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Google Release Zipkin Integration with Stackdriver Trace for Tracing Distributed Applications
Google Cloud Platform has released an open source Zipkin server that allows Zipkin-compatible clients to send traces to Google’s own Stackdriver Trace distributed tracing service for analysis. This Zipkin/Stackdriver Trace integration is aimed at developers whose applications and services are written in a language or framework that Stackdriver Trace doesn’t officially support.
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Yahoo! Screwdriver–A CD Tool That Scales
Yahoo! has open sourced Screwdriver, their CD tool used internally in production.
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2017 State of Testing Survey
The 2017 State of Testing survey aims to provide insights into how the testing profession develops. The survey is open throughout January 2017.
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Multiple DNS Providers to Mitigate DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Domain Name System (DNS) providers are increasing in number and scale with the proliferation of insecure IoT devices. While DNS providers have various methods of protecting themselves against such attacks, one of the ways for a website to protect itself is to use multiple DNS providers.
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HashiCorp Release Terraform 0.8, Including an Interactive Console, and Vault and Nomad Providers
HashiCorp has released v0.8 of Terraform, an open source tool that enables the building, combining and launching of programmable infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services, VMware vSphere, and UltraDNS. Major new functionality includes an interactive console, conditional values, and HashiCorp Vault and Nomad providers.
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New Vaadin Spring Release Introduces Enhanced View Management
Vaadin, a polyglot framework for building web apps with UI components, released version 1.1 of their Vaadin Spring project featuring bug fixes and a new SpringNavigator class to enhance management of Vaadin Views. Matti Tahvonen, product marketing manager at Vaadin, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release including a discussion on how UIs fit into microservices.
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GitLab 8.15 Introduces Auto Deploy and Web Terminal
The latest GitLab version, 8.15, provides new CD/CI features aimed to automate deployments on a variety of platforms and to make it easier to reach your staging or production deployments through a command line interface.
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Introducing Gradle Build Scans
At the Gradle Summit Conference this year, Gradle formally introduced the Build Scan tool, part of their new Cloud Services, for collaborating with project build information with developers. InfoQ spoke to Chris Beams, director of marketing at Gradle, about Gradle Cloud Services and build scans.
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Netflix Conductor, an Orchestration Engine for Microservices
Netflix has developed an orchestration engine called “Conductor”, and has used it internally in production for the last year . During this time they executed some 2.6 million process workflows, starting with linear ones and ending with dynamic ones running over multiple days. Now they have open sourced Conductor, making it available to all those interested in workflow orchestration.
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AWS Expands Cloud to Canada, United Kingdom
Just days after the end of re:Invent, AWS shared news of further geographic expansion. Amazon added locations in Montréal and London, representing the 15th and 16th regions of the AWS cloud.
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Amazon Preview FPGA Enabled EC2 Instances
Amongst the flurry of announcements at re:invent 2016 was the launch of a developer preview for a new F1 instance type. The F1 comes with one to eight high end Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide programmable hardware. The FPGAs are likely to be used for risk management, simulation, search and machine learning applications.
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Kubernetes 1.5 Released with Improved StatefulSets and Alpha Support for Windows Server 2016
The CNCF have released version 1.5 of the Kubernetes container orchestration system. Core improvements focus on beta functionality associated with deployment and scaling of stateful applications, and making it possible to perform cluster operations without disrupting applications. Alpha support has also been added for Windows Server 2016 nodes and the scheduling of Windows Server Containers.
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Running Docker Containers Securely in Production
Hardening Docker containers in production involves a combination of techniques including making them immutable, minimizing the attack surface and applying both standard Linux hardening procedures as well as ones that are specific to a container environment.
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Speedment Releases Stream ORM Version 3.0.1
Speedment released version 3.0.1 of their stream object-relational mapping Java toolkit and runtime application, featuring a new declarative Java 8 stream API, an improved user interface, and better code generation. InfoQ spoke to Per-Åke Minborg, co-founder and CTO of Speedment, about this latest release.
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Google Pushing for HTTPS
Google wants to push for HTTPS everywhere with a combination of deprecating existing Chrome features in non-secure sites, as well as new features only supported in HTTPS.