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Weaveworks Adds Release Automation and Incident Management to Weave Cloud Continuous Delivery SaaS
Weaveworks has released new features for the Weave Cloud SaaS platform that aims to simplify deployment, monitoring and management for containers and microservices, including: incident management with historical audit, instant query, and customisable analytics and dashboards; release automation and point-in-time rollback for continuous delivery pipelines; and advanced Kubernetes troubleshooting.
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Microsoft Announces Draft .NET Architecture Guidance
Four application architecture guidance drafts are available from Microsoft. These drafts cover four areas: Microservices and Docker, ASP.NET Web Applications, Azure Cloud Deployment, and Xamarin Mobile Applications. Each guidance consists of a set of documents appropriate for the topic. Microsoft wants feedback from the general community on these draft documents.
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Red Hat Releases Next Generation of OpenShift Online
Red Hat has announced the initial availability of the next generation of OpenShift Online, the PaaS cloud application platform. This next edition is re-engineered to be built on top of OpenShift container platform, powered by open source tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
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Spring Vault GA 1.0 Released
Pivotal has announced the general availability of Spring Vault 1.0. It is a Java library which offers client-side abstractions around Hashicorp Vault, a secret management tool. Following typical Spring idioms, it allows Vault to be more easily integrated into Spring or Java applications. Some familiar patterns include templating, property sources, and more.
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Buoyant Releases Version 1.0 of Their Service Mesh, Linkerd
Buoyant, a cloud-native software company, released version 1.0 of Linkerd, an open source “service mesh” project for cloud-native microservice-based applications. William Morgan, founder and CEO of Buoyant, spoke to InfoQ about this milestone.
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Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference 2017: Day Two Recap
Day Two of the 12th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference was held in Philadelphia. This two-day event included keynotes by Blair MacIntyre (augmented reality pioneer) and Scott Hanselman (podcaster), and featured speakers Kyle Daigle (engineering manager at GitHub), Holden Karau (principal software engineer at IBM), and Karen Kinnear (JVM technical lead at Oracle).
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Alternative Container Runtimes in Kubernetes
Recent changes in Kubernetes break its traditional tie-in to Docker and rkt as container runtimes. Kubernetes has released its Container Runtime Interface (CRI) API and there is a parallel ongoing implementation called CRI-O which attempts to create a bridge between Kubernetes and OCI-compliant runtimes, paving the way for Kubernetes to use any OCI compliant container runtime in a standard way.
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John Gossman on Microsoft’s Serverless Platform, Azure Functions and Logic Apps
John Gossman, lead architect at Microsoft Azure, spoke on Thursday at ServerlessConf Conference about Microsoft's open source Serverless platform. The Microsoft team also gave demos on Azure Functions, Logic Apps and how to monitor the platform components.
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Announcing a Unified .NET Documentation Experience
Microsoft has announced its new .NET API browser for finding .NET documentation in a standardized manner. Community contributions to the documentation will be enabled within the next month. The User Voice site allows users to request improvements, and vote on which suggestions are most important including additional documentation users want to see added to the API browser.
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Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0
Jenkins, the popular open source automation server that is used by development teams worldwide for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, has recently announced the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0.
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Cloud Foundry Foundation Launch Cloud Native Developer Certification and Training Program
At the CloudNativeCon, held in Berlin, Germany, the Cloud Foundry Foundation announced the creation of a Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (CFCD) training and certification program which is community-based, independent and vendor-neutral, and aims to verify job candidates have practical experience with any distribution of Cloud Foundry.
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DigitalOcean Adds Monitoring and Alerting Features
Cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean recently released capabilities for monitoring servers and sending alerts. While not novel, this free feature is indicative of growing industry attention paid to server and application insight.
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10 Weeks to QCon New York: Keynotes Announced and Early Peek into the Speaker Lineup
QCon New York (the 6th annual software conference) is just 10 weeks away. June 26-28 QCon returns to its new location at Times Square’s Marriott Marquis, but with the same great lineup of speakers. 2017 features speakers from Stitch Fix, Google, Netflix, Lyft, Pivotal, Redis Labs, among others.
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How New Relic Does DevOps
A lead software engineer at New Relic wrote a summary of how DevOps tools and practices are used and practised in the New Relic engineering team. It talks about the evolution of the DevOps role, using their own product for monitoring and the visible benefits of this culture.
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Q&A with Marcin Grzejszczak on Spring Cloud Contract
Marcin Grzejszczak is a software engineer at Pivotal. Currently, he is working on Spring Cloud Contract, a consumer-driven contracts framework for Java. InfoQ has interviewed Marcin in order to discuss some of the framework's benefits, and how in particular consumer-driven contracts can help with microservice testing.