practices presented.
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Q&A with James Munnelly and Matt Bates on Kubernetes Stateful Services and Navigator at QCon London
InfoQ asked James Munnelly and Matt Bates from Jetstack about their view and ongoing work to be able to configure, deploy, monitor, scale, and auto-heal stateful services in Kubernetes in the same way as stateless services. In particular, we've asked them about the approach and implementation of Navigator, an open source Kubernetes extension Munnelly and Bates have been developing.