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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.
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Jessica Kerr at QCon London on "Why DevOps is a Special Case of DevEx"
Jessica Kerr, lead engineer at Atomist, presented her perspective on DevEx (Developer Experience) and how it relates to DevOps, at QCon London. She stressed that DevOps led to teams taking on accrued responsibilities (to be able to own and constantly improve their systems). To reduce cognitive load, we need better development tools that push down details on how systems get built and delivered.
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Scaling Graphite at Criteo Using a Cassandra Backend
At last month's FOSDEM, a member of the Criteo SRE team delivered a talk on scaling their Graphite installation using Cassandra for storage. A custom Graphite plugin called BigGraphite written by the Criteo engineering team replaces the default WhisperDB with Cassandra to achieve fault tolerance and elastic scaling.
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JetBrains Releases Kotlin 1.2.30
JetBrains recently released version 1.2.30 of the popular programming language, Kotlin, as a big fix and tooling update that come about a month-and-a-half after the release of version 1.2.20. New features include support for Gradle’s build cache tool, support for TestNG, and IDE support for Kotlin’s new style guide.
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CA Announces New Release of Workload Automation Engine
Automation vendor, CA, has released a new version of their workload engine, CA Workload Automation AE, including new usability and performance features and direct integration with the CA Automic One Automation platform.
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Has Kubernetes Crossed the Chasm? Ian Crosby Shares His Thoughts at QCon
Ian Crosby claims Kubernetes is close to mainstream adoption as the remaining challenges in the enterprise world (namely highly secured environments, support for windows, better support for stateful workloads and integration with legacy software and hybrid clouds) are actively being addressed by the community. As Crosby put it, "the question is not if Kubernetes will cross the chasm, but when".
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How Observability Impacts Testing: Q&A with Amy Phillips at QCon London
Observability gives you a picture of the system’s current health and can replace certain types of testing. For low-risk application areas you can rely on observability instead of testing, provided you have continuous delivery that provides fast feedback and allows you to release changes quickly.
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Q&A with Laura Bell on Continuous Security at QCon London
Q&A with Laura Bell at QCon London. We discuss her keynote, continuous security and her own professional security journey.
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Spring Boot 2.0 Goes GA; Project Lead Phil Webb Speaks to InfoQ about the New Release
Spring custodian Pivotal has announced the widely anticipated release of Spring Boot 2.0. InfoQ speaks to Spring Boot lead Phil Webb about the new release.
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Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 Released: Transparently Secure Container Network Connectivity Utilising Linux BPF
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity. Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 has recently been released, which includes: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-hosted Envoy configured as the default HTTP/gRPC proxy; the addition of a simple health overview for connectivity and other errors; and an improved scalable kvstore interaction layer.
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Event-Driven Microservices at O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference NY
We've discussed event driven microservices architectures in the past, and the recent O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference NY had a focus on that topic which The New Stack's Joab Jackson reports upon.
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QASymphony Launches New Products for Centralised Test Automation and BDD
Test management vendor, QASymphony, has announced two new products: qTest Launch and qTest Scenario Enterprise as part of its qTest 9 release. qTest Launch provides centralised management for test automation. qTest Scenario Enterprise is aimed at teams practicing behaviour-driven development (BDD).
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AWS Makes Serverless Application Repository Generally Available
After a brief preview period since re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) made its new Serverless Application Repository generally available. Users can now discover, configure, and deploy serverless applications and components via the AWS Lambda console, which AWS considers an "ideal venue for AWS partners, enterprise customers, and independent developers to share their serverless creations".
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A First Look at Java 10 Release Candidate 1
Scheduled for a GA release on March 20, 2018, Java 10 RC1 is now available for the Java community. This will be the first upgrade that will follow Oracle’s new six-month release cycle. The most intriguing and anticipated feature in Java 10 is local-variable type inference that introduces the new reserved type name, var.
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Chef Enhances Cloud Security Automation in InSpec 2.0
Continuous automation vendor, Chef, has announced the availability of InSpec 2.0, a new version of Chef’s free open source tool that enables DevOps and cross-functional application, infrastructure and security teams to express security and compliance rules as code and assess and remediate compliance issues through the entire software delivery life cycle.